Every so often, a current Pokémon game - necessarily of the spinoff type - will include a "revision" of some sort to something that I've covered previously, some of which is to my chagrin and others being to others'. It just so happens that three games that I have quite a bit of stake in at present have all recently included something to that effect, so I thought I'd "round up" the revisions and cover them all at once instead of making separate "treatises" for each when the matter becomes majorly pertinent.
The first one comes from Pokémon Unite, where Theia Sky Ruins returned as the map for Ranked matches after a temporary soirée with Remoat Stadium right around the time of the franchise anniversary. The situation thus perfectly described that state of affairs, as it became a perfectly designed throwback. Meanwhile, the latter's (re)incarnation as the "First to 500" play mode is persistent as of yet... but this could be due for a "revision" of some kind in the near future, hopefully for the better rather than otherwise.
Café Remix also has a "revision" to the now-regular event structure. Instead of the same two team and individual point events during a major one, just one of them occurs, and that is followed by a minor points event that extends to the end of the major event, overlapping with a Cook and Collect event for Gholdengo. This has the effect of allowing other older Pokémon featured in past events to come back, which is definitely a good thing for those who missed them or didn't get as much as they could for them.
And then, there is Pokémon Go. The recent Go Tour event had been advertised to include a pose, but this didn't materialize, and the mention was removed. However, fortunate Trainers caught the mention of the missing pose, and ultimately compensation had to be made - though not in the form of a pose. It's a "revision" that's typical of the way things have been done for the game, and in its second life, there may just be other "revisions" that further characterize the (future) happenings of the game.
"Revisions" are common - and part of the norm - for continuously updated games of the present, including some Pokémon ones. Depending on the effects and quality of the aspects involved in the "revisions", as well as the results of the "revisions" themselves, they may be anywhere from pleasantly acceptable to necessarily repetitive, if the above instances illustrate as such. Yet it's hard not to expect at least some "revisions" in current games, and people on both sides of the gaming table need to deal with them wisely.
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