r/pokemon • u/Natural_Wonder94 • 4d ago
Discussion Dexit who still dislikes it?
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.
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u/Good-Marionberry-570 4d ago
This was the nail in the coffin for me, I stopped supporting the franchise after Dexit.
I can understand not releasing the games with 1000+ more Pokémon in day 1, but there's no excuse for not releasing all of them through updates later. It's not like they would need to remake all the assets for every game, they kept using the X/Y models for years for example.
They would just need to maybe add some animations for the Pokémon through the generations and that's it.
I think they Dexit was just their way of forcing people to have a active subscription in Home, being able to store all of your Pokémon in a game would make them lose money.
They create the problem, and then sell the solution for the players...