>>19723671>Bitching about it makes you seem like an entitled brat.I hear this "entitled brat" label assigned to a lot of people who speak out in disfavor of IVs around here. I don't have much free time - I work two jobs, 70 hours a week, in order to support myself. I'm making money and I'm making a difference. If I'm not doing that, I want to be having fun, playing games, shit like that.
By the dictionary definition of work, sure, breeding pokemon for IVs is "work." But its not, by my definition, at least, "real work" - it makes no money, it doesn't support anyone, it makes no difference in the world, and it makes no meaningful impact on anyone's life. So for me to still deem it worth my time, it needs to be fun, instead. But breeding pokemon for IVs isn't fun, either - there's no challenge, no adventure, no art to it - its just rocking a joystick back and forth for as long as you can stand to do it. At least you can do EV training as a minigame now, and that's good enough for me. But unless they're going to do something more with IVs than bicycle simulator, then I say scrap the whole thing. I have too much actual work that I need to do to really be able to justify wasting time on the fake work of breeding.
Finally, it seems to me that if anyone is entitled, its the people who do have enough time to spend on mundane tasks such as breeding for IVs; people who see the investment of time as a "gatekeeper" of sorts to determine who is and who isn't worthy of participating in their "exclusive" hobby.
