>>44659354No way. People bitched and moaned and cried about it, but it was less about "MUH BROS!!!1" and more more that people were poorfags/kids/cheapskates and upset that it took more than one game to catch 'em all.
Pokemon USA really actually went out of their way to damage control it. The RP boxart of Ruby and Sapphire had the "Gotta Catch 'em All!" slogan like before, but as soon as it was realized you wouldn't be able to, they dropped it.
Game Freak was pretty transparent about it though. First, it wasn't like you could go Gen 1 to Gen 2 without either Pokemon Stadium and the Transfer Pak or two Game Boys, so it wasn't unheard of to have to buy additional stuff to collect them. Anyway, you needed to have one of the Gen 1 games to get all 251 in Gen 2. Second, GF announced they were making a cable to send mons between GSC and RS but they admitted, before the games released, that it couldn't be done on a technical level with the cable. Third, RS were designed to be good games firstly, and the idea of transferring was at first a foregone conclusion but then became something they couldn't do so they didn't. By then the games would have been so far into development they couldn't have done a complete turnaround on the Dex, so they admitted defeat. Colosseum was out in a year's time and added a lot, and then the rest of the GBA games came and got the rest of them in. FRLG had been planned from the start, but the idea of adding in Johto Pokemon was borne of the need to fix the dex.
You notice that afterward they took utmost care to ensure you could transfer, and then you were able to do it all in Gen IV and V without GBA software, and since then they've been forced to go out of their way to add every mon into every cartridge generation. Dexcut was necessary because it at least was a hard stop.
