But they did for the pro, and they did for the Radar.
Right, but the fact that they don't charge for every single app means that they draw a line somewhere as far what they believe is and is not worth giving away for free.
Why should people who want to use Bank have to cover cost of freeloaders like yourself?
Because expecting my game to come with all of the features that I pay for isn't freeloading. Meanwhile, the people who are buying Bank are getting additional features for a bargain of a price, so it would be reasonable to increase the price there to maintain the integrity of having a game with all of the same features as last gen.
But it is necessary. They couldn't do intra-gen transfers with the games themselves. They'd have to develop an app for it or else there's no connectivity with the previous gen.
It is not necessary, however, to charge for this, or to necessitate the use of a paid feature to accomplish this.
Yeah I mean Pokemon is totally failing, right, guys?
This has nothing to do with what I'm saying, I'm saying that possible software restrictions down the road will prevent you from using the same exact program for years to come.
THEN USE THE ONE MONTH FREE TRIAL IF STANDING ON PRINCIPAL IS SO IMPORTANT TO YOU
Here, you must have missed this:
1-2 years is usually around the point where I've run out of Pokemon to train, and when we have most or all of the games released, so we know what is and what is not accessible in the current gen. So that's around the time I start to transfer my old favorites and Pokemon I need for the Pokedex. It's perfectly reasonable to need to use this several years down the road, which is why this time limit is ridiculous.
The trial is virtually useless to me.
Pokemon Bank has recurring costs, Pokedex 3D does not. It's developed and that's pretty much it, maybe some patches here and there. That's the fundamental difference. They need to recoup the costs they're constantly putting in to Pokemon Bank to be profitable. You're coming off as a traditional entitled consumer. GameFreak owes you nothing, you are choosing to pay for and support what they are selling, if you do not support it then don't buy it and take your business elsewhere. It's that simple.
Well Game Freak is coming off as a traditional entitled developer by making me pay more money to get a game with the features that are usually included in the game, so we're even.
And again, they can recoup their losses by charging more for Pokemon Bank instead of charging for transfers.
EDIT:
So you want transferring to be free, but it's okay for them to charge for cloud storage via Pokemon Bank? Unfortunately, Pokemon from a DS game can't be directly transfered to a 3DS title, as Matsuda himself stated, so this acts like a middle man in conjunction with Pokemon Bank. There is no way around it yet. You will just have to learn how to deal with the fact that paying $5 a year to store your transfered Pokemon is the only option right now.
Okay, I'm getting sick of this. Every time I bring this up, you guys always make some kind of jump in logic where "use of an app to transfer = forced usage of Pokemon Bank= forced service charge". That is not the case, there are several ways they can get around Pokemon Bank and its service charge. I've put forth several suggestions in this thread as far as how to handle this without charging for it, so before you respond to this, please go back and read them.
They are only charging you for Pokemon Bank, which you need to transfer, kind of like how a store charges for another DS in order for you to transfer from Gen 4 to 5, unless you are spoiled or rich and can buy another DS on a whim.
It's a bad sign that they've created an innovative way to cloud store all of your Pokemon, from the 5th Generation onwards? Doctor, my head.
If you want to talk semantics, then the same could be said that without Pokemon Bank, you'd need 2 3DS to trade.
Well technically, that IS the only thing they are being compensated for. You don't have to pay additional charges to transfer anything. It's a free app that works as long as you pay for your justified, as you admit, $5 dollar service for for Pokemon Bank.
You're not understanding my point at all. I don't care that technically Transporter app is free, that doesn't matter. The end result is that you do have to pay money for transfers. This is the entire problem, there should not be any costs anywhere in the transfer process. A charge of $0.00 from beginning to end. If you can't understand that much, I'm done arguing with you.
Without Pokemon Bank, which is something you agree should be paid for, transferring wont be possible, as stated by Serebii, Matsuda, and and cast of colorful forum posters who are actually using common sense. Let me guess. your next question will be the validity of Matsuda and Serebii, and you'll be begging for credentials probably too.
Again, this is false. It's because of the way they designed it that Pokemon Bank is necessary, not the lack of compatibility between DS and 3DS.
