Pokemon Bank Talk with Luc (some history on "transferring" costs as well)
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I may be a little late to the party when talking about this... but I wanted it to be told by me, so here is my video on the whole ordeal.
People either keep complaining about this system, or like it. This video shows my rage on why the complainers need to just shut up and deal with it.
For one, let me do the history lesson down here as well:
Gen 1: 2 Gameboys + Link cable to trade between Red, Blue and Yellow for exclusives.
About... $80-$100 for each Game Boy, plus the link cable, and then the games?
Total: about $240 - $260 for all of that if you didn't have a friend "to take advantage of" technically, especially if they weren't into Pokemon.
Gen 1 over to Gen 2: Same as before, but this time an actual requirement if you wanted your old Pokemon in the newer games.
So again, $240 - $260 total for everything, but $80-$100 for the other system if you didn't have a friend to help you out.
Note: this process took about 15 mins I would say, shorter if you were REALLY quick on it, to trade 12 Pokemon over due to the slowness of how you had to do it.
Gen 2 over to Gen 3: Impossible, Game Freak didn't think ahead on this at the time and got a lot of complaints over it, but then released Fire Red and Leaf Green to get the older Pokemon back into the game, the main reason why there were remakes for it.
Gen 3 over to Gen 4: Completely free, this was the ONLY time it was considered free, because if you had a Gen 3 game, all you needed was the system that played your gen 4 game, so you'd obviously have that, and then slip the GBA game into the GBA slot of your DS phat or DS lite (while also either beating Diamond/Pearl/Platinum or getting so far into Heart Gold/Soul Silver, which was released so that everyone could get the remaining impossible Pokemon almost at the time like Ho-Oh and the legendary beasts, as they were only present either by Fire Red/Leaf Green through one of each depending on starter (Ho-Oh only obtainable through Navel Rock in those games) or through Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (Ho-Oh in Colosseum after beating the 100 trainer challenge with a GBA team)
So this way was when pretty much everyone was "almost" happy with how it worked, minus the whole "6 pokemon a day" in D/P/Pt (which was changed in HG/SS to anytime)
Gen 4 over to Gen 5: This... was very costly to a lot of people... pretty much... you need another DS system to do this, so $130 for a lite, $160 for a DSi, or $180 for a DSi XL... which... not everyone could do something like this. And so if they couldn't, it was time to ask that friend again after all those years ago... if you could take advantage of them again, more so if they don't even play Pokemon.
Gen 5 over to Gen 6: Finally... we get to the Pokemon Bank, which costs only $5 a year and will transfer Pokemon through one system only.
Compared to either wasting a friend's time or spending $80 to $180 at those times, this way is VERY cheap, and don't say something stupid like "yeah well, I get to keep the system if I pay for it" ... Well... do you really plan to spend $80 (16 years) on this system? I bet a lot of people that are complaining about it are that young, if not younger than that. So just... shut up, no one wants to hear it.
Plus, it's just $5... $5 is not that much, if you say it is then you don't know the value of money then. I'd start worrying about if they raise the price to a little higher, or make it a monthly payment.
Which... if you complain about "oh I can't transfer my Pokemon over without it" YOU HAVE A 30 DAY ****FREE**** TRIAL OF IT WHEN IT COMES OUT.... RIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS! Pretty sure, everyone that got the previous version will have it by then because they've been in it in the long run, and all the kids will have it too since they asked for it for Christmas. So seriously, stop being idiots. Like I said in the video, don't want to spend $5 on it, fine get your freaking $5 foot long from Subway, IT'S NOT REQUIRED. Game Freak could have not made this possible, but they did because they knew fans would be mad at them (like in Gen 3) so they made a way, that will ALWAYS BE USED EVEN AFTER GEN 6 MOST LIKELY.
Meaning, once Gen 7 comes, you can send your Pokemon to the bank, and then transfer them into the Gen 7 games. Seriously, easy. Also, this will make it so you don't have to worry about never starting over, since you will have your Pokemon in the bank when you do start over as I'm looking at it (unless they make the bank system AND 1 game exclusive... highly doubtful)
So seriously, those against it. Just... learn your history, especially if you have only been with the series since the DS times... cause again, they could have pulled a Gen 3. ESPECIALLY since they are using this to check for hacks too.
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