And then there's people like me who'd rather have a digital library. The steelbox does look cool though, not denying it.That's more or less how I've felt about steelbooks in general. I just like my normal cases.
And then there's people like me who'd rather have a digital library. The steelbox does look cool though, not denying it.That's more or less how I've felt about steelbooks in general. I just like my normal cases.
I think a special promo would be the perfect balance between cheap to make and valuable to players.Pre-Order Bonus: ~Ooh~ A steel book. It'll look great shoved at the bottom of my draw with the rest of my DS/3DS boxes. Like The Heartless Dictator said, what was wrong with the little figurines? Got too expensive? Okay, but how about something we could actually use? Like though I'm sure the majority of the game players don't play it, why not a Pokemon TCG card? Or how about giving us something we get in the game like maybe a code to get a certain Shiny (or maybe letting our chosen Starter or the Mascot Legendary become Shiny upon getting it. Probably the starter because since they'll be in cutscenes, unless the cutscenes are dynamic, they may have also shiny locked the starters). Heck, instead of giving it away at the movies (or whatever way they're doing it internationally but still coinciding with the movie's release) they could have Magearna be the pre-order bonus.
Wow, I didn't know steel cases as a preorder bonus were so hated. I, for one, love the look of them and yes they lay on a shelf, but so do all my other games and figurines. The thing about them not costing more than the normal edition isn't true either. With ORAS the steel case edition cost ~ €5 extra, but I'll gladly pay that for those beautiful cases. Luckily I live in Europe, so I'll get a chance at buying them. Now I only need to wish for a SM coverplate.Pre-Order Bonus: ~Ooh~ A steel book. It'll look great shoved at the bottom of my draw with the rest of my DS/3DS boxes. Like The Heartless Dictator said, what was wrong with the little figurines? Got too expensive? Okay, but how about something we could actually use? Like though I'm sure the majority of the game players don't play it, why not a Pokemon TCG card? Or how about giving us something we get in the game like maybe a code to get a certain Shiny (or maybe letting our chosen Starter or the Mascot Legendary become Shiny upon getting it. Probably the starter because since they'll be in cutscenes, unless the cutscenes are dynamic, they may have also shiny locked the starters). Heck, instead of giving it away at the movies (or whatever way they're doing it internationally but still coinciding with the movie's release) they could have Magearna be the pre-order bonus.
The funny part with the expensive part is that I bet you that we will get Solgaleo and Lunala figurines in the TCG (in America only, sorry Europe, you have weird gambling laws with that so you never get them). Roughly $20 for 4 booster packs, a promo card, and a figurine. We got the Kyogre and Groudon figurines that Japan got with their preorders that way. And the Arceus figurine in America ended up that way too. So it's not that it's expensive really...Pre-Order Bonus: ~Ooh~ A steel book. It'll look great shoved at the bottom of my draw with the rest of my DS/3DS boxes. Like The Heartless Dictator said, what was wrong with the little figurines? Got too expensive? Okay, but how about something we could actually use? Like though I'm sure the majority of the game players don't play it, why not a Pokemon TCG card? Or how about giving us something we get in the game like maybe a code to get a certain Shiny (or maybe letting our chosen Starter or the Mascot Legendary become Shiny upon getting it. Probably the starter because since they'll be in cutscenes, unless the cutscenes are dynamic, they may have also shiny locked the starters). Heck, instead of giving it away at the movies (or whatever way they're doing it internationally but still coinciding with the movie's release) they could have Magearna be the pre-order bonus.
I distinctly remember having to pay a £5 deposit for my pre-order and then having to pay £35 when I actually bought it. Hence £40, hence just the same price as usual. Maybe it was different in other parts of Europe?Wow, I didn't know steel cases as a preorder bonus were so hated. I, for one, love the look of them and yes they lay on a shelf, but so do all my other games and figurines. The thing about them not costing more than the normal edition isn't true either. With ORAS the steel case edition cost ~ €5 extra, but I'll gladly pay that for those beautiful cases. Luckily I live in Europe, so I'll get a chance at buying them. Now I only need to wish for a SM coverplate.
Where's my preorder bonus of 200 potions?Pre-Order Bonus: ~Ooh~ A steel book. It'll look great shoved at the bottom of my draw with the rest of my DS/3DS boxes. Like The Heartless Dictator said, what was wrong with the little figurines? Got too expensive? Okay, but how about something we could actually use? Like though I'm sure the majority of the game players don't play it, why not a Pokemon TCG card? Or how about giving us something we get in the game like maybe a code to get a certain Shiny (or maybe letting our chosen Starter or the Mascot Legendary become Shiny upon getting it. Probably the starter because since they'll be in cutscenes, unless the cutscenes are dynamic, they may have also shiny locked the starters). Heck, instead of giving it away at the movies (or whatever way they're doing it internationally but still coinciding with the movie's release) they could have Magearna be the pre-order bonus.
I've been wondering why I'm so apathetic about any and all sun/moon news (my hype level is registering a solid negative two), and I think Kurona just hit on some of my feelings (they are complex feelings). Some of it is definitely because of the EU delay. By the time I'm able to play, it'll be old news - technically it's old news as soon as leakers get their hands on it, but for a game whose strength is in the diversity of its international community, that week's delay on being able to participate with the rest of the world is a real bummer.
That's not the only reason though. IDK, I just can't get enthused about s/m. Maybe it's just that XY raised the stakes so much that there's a relative falldown in comparison. Largely also because I was genuinely hyped for Z and that particular hype train didn't so much derail as vanish into a void of "train? what train? There was never a train, uh, here, have a Magearna". Also because I guess I'm sorry to see gen 6 go. I liked it a lot and would have liked it more with some Kalos plot resolution and serious postgame stuff to round off the (currently lacking) French experience.
Sorry to be a downer. But outside of the ability to play the game in concert with my IRL friends (Which will be a first for me since Pokemon first released, most of my friends have only started playing after ORAS released), the ability to see my Blue team realised, (sans maybe mew) and the generic "oh hey a new Pokemon game to play", there's little in particular that I can get excited about. I hope that changes soon.
I don't think this is a downer statement to make at all. A lot of us have unfinished business in Kalos, and we expected a "Z" to come. XY and Kalos set the bar so high and ORAS really failed for me to live up to what XY had given us. There were very few changes to the original games, which imo let them down a whole bunch compared to what they managed to do in XY. I didn't feel the same way about HGSS for some reason, even though I can name a huge bunch of failings they had (which could/should have been rectified).I've been wondering why I'm so apathetic about any and all sun/moon news (my hype level is registering a solid negative two), and I think Kurona just hit on some of my feelings (they are complex feelings). Some of it is definitely because of the EU delay. By the time I'm able to play, it'll be old news - technically it's old news as soon as leakers get their hands on it, but for a game whose strength is in the diversity of its international community, that week's delay on being able to participate with the rest of the world is a real bummer.
That's not the only reason though. IDK, I just can't get enthused about s/m. Maybe it's just that XY raised the stakes so much that there's a relative falldown in comparison. Largely also because I was genuinely hyped for Z and that particular hype train didn't so much derail as vanish into a void of "train? what train? There was never a train, uh, here, have a Magearna". Also because I guess I'm sorry to see gen 6 go. I liked it a lot and would have liked it more with some Kalos plot resolution and serious postgame stuff to round off the (currently lacking) French experience.
Hong Kong usually gets games 2 days earlier than release because the shops just love to do this.To be fair, most likely someone's going to get the games a week early and spoil everyone on the internet again. I remember my friend like getting mad at the existence of Klefki like that Monday before it came out.
Actually, I'd really appreciate this. I only just remembered that I'd protected myself from Starter spoilers (Final evolutions only) during XY, and I'm only cottoning on now that there's no way that that info isn't gonna show up on these forums absolutely everywhere. And I'd rather not have to give up my lurk-for-two-weeks-then-whore-myself-out-for-likes posting style, I enjoy it here too much :<Chances are in the next few weeks I will be asking for a temporary forum like we had before for XY and then ORAS for the immediate launch until at least Xmas, just incase people do not want to have spoilers.
People here are really excited about trumpmon and woody multipecker.Well the thing is Pokemon is careful about its spoilers too. They don't tell us everything or even really about all the exciting Pokemon coming out. So it isn't THAT much. I mean who here would really be excited about seeing this gen's bird or rodent in game?
This is Smogon. Show us one blurry screenshot of a Pokemon and the entire community will go nuts with speculation. :PWell the thing is Pokemon is careful about its spoilers too. They don't tell us everything or even really about all the exciting Pokemon coming out. So it isn't THAT much. I mean who here would really be excited about seeing this gen's bird or rodent in game?
People here are really excited about trumpmon and woody multipecker.
I mean mostly, let's say there were NONE of these reveals before the game came out, would we STILL be excited about them?This is Smogon. Show us one blurry screenshot of a Pokemon and the entire community will go nuts with speculation. :P
Just as we were when we played Pokemon the first time. Until the last time before anyone of us discovered CoroCoro or the Pokemon games websites existed.I mean mostly, let's say there were NONE of these reveals before the game came out, would we STILL be excited about them?
Wait, you guys just have a 5 day delay? What's the point? Like if it was a couple of weeks I could maybe get it's maybe to make sure all parts of Europe gets it, but 5 days? By then all stores will have the game by the time of the US & Japan release date, just do a worldwide release like XY!It is honestly extremely aggravating having to keep away from literally everywhere on the internet for five days because we get it five days later. It's kinda stupid.
Yeah, I think maybe we should all agree when the games come out to talk about it in spoilers tabs and don't have spoilers in our avatars or signatures. Gives players who are waiting for the holidays to get a chance not to be spoiled.Actually, I'd really appreciate this. I only just remembered that I'd protected myself from Starter spoilers (Final evolutions only) during XY, and I'm only cottoning on now that there's no way that that info isn't gonna show up on these forums absolutely everywhere. And I'd rather not have to give up my lurk-for-two-weeks-then-whore-myself-out-for-likes posting style, I enjoy it here too much :<
Also, user avatars are surprisingly insidious. Blocking images sounds like a pain, but I'm going to have to do that too when the time comes to draw the spoiler line. Pre-BW I was pretty good about avoiding spoilered content, but via random google searches I'd found a much older Smogon thread to read, presumably a safe one, and one of the users in it had a BW Bisharp sprite for an avatar, which I had a good look at. (I didn't have an account at the time, but I'm going to assume it was Karxrida. :P) I panicked for a while until I rationalised that it was probably just some obscure megaman boss and therefore nothing to worry about. ((I was wrong.))
*Tempted to bring up CoroCoro's first Sun & Moon "teaser"*This is Smogon. Show us one blurry screenshot of a Pokemon and the entire community will go nuts with speculation. :P