>>55123533It was neat back in the 90s with Mew. When I was like 12. If you did not know about game shark or the glitch.
But literally everything after that was a pain in the ass. like you said
Gen 1-4
>You have to actually go to a store/mall/movies, and that's IF there is a place that is holding the event by you within the alloted time frame for the event being active. I remember the one Mew event by me was a one day only thing at the mall.
>Starting with gen 3 preordering Gen 5 onwards
>Sometimes you need to go to the place still>Sometimes you need to connect to the internet in X time frame>Sometimes you need to pre order somethingIt's the reason I have no issue with using things like game shark/action replay and PKhex to get mythicals.