>@JoeMerrick 8m8 minutes ago >I have been running Serebii

GO was a mistake

Well he isn't wrong. This is certainly the biggest black eye the franchise has seen in a long time no doubt. He may even be right in saying it's the biggest ever.

>>33094320
i love how people think its not gonna effect pokemon brand. last year pokemon go brought sucess to brand and now it will do opposite

>>33094325
the only other thing I can think of is that Porygon ep of the original anime that triggered seizures in a bunch of kids

Masuda was actually at the event LUL and he left hours ago. TPC is gonna be pissed! He is probably talking to Ishihara and Hanke right now.

>>33094357
That's true. I would certainly rank physical harm over this situation. But it still sucks for those who spent all that money to get there to deal with all the nonsense. Like the game or not it's not right.

>>33094357
>>33094476
The Porygon incident is looked back at from a more "historical"/hmm wow intriguing angle these days.

This GO Fest shit is probably going to be the most negative blow to the franchise in a long while, if only because normies and normie media WILL cover this, as opposed to simple shit like "SM were bad games" or something which never leaves the confines of the community.

I've been living under a rock, did something happen in Pokémon GO?

>>33094504
Fyre Fest 2.0.

>>33094380
>LUL
Neck yourself

>>33094380
To be a Cutiefly on the wall of that conversation.

>>33094525
>Fyre Fest 2.0.
Shit. Well, at least the normies will finally leave.

>>33094302
Can someone give a recap of all the shit going on with GO atm? I'm completely in the dark but this looks amusing.

>didn't read up on this
I wish I had, this sounds like a beautiful disaster

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>>33094302

Can someone provide a recap on what happened?

>>33094585
Just go to the Go general and read up on the tears.

>>33094585
Imagine Dashcon but for Pokemon.

>>33094302
To be fair, Joe has always been critical of GO. He liked it at first but when they killed the original tracking, he started bitching about it more.

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I'm not looking forward to whatever Damage Control that GameFreak has planned since most of this heat is gonna shift over to Nintendo and them despite having no actual involvement in Niantic's incompetence with this event.
ESPECIALLY if it's gonna involve more Kanto Pandering.

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>>33094585

Just line up for the roller coater about 5 /pgg/ threads ago and buckle your ass in for a real slinky-down-an-escalator of a shitshow.

>>33094646
And it deserves all the criticism it gets.

>>33094648
Game Freak isn't going to do anything, since this was a burger event in burgerland. If anyone is going to do damage control it'll be NoA.

>>33094648
At best I expect USUM news ahead of schedule just to distract from it all "hey look NEWS!!"

>>33094642
Was there a ball pit here, too?

>>33094674
Yes, but they forgot to inflate it

>>33094667
This. The only Game Freak person who might be pissed is Masuda, because he was there. He'll probably bitch on the plane ride back to Japan and then just continue to pretend to work on Gen 8.

NoA, on the other hand, will go into maximum damage control.

>>33094667
>>33094699
Nintendo barely has anything to do with GO, they didn't even tweet about this event or anything

>>33094733
And GameFreak has nothing to do with the international marketing in Pokemon. They're not going to sit in Japan and do damage control for some American shit nobody in Japan had heard about.

>>33094668
This.
I doubt the games will be affected due to this >>33094667
Instead they'll just bump news information up so the main pokemon topic shifts from this disaster to USM.

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>>33094733
That's true but this man on the other hand...

>>33094733
Doesn't matter. Their involvement or lack thereof is not magically going to stop the slew of articles that are going to come out stating that how *Nintendo* (not even Of America, just Nintendo) fucked everything up and NINTENDRUMPF IS FINISHED and how you need to be angry at Pokemon

>>33094749
They won't, because this is unrelated to Japan.

>>33094648
this is all on TPC/Niantic and potentially NoA, not Gamefreak.

>>33094756
your overreacting dude. will pokemon brand take a hit today? yeah but thats all. nintendo has nothing to do with it and people are gonna play pokemon but the developers of the game

>>33094762
Expect nobody to report it like that though, not when you can doomsay.

Normies said Pokémon go is nintendo game xD

>>33094756
We'll see but I'm pretty sure articles won't mention Nintendo, there's no reason to, Niantic's fuck ups are at the head of all this

>>33094302
>Guy has been covering the worst product ogf the entertainment industry for 18 years
>Good news broke him

>>33094302

Wow..Joe

>>33094325
Fuck no. There are so many things worse than a free mobile app I can think of.

>>33094823
At this point, any past tragedies related to Pokemon like the Porygon Episode are more like interesting bits in the franchise's early years.
This is just a big ol' fucking blunder that'll stab NoA and TPCi in the dick because normies only know that Pokemon was on a Gameboy therefore it was made by Nintendo.

>>33094800
>there's no reason to
You're looking from the perspective of a person who would report the truth.
Bashing nintendo sells more than bashing niantic.

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>>33094756
>>33094800
>caring what fake news says

>>33094842
This. Nobody knows what the fuck a "Niantic" is, or what a "Game Freak" is. Pokemon is Nintendo.

>>33094823
It wasn't exactly the app though, more like the actual event where thousands of people paid to go stand in line for hours and play an app that barely even worked. Some of them even paid thousands of dollars to travel to the event which is kind of stupid honestly.

>>33094879
>Some of them even paid thousands of dollars to travel to the event
They deserved literally all of this.

>>33094863
A flagship brand that's worth billions in IP and merch.

Ninatic is threatening their brand with this bullshit.

>>33094839
I've been meeting people and doing exercise thanks to this game. For me it's not a blunder at all.

Paying 40 euros for another reskin ok XY is way worse. Especially when you can play on smogon servers instead for free.

>>33094883
They bought the tickets. They knew what they were getting into.

>>33094842
>>33094863
Stop being paranoid, maybe some random site who doesn't know shit will put the blame on Nintendo but the ones that matter won't

>>33094932
>the ones that matter

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>>33094674
Yes

>>33094939
As in the ones that get the most views and clicks

Fucking nintendo shit company can't handle it's owns ips

>>33094932
Even if they do say Niantic, does that absolve the brand of the damage it's going to take? No, it's just clarifying who was responsible, it certainly doesn't absolve the people who paid hundreds of dollars for plane tickets and event tickets just to stand in a line for 4+ hours for an event they couldn't even manage properly.

Niantic's actions influence how people will look at the brand.

>>33094959
>Its popular
>therefore its objective
Anon, were you born literally this year?

>>33094983
Who said it's objective?

>>33094983
you seem to be confused. the ones that matter and the best ones are not same thing. the ones that matter are the ones that normies eat up without question.

>>33094325
Electric Seizure Porygon is worse because it could have killed the franchise in infancy

this is a solid #2

>>33094554
wait, what does this mean?

>>33095064
No, replaceing Misty was the 2

>>33094302
Haven't really been following anything about it. Why was GO fest such a disaster?

>>33095003
implied in >>33094932
>I swear it wasnt me !!!!


>>33095035
>the ones that matter and the best ones are not same thing.
Except whoever posted >>33094932 said those would get the fact straight, which is the way you measure how good a site about reporting facts is. So yeah, the implication is that the best ones are the ones that matter which, as said, are he ones normies eat up without question which is someone that's either over 12 or lived in 2016 would know its not true.

>>33095142
>which is something someone*

>>33095138
Amerifats causing troubles

Hmm when Go was New alot of the main series games went for alot on eBay and Amazon to cash in on the hype wonder what's gonna happen now? Might b able to get Stuff like HGSS for $20

>/vp/ - Joe tweets

fuck off with this shit.

>>33094357
But that was awesome

>>33094942
PIKACHU POKEMON SUPERSTAR