>>48049968Demanding better games is a vague unspecific demand that changes its meaning depending upon who you're talking to because different people have different wants. Putting a feature back into an online game that was already in the game before, and can easily be put back is a very simple demand and easily met.
The thing with the National Dex demand was that you would have had to have a significant amount of players not spend 60 dollars on the new game, which just didn't happen. I'm sure some people didn't buy it, and I salute them for that, but most people just bought it anyways because even if they were annoyed that their fave wasn't in the game, they still wanted to catch some of the new ones and have that Pokemon new region, new team, classic experience.
If people want to force GameFreak to improve, they need to narrow down their demands to easily communicated wants and actually get a dedicated percentage of the player base to agree on those demands and follow through with real boycots, real public criticism, and real pressure upon the company.