>>36132437The sad thing is this is a viable marketing scheme and they'll keep doing it until the fan opinions start changing, but that'll be essentially a long time till never with the way things are going now. /vp/ and a few other brief areas are the only places I see criticizing the main games anymore, but otherwise the vast majority will dickride Pokemon no matter how bad it gets. In terms of quality, this series will be having it's Sonic tier dark age in a couple years if this keeps up.
