>>34755110I disagree with you about literally everything you listed.
>>34755160>Useless in gameYou know, there is not a way to *lose* Pokemon? Hasn't been since the earliest games when you could potentially soft-lock yourself into an infinite fight against one trainer or another - it involved releasing all Pokemon and deleting all moves except Rage and fighting a particular ghost type I think? Meh, anyway, the game is inherently forgiving, and always chucks you back to the previous pokecenter as a checkpoint.
It is not a hard game by any stretch, and if only 10% engage in the competitive aspects, well, maybe only 10% feel like being competitive. There's a significant chunk of the fighting game community who only plays single player. There's plenty of people who only play the story mode in CoD. There's an infinite number of Minecraft players who have never joined a server.
