>>48500817>What can really happen to get them to fix this seriesRealistically, nothing. Most Pokemon fans are Pokemon fans for life and will buy pretty much every new game just for MORE POKEMON. Nothing short of GameFreak selling a new Pokemon game that literally just opens to Ghetsis yelling "NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER" before permanently bricking your Switch would get most fans to stop buying.
And the number of fans that would eventually get disgusted and leave is vastly outnumbered by the number of new fans made with each game. One thing that you absolutely need to remember is that there are tons of gamers that have or will grow up (literally if not necessarily figuratively) and will introduce their precious childhood series to their children, who will in turn eat it up and become new fans and blood for the series. Then they might introduce it to friends that haven't played it, which will make more new fans, and then those will grow up, etc. That's just ONE renewable source of new fans for the series, and there are plenty of others.
This all leads up to the quality of the series permanently being doomed. GameFreak has no incentive to actually try when they'll make the money anyway. Worse, they don't even need to do much to defend themselves; the fans will do it for free, and do it like it's their own lives on the line. All they have to do is throw out a few token excuses here and there, like "we couldn't include the Battle Frontier because [checks notes] we thought it would be too hard for the kids". Pokemon is just so much money for so little effort that it would probably cost them more to actually hire competent developers and make the games the best they could than to just do the bare minimum and wave goodbye to maybe a couple hundred disgruntled ex-fans who refuse to buy the new games per generation while welcoming in thousands or millions more. They can just stick to no effort, easy profit by selling the Pokemon name and coombait over and over.
