loa said:
It's incredibly clunky, you can only offer pokemon with one specific trade wish with no way of ever knowing stuff like the ability it has so trading for things like hidden abilities is flat out impossible.
That has a lot less to do with Nintendo's or Gamefreak's online capabilities, and more to do with poor interface. Which I agree- the interface needs a rework, or they need to hire another UI designer on the team.
Trading items is impossible too.
It is not impossible. You just have to attach the item you want to a Pokemon and initiate trade. I recently got a Sun Stone from my friend by doing just that.
Kind of ironic since those mega evolutions are entirely item-based and you only get some of those items in each edition.
You can obtain them in game anyway sans a few exclusive. You get them either through NPC interactions, or through money in the battle chateu.
On that note, the more ironic part is that more than likely mega stones and mega evolutions will be a thing only available in the sixth generation installment. Meaning those 35 or so Pokemon that now found themselves in OU like Mawile and Bannett, will find themselves being useless again by the next generation.
It "works pretty well" alright but try wonder trading a whole box of pokemon and tell me this isn't clunky.
I mean, it's one trade at a time anyway. So what good would trading them all at once do aside from making you wait insane amounts of time to find a trading partner?
As for battles, hope you like your 3v3 with legendaries allowed in the edition where fucking everyone has their mewtwo cause that is all you get in random matches.
Again, that has nothing to do with Wifi capabilites. And for the record I couldn't give a crap. I love battling legendaries in battle. For one, they have a lot more use now outside of friend battles and bragging rights. And secondly nothing is better than getting a disconnect from what I'm very sure is a very pissed sore loser.
That's what many people had to deal with in Pokemon Battle Revolution. Honestly if you EV train your Pokemon, Legendary battles are a breeze anyway. The users who utilize them are noob hats anyway. All you need is an ounce of strategy to beat them.
If you trade with someone, there's no simple chatroom
You don't need a chatroom anymore. You either opt in for voice chat, or you don't. If the other player refuses than you don't get voice chat.
or even emotes that you like/do not want what they offer if you don't want to voice chat.
You know, if you really hate the PSS so much, the GTS just opened. Perhaps that would be more to your calling.
Then there's stuff like that global link website.
You'd think one could trade pokemon in a forum using their global link account without fucking around in the games clunky menus, right?
I mean...how are you going to get your Pokemon without using the games anyway?
ordering items. Talk about wasted fucking potential.
You can order just items? That's great actually.
They don't know how to internet or how to make efficient menus and they are great at turning simple tasks into huge chores, sitting on a franchise with TREMENDOUS online potential and only proving year after year that they have absolutely no idea what to do with it
It seems they are very focused on what they want to utilize online for Pokemon on. Battling and trading with other trainers around the world. Sorry, but Pokemon becoming an MMO is not on Satoshi's to-do list.
So yeah, less focus on the thing you are dyslexic about and more focus on the thing you know how to do is not a terrible thing.
The thing is is that Gamefreak is a lot more responsible for the online capabilities of Pokemon than Nintendo. So honestly you might want to direct your frustrations at them.
