>>31538974They care more about earning money and making promotion than they care about the franchise itself. Just look at XY, ORAS and Sun & Moon, they're filled to the brim with promotional material, and yet the actual content of all of those games are severely lacking. All three pairs of games have been criticised massively due to their lack of post-game content, poorly written characters and rushed story, and yet GameFreak still finds the time to force Gen 1 content into every corner of those games (Viridian Forest 2.0, Legendary Birds, Mewtwo, Kanto Starters, protagonists coming from Kanto, Lillie going to Kanto, Nugget Bridge 2.0, Alola Forms being exclusively Gen 1, and so on), make 5 event-exclusive mythicals, 3 of which have event-exclusive forms, 12 new Pikachu forms, fucking Ash-Greninja, 4 event-exclusive Z-Crystals and probably more that I can't remember on the spot, across both generations.
And the sad part is that this isn't even new. Every single Generation have had Kanto pandering. Every damn one. Gen 2 had Kanto in GSC, Gen 3 had FRLG, Gen 4 had Kanto in HGSS, Gen 5 had Unova be "the New Kanto" and its dex be heavily inspired by Gen 1, and now all this shit with Gen 6 and 7. We'll never get rid of Kanto.
