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I have no hope for Sword & Shield being good games, but I'm worries for the stat of fangames once the game releases. I can imagine a lot of fangame developers seeing how lazy Game Freak is and losing motivation to actually put effort into their own games, especially when it's obvious that the majority of the Pokemon consumer base doesn't really want to play good games.
With the main games getting easier each generation (with XY and especially SM being almost unplayable because of how boring they are), if Sword & Shield manage to be even easier than the rest then I can picture fangame devs from giving up on trying to balance their games around a challenge.
Hopefully nothing changes at all, or Sword & Shield actually get more developers to make decent games, but the whole thing just has me worried.