What's the point of cutting Battle Tower in Scarlet/Violet? Other than proving that they can?
>>56789386>Battle Tower^ Not a thing which is what played by normal people
>>56789395True, it's the most boring battle facility, which is why they should add the fun and interesting parts of the battle frontier back
>>56789386People with defend and buy it anyway
>>56789386Because Battle Tower always sucks? Don't get why they never bring back the Battle Frontier.
Pokemon players will happily defend features getting removed and explain how they always sucked They did the exact same thing when Sword and Shield removed the Nat dex of all things
>>56789395Neither are raids but they keep forcing them in every main game
>>56789386online battles and the ranked system made them pointless
>>56789473The games GF is making are not worth +$90. They don't even have half the content of gameboy games.
>>56789386my battle tower is the world
>>56789473>>56789501? just play showdown
>>56789482maybe you should blame Nintendo for making you pay for the internet
>>56789386SV actually had a substitute with the ID club room creating a long post-game task
>>56789633Online was free from gens 4-7.
>>56789425I miss Battle Pyramid. Black Tower/White Treehollow in BW2 is similar but they didn't have a level cap.
>>567893861. Battle tower was only played to grind bottle caps, which fucking sucked.2. SV respects my time more and made it much easier to level up my pokemon and make them viable for 7-star raids and comp. I can get bottle caps and supplements so easily in SV.
>>56789386Because they completely gave up on making it something you'll find any challenge with thanks to the existence of minmaxed "not a legendary but basically as powerful as one" species like Ultra Beasts that only (You) get to use (but they didn't see any reason in banning them because they don't meet the arbitrary criteria of "strong enough" despite said minmaxing) and in SWSH they outright allowed you to use Pokemon that would normally be banned, meaning Zacian could unga bunga the whole thing brainlessly.Paradoxes, including the Raidons, would've no doubt created the exact same problem if SV had a Battle Tower.Or, the shorter and real answer, why bother implementing the Battle Tower when you can just tell people to buy a NSO Subscription and play PVP endlessly until the next generation? That's basically the same thing if not better because now you're fighting actual opponents and not garbage AI that has to teambuild specifically to counter (You) and rig RNG to beat you, right?
>>56789395>IESLB
>>56789473If I didn't have to pay for online, I might agree.>inb4 it's cheapYeah, every paid service is cheap at first, and Nintendo is just as capable of jacking up prices over time. Look at Home vs Bank, and I won't be surprised if Home's price goes up soon.More importantly, they're going to sunset the Switch online at some point. And when the do, people that go back and play those games will be stuck using the BDSP and SwSh battle towers, with nothing for gen 9 because basically all post-game battling is online (either VGC or raids).
>>56790084And that's intentional by design. They don't WANT you going back to play old games unless it's to collect Pokemon to build a team in the new game. If you want to keep up with the pack and keep enjoying Pokemon as intended, you're getting the latest hardware and the latest game that VGC supports.