i think something similar is certainly possible if you don’t have the mons in home! but locking *transfers* behind a paywall besides the initial payment for the game is not realistic in any way, sorry.
Let's get one thing straight: the only Pokemon Game Freak locks behind a paywall are the new, broken ones introduced in DLC. Sure, that's still shitty and it's fair to complain about it (I do,) but it's not like you need the Indigo Disk to use your Golem from Fire Red, for instance.
Imagine if the different battle styles were locked by region. UK folks get Gigantamax, Spain gets Tera, France gets Mega, Oceana gets Z Crystals. Americans get... Rotating battles?
Imagine if we get dynamax, mega evolution, Z-moves, AND terasterlization. God what a game this could be lol. Won't happen but would be super cool to have in some way
I knew it was only a matter of time before we got a standalone battle game! If they nail this, and I don’t see why they wouldn’t, this could revolutionize VGC on the official side!
It's likely to have limited Pokemon for a more balanced competitive scene and nothing more. Pokemon will be added just like they do with the games; for Regulation changes. Adding legendaries, or restricted mons. When they do that they'll likely add some more casual mons too like mythicals.
It also implies there's at least a certain amount of effort going into porting individual mons—at least more than just copy-pasting the existing models and animation and flipping a switch (or they would simply do that)!
Something something not all pokemon are available in the modern games something something "at release" meaning that they will possibly be updating this game on a consistent basis something something be patient.
Hey aslong as the take their time implimenting each mechanic as perfectly as possible it will hopfully lead to the most comprehensive Pokemon battling game we've evevr had and could ever ask for (outside of Showdown but that's been around for years and still has it's quirks haha)
Not surprised, Pokemon will continue to give us stuff like this because they have enough people giving them money 💰 💰 💰 I'm excited for the people who are happy 😁
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As in, they'll all be added in future updates
Other stuff for sure though.
Oh wait it was never a problem before and still isn't. Still can't wait for the best Stadium game since PBR.
Oh well, we'll take what we can get for now
If they put everything now, it'd leave uncertainty for how outdated this game will be in a year or so.
This at least implies "we're adding Gen 10 here too, eventually", much like GO came out right before SM but now has Pokés all the way up to SV.