Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Format Change for Next Year - Possible Change for Nats and Worlds!

hueglin, Evil Psyduck is misquoting or suffering from selective reading, but Dan Brandt confirmed the new format would start with HS. :wink:

I do agree, poor wording in the announcement. "Include X" =/= "starts with X"
 
ShadowCard said:
hueglin, Evil Psyduck is misquoting or suffering from selective reading, but Dan Brandt confirmed the new format would start with HS. :wink:

I do agree, poor wording in the announcement. "Include X" =/= "starts with X"
Click to expand...

I guess I missed the confirmation from Dan Brandt. I'm not doubting you. When/Where did it happen? The last I had heard it was all still speculation.
 
ShadowCard said:
hueglin, Evil Psyduck is misquoting or suffering from selective reading, but Dan Brandt confirmed the new format would start with HS. :wink:

I do agree, poor wording in the announcement. "Include X" =/= "starts with X"
Click to expand...

I didn't misquote anything as i quoted nothing from the announcement. I quoted hueglin so he knew i was talking to him. :nonono:
 
hueglin said:
I guess I missed the confirmation from Dan Brandt. I'm not doubting you. When/Where did it happen? The last I had heard it was all still speculation.
Click to expand...
It was on the P!P forums. He said it was not a matter of if the format will rotate _to_ HS-on, but when.

evil psyduck said:
I didn't misquote anything as i quoted nothing from the announcement. I quoted hueglin so he knew i was talking to him. :nonono:
Click to expand...
Then you misquoted hueglin because his post has a "will include" that your quote lacks, which is the source of the confusion. :wink:
 
ShadowCard said:
It was on the P!P forums. He said it was not a matter of if the format will rotate _to_ HS-on, but when.


Then you misquoted hueglin because his post has a "will include" that your quote lacks, which is the source of the confusion. :wink:
Click to expand...

Look again and what i quoted is the exactly what he posted.
 
Naki Feralkin said:
Hi! Welcome to Pokegym. My name is Naki!

Seriously though, theres always some people who are complaining about something. It could be raining Luxray GL Level X's and someone would forsake the gods for the free cards.
Click to expand...

Old saying for mtg, but this applies to pokemon just as well. Pokemon could send us $100 bills in the mail and people would complain about how it was folded.
 
Articjedi said:
Old saying for mtg, but this applies to pokemon just as well. Pokemon could send us $100 bills in the mail and people would complain about how it was folded.
Click to expand...

BUT I CAN'T STAND FOLDED MONEY.

Speaking of money, what I really can't stand is when people bring it up in discussions over format changes or anything else related to making this game better, such as extending events out over more days. The health of the format/game trumps what any one person subjectively perceives as the "health" of his/her financial devotion to the game. In other words, it doesn't matter that Luxray GL lv. X's value just plummeted a few months before you were expecting it to. It doesn't matter that you don't get to run Gyarados again for the 30th tournament since 2009. The format's health > extra-game concerns such as card values or complaints about how pet decks A-Z are no longer legal for Nationals/World in spite of P!P's EXPLICIT personal promises to you about how many sets they would rotate per year.

At the first Tropical Mega Battle, the main event was a DRAFT, which Jason K. won. Why are people complaining about Nationals now being "random" and "meta-less"? Is there some essential criteria stating that everyone must have several months to scout the most-played decks and prepare just for them in order for an event to be legitimate? Or that an event is only OK if 3/4 of the decks played in it have been around for 2 or 3 years? Yes, metagaming is a huge part of the game, but it isn't the only part. In-game skill is even more important and at Nationals this year it will be what separates the winners from the losers. Also, do all these "there is no metagame" complainers not realize that players who want to succeed are going to be testing HGSS-on from now until July, figuring out for themselves what is really good and what isn't, so an "invisible" metagame will be established and then set in place come National? People know cards like Donphan, Emboar, Gengar, Tyranitar, Reshiram, etc. are good and they know they are going to have to play decks that can deal with them. They don't need to scour the Pokegym's "What Won Spring BRs" thread for weeks to get a feel for what will be played or what is good.
 
Articjedi said:
Old saying for mtg, but this applies to pokemon just as well. Pokemon could send us $100 bills in the mail and people would complain about how it was folded.
Click to expand...

If my money isn't folded into a perfect octogon, I set it on fire and ship the ashes back to the fool with a deathwish that dared to insult my family with imperfect money.
 
Actually I think the tropical megabattle was a sealed, not a draft. I still have the report sitting in an old pojo magazine somewhere. Each player was given a playset of non-random cards to build a deck with and you had to make a 40 card deck. It's a lot less random than a draft or booster based sealed tournament and forced you to make a deck on the spot without having every single card accessible.
 
You're right-- it was sealed. I was there and had just misremembered the specifics. Sealed is actually more comparable to this situation than draft too-- card pool known, forced to make a deck "on the spot" (in this case, a few months, but many are complaining as if it WERE sealed).
 
djjoe227 said:
But what happens when League ends? When tournament play begins?
Click to expand...

You're fairly accurate in your description of the troubles casual unlimited format players will have when tournament time rolls around.

But I think you must consider the idea that not all players are going to play in tournaments.

It was a hard idea for me to adapt to considering my local area. We had some premier events come to our area and almost nobody from the local area came to them. The premier events stopped coming after a while and most of the people at league were not phased.

To you and me, this game may seem to revolve around the tournaments, the modified format, etc. But there is a large, possibly larger, community of players spread across the nation that only take part in the Pokemon League. They aren't interested in tournaments. They aren't interested in becoming competitive. Heck, they may spend half of each league session playing Pokemon Rumble! (true story)

We just need to accept that TPCi may spend some of their resources, not all, and I'm not saying more, but some, on this demographic. These guys (and gals) gain a lot from great League promos and it doesn't matter to them when those cards get rotated out of the Modified format.
 
^ This.[COLOR="Purple" said:
---------- Post added 04/26/2011 at 08:20 PM ----------

[/COLOR]

It's very clear you don't understand how this works at all.

Japan creates the game. We just translate it. There is no "changing the game for our benefit". There is one game called Pokemon, and Japan controls it.
Click to expand...

Isn't this why more people play MTG rather than pokemon here in America? Because we're not at the mercy and 3-4 months behind the Japanese meta.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top