#i see ff is still active but idk what's worth my time investment

[thepriceisrizzoli]

Are there any good fics going on anymore? Like current or back to ~ 2015 or whenever I stopped paying attention

[doubleddenden]

Okay I gotta nitpick

1000 pokemon including forms

I see people in the comments getting hyped up for 190 or so new pokemon but Masuda considers alternate forms like regional variants and megas to be separate pokemon, even though they aren't. With that regard gen 2 would have 126 pokemon since we're just counting Unown forms. Gen 4 would have 134 if we count every Arceus and other pokemon's alternative forms. As you can see, it's a bit bullshit.

Higher quality animations

Wingull just floats and doesn't flap its wings. Scorbunny's model barely hops off the ground to use Double Kick. Not to mention most of these "high quality animations" were already made in XY/ORAS and Sun/Moon and Ultra.

No decision on updates

Look ima be real chief, now ain't the time for secrecy and debates. Most of the fans are pissed, a lot of pre orders probably have been canceled, the fans are being very vocal about it to the point that they had a trending hashtag and are continuously voicing their displeasure. Just shut up with business buzz words and do it.

Active role in Home

Again, now ain't the time for secrets. Restore some faith and talk about these roles. I have thought about it and I'd be willing to concede to being able to battle, pet, and feed my pokemon in home since we also have trading already. It doesn't even need to be all that complicated, just a dumbed down version akin to Yugioh Duel Links, maybe 3v3 or something. At least make the subscription worth letting my favourites rot away in the cloud until the decision to bring it back is made in 5 years. Just scale down some pokemon models to save space and throw some beans. Done.this being said "if a region is too cold they'll stay home", okay sure so I can bring my Rhydon to the ocean or my Bulbasaur to the snowy laps but now they're getting cold feet?

No megas or z moves

Okay so this is absolute bullshit lol. What was even the point of introducing them if you just get rid of them? Megas are the coolest thing to happen to pokemon in idk how long, and signature Z moves are super cool too! Like you don't have to make new ones but ffs why remove them altogether in favor of gigantism fetish??? Why was this pursued when clearly it would prove to be such an obstacle?

Before people get mad about entitled fans that apparently aren't owed anything, understand that we are consumers to a product that isn't meeting our standards. This a product that costs a hefty chunk of money and requires an investment into a console that is maybe 5 or 6 times as much. A lot of us have a bit of stock in this particular franchise our entire lives over. They have us so whipped that we get excited for a fucking free camera ZONE. This tech has been around for close to 20 years. Do you see the point?

And I get it, pokemon games are fun and an escape for me too and I love them a lot and don't want them to end, but please think for a moment. Game Freak and especially Masuda are not being fair to their consumers with some of these choices they make, especially without our consent. They aren't even trying to be transparent, opting to use buzzwords or business lingo to get people intrigued.

Over 1,000 pokemon is not unreasonable on a fucking HD console, sorry to say, especially with system memory and additional memory on a micro SD card that can reach even 64 gigs. Even if it was, it's still not unreasonable to have some form of access to our favorites besides collecting dust or leaving them alone, especially with a subscription fee.

Game Freak is all about cutting corners and its seriously time they understand that it isn't fair to the people who got them to where they are today. They need a bit of pressure from their audience so they realize how they fucked up and can do better: it's called criticism, which can be bad but in this case can improve them if they just listen. Bethesda finally got called out for it after so long of dickriding fans defending their shitty buggy games, and while I can't say any pokemon game other than Let's Go are truly shit, it is time for companies to start listening to their fans they LITERALLY owe everything to so they can do better.

They aren't your casual uncles who give you candy or anything weird like that, and they aren't being nice and wholesome by giving you any of this. They're corporations out for your money. It is literally a business transaction: they make games, people buy them. You sign their paychecks that goes into building new Pokemon centers that sell the same thing Walmart or gamestop does but at higher prices. You sign their paychecks that sends them on company vacations to France and Hawaii. You sign their paychecks to work on a new IP that isn't even pokemon or close to being complete, yet has more priority to them over a game that needs more time but cannot be delayed due to circumstances with anime, events, tcg, and other merch.

So yeah, it's time to complain. All we want is what we've had for years now. That's it. Don't get butthurt because people aren't happy with it like you are. If you are happy, fine, enjoy, but let the rest of us voice our reasonable criticisms before we hit a point of no return.

Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori revealed several details in the latest Famitsu interview:

Masuda also said that including alternate forms, Pokémon hits 1,000 with these games.

Masuda on the Decision to Limit Pokémon Sword and Shield to the Galar Pokedex: He didn’t like the decision, but it was needed. He wanted to bring every single Pokémon to Sword and Shield but they wanted to focus on higher quality animations. Ohmori mentions this idea was proposed for Pokémon Sun and Moon. 

 According to Masuda, there is still no decision taken on bringing non-Galar Pokémon to Pokémon Sword & Shield via updates. All Pokémon will still have an active role in Pokémon Home.

According to Masuda, Pokémon Home would have some playable features. Will also have connections to future games.

More details of Pokémon Home: Is the “Home” for all your Pokémon. If a Pokémon is compatible with a  game, it will leave for an adventure. If the Pokémon is not native to a certain region because is too cold for them, then they will stay in “Home” waiting for their next adventure.

EDIT: 

It also stated that Mega Evolutions and Z-Moves will not appear in Sword & Shield.

Translation by Pokexperto | Serebii