>>41429476So literally pic related. I've been having a hard time reasoning how anyone could possibly defend these games, but I think you might have just nailed it. They care about the games in that it lets them post pictures about it on social media and join in discussion about it, but they don't actually care about the games themselves - if they did, they wouldn't be defending them. To answer OP's question, these people are playing pokemon for the social ability that it grants them, not for pokemon itself.