Hi, everybody,
First of all, sorry about using the general chat. I've asked to a lot o players and looked all over the forums but didn't find an specific place to write a complain. Thought about using the Suggestion Box, but that's not quite a suggestion.
Anyway, I just noticed you guys implemented a feature where bellow an attack you are about to choose, it shows what the outcome will be (effective, super effective, immune, etc). I don't really know if that's something one of the new generation pokemon games already have, for it's been a long time since I don't play new games from the franchise - I got stuck with pkmmo for it's awesomeness. But being that something from the games in the franchise or not, I do think it's completely absurd and I'm hardly thinking about uninstalling pkmmo just because of it, what is sad for me, since I first stared playing in 2013. Why it stroke me so hard? Because it messes with the very essence of pokemon itself.
Here is my argument: besides all the role-play and storyline, which are awesome, pokemon is mainly about raising a set of pokemons and dueling with them. In order to do so, your challenge as a player consists in two major fields of expertise:
- As a trainer, first you need to know about the type (s) of different pokemon. What having a psychic pokemon means, what having a ground pokemon means and what having a psychic-ground pokemon means. Then, you need to start thinking about a specific pokemon, it's status and development according to levels and evolution. Then, ya gotta know what kind of moves it can learn, it's IV's, how to set it's EVs and so on, until you are able to figure a full set of 6 that complements itself.
- Now, as a fighter, when you finally get to go to a true fight (not an easy random NPC skirmish), you need to know as many different pokemon as you can. The old games, at least, wouldn't tell you what is the type of the pokemon you are up against knowing that ya needed to understand with of your pokemon could fight better in that particular situation, what moves to use etc, etc, etc.
What I mean is that pokemon is about try and error and fully understanding every type and specie of pokemon so you may be ready to duel it creating the best scenario for your team of 6 pokemon.
When you guys get to tell me if that pokemon is immune or not, if my attack is going to be effective or not, you are, literally, destroying what pokemon experience is about. For me that grew with pokemon but stopped following the new versions, is amazing to find myself in a situation where I don't quite know what is the pokemon I'm facing but I still can rely on my experience to make a guess. And knowing how effective a move is gonna be all based on experience. That's what the mangá stood for, that's what the anime stood for and all the games aswell. If I started playing pokemon today, with pokemmo as it is today, I would find it boring and babysitting me.
Again, I really don't know if that's something some of the games (roms) we are using have already implemented officially, but even if it did, I beg you guys to reconsider having it on this game in particular (pkmmo) for that's exactly what your system rely on: being an open MMO game based on pokemon (that is about duels). Here you guys did something that pokemon company never really understood, this pkm world IS about being multi-player, so please keep it with the max hardcore experience of dueling.
Please, don't ruin the experience of needing to get experience to do what the game asks you to. #NowEverybodyCanBeATrainerWithoutDedicatingAThing #HowSad =(
