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LinkPizza posted...

It's not just that. I think they have always sold them to kids more. Long term fans just seemed to stick around... So, they let them...

Well, even as a kid I wouldn't have been happy about dexit. I would have hated so many of my favorites being cut. But I also would have still bought the game. So yeah, obviously Gamefreak will still make money off of kids no matter what, even if they aren't giving kids the best possible experience.

LinkPizza posted...

I think it is similar. Though in my first post mentioning it, I said probably not as much. But it did cause a big stir. The FB groups around Nintendo and Zelda that I was in were going crazy for a while. It calmed down after a bit, just like this one will. But they were pissed. Even on the boards here, people were pretty angry. You could tell certain ones more than others. But a lot of random people, as well... And you think they could have gotten less backlash, but that may not be true...

Well, there's no way to prove it either way, so we'll just have to agree to disagree on this point.

But it will be interesting to see how things are in the pokemon fanbase a year from now. I predict the backlash will never die, but it will also never make Gamefreak change. It'll be like how the cries of the Banjo-Kazooie fanbase for a true Banjo sequel have gone completely ignored by Microsoft for decades. But we'll see how it goes.