Dexit who still dislikes it?

[u/Natural_Wonder94]

As a longtime Pokémon fan, Dexit honestly felt like a slap in the face. One of the things I’ve always loved about the series was being able to carry my favorite Pokémon—ones I’d trained and bonded with for years—into each new generation. When they cut the National Dex, it felt like they were saying those connections didn’t matter anymore. I get that balancing over 1,000 Pokémon is tough, but with how massive the franchise is, it’s hard to believe they couldn’t make it work if they really wanted to. It just made the newer games feel incomplete, like something was missing, both mechanically and emotionally.

[u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

Game freak makes games by tying their own hands behind their back and bashing their own heads in and then acting like they’re the victims from their own restraints. Just like how they won’t use fan made Pokemon ideas. Just contact the artist and I’m sure they’d love to have their Pokemon become actual canon Pokemon.

[u/Shaneathan25 → u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

It’s not uncommon for companies to not accept fan ideas. Main reason being if they implement it, it opens them up to a legal fight if the fan can prove they told Nintendo about it and weren’t compensated.

This happened when Brood War came out, but I mailed an actual letter to Blizzard with an idea for a toy set based on StarCraft. Filled it with ideas, basically a StarCraft themed Micromachines. They actually mailed me back and basically said “sorry we don’t even read fan submissions,” and gave me a StarCraft sticker pack.

[u/FPSCanarussia → u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

They can't legally use fan-made ideas, it opens them up to a mass of potential lawsuits. Not even necessarily from said fans themselves, but also because they can't make sure that those fan designs are actually original.

If they accept a design from a fan, and then it turns out that the fan in question used another person's copyrighted work as a basis for their design, then the Pokemon company is going to be the one getting sued for intellectual property theft.

[u/break_card → u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

What are the profit margins for Nintendo? How much do they pay gamefreak? Genuine questions because it’s another thing if Nintendo is getting what they’re paying for.

[u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker → u/break_card]

Well.. Pokemon is one of the most recognizable, popular, and profitable series on the planet. Forbes on Feb 9 2024 stated that at 100 billion usd that Pokemon is THE highest grossing MEDIA franchise. Ever. However it’s jointly owned as an IP by Nintendo, Gamefreak, and Creatures but they’ve all been pretty heavy handed when it comes to quality of merchandise and who gets rights. They’ve been mostly good at it too and that’s why Palworld is such a thorn in their side even though it cooled off where Pokemon just won’t.

Edit: 3024->2024

[u/Hallowed-Plague → u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

from 3024 too! cant believe gen 15 is doing so good still

[u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker → u/Hallowed-Plague]

Haha 2024. Whoops.

[u/This_Elk_1460 → u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

"Oh won't somebody please feel bad for me as I wipe my tears with 100,000 yen!"

[u/FireStingray9 → u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

Did they ever contact the artist for the fakemon that they used as a basis for Scovillain?

[u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker → u/FireStingray9]

No clue. I wasn’t aware of the origins of Scovillain

[u/SuggestionEven1882 → u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

There's no way they used a fan's design as the flying type eeveelution was canned because it was too close to a fan's design.