>>54699325>Part of competitive pokemon is catching and training them.It’s not. Otherwise VGC would have a teambuilding competition at the games themselves.
>Like any other sport or e-sport. Yes you need to invest money in the thing you are competing, and the money you have to invest in pokemon, pales in comparison to literally any other sport or e-sport. To be a professional FPS player, you need a high-powered pc, to be a professional athlete you need coaches, training equipment etc. Difference here is necessity.
There is necessity in buying your equipment for golfing because it’s a physical sport and you need something to play with.
There is necessity to use high end-PCs because FPS games run on PC (and often you can lower the graphic settings in those games too)
There is absolutely no reason why GameFreak can’t provide a Showdown style teambuilder in their games or make every Pokemon available for free.
Additionally, the payments for participants is wildly different.
Average salary of a golfer is 1.5 million, while the largest prize you can get at the biggest tournament is 100 thousand. That’s assuming you win at Worlds, while locals will give out $10,000 to #1 winners.
Also keep in mind, no one cares about having to pay for travel tickets and needing the game to play or entry fees. All that stuff, like golf clubs, bats, uniforms, PC set ups, controllers, are all things hosts of events can’t avoid having people pay for.
GameFreak can choose to do this but chooses not to for malicious reasons.
