Back then trade was a social experience where you needed to gather some friends and link with a cable. Now you just press a button in a browser so there's no point really.
>>57181468they are fucking garbage
>>57181468God, I wish.
>>57181468Children these days are very antisocial.
>>57181712>these days
>>57181713pedo texan
>its good idea to lock completing the game to buying another console and another game
>>57181468Because even if you had friends they were an annoyance that nobody really liked. Good riddance
>>57181468People only buy Pokemon they don't play it.
Because chances of getting your Pokemon back once online was introduced are slim, which is part of the whole point of trading, to swap back.
>>57181468It was originally done to sell additional hardware (games, gameboys, and link cables). Nowadays, Pokemon is big enough that you either buy it or you don't, and everything is wifi anyway. There is no hardware to sell.
