Thread 58546413

Champions won't replace Showdown. It will be monetized by GF and if you want to use all of the EV IV training features you will have to do some microtransaction, judging from the trailer. No PC port means missing out on the most profitable gaming fan base. No guarantee that every single mon will be included, else you can just pull out the Tera Eletric Shedinja strat and disrupt the balance of the entire meta.

god i hope so
this shit they've been doing since they moved to switch with cutting whole games apart and reselling those pieces as thier own thing is ridiculous

WHAT DOES THE REDDIT FROG HAS TO DO WITH THISSSSSS???

>>58546413 (OP)
You just know once the initial hype wears off and the numbers tank they're going to seethe hard and target Showdown kek

>>58546413 (OP)
>you want to use all of the EV IV training features you will have to do some microtransaction
It's already been confirmed that the currency used to train mons can't be purchased

>No PC port means missing out on the most profitable gaming fan base
You mean least? Mobile is the biggest market, followed by consoles

Dumb dumb frogposter

>>58546413 (OP)
I just hope they go after showdown so that retard community can finally would be put to rest for good.

>>58547133
Why do you care?

>>58547139
Because he’s a seething autist

>>58546413 (OP)
No one expected Champions to replace Showdown and anyone who thought otherwise is a complete idiot. Champions should focus on just seamless battling using mons we caught that way we can compete without the hassle of playing through a game.

I bet no one would even think this would affect Showdown in any way. The only way Champions will replace showdown is if they'd C&D'd it.

>>58546413 (OP)
Nah, it'll be a bestseller for the first year, then magically everyone will forget about that crap and move on to the next shitty Pokémon phone game.

It won't succeed because it's a good game, but because it's trendy, like what happened with the idiots who bought Silksong without having played Hollow Knight and days later were complaining that it's a difficult game.

People don't buy games anymore because they're fans of a franchise or genre, but because they're afraid of being left behind by the latest trend.

>>58546413 (OP)
Lol you dont actually think tera elec Shedinja would break the game right?

>>58546610
You can just run an android emulator if you really want to play it on PC anyway, people were doing the same shit for that mobile Destiny game. Gameplay features are already confirmed to not be paywalled (unless they do some dirty trick of selling a currency that can be traded for VP) but more likely they'll just sell cosmetics like costumes for players and maybe pokemon instead. It's just an accessory for the mainline games anyway. The incentive is to get people to buy the mainline games so they can transfer their mons into champions and not be limited to rentals. If Gen 10 ends up being confirmed to using the new combat system from PLZA, I think that also just makes it clear that the intent for Champions was to make a garden for turn based pokemon so the main games are no longer beholden to upkeeping a combat system that only gets good in PvP and building a 60 hour JRPG around it.

>>58547133
that community's been around via numerous successors for as long as pokémon itself has. it's not going anywhere even if tpc acts against it

>>58547187
>bestseller
lol

>>58546413 (OP)
Except Showdown is fucking terrible for playing PvP if I want to play the official formats and not fanficshit.

I tried playing BSS on there once and I hot the same opponent like three times in a row because fucking no one was on the ladder.

>>58546413 (OP)
>Champions won't replace Showdown.
yes it will
> It will be monetized by GF and if you want to use all of the EV IV training features you will have to do some microtransaction, judging from the trailer
exactly, Game Freak will get Showdown shutdown
>No guarantee that every single mon will be included,
they don't need to include all the mons. Swooshie didn't and you trannies bought it anyway. Game Freak only needs to put in KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Anything with a mega, and the other Shillmons, since those are the only Pokemon normoids care about
>you can just pull out the Tera Eletric Shedinja strat and disrupt the balance of the entire meta.
Game Freak has never cared about balance

>>58546413 (OP)
It's not designed to replace Showdown, it's designed to be the VGC vehicle, replacing that element of the main pair games for at least the next couple of gens starting with Gen 10, with next year's VGC being a dry run.

If the VGC playerbase doesn't adopt it, then it flops, as they're the very specific target demographic, but the fanfic meta-only players won't factor into it whatsoever.

I thought showdown was just for testing builds. Champions will probably be more fun to play.

>>58547247
Why would Champions stay turn based if the main games went real time? Champions is supposed to mirror the pvp of the games.

How do u know?

>>58546413 (OP)
We simply can't accept that Champions and Showdown ultimately appeal to different people, no, we must start flinging shit on the anonymous message board!

>>58546413 (OP)
People will use showdown to train and then make their team in champions like every single pokemon game ever. Nothing will change and frog posters will always be retarded