I think you completely missed the point of my post.Nintendo should really consider putting in more post game content. Not every Pokemon player plays competitively, you know.
I don't understand anyone that doesn't appreciate Pokemon Bank. Yes, it has its flaws (no held items and no back-and-forth transferring across generations), but it is a great companion to the Pokemon games. It makes it so easy to collect, store, organize, and transfer Pokemon between all of your games. $5 is a great price for the ease of quickly and safely storing and transferring a large number of Pokemon. Not to mention all the BP and their ability to send gift Pokemon through it.First they bind transferring Pokemon to the next generation to the paid service Pokemon Bank and give out heaps of BP through it, then they don't put the National Dex into the latest main series games and make it exclusive to Pokemon Bank. It's like they are testing the waters...
I really hope they don't take this any further and put the National Dex back in...
I would think that it is a similar situation to Mega Rayquaza. With Necrozma's new form having a BST ofThe one problem I foresee is that the form-change activation button was in the same location as the Z-Move button. This would imply that you cannot use both the form change and the Z-Move at the same time. If so, that is a bit lame, especially because of how beautiful those Z-Moves were. I'd definitely rather use a new form than a Z-Move, but it's unfortunate to see one replace the other. The only way they could really work together is if the criteria for the form change is having already used the Z-Move. I suppose that could work, but it would also come with the unfortunate side-effect of making the form change non-existent in a short battle.
I don't understand anyone that doesn't appreciate Pokemon Bank. Yes, it has its flaws (no held items and no back-and-forth transferring across generations), but it is a great companion to the Pokemon games. It makes it so easy to collect, store, organize, and transfer Pokemon between all of your games. $5 is a great price for the ease of quickly and safely storing and transferring a large number of Pokemon. Not to mention all the BP and their ability to send gift Pokemon through it.
I would think that it is a similar situation to Mega Rayquaza. With Necrozma's new form having a BST of ... (this is one of the few rumors I've actually seen), allowing it to use a Z-move would probably be pretty OP, so I reckon they did it for balance.
Sorry about that. Though, given that they showed us the artwork and showed an ingame sequence of a mid-battle transformation, I assumed that a new Necrozma form would be completely confirmed information.I'm sorry, but I specifically asked for people to not confirm or deny anything I said if they had already seen spoilers. You just confirmed that Necrozma does in fact have an new form. I was only speculating, and didn't know if that speculation was true or not. I know you were just trying to answer my question, but you didn't have to mention that you had actually seen that this form of Necrozma exists.
That I agree with. Those Z-moves are pretty awesome, and it's a shame that Necrozma won't be able to use them all of the time.Anyways, the difference is, Mega Rayquaza doesn't have a signature Z-Move, so it's not that big of a deal that it's only one or the other. With this, your forced to make a choice between one or the other, both of which are major parts of Necrozma, which could theoretically co-exist. It's disappointing. I especially hate it when balance gets in the way of lore. I get why it has to happen, but I find it very disappointing.
Sorry about that. Though, given that they showed us the artwork and showed an ingame sequence of a mid-battle transformation, I assumed that a new Necrozma form would be completely confirmed information.
(I apologize if I am coming across as rude)
No worries, I get it. I was working under the assumption that it is a thing anyways. I'm just very strict when it comes to spoilers. You're right, it is essentially confirmed, it's just that you can't be 100% sure until the games actually come out (or you look at spoilers).
I can see where you're coming from, as I'm not a big fan of spoilers either. The only reason I even knew about the form before today is because I saw a YouTube thumbnail with the form and the BST on it.No worries, I get it. I was working under the assumption that it is a thing anyways. I'm just very strict when it comes to spoilers. You're right, it is essentially confirmed, it's just that you can't be 100% sure until the games actually come out (or you look at spoilers).
Speaking as someone who would never uses the storage feature, Bank is just not worth subscribing to. If I had it, I would probably wouldn't use it more than once yea, solely for the purposes of transferring. That means that I have to pay $5 whenever I want to transfer Pokémon, and that's just a not right. I won't deny that Bank is worth it if you use the storage feature, I actually fully agree that a storage system should require money, no different from how Pokémon Box or My Pokémon Ranch required money. But as someone who never even fills more than one single in-game PC box, I would never buy one of those games. In the past, it didn't matter, as there was no reason for me to buy them, but now, they have locked a feature behind it which used to be built in. A feature that I would very much like to have, but wouldn't use enough to justify spending $5. My situation probably isn't typical, but that's why I don't appreciate Bank.
I can see where you're coming from, as I'm not a big fan of spoilers either. The only reason I even knew about the form before today is because I saw a YouTube thumbnail with the form and the BST on it.
or tweets directly from the Pokémon Company https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/930435393412931586
I can see where you're coming from, as I'm not a big fan of spoilers either. The only reason I even knew about the form before today is because I saw a YouTube thumbnail with the form and the BST on it.
It's not meant to be in. The problem is: The DS and the 3DS have no way to connect to each other easily. How would you do it without an external storage system?
The problem just gets bigger with the games being on the Switch. There is absolutelly NO way for a Switch game to trade with a 3DS game. So it would not be possible to transfer your Pokemon from USUM to the Switch game in 2018/19. An external storage system allows you to trade your pokemon over without caring about diverent systems.
Thankfully, avoiding spoilers wasn't that hard for Odyssey (at least for me).That sucks. Between Pokémon, Mario Odyssey, and Sonic Forces, I've had to be very careful on Youtube the past two or three weeks. I don't even look at the suggested videos anymore, in fear of that happening to me.
In the past, it didn't matter, as there was no reason for me to buy them, but now, they have locked a feature behind it which used to be built in.
For DS to 3DS, the possibility that comes to mind right away is to have an internal storage option. Plug your DS game card into the 3DS, activate the app, and save your Pokémon to your system directly via the app, and then send those to your 3DS game. It would be essentially that same as the way Bank works now, except you wouldn't have to pay for the server fees.
It was built in once, and that was the jump from Generation III to Generation IV, when the DS hardware had the actual second cartridge slot, completely independent of Pokémon and they were able to piggyback off that. Migrating from Generation IV to Generation V required two systems, and for moving Pokémon between multiple games you've always needed two systems, and a second system costs a lot more than $5.
An app like that still has to be developed, maintained, troubleshooted (troubleshot?), kept updated, and upgraded with every new game. All of that requires programmers and their labor. You want what costs money but you don't want to pay for it. If that app did exist it would likely still have at least a small fee attached to it - probably right around what a year of Bank costs.
I was happy to have the free workaround, even if it technically does cost more.
I can't imagine the cost of creating such an app would be that much more, if any more at all, than how much it would cost to create a built-in transfer feature like Gen IV or V.
Regardless, people who have been paying for Pokémon Bank since the day it came out almost four years ago, are approaching the point were a total of $20 has been put into it. A one-time purchase app of $5 is much more reasonable. Even if you had to buy a new $5 app every generation, it would still be cheaper than paying $5 a year.
The "built in" (not actually built in) transfer features were part of the game development, which, like anything else, are developed with a set budget that encompasses paying the laborers (programmers) for their labor.
And those features didn't require any updating or upkeep.
A separate app would require separate development on a separate budget. Even if it's a small budget, and it would be, it still has to be paid for somehow. Pokémon Dream Radar had a cost. Pokédex 3D had a cost.
Development costs money and that has to be passed on to the end user somehow, some way.
Yes, $5 is less than $20, thank you. I too would love to pay nothing or less for useful products/services, but it doesn't work that way. And as a result of that payment for the service, we have relatively reliable servers AND we have a cloud-based service that is and will continue to be future proof. That's where the $5 annually (or $20 for four years, not remotely unreasonable) is going: maintenance, upkeep, upgrades, and future development.
So...I suppose there's nothing else to talk about since the whole micro-transactions and fuss about Bank are going on. At least until this weekend.
Does anyone else have limitations as far as how much you spoil yourselves? I can't resist pokemon themselves, although I've been staying away from a lot of plot-related spoilers though.
It is nice to see certain pokemon FINALLY have the shiny lock removed outside the usual region mascots themselves (please correct me on this if there are exceptions).
So...I suppose there's nothing else to talk about since the whole micro-transactions and fuss about Bank are going on. At least until this weekend.