>>40845075I think this is a case of "Right lesson, wrong time"
One of the biggest complains of Sun and Moon was people yelling at Game Freak for basically spoiling the entire game before it launched. Everyone shouted that they had shown off to much, that there weren't any surprises
So they decided to take the opposite approach with ShSw and play everything close to the vest. Except then the Nat Dex fiasco happened and even today /vp/ and everyone else won't stop railing them for cutting content; and the fact that they decided to keep what content they DID have very secretive only compounded the issue even more
This was the ONE time that showing off everything might have actually helped them in the long run. Instead we're 9 days away from launch with not even a quarter of what this game has to offer officially revealed to the public; we all had to learn everything through fucking leaks, which makes Game Freak look like even bigger chumps than they already are
A simple change in marketing could have put out some of these fires. They themselves made the leaks a hot commodity. No one to blame but themselves for this