>franchise forces you to wait for new games for substantial

>>31678158
It's the fighting game problem. Everyone knows that it's a bullshit business model, but at this point were all too invested in the series to not buy into it.

>>31678158
Because faggots like us who play Pokemon competitive are the the vast minority compared to the millions of normies who only play casually. Even if every remotely competitive player stopped playing Pokemon entirely in protest, Gamefreak would still give 0 fucks.

>>31678188
Even fighting games can get weekly updates. SF does it. Ki does it (great community management here!), Even your average anime fight and do!
I think GF really needs a spokesman person capable of being in touch with their fans to begin with.

>>31678211
There's a clearly effort at balancing the game each gen. Gen 7 is the best example too.
This shit just needed to be done more often... Not just when you release a new game. Come the fuck on

>>31678294
melee hasnt been changed since may in 2002

>>31678319
Even ignoring the
>fighting game
meme, Smash has never really done the iterative business model so that doesn't really apply here

I'm not actually even sure what point you're trying to make here

>>31678294
small changes each game to keep their small comp-fag fanbase happy =/= actually caring about balance and giving us frequent patches.

you would need to breed a new team everytime a patch hits.