Why Gamefreak gradually stopped making extended repetable single player post league content like the Battle Frontiers or the PWT After gen 5?It seems each gen from 6 onwards had less and less of them
Because the market as an overall stopped interacting with them entirely, helped by the fact if they wanted to pvp, they just had to click a few buttons on the interface (leading them to get involved with that).The big dirty secret is devs make the bare mninumum content for their audience and stop wasting time, money and manhours adding shit players won't interact with in numbers great enough to justify the outlay of all three. The world has changed since the days of analogue telly feeds that the GBA and DS were born into. There's streaming, youtube, mobileshit, in short a whole HOST of shit vying for attention from people daily that just were not there back in the day (which pokémon used to its advantage - shoving in busywork RNG halls to keep kids playing as there was nothing else compelling enough to draw them away). Nowadays, kids drop shit they can't easily progress through and turn to something more keyed to triggering their endorphins with skinner-box tactics or fuck off and watch some youtuber playing minecraft and booting up their game to join him in his seed. the world modernised and Pokémon followed to keep its influence.
>>59280399The battle frontier and pwt was for friendless losers who couldn’t do actual pvp with other people. No need for that now since you can just connect online to battle others.
>>59280399Because you touch yourself at night
>>59280416So games are just a temporary service? You can't play online in 3ds games anymore
>>59280414>>59280416And yet Emerald, Platinum and BW2 still have their meaty postgames, a good reason to still play them How its the multiplayer activity nowadays on gen 6/7/8 games?
>>59280399because you'll buy their trash anyway
>>59280399Because only basedboys went to the onions frontier.Real chads do cool postgame stuff like hunting legendaries or exploring the optional routes.
>>59280399because why would they bother adding unnecessary content to the game that shareholders don't care about?that content could be turned into a free* app or free to play* game*free to download with an optional subscription to make the game feel complete
>>59280399>or the PWT
>>59280416bad bait
>>59280583Imagine being on a board for a Japanese franchise while hating the Asian bean.
>>59280791>Muh chinese cartoons forumHasnt been since like 2006
>>59280426Always were.
>>59280399They reduced postgame content after Gen 4 because Masuda wanted to cater to ADHD children.
>>59280399Because now games have random online battles and DLC
>>59280970I don't really like this, i'd like Pokémon games to be an artistic work, that's autonomous like a Final Fantasy, but if GF and the fandom is ok with the games being just a temporary service, then i guess it can't be helped
>>59281053Online battles have existed since Gen 4.Gen 2, if you count that weird phone thing.
>>59281138>Online battles have existed since Gen 4.And immediately after that is when they started cutting postgame facilities.
>>59281147What sucks is that even with wimmfi or pretendo, servers are empty for 99% of the time. So unless you have friends that want to play old games, Gen 3, 4 and BW2 will always have more content that the others.
>>59281155>and BW2b8
>>59280399Cause the majority of players don't interact with that content. Hell, 50% of players probably don't even finish the fucking game.
>>59281158You can criticize the quality of the content, but you can't deny the amount of it
>>59280399Battle Factory interest has been immense for years now. There is an obvious interest in difficult battles, but not for grinding and playing stall teams for a 9999 streak.
>>59281163BW2 has less replayable content than fucking ORAS.
>>59280399After the actual effort they had put into gens 3-5 went unappreciated and Masuda was run out of the director's chair, they realized they could just jangle the keys of online PVP and shiny hunting in front of 90% of their playerbase and get them to open their velcro wallets with much less effort.
>>59281391Is it bad that I'm not interested in the challenge, I just do this stuff for the reward of getting bp to buy the held items and tms from the bp shop?
>>59280399the kids are on their phones now they don't have the patience for this
>>59280399Because it's easier to just funnel everyone into playing online PVP for the duration of that game's relevancy than it is to copypaste the programming foundation for the Battle Tower while designing a bunch of new sets.
>>59280399Every answer in this thread is wrongThe real reason is because this type of content was added in third versions of gamesThey went away because they stopped doing third versions
>>59281701USUM was a third version but didn't have BF (or PWT)DLCs also are the "third version" except they're mediocre
>>59281711USUM added the Battle AgencyDLC is not a third version.
>>59281726Battle Agency sucks and it's unplayable now tho>DLC is not a third version.Yeah it's worse because it doesn't have great replayable content
>>59280477I would add sales =/= quality, but that’s exactly how the (((shareholders))) see it. And they have all the power.
Gen 8 and 9 both had shitloads of raids with a lot of Gen 9’s having unique scripting, post game is still a thing
>>59281760>Battle Agency sucksOh…so just like the PWT
>>59281800the problem is that those things die the moment the game stops being supported, it's a service and not a game
>>59280426Have been since Gen 4. That's why the franchise is constantly moving forward, it doesn't want you to linger on an older title unless it's to grab something you can't get elsewhere for the sake of keeping up with the brutal PVP scene (I.E. Hisui mons still only obtainable in Arceus, or Calyrex from SWSH DLC).
>>59281825yeah, that's just sad tho
>>59281823No? You can do them offline
>>59280477>"and yet *retarded whataboutism ignoring the crux of the issue*"Yeah shithead, minecraft and youtubetits didn't fucking exist then. They STARTED to exist, thus started impacting Game Freak's demographics, so Game Freak adapted. Not my fault you're still too retarded to comprehend this.
>>59281155Almost as if the vast overriding majority of people who identify as Pokémon fans do not in fact want to regress 20 years to play with (You).
>>59282345Newer games are the only regression here
>>59282351>What sucks is that even with wimmfi or pretendo, servers are empty for 99% of the time.No, it's the fact you're stuck 20 years in the past while your peers either broke clean out of Pokémon's influence or followed the fucking crowd as the years passed and the series continued. Meaning no cunt wants to go back 20 years to play with (You). Otherwise you wouldn't be bitching about dead servers for online for a 20 year old game.
>>59280399Probably because no one did it.
>>59280399battle tree is the most replayable battle facility
Yawnfag is a dead lil nigga.
>>59280399idk
>>59280399Quite literally because they thought it would be too much extra effort for little recognition for it.
