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TalkBack / Re: The High Barriers to Entry in Competitive Pokémon
« on: January 23, 2013, 12:39:00 AM »
Seeing the amount of people that cheat to get perfect pokemon makes me sad. It completely devalues the hard work that legitimate people spend a long amount of time doing. This is no-brainer logic, and this shouldn't even be a debate. I'm a Gen 4 battler. I don't have the patience to get perfect IVs and EVs, but guess what? I don't cheat. Instead, I use non-EV trained pokemon. And guess what? I still do pretty good if I play my cards right. I don't care if most people cheat. I'd rather know that I'm not part of the problem than be a cheater.
And for people who say "We don't have the time to raise pokemon properly. If I didn't hack then I'd be at a dissadvantage because I have less free time than most people.": In EVERY grinding game, free time is an advantage. That's just how it is. If you don't want to grind, then play Pokemon Online or another simulator that doesn't require effort. Pokemon, unlike other grinder games, HAS these simulator alternatives for people who don't want to train. But nooo, the cheaters have to play on the real Pokemon wifi and devalue everything we've worked for.
By the way, I don't like the fact that EVs and IVs exist. I don't support Nintendo's decision to include them, as it takes way too much time to perfect a pokemon. But using hacking as an answer to this is stupid. Instead of popularizing a hacking metagame, we should have popularized a metagame where only non-EV trained pokemon are allowed. This would allow us to train rewarding teams in a reasonable amount of time without cheating.
Even if Nintendo got rid of EVs and IVs, people are now so used to cheating that they wouldn't stop. Therefore, there is no turning back. I would like to thank you all for permanently ruining the Pokemon metagame.
And for people who say "We don't have the time to raise pokemon properly. If I didn't hack then I'd be at a dissadvantage because I have less free time than most people.": In EVERY grinding game, free time is an advantage. That's just how it is. If you don't want to grind, then play Pokemon Online or another simulator that doesn't require effort. Pokemon, unlike other grinder games, HAS these simulator alternatives for people who don't want to train. But nooo, the cheaters have to play on the real Pokemon wifi and devalue everything we've worked for.
By the way, I don't like the fact that EVs and IVs exist. I don't support Nintendo's decision to include them, as it takes way too much time to perfect a pokemon. But using hacking as an answer to this is stupid. Instead of popularizing a hacking metagame, we should have popularized a metagame where only non-EV trained pokemon are allowed. This would allow us to train rewarding teams in a reasonable amount of time without cheating.
Even if Nintendo got rid of EVs and IVs, people are now so used to cheating that they wouldn't stop. Therefore, there is no turning back. I would like to thank you all for permanently ruining the Pokemon metagame.
