Changes

Recently I just bought something related to Pokémon Go, but much of it applies to when the game was first released with all its madness. And then recently I've heard of another major bug with moves that was found in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, causing the offending moves to be banned from VGC until they are patched in a later update. This makes me realize that things, even Pokémon, can and will continue to change, and it's something that I as a Pokémon fan have to take part in. The aforementioned things in relation to this are a testament for the former and inevitability for the latter.

For Go, it is understandably not complete in its reach of the Pokémon world. Only three generations of Pokémon have made it in, and not even all of the most recent generation have appeared. The Gym system had even been changed last year, allowing further collaborative efforts, especially through raids for Legendary Pokémon. Even its player base has changed; way back when, it seemed everyone was playing, but now it has boiled down to those who still enjoy the camaraderie and wish to pursue greater achievements together. For that, it is fair to expect that the game will continue to change until it is up to the maturity of today's all-inclusive Pokémon games. It has been a wild ride for those who have played and perhaps it will just get wilder.

For the main series games, they are far-reaching and can be considered definitive of any interaction in the world of Pokémon. The only thing is that this world of today is not like its world of yesterday. It has more Pokémon, it has gotten more complex, and there's just more, more, more of everything. This is all the results of the changes that have been incorporated over time. Like Go, even the players have changed as well as differentiated with the standardization of VGC as a prime format of play. And of course, the VGC rules change yearly, unlike the games which are pretty much set unless there are errors that need to be fixed such as above. Here too, change is imminent and sometimes necessary, even if it doesn't come quickly.

I've been with Pokémon for nearly two decades, and that means I've bore witness to the many changes that have occurred. And there's a lot, from the games that contain the world to the consoles where the games are played. Sometimes they have to be rectified, but otherwise they're good changes, as in what I've noted with the games above. As a fan, I have to welcome these changes as well as expect others further on; while I'm not likely to change fan, things will keep on changing, and that's at least one thing I can expect from this fascinating series and franchise.

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