>>51651104and now its like
>First game with international releaseevery game is spoiled 1 or 2 months before release by some twitter fag
>everyone is discovering shit at the same timesee above
>dorming at college, streetpassing, trading and battling with my peers all day every daythe socializing aspect has been toned down severely
>organizing tournaments/vp/ no longer does this
>pokecheck lets us swap eggsPokecheck expired and is gone forever.
>everyone gets perfect iv shiny pokemon and it's all perfectly legit (this was before things like powersaves and pkhex and whatnot were up and running)And now we have discord bots up on week 1 to kill any sense of achievement, everyone will have everything they want instantly.
>styling and profiling trainers for the first timeStyling and profiling is still incredibly limited arguably moreso than before with styles and ball throwing poses being taken away.
>everyone was content, looking forward to bank to bring the rest of their bros over and Z to embiggen the postgameNow everyone bitches more than ever.
>/vp/ actually played the game, wifi general was an actual thing and people were trading and shitposting and having funNow /wfg/ is a hub for the same tripfag to bump spam forever. Stays alive for maybe a month or two before everyone seeks out bots.
>developing strategies around the nascent mega evolution gimmick, though this was before we knew mega mom and mega luke were insanely fucking bustedYou now know the newest gimmick won't last past a generation now.
The magic is gone.