>>34234669Any game targeting young kids is going to have issues if it also has something like pachinko machines.
Gambling is always a mixed issue due to the problem of addiction, not saying that adding slot machines would do anything like that, but it always triggers conservative groups to hysteria.
They are always the loudest, the most public, and ultimately any publicity like that isn't good publicity.
It would have been more interesting to have had made the Team Rocket Game Center have an adverse effect in contributing to them, like allowing them to get better Pokemon or increasing their difficulty through giving them more revenue.
Of course, not playing or even talking people out of gambling can make fighting them easier, depleting their resources and revenue.
Basically, you can affect the difficulty of the game through how you interact with the Game Center, their main method of earning money outside of illegal means.
