Keep it about datahoarding.
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I was collecting cards to trade with my partner on TCG Pocket, than I had an authentication error and it wouldn’t let me in the game. I tried everything I could think of, and kept getting the error. Cleared cache, restarted phone… nothing.
So I look online and the solution is to uninstall and reinstall. Sure thing, I do that with other games all the time!
Lost my account and all my cards. Luckily I never spent money on it.
Pokémon kinda lost its magic when I found the tools to edit saves to get whatever Pokémon I wanted. Want it shiny? Just tick the box! etc..
Pokemon is already extremely easy when you're not a kid anymore. It's not challenging if you know what to do.
That wasn't really what I was getting at.
I'm talking about "the magic" that is lost because of editing save files and say that even the original experience loses its magic.
Huh? You talked about the difficulty of the game. Now whilst I will admit that "magic" is pretty bloody vague it's not usually a synonym for "challenging". I played Pokémon as an adult and it wasn't until I found I could edit a save file that things changed. Difficulty had no bearing on my experience.
We may well be talking about the same thing from different angles but I don't really understand your point in relation to my point.
I was trying to suggest that the Pokémon one comes across and plays with have an emotional attachment angle. They've travelled along with the player, had adventures, etc..
Being able to cheat to get an instance of a specific Pokémon would be one thing but being able to use a convenient utility to create exactly the Pokémon one wants to the finest detail was very much another. The former is a Snorlax but the latter is one functionally indistinguishable from my Snorlax.
Shades of "being able to see through the Matrix", if you catch my meaning.
Wow holy shit, I was really impressed back in the day when I moved my shiny Basculin from DS to 3DS, and would be devastated if I lost it trying to move it to Switch.