>>44217550>Why lie about the justifications then? Why not be honest?Because the justification makes them look bad. The policy itself not necesarilly, it particularly depends on how its worded which is why many fanbase outsiders side with GF after hearing a poor explanation of what the controversy was about.
>Every lie erodes credibility with peopleWith people who care about that, yeah. The thing is that GF's lies are based on an expectation that their fanbase has not knowledge how software works nor how the pokemon franchise works and, seeing they have shills, they weren't wrong.
>Why do you believe that the new policy is real?I see no reason to lie about it and they haven't so far done anything contrary to it.
>If they lie about the justification for the policy, by your own admission, why would they not lie about the policy?By lying about their justification they gain a better reputation than if they said the truth.
By lying about the policy, they gain nothing.
>Yes actually, if all Pokemon end up in Gen 8 that would indeed mean they lied about the policy.You didn't understand the policy. They said no GAME would have all mons in it. A gen having all isn't against it.
>Why does this mean a lie and not a change of course?When I see evidence of the course changing then we might talk about a change of course.
>Stuff is always planned in advance, especially because of compatibility reasons within a gen.Evidencing what I said in my first remark, you don't know how previous gens worked. Gen 6 and 7 had different mons/forms between them and never patched the old games with the new mons/forms so there's precedent of them not caring about in-gen compatibility.
