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am i supposed to feel sorry

It's all a weird, bizarre mess

I mean yeah, tey're humans?

What, you condone death threats? that's not criticism

It's the company's decision to hire such a small amount

Woah

what?

Let's not make those kinds of assumptions, ok

Well, after a week of nonsense and people equating "rising up" and "criticismm" with haressment and death threats and all that crap, it's a little hard to take it seriously when someone is like "Am I suppose to feel sorry for overworked human beings?"

I don't feel sorry for the company that is in charge of the number 1 best selling game franchise in the world for being shitheads

But you know that's not what Quid meant

I do. Because they're likely overworked, put under crunch, possibly not paid enough, and generally speaking, put under a lot of stress

Sounds like you're talking about being sorry for different things rn

The company is the one that decides how many employees they will have. So really, it's the company's fault for having such a low amount (and don't get me started with Japan's work culture cause that shit is annoying af). Yes, it sucks for the people themselves and I wish they get treated better, I really do. But, the company is the one who needs to hire more people.

Yes, and it sucks

I'm talking about the company, not the devs

there is a very big distinction

They make like 95 billion dollars

and they can't hire a decent dev team?

Gamefreak doesn't even make the models

Creatures Inc does

Actually devs too, not employees

Their logic is that they shouldn't care about the games too much because most of the money is made through merchandise

?

Hahah we'll see how popular pokemon stays when the only game left is Pokemon Gacha

Well yeah. At one point, the cards made more than the games, but then again, the last time that was a thing was.. what.. gen 3?

Probably well before

Gen 3 wasn't this boogeyman

So why care about the game if it will most likely sell exceedingly well due to name recognition? And even if it undersells, the games themselves are not the golden goose, so no reason to care still.

By and large Ruby/Sapphire was well liked

No it was pretty divided, but then, so was 4, 5... so on

It was much more popular than you think it was