Well this definitely part of the problem, who in blazes cares one bit about the regional rodents, the regional birds, the regional bugs
or the pikaclones?
sincerely who cares one bit about the pikaclones? I've never meet one single fan, casual or hardcore, that actually
cares about any of the pikaclones? They certainly don't sell, in all my years I've never seen 1 child owning any merchandise with a pikaclone except in a pattern featuring miscellaneous pokemon
even if we count Mimikyu as a pikaclone, that one of 6 attempts that's been successful and that if we pretend Togedemaru isn't alola's pikaclone
Also the gimmick haven't been well received, the Meg ring didn't sell that well and casual fans tend to ignore the gimmicks in-game
But we are getting sidetracked, the point is that if a franchise keeps telling its customers to get attached to their pokemon and even announce
a whole service dedicated to transferring those pokemon, not including those pokemon in a game is akin to selling a a yearround pass to Disneyland
that's only good for 7 months, it's deceitful, misleading to costumers and erodes trust in the sellers and their product
Is almost as if the Switch was a console or as if The Legend of Zelda had released several handheld titles etc. etc. also
Arlo
In practice whether I can't use my pokemon because there are no more installments or because future games don't let me use them it's the same to me,
The only difference is Gamefreak isn't shitting on my plate and claiming is chocolate pudding with Home
so it's the same except I don't get my intelligence insulted if they just ended