Vote with your wallet, and they’ll make a good game again

People are voting with their wallet, you just don't like the results.

At the end of the day, people who post on places like Reddit and especially even more niche communities like lemmy making up a meaningless percentage of the gaming market. And expecting the entire market to cater to your personal whims is just unrealistic.

The video game market encompasses people who buy Pokemon games and FIFA games is the same market where people buy Baldur's Gate 3, Witcher 3, Factorio, etc. All you can do is buy and play games and you enjoy and go from there.

Expecting a bit much from people.

The masses don’t seem to understand that not every piece of media related to a franchise you enjoy is good. More of a thing isn’t always good. They will keep pumping out progressively worse and worse garbage because the fans will slurp up anything with the right branding.

Same reason why movies are becoming more and more dumb shallow “spectacles” that can barely hold the audience’s micro attentions. No substance because it might scare away the box office numbers on opening week.

In this industry, and specifically for pokemon, a huge portion of total purchases are done by parents for their children. Children don't understand or care, and parents aren't motivated to deny their children pokemon games based on their quality.

Pokemon, as a product, has very little incentive to improve. This is also an observable effect in the music industry.

People still paying for Pokemon games? I just use roms since they are just all copy and paste.

Game freak why the fuck did you turn Pokemon into vehicles? Wtf is wrong with you?

Not that it'll ever make enough of a dent in their profits to make any difference anyway, but this could also swing the other way. If nobody buys their games because they're bad, the impression those in control could get is that Pokemon games are no longer profitable rather than there being a need to make them better.

Red and Blue are held together with hope and dreams. They've always been like this.

people won't care

And they get really mad when you criticize their AAA games with blatant flaws and corrupt practices.

I haven’t bought a CoD game since MW2. I’M DOING MY PART!

You can say the same thing about people that complain about Chinese junk and yet continue to buy it.

Just because they are for kids doesn’t mean they have to be garbage. The quality of the games has gone downhill fast and they refuse to do simple things like update the ancient animations or polish any of the 3d assets beyond the ps2 era.

It’s a joke compared to other kids games these days.

I didn't watch the video but the newer Pokémon games are actually bad by different measures.

The graphics of the newest one (whatever it is called) is at least a whole generation behind other Switch titles and still it suffers from FPS drops and textures that just pop up while already in view.
That is just objectively bad.

That they never really innovated very much on the turn based RPG formula or that the newer games are very easy are things that I don't even mind, especially because the games are supposed to be accessible for children.
That could make for a nice relaxing game after a long day of work.

But I am not willing to pay 70 something bucks for a game that is so obviously made without the necessary care for the product.

Not only kids. Im not a "hardcore" gamer and I enjoy the pokemon games because they are simple and I know what I have to do. I can start the game at any point and know what I have to do.

As they say, different strokes for different blokes. If you are not happy about the games, then dont buy them and expect enough people wont buy them and TPC will take action. If not enough people stop buying them, then it means you are a minority and peopöe are enjoying the games.

All games are flawed; SV's unacceptably so and your copium just justifies GF getting worse on that front.