>>33874144As someone who actually uses Festival Plaza, a lot.
>It isn't clear how to useI had to explain to multiple people how to connect to the internet. The bottom screen is so busy and unintuitive, that it isn't obvious what
Beyond that, the FP stalls, Festival Tickets, the Festival Coin system - none of it is really explained and none of it is easy to use. Most of the people who use it are just riding off the big bonuses from the Global Missions. Anyone playing it now would be screwed.
>Online sorting is terribleXY had three categories for online people - Friends, Acquaintances and Passersby. This worked well. If you really liked some of them, you could Favourite them for an extra list.
SM does away with this. They're all mashed into the one list, that will only sometimes push friends to the top. Making friends VIPs is confusing as fuck, and doesn't even work a lot of the time. It is exhausting to use.
>Festival Coins don't accumulate automaticallyPokeMiles accumulated automatically with each interaction, FC are painstakingly gathered one at a time, often triggering the rank upgrade scene which takes forever to work through. There's no real incentive to wonder trade.
>Most of the stalls aren't goodEveryone I know has two Rare Kitchens for quick levelling, and the rest are Treasure Hunts to farm bottlecaps. The rest are not worth their price.
but most of all
>it takes you out of the gameplay just to use onlineAfter being used to being able to go online and continue about your game, waiting around in Festival Plaza for three (or even one!) person to get online is the WORST. To add insult to injury, Rotom Dex is totally worthless, so it feels like you've gone back to Gen IV or something
