>>49079922Normalfags who fell out of gaming were in disbelief, followed by outrage that not only was Pokemon still alive when they thought it died after Ruby and Sapphire, but they were using entirely new monsters instead of the creatures they were familiar with.
Even though they had zero interest of buying, they spent their time shitting on it until, somehow, they got GameFreak to respond accordingly with more apparent degrees of nostalgia pandering.