>>36648325So GameFreak needs to break its back to appeal to an audience that would rather play online battle simulators or outright pirate the main games? GameFreak needs to appeal to the people who harass and send death threats to GF employees online? GameFreak needs to appeal to a group of people that once had everything they've ever asked for handed to them, and they unambiguously hated it? The unpleasable fanbase whose numbers are dwindling by the day? That's who GameFreak needs to appeal to?
Nah, dude. If anything, the success of GO is only proof that GF doesn't need to pander to you anymore. Nothing GF can do will make you happy, so they won't try. Is that what really pisses you off more than the simplicity of GO and LGPE? The revelation that you're irrelevant and Pokemon will be successful without you?