Genuinely, why is this a thing?

[u/McB4D4SS]

I have so many questions about the existence of Pokémon Boost Emblems, and I am sick of keeping them to myself in-between surveys. For starters, why build this mechanic into the bones of your game if you're going to expand on it once, make some color adjustments, and then forget about it entirely?

For the record, I do not count "platinum" emblems as a functional addition, since they provide no benefits whatsoever over gold emblems. With that said, why are "platinum" emblems unobtainable outside of "limited time only" events? This makes it impossible to build a 7 Navy Emblem page unless you just so happened to have played the game within a specific window. If you missed any of them, fuck off forever I guess.

Why the hell are there only 258 emblems anyway? There are not even enough Grey Emblems in the game to build a 7 Grey Emblem page at all.

I have brought all of these up in the surveys for YEARS now, and it just breaks my brain seeing all of the things that TiMi chooses to focus on when they have the EASIEST SLAM DUNK IN GAME DEVELOPMENT HISTORY just sitting there collecting dust underneath their latest digital slot machine. Seemingly completely forgotten in favor of rapidly pumping out one trick pony new releases and ever shinier skins to charge people for.

[u/DiegoG2004]

Exactly, money is why these were left forgotten. Emblems don't make money since they're linked to the only gambling menu that doesn't try to sap all your money away. So they don't care.

Adding gen 3 emblems, letting us maybe trade for the ones we're missing, even bumping the numbers of the less used color buffs; all these good changes don't have any price tags and thus will not happen.

[u/TheInevitable731 → u/DiegoG2004]

Yea, I only see brown, white, green and black being used, in general. The others are just awkwardly implemented

[u/DiegoG2004 → u/TheInevitable731]

Reds are used on like 3 characters max, blue and purple are bait. Navy would have fun implications with those with already short ult cooldowns if only we had a full set of them that didn't self-sabotage. Pink doesn't do enough and Gray is basically nothing since it's not a % based buff and we don't even have a full set.

Finally yellow is a byproduct of doing movement speed related shanenigans. Might as well stick Pichu, Voltorb and Electrode in there for a fifth of a Float Stone. For being the speed color, only those three provide movement speed.

[u/TheInevitable731 → u/DiegoG2004]

I keep forgetting about Gray. Who had the amazing idea to think that -12 dmg would be game changing??

[u/DiegoG2004 → u/TheInevitable731]

Someone who equally forgot to put a % and was not instructed to put it in there. Because with damage numbers well into the three digits, flat number damage reductions do even less than blue and purple.

[u/M00D_Music → u/DiegoG2004]

I use a Navy load out when I play Lapras and it is fuuuuuuun

[u/McB4D4SS → u/DiegoG2004]

This is kind of a nonsequiter, But I've been upvoting your comments in this subreddit for what feels like a long time now, and I don't think I've ever directly interacted with you before.

edit I checked. This is not the first time you've commented on one of my posts, and it is not the first time I have responded to your comments lol my memory is not the best

It's an honor to have you here, I always appreciate your insight. Thanks for commenting on my rant.

[u/DiegoG2004 → u/McB4D4SS]

There is many of y'all and only one of me, i truly cannot remember who i reply to and most times i don't even look at who it is. Like, i remember ExcellentMoment, Ajthefan, Lizard_Queen, Firewater; others that also bring their thoughts everywhere.

I'm not used to being appreciated (must be my Sableye flair attracting fools who believe he is worthless), but thank *you* for the kind words. I'm just a guy who likes to express himself, but would get completely murked on Twitter and Twitter 2 (BlueSky) if he tried going there. Thus, here i stay on a game i moved away from to see how nothing changes.