>>41087125That's what they said about paying for advertising space in newspapers and on billboards.
Proper advertising can reach much, much further than regular advertisements. It could very well be that these giga-rich companies are embracing self-sabotaging campaigns which reach across the globe though word of mouth and the Internet.
That said, I think I'd prefer that Gamefreak were competent and slightly evil rather than incompetent and prideful.
