>>36434574Holy fuck this place is horrible. I even wrote up a wall of text about how shit it is.
Remember how useful Join Avenue was in BW2? Remember how easy and user friendly the PSS was in gen 6? GF took one look at these, thought "These were good but lets make them suck" and then Festival Plaza came to be.
This place is completely separate from the rest of the game, meaning you can't breed, catch pokemon, or play the game while waiting for a trade or battle, forcing you to just sit there with your thumb up your ass. It takes ages to connect online, a matter made worse by using Game Sync. There's no friends list, instead there's a VIP list, only problem is when trying to register a friend it'll constantly fail and not tell you why. Trading is extremely cumbersome all because GF found the need to change things.
The shops here, just forget about them. Most are trash like "buy medicine with FC" or "raise happiness with FC" or "do weak EV training with FC." FC, or Festival Coins, are the plaza's proprietary currency. Every trade you do and every recommendation can net you about 1-5FC. For comparison, 5 star shops (you can't upgrade the shops once they're placed) cost like 1,500FC to place. Back when Global Mission were a thing you could participate and get up to 4,000FC if the mission succeeded. Too bad this died out in less than a year. The only useful shops are Treasure Hunt ** because it gives you a Bottle Cap every time a new one is placed (at the cost of like 200FC a pop) and Rare Kitchen ***** (which levels up pokemon but there's a level cap on the LEVELING.)
I can't even fucking post all of it because it hits the text cap. Part 2 incoming
