What if somehow the games got noticeably more people buying and selling secondhand copies resulting in significantly less sales of new copies?
What if the "boycott" actually worked?
What if somehow the games got noticeably more people buying and selling secondhand copies resulting in significantly less sales of new copies?
Are you asking as a hypothetical situation or somehow still trying to convince yourself it did work?
For the former, I really don't think much would've changed, at least not very quickly. BDSP and Legends were already being planned by the time SwSh released. Maybe you would get some more advertising for the DLC but there was no chance of reversing the decision once we knew about it.
For the latter, seek help.
Dumbass how does planning two game prevent them from patching another game? Giant corporations would be fricked if they couldn't do multiple things at once. Gamefreak and TPC already had creatures inc to tweak the models they already made for them and they would all of 2020 to hire more people in this hypothetic scenario.
what the frick are you talking about
What do you mean what morons? I point at a syntax error if your brainlet asses think I went esl.
Read you post again. You've gone ahead and omitted information that gives context.
The only issue I noticed was saying game instead of games if that tiny error prevents you from processing the information then you're moronic
Already does dumbass
Anon, it's nothing to do with spelling. This is laughable.
Then explain the error in my reasoning instead of saying what?
Okay what's the issue with the reply to the first reply then Einstein?
Try rewording your post so that it makes sense.
What
Hey dumbass, you're talking about different things.
Anon talks about boycott effecting future sales
>MUH MODELS
moron
> from the first reply: "I really don't think much would've changed, at least not very quickly"
This implies they wouldn't/couldn't patch in the missing mons dumbass. The shitstorm was about the Pokémon at the end of the day not the tree and double kick animation.
They weren't going to do that, no.
It's a band-aid that needed to be ripped off eventually, and if they backed down immediately after doing it they'd never get away with doing it when they actually needed to do it.
> they decided to do something so they wouldn't do something else even when faced with financial information that shows they should change course
Do you not know how quarterly reports work?
> muh inevitability
You have to say your last words eventually but you didn't decide to shut the frick up. Curious.
> not changing anything quickly doesn't imply not changing the thing that started the Shitshow quickly
Are you high?
No it doesn't moron, it wasn't raised in the first place. You're so fricking dumb you answered a post that never existed.
Lmao you can't be this moronic
> people can't be negative 5% moronic it's not moronic enough
Anon please quit projecting.
kek, you're the one who need to seek help if you're think you're in a position to say for sure sales weren't affected
So they lied about it being the second best selling generation, and actually it was the worst.
See, here's the thing. You might be right, but you have no evidence. I may be wrong, but I have evidence to the contrary. And even if all I've got is what they said, that's still more than you have. You have nothing, except seethe and copium.
wrong, it's the other way around
but I won't spoonfeed you
Did you nit see BDSP? DLC sales? Even PLA in fricking in January?
If the boycott impacted sales, that means SWSH would've been the best selling videogame of all time if it had just included all the Pokemon.
you know nothing
Can people stop talking like there was ever a boycott? There never was. Frick off with the revisionist bullshit.
Ever since the reveal of SwSh all the way up to release people here and everywhere on the internet were angry because they knew it would sell millions anyway.
If anyone made a thread about a potential boycott the only answers were:
>you'll buy it anyway
>you aren't the target audience
>they made millions with previous shit games and will do that again
>TPC doesnt need your money, manchild
Etc, etc, etc
The consensus already was that it would never work. We never had boycott because we were demoralized about the situation of the franchise from the very start and about our minimal impact on its future.
Now the Serebii gays, the shills and shitposters talk about how SwSh managed to survive some "boycott" as a way to defend their shit game.
I don't read mass replies.
So you're saying that you got bullied into buying it by losers on the Internet? That's pretty pathetic.
Even I bought the game used, and I was never one of the #BBND spergs.
>So you're saying (idiotic non sequitur)
I might be closer to saying you are a fricking moron like most of this board.
You said there was no boycott, which suggests that you ended up buying the game because you were "demoralized."
You keep asuming I bought and supported the game for some reason, which is both false and irrelevant to the issue I'm disussing: the continuous insistence on the existence of a boycott.
This board is so damm bored, it has exhausted all topics of valid discussion to the point it needs to create fake scenarios for additional drama.
So then you did, in fact, boycott the game.
I dont buy pokémon games ever. It has nothing to do with any boycott.
Then why do you talk about "we?" You say "we" didn't boycott the game, but you were never going to buy it even if it was good, so you couldn't boycott it.
Let me insist on the fact that my point has nothing at all to do with me or what I do and everything to do with the fact that /vp/ never ever organized a boycott against SwSh.
There was a serious attempt to organize a boycott on Twitter, which is what I assumed you were referring to.
I do believe you're right about there not being a serious attempt on /vp/. It was mostly just shitposting about trees.
Then frick off back to whatever shithole you came from moron.
Just concede so I can win
Boycott was in quotation marks for a reason
Valid criticism was never a """"boycott"""
>what if they wasted time putting my shitmons back into the game?
then the games would be much worse.
Yes it's the animators fault the games are poorly designed.
OP here, best thread on the board rn
If people actually stopped buying Sword/Shield, then it might call for major course correction. Not necessarily the return of the NarDex, but something which could win people's trust back. Then again, PLA already basically won them some good faith, and has people more comfortable with the cut (as long as it results in better games).
Look at the post count. OP has lost it
My bad
What if 1 < 0? What if the Earth is round? What if you're your mom's mom?
I don't know about my mom but I'm doing yours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t53TcKIlMc
you'd have to get literal children to boycott kek
not necessary
Children make up what 60%-90% of the playerbase. a 5% decrease in sales is nothing to sneeze at.
I think what people don’t realize is that all of the “boycotters” don’t fit into the same category.
You have dexers who want full dexes in games and then you have 4K High-Res demanders who want the games to look like 1st party Xbox/PS games with unique animations for every attack etc
They’re two ends of a see-saw. You can’t have both ends high at once. And with the way SV looks maybe they’re leaning more towards the graphicgay side
The full dex vs. graphics thing is more a case of people wanting gamefreak to commit to one or the other, from what I've seen.
It so happens that sword and shield did not commit to either end, so it triggered people b***hing about the lazier animations on top of the culled dex.
Notice how PLA didn't have as many people caring about the dex cut once the animations and models were actually touched upon.
It’s too bad because honestly I’d rather have an XY/SM styles game with a full dex. if I wanted crisp graphics I’d go play something on my PC
>Notice how PLA didn't have as many people caring about the dex cut once the animations and models were actually touched upon.
No it was because GF actually tried to do something different, even if all it did was try to copy BoTW and Monster Hunter and painting it with a pokemon coat..
Okay so what end would TPC respond to faster?
The boycott did work.
It taught GF that people with taste have already given up on the series, and that they can make just as much money, or even more, by shitting out shovelware.
Scarlet and Violet will not have a full pokedex, so NO