>>41315690I agree with you that there's definitely someone incompetent at some level of Game Freak. The games being stale in many areas is one thing, but there are a bunch of bizarre decisions, like removing the EXP Share toggle, locking audio options behind an item you get from an optional NPC, still not letting you skip cutscenes in TYOOL 2019, etc, that can't be explained with anything except incompetence, laziness, or stupidity.
The sad thing is, the fact that people will buy Pokemon no matter what should mean they have all the opportunity in the world to experiment and try new things. And yet, because there needs to be constant growth in profits, and because GF no longer sees their games as anything more than a small slice of their merchandise pie, the only changes they'll even consider are those that will give them a direct and guaranteed increase in profits; that pretty much consists only of penny-pinching and ways to reduce development costs, aka effort.
One thing I forgot to mention in my last post was that Nintendo was actually willing to delay the game, to add new features, no less, which GF would never consider because they need the Pokemon brand to be omnipresent in your mind.
