While it would, in the end they sell games for money, and it's already enough that they bothered to make sure that people without the DLCs can still both get every pokemon that get added as well as partecipate to raids hosted by people that own the DLC.I really, really wouldn't mind these updates giving a couple new things to base game as well beyond new Pokémon. I imagine that people will be added for things like the Genies' mirror or the Furfrou haircuts, but it'd be cool to get a little bit more content...
I'm sorry, for some reason I thought we were on the 16th. Guess I'm officially hyped.Tomorrow? Doesnt it come out on the 17th after HOME maintenance? Or is it 12 am sharp?
While today is June 15, it's June 16 in Japan because of the time zone difference. At least that's how it is on the west coast of the United States. By tomorrow morning in my time, it will be June 17 in Japan. Depending on what time of the day in Japan the DLC arrives, many of us will be able to access it tomorrow. This assumes a simultaneous worldwide release of course, which I assume will occur.I'm sorry, for some reason I thought we were on the 16th. Guess I'm officially hyped.
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It's extremely unlikely that it's not a syncronized release. Since in this case it's the activation of a DLC that should also concur at same time on bank.While today is June 15, it's June 16 in Japan because of the time zone difference. At least that's how it is on the west coast of the United States. By tomorrow morning in my time, it will be June 17 in Japan. Depending on what time of the day in Japan the DLC arrives, many of us will be able to access it tomorrow. This assumes a simultaneous worldwide release of course, which I assume will occur.
So does this imply it's gonna be released tomorrow or in 2 days?While today is June 15, it's June 16 in Japan because of the time zone difference. At least that's how it is on the west coast of the United States. By tomorrow morning in my time, it will be June 17 in Japan. Depending on what time of the day in Japan the DLC arrives, many of us will be able to access it tomorrow. This assumes a simultaneous worldwide release of course, which I assume will occur.
Well, SWSH itself doesn't need any maintenance, after all it is a single player game. What'll likely happen is that the online will go down for a bit (potentially but not necessarly at same time as Home) and once it's "live" we'll get the patch to download.I have to assume SWSH itself will also go under maintenace in the lead up to the patch so we'll probably get advance notice of it tomorrow or the day of
Adds Dragon Dance to Garchomp's movepool LMAOPokemon HOME Maintenance? When? I haven't been following this thread too heavily but I'm kinda curious to what this "HOME maintenance" is all about.
If this is really their ultimate motivation for doing this then that's pretty lame but I'm not really mad frankly. GF purely made things harder for themselves by not taking this chance to calm people down sooner, ignoring that in favor of some sense of "surprise" is peak cutting off your nose to spite your faceYou underestimate GF's way of thinking. They are perfectly fine with lying and misdirecting people in order to keep their "surprises". Remember that in past games where they had to code in the Mythicals they pretended the Mythicals didn't exist until it was the time they wanted to reveal them. Don't bother cleaning out demo builds of their final game stuff even though they know players datamine that stuff (this is moreso for ORAS than SM, though they still messed up cleaning SM's demo). Grookey's sticks don't have anything to do with its evolution... Grookey evolves into a drummer.
They wanted them patching in Pokemon via DLC to be a surprise, if they had to take heat for months for leaving them out they're perfectly fine with it as they believe the ends justify the means.
But, as I said, there was a way they could have done the PR better... but Masuda.
Smash goes down for maintenance every time, and I believe animal crossing did as well.Well, SWSH itself doesn't need any maintenance, after all it is a single player game. What'll likely happen is that the online will go down for a bit (potentially but not necessarly at same time as Home) and once it's "live" we'll get the patch to download.
I have a hard time seeing GF organizing something more complex like MMOs do (who let you predownload the entire expansion and then "turn it on")
You know, you're not wrong, but having been invested in multiple japanese videogame franchises at this point, honestly GameFreaks behaviour isn't even the weirdest "self-harming" decision I've seen at this point.If this is really their ultimate motivation for doing this then that's pretty lame but I'm not really mad frankly. GF purely made things harder for themselves by not taking this chance to calm people down sooner, ignoring that in favor of some sense of "surprise" is peak cutting off your nose to spite your face
If I recall it is guessed to release afternoon in Japan, 3PM. What would that be on Pacific time (Edit: around 11PM)? Or do updates typically go live at midnight in Japan?Ok so timewise. Ingame news (my game is english and usa) says the game will drop on the night of 17th june jst (which is japan time). The dates for the uk, usa and jalan all have thr 17th listed as their release day for the dlc. Home is updating between the time of 5 am est to 11 am est. In between that time also happens to be when those timezones lineup on the same day. Slowpoke galar when it dropped came around that very time. So it can be assumed that dlc time will fall somewhere around that time and at earliest 5 am est. This is my personal assumption based on current data. However, in any case the release globally the same time and not at 12 am each time or at 00:00 utc as raid den updates have been.
Yeah, they really shot themselves in the foot with that.If this is really their ultimate motivation for doing this then that's pretty lame but I'm not really mad frankly. GF purely made things harder for themselves by not taking this chance to calm people down sooner, ignoring that in favor of some sense of "surprise" is peak cutting off your nose to spite your face
Well, no, there would be a reason; it would make the base game itself look even better to potential future buyers. Plenty of games with paid DLC will do this; they'll provide additional content as a free update to give the air of the base game being 'improved' and hence a better investment even without DLC. Often this is also content that was being worked on pre-release anyway and making it a post-release free update makes it look like "hey, on top of the already-complete game, we're giving you even more stuff at no extra cost!"While it would, in the end they sell games for money, and it's already enough that they bothered to make sure that people without the DLCs can still both get every pokemon that get added as well as partecipate to raids hosted by people that own the DLC.
As much as I understand your point, I see no reason to give out random stuff for free if your intent is to actually sell said DLCs (possibly multiple time per person in case of people who own both games)
I would imagine we'll just get this from showing the guy in Stow-on-Side one of the genies, in the same way we currently get the items for Kyurem and Necrozma. I'd be surprised if Furfrou returns at all, and even more surprised if they keep the haircut mechanic, unless we do eventually get *all* of the old Pokemon -- it's a classic example of a quirky mechanic for a little used Pokemon that creates a lot of graphical work unlikely to be meaningfully appreciated.I imagine that people will be added for things like the Genies' mirror
If they can fit cap pikachu, they can fit furfrou.I would imagine we'll just get this from showing the guy in Stow-on-Side one of the genies, in the same way we currently get the items for Kyurem and Necrozma. I'd be surprised if Furfrou returns at all, and even more surprised if they keep the haircut mechanic, unless we do eventually get *all* of the old Pokemon -- it's a classic example of a quirky mechanic for a little used Pokemon that creates a lot of graphical work unlikely to be meaningfully appreciated.
Well there is the detail that Pikachu is actually a fan favourite while noone really cares for Furfrou :DIf they can fit cap pikachu, they can fit furfrou.
That's unfair, you beat me by 1 minute in reporting it :(Pokemon Presents on June 17th at 10pm Japan time.