Why is the online arena so fucking ugly? Why can't

>>32756069
this

I fucking hate it

good question. shouldn't it be client side? why can't you just pick one of the dozens of other stages from the game?

>>32756069
Oh god I know, why don't they make it so that you can choose a back round from the game?

>>32756069
Because gamefreak is incompetent.

>>32756069
The real reason is that it would fuck with Secret Power, but
1) who the fuck uses Secret Power?
2) it can be programmed to always follow the base version in online matches

>>32756261
3) They can at least make multiple "normal arena" stages that don't look like vomit.

why is pokemon always playing catch-up to so many basic conventions that other games have been doing for years
it really boggles the mind

Stupid, but one of the reasons I don't play much online is because I hate looking at that god awful arena.

>>32756069
They could have at least kept it blue.

>all this effort put into making backgrounds for all sorts of different places, some of which re only seen once in game
>can't use them online

It's an insult to the people who make them desu

>>32756834
Because GF/Nintendo knows that no matter what it does it will still print money.

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>>32756261
>secret power (snow and ice) togekiss

>>32756069
It's almost certainly due to performance issues. The game already lags in double battles. And the online arena is one of the most simplistic backgrounds.

>>32756069
Because you're ugly, you ugly faggot.

>>32756966
Checked

>>32756261
secret power now are afected by terrain, how change the metagame?

>>32757410

but it always been...

>>32756989
This 100%

>>32757410
It is, which is why I sometimes use scarf Sawsbuck with Tapu Bulu. Serene Grace Secret Power having a 60% chance to put opponent to sleep is pretty fun.

>>32756069
>ORAS had those unique gym stages, Flannery's was fucking gorgeous
>Outer space for Deoxys
>S/M Moone/Sunne temples

>Could patch the games with a background select in five minutes allowing choice of any one background the player has already seen
>Nothing