>>48700218The thing is, even if the battle frontier were included in ORAS Masuda's zoomer smartphone kids could perfectly choose not to play it, while their older fans would have been able to enjoy it, both for nostalgia's sake and because those kind of players often DO enjoy an optional challenge.
It's extra content. And they make shittons of money on the franchise so it's not like they aggressively need to cut costs. Likewise, it's a choice to release these games before they're properly finished. Nobody's gonna get bankrupted on a longer development cycle, if that is what it takes for more polish.
In the end, it's laziness coupled with a focus not on game quality but on profit, covered up by a bunch of poor excuses.
Nothing new here though, the issue has been discussed to death after they clearly stopped giving a fuck post B2W2.
