Well, looks like I'm not buying Pokemon Legends Z-A

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So it would appear that Nintendo are locking off certain Mega Evolutions behind BOTH a paid NSO subscription and online ranked competitive play:


Pokemon Legends Arceus from 2022 was such a breath of fresh air for the franchise, because it was entirely single-player focused. You could complete the Pokedex entirely on your own. There wasn't a 2nd or 3rd version of the game you needed access to to get every Pokemon. You could trade with other people, but you didn't have to. Legends Z-A seems like it'll be a far cry from anything that felt special about Legends Arceus, and as though it'll be a sequel in name only.

Oh, and if you use Pokemon Home to transfer Pokemon to Z-A, you apparently won't be allowed to transfer them back.
 
Man, this is truly dissapointing. But I don't know if that game will be a success or not. Some fans don't care about anti-consumer stuff and they just buy it due to FOMO or something similar :(
Hope this anti-consumer policies will change at the future, not anyone has enough budget for a suscription. This is purely greed, guys
 
Man, this is truly dissapointing. But I don't know if that game will be a success or not. Some fans don't care about anti-consumer stuff and they just buy it due to FOMO or something similar :(
Hope this anti-consumer policies will change at the future, not anyone has enough budget for a suscription. This is purely greed, guys
I think it'll still sell really well. New Pokemon game on a new Nintendo console, and it's still available for the OG Switch as well. As you said, most people won't know or won't really care and will probably buy it anyway
 
Dawg what….Does Nintendo even know just how bad of a reputation modern mainline has with actual fans? Honestly every time I check news related to the series it’s always “merch merch merch”. I seriously wish TPC/Game Freak would separate already. I’m tired of my childhood franchise being the biggest cashcow known to man.
 
Even knowing that it's modern Pokemon, God it still sucks to see that they are going harder with the monetization with NSO to even lock certain mega evolutions behind it. I'd hope for the best to happen but knowing how the game will turn out, people will still buy the game and try to defend it even if it's quite clear that this is super greedy. Well at least there's that new Digimon game around the corner.
 
BREAKING NEWS: local Pokémon fan realizes gamefreak and TPC are greedy and incompetent.

Yeah I wholeheartedly agree with you. I was never gonna buy it due to my burnout and disdain for Nintendo but this is a further nail in the coffin.
 
Well Nintendo, I wasn’t ever gonna buy this but you’ve solidified my decision. I’ll just have to look for…other means ::eggmanlaugh
 
a man sits at a desk in an office with a computer monitor that says ' a ' on it
 
Just when you think that the need to buy two versions for a complete pokedex was getting old or a game that didnt even had all pokemons in cuz lazy ass... we present you a pokemon game with paywall...

Oh well, time to get back to my Ultra Moon and keep the idea that it was the ending of Pokemon games
 
I had just a tiny bit of hope towards this game and I was almost willing to defend how ugly it looks because I thought that finally they were going to evolve the formula in a meaningful way since Arceus, but they are going farther into the greed hole instead.

I'll buy 10 indie games instead of this, it's going to be more worth it by a long shot.
 
Oh my, that's really not a good idea they choose to do that. The idea of not being able to transfer Pokémon back to Pokémon Home is also not a great idea of theirs. It's good that I now know this information about the newest game.
 
Wow. That sucks. I'm a little iffy on Z-A and from every trailer I see, there's nothing but walking around and battling a random trainer and battling Pokemon with other trainers. Where's the story? Where's the world building from Arceus? All there is, is just one big city from X/Y series, nothing else.

Pokemon series used to be one giant world traveling from towns, forests, cities, mountains and islands. Why did Gamefreak choose only Lumiose city with no open world? Because the "PokéFans" loved X/Y of course and want more of that. Maybe I should cancel my order on this and wait until it's on sale because I don't know what the hell, Gamefreak, Nintendo and Furakawa were thinking.
 
As if Cucktendo couldn't screw over Pokemon even further. No wonder they're jelly about other monster trainer games. -_-
 
There will probably be a fan mod that fixes this at least. Seriously, stop paying for these games and you don't need to mald with each new piece of bad news.

Also, especially with these giant series, there are so many other Pokrmon games you probably haven't played yet. I haven't even played Pokemon Rangers yet.
 
Holy fuck what an abysmally dogshit move.
 

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