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I went into a GameStop to preorder a different game because it's my fucking life I'll do what I want faggots, and SwSh came up in conversation. I told the two guys there everything GameFreak's fucked up and lied about. They straight up didn't know.
This is the average Pokemon consumer. They just don't fucking know. The average person thinks it's just manchildren on the internet upset that their favorite got cut. They don't know how many are cut, they don't know that people online have been breaking down the game and finding that literally everything GameFreak promised about this game is a lie, they don't know SHIT. And by the time the dust settles, it won't matter that they know; GameFreak will have gotten their sales and SwSh will be considered a success.
This is your future. This is the future where knowledge and information mean nothing, just blind consumption, because a company can just fucking withhold important consumer-deciding information until its too late. There will be literally no metric for post sales because the company can just ignore that. GameFreak will promise improvement if it gets review bombed or they'll play dumb and only listen to the drones who don't know anything that's going on, blinded by nostalgia.
It's not enough for YOU to stop your own preorder. You need to go out there and stop others. Tell as many people as you can. Get arrested if you gotta. And when the cops roll up and ask what the fuck is going on, you tell them. When the news crews try to interview the crazy Florida Man shouting about Pokemon at a WalMart, you tell them.
Voting with your wallet is no longer viable because the average consumer isn't given enough information to vote intelligently.