Pokémon as a franchise will forever be near and dear to my heart. The baseline it provides for world building, fan projects, custom creations, and more is astronomically vast - the potential we are given is something I don’t think any other franchise could dream of matching. Fanfiction, fan games, roleplaying, fakèmon, mods; all of these are created out of passion and love, and it’s what keeps my enjoyment for Pokémon alive. I’m sure that I’ll still love Pokémon when I turn 50, a few decades in the future, and maybe even beyond that.

But I hate how it’s being used by it’s creators. I hate how it’s being milked and shoved out of some machine on a yearly basis. I hate how there’s no passion, no incentive to improve, no love, no care (management wise) - I can’t bring myself to support the hand that once fed me anymore. I lost all of my faith in Gamefreak/TPC and I don’t think I’ll get it back for a long, long time.

I hope others share my sentiment. Please, don’t ditch Pokémon as a creative concept. Don’t just say that you absolutely hate it and everything it stands for because of how lousy a corporation is treating it. Direct your anger to the ones responsible, not the ones who are working to preserve the magic.