Recent content by Jeffers

I think you touched on another issue there. I somewhat agree, but I am not convinced that the context can be as obvious to everyone as you might hope. Most of the communication we experience online is text based, or in the case of videos, impersonal and one-sided. It can be easy to misinterpret...

I think it's important to remember that while the loudest or most radical opinions might be the ones that get the most attention, they are not the majority. Most people will have overall positive or negative inclinations towards any new game; a mix things they look forward to or are optimistic...

Because they can. I am sure most VGC players would pay it. Given that this new app more directly competes with Pokémon Showdown, I could see them having more incentive to shut it down. If they charge a subscription fee for it, they could even point to lost revenue more tangibly in a potential...

I wonder if Champions will require a Home subscription, or have its own subscription on top of that. If the small indie company cannot afford the time or resources to put all the Pokémon in the game, this isn't a bad compromise, subscription costs aside. Z-A doesn't look too bad, though if you...

Yep. It me. I used to go by Jeffers for most things online, but when that name was taken I'd usually resort to The Jeffers or some variant, and that was also true for the Pokémon website back during the Black and White era when I made the account. I first became aware of this thread a few...

It feels like there's always some new bug on those forums. And when they finally fix one, another one crops up in its place. Posts held for approval are a consistent source of headaches. Not only does it often fail to update the forum listing and notify users you reply to or quote when a post...

There will be an element of that, but "Switch 2" is much less ambiguous than the Wii U. I think the quality of launch titles and then exclusives going forward will be a bigger determining factor than the hardware itself.

Wait, what are they talking about? I never saw that. Was it just a manji or something?

It seems they will be changing the trade system in response to player feedback. I personally think this was an attempt to get away with a more expensive trade system, only to revert to a slightly more reasonable one if the backlash became too large. We might even thank them for the privilege of...

I suppose it is cheaper to deal outages for a few hours during a set launch than it is to permanently fund more servers. Things seemed to settle down after a couple of hours for me, but I'm on Japanese servers. Are there still problems in other parts of the world?

The trading part of trading card games has been on life support for a while now. At least the trading for another card part. Trading for money is thriving. It's a whole market in its own right. Most digital card game clients have eliminated trading, in favour of crafting systems, if anything at...

I doubt they will release Switch 1 and Switch 2 versions of each game, because the S2 is backwards compatible, unlike the move from Wii U to S1. The Game Boy to Game Boy Color or DS to DSi is probably a better comparison. We'll probably get a year or two more of S1 games (possibly with S2...

The Switch 2 is unlikely to affect Pokémon releases all that much in the grand scheme of things. It is simply a question of whether Z-A and gen 10 (or whatever is next) will be Switch 1 games, Switch 2 enhanced or Switch 2 exclusive. That an whether Game Freak can harness the extra power to...

So it's not inherently bad. You liked some of them. I am not a big open world fan myself. But I wouldn't dismiss games outright because of it. Again, I don't think GF were ready to make SV open world.

Open world isn't inherently bad. I was frustrated when every game seemed to be going sandbox a few years ago, but that was mostly because it followed the same model of plonking what was otherwise a linear story across a mostly empty map, with little collectibles cynically strewn about to fill...