Do you think that Gamefreak occasionally monitors this board to find out about reactions/opinions/ideas customers have? And if so, what do they do with our input?

I mean sure, this board doesn't have thousands of posters, but most of us are passionate about the franchise I would assume so our input should certainly be interesting from a business point of view.

If I was the producer of Pokemon, I'd probably at least toy with the idea of having a couple of people observe customer reactions on the Internet.