I was replying to a post complaining about the scheme that TCG apps use and saying that Live seems to be doing the same, which is a bad thing according to who I was replying to.
I can't see any disconnect because I wasn't agreeing with what the other user was saying, I was picking up from the same thread you started.
We are arguing two different things and don't even actually disagree on the points we're saying, so there's nothing to discuss here.
based 'biggest media IP on earth' argument hater spotted. good to see someone else like me. the argument is so blasphemously stupid and easily discountable it's astounding it's becoming one of the main rhetorics among Pokemon fans
The reason people like me point out that it’s a big franchise is to demonstrate that they have the reasources to produce quality products, but don’t. Like it or not, this is true; they don’t care to hire more developers or artists or better tools. It’s their choice, but it’s the choice to be cheap and crappy. They bit the bullet and accepted that criticism, so I will say it again and again when I see stuff like this.
It's mostly annoying in the context of the main games, where none of those are the problem. That said, it doesn't change the fact that they're not gonna put more proportionally into one part of the IP than what it makes just because they technically have the money. If the TCG is only worth like 10% of the total revenue, it's foolish to put more than 5% of the revenue in, for example.
If the PTCGO's Gem debacle is anything to go by then there's a very high chance that it WOULDN'T be done right. I'm sure we all remember the math that went into figuring out the rate money spent on Gems, the Gems spent on packs, and discovering that TPCi had absolute gall to charge the MSRP of a physical pack for a digital one.
Considering how quickly people on social media sites will defend any decision made by any of the Pokémon-affiliated companies it feels like they honestly don’t care.
And here's the other annoying thing about the community: if anything has any problems, everyone MUST be outraged or they're just being shills. Nobody is allowed to enjoy anything until we start getting completely flawless products.
"You criticize a company, yet still want their product. Hurr hurr I am indeed so intelligent for my ability to create strawman arguments"
And this is where I break out into maniac laughter, reach for the master’s prized bludgeoning oar set on the mantlepiece, and strike a menacing pose(if anyone gets this reference, I tip my hat to you).
IIRC excess cards aren’t being transferred PTCGL and there no compensation will be given for having those excess cards in your collection.
I said nothing even remotely close to that.
Most people don't buy 400 packs/codes per set. That's why not many are complaining about it. I also don't think that the 5 cards per pack thing is all that widely known.
There’s a pic floating around showing off 9 decks (one of which I assume is a tutorial deck), the decks are…
There are multiple sections of Pokemon, all made by different people, and only one of which actually owns the money. You are intentionally limiting your expectations if you suddenly expect TPCI to randomly give ANY dev team more time or money. You're also naive, selfish and petty to have no knowledge how a dev team works and call them lazy- or anything of the sorts. You realize literally everyone that makes a game works harder than any living CEO has in a day in their life, right? Much less so you? Unless you're talking about nintendo/TPCI. In which case, you're probably right. They COULD let gamefreak have more than a year and half to two years for a game, but won't. They COULD just give PTCGL devs more money but obviously won't. Clearly we have no say in these things, sadly..
Basically starting off with all of the important staples is huge though.
Point out where I said they were lazy? Oh wait, you can’t, because I never blamed the devs. I said the company, aka those who have the power to choose where the money goes, hired too few developers and didn’t use their money to use the best tools available (and not in an appropriate time frame, I would also argue) in addition to asking for a poorly designed product in the first place (a standard mobile game). You agree that the Pokemon company made a choice not to put the money into making a good experience for their online client and guess what, I get to criticize it on the grounds that as a company they could do better.
