Pokemon Go has responded to the backlash
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- After immense backlash the lead Community Manager for Pokemon Go has issued a response on the matter.
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It's even worse that there are people calling anyone who doesn't like the update transphobic when no one mentioned trans people.
Weirdly transphobic of those people. Like why do you associate not liking ugly characters with transphobia? Do they think trans people are ugly? Or they just don’t think.
no such thing
@@lord_boneman they do think, and the tought process is more or less
"We need to amke our female characters look less feminine to make trans women feel represented"
"well, there's plenty of attractive trans women out there, how about basing characters off of them?"
"nah let's instead keep using cis femael models but change them to appear more androgynous
"ok and how do you achieve that?"
"by making them uglier, of course"
@@lord_bonemanexactly what I said. People crying transphobia are the real transphobes pretending to care about trans people just for attention and to make trans people look bad.
@@lord_boneman exactly.
>Cruelty gets ignored.
>Would like to hear both ends.
Tell me without telling me that they will just filter the good reviews and ignore the rest.
This is the typical "I'm open to critical opinions as long as they're not toxic...all criticism against me is toxic" trick.
Softer than tissue paper 😅
And locked replies, because this person really wants to hear that feedback.
@@CyberDagger003 Replies can be locked, but not retweets and mentions.
with cruelty they mean harassment, completely different from criticism.
> Replace good looking avatars with ugly ones.
> State diversity is important and that everyone matters, completely ignoring the fact that they replaced the existing avatars instead of just adding options (which almost no one would've picked anyhow and they f***ing know that no one's gonna pick ugly avatars).
Hypocrisy at its finest I guess.
True. Just add options, it's that easy.
This is why diversity always gets a bad rep because of these activists.
How is it diverse if they take away options and want all characters to look the same?
Not to mention that the avatars seem to be so hastily thrown together that clothing frequently clips through their models.
It's not hypocrisy. Everyone means every person. They don't consider anyone who isn't trans to be people.
They put "cruelty gets ignored" as their first caveat. Just guess what they'll consider to be "cruelty".
basically anything they dont like i guess
cruelty huh? they should form a squad or something
The dude is a they/them.
Every single TIME
Assaulting my eyes and sensibilities with ugly graphics seems like an act of CRUELTY to me !
Acknowledging reality constitutes cruelty in the minds of those who deny it.
And Niantic instead of taking the criticism they hide the reviews and spit in the fandom's face again. Not cool Niantic.
Even the official Resident Evil community manager are doing the same.
@@skyuru Most community managers are part of the same groups, meet in the same discord servers, etc., and they all sure as hell hate their own communities (gamers).
Well, I am not surprised, especially what's going on, they have been very greedy and known that they don't care about their fans or their games they made, only see them as money making schemes, and if they don't make them money, they shut them down, there's few games they run that they shut down, they don't care about their games, only care how much they make money, and look at all their "changes" they made to the games and how they ruined them all by such, so yeah
Not shocked from niantic hiding constructive criticism makes things worse
They're based out of california, I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner
At this point, changes like this should be charged for anti consumer practices!
Remember the gaming companies are nothing without it's consumers. Once they stopped doing so you will know what it is like to not have money. Ubisoft and Niantic are two companies I despise on the planet. Besides EA & Nijisanji of course.
Agreed. Class action lawsuit.
So much of the recent anti-consumer practices we're seeing in gaming recently shouldn't be legal, I don't know how they keep getting away with it.
That's dumb. By what standard, trying something new?That's like saying because a game is 3D instead of pixel avatars, when a company like Blizzard makes WoW and it doesn't do good instantly they can get be the target of ant consumer practices. Just because it doesn't always work, doesn't mean it can't work.
It's a bad idea, but that doesn't mean people should try what they want to. They are just ruining there own stuff and people will leave on their own.
@@inendlesspain4724the goverment is also infected. Didn't Biden announce something about Trans visibility day on Easter?
they talk about 'realistic bodies' but now my avatar looks so much less like me
When even trans people are saying the new models are awful, you know you messed up.
They tried to appeal to everyone, but ended up appealing to no one.
They’re not realistic at all, they all look like prepubescent boys
@@foxboy6145 it’s funny because trans people have curves. They have larger shoulders. Saying you’re appealing to trans people by making the characters look like amorphous blobs is arguably transphobic.
These people are idiots,they could just add that genderless body type thing and keep the old customization.
@@foxboy6145 That does seem to be where most things are headed. Appeal to almost no one at all
"We want both arguments"
*locks replies so no one can say any arguments*
South Park really is timeless. They predicted the behavior of Kathleen Kennedy for years to come, and this answer from Pokemon Go once again proved that they predicted the irresponsibility of many companies with “we’re sorry” not even for a year in advance, but for decades.
Do you mean Kathleen Kennedy?
Well, at least people that aren't considered "gamers" or "nerds" are aware of this DEI cancer on gaming. Gaming will end just like Hollywood movies.
Married with Children was even more accurate.
@andrewfantome4020 who is that in your profile picture?
@@R_wir3 It's a little too late now though, if normies had sided with us back when this was becoming prevalent in every aspect of entertainment , it could've been stopped early on.
In a way, they won; the lies served their purpose when it mattered even if nobody falls for them anymore.
Technically people could collectively sue Niantic for changing how cosmetics that people _pay real money_ for are effectively changed because of the model changing, forcing Niantic to either revert the change or refund all the Pokecoins for the clothes people bought in game (which seems basically impossible).
I feel like everyone is afraid of getting into an unwinnable battle of attrition against a big corpo. That's how these game companies keep getting away with anti-consumer practices.
That’s why class action exists.
I've seen cases where banks have done chargebacks for people who have gotten their accounts banned from subscription based games. The argument is that the game/service provider is denying you the very service you paid for based on their own EULA which is not legally enforcable. This is usually a nuclear option tho since the provider will essentially try to blacklist you forever as a future customer, but it might be worth it I guess? Either way like you were saying I feel like you can make a similar argument here that people are not getting the cosmetics they paid for in Pokemon Go
Sorry, but despite money changing hands you technically don't own any of the stuff you paid for according to the Pokemon Go TOS. You are merely renting it to them until they decide to remove or change it.
Enjoy the future!
Why would we do that though? Not only do none of the cosmetics look different but if you bought them you now have access to both the male and female model clothing. So like I bought a Sylveon ribbon a while ago where the female version is a cute hair bow and the male version is a slightly derpy looking sweatband and now I have the ability to choose which of the two styles I want to use instead of only having the option to use the hair bow. Not that I’m ever going to use the male version but the point is I gained options rather than losing them.
Quick, we must piss off 98% of our fans to cater to the less than 2%!!!!
And that 2% is ONLY in usa and canada.
Aka, small dust specks in a GIANT WORLD of different beliefs and bigger countries.
I'm curious on what Japan thinks of all this mess, do you know?
2% is very generous of you
What’s wild is that trans people don’t even like it. It’s just ugly. The fact they made ugly avatars and try to say it’s representative of trans people is transphobic in and of itself 💀
You know it's funny when grifters try to say "I don't know why they are all up in arms about it? You could just leave it alone and play the game." When literally the characters were fine as is but the company actively went in to change the characters when they didn't have to.
I now have to completely rebuild my avatar, since the changes ruined how the Team Rocket items appear.
I'm an active person who is skinny. Not a misshapen blob that can't even handle stairs without suffering a heart attack !
@@nobodyshome6792 oh my god i used the team rocket items for my outfit too. I used the team rocket Shirt and Belt with the Candela skirt, and the update completely messed it up!
Can we *_PLEASE_* just get a company who actually listens to player feedback and _doesn't_ spit in their face?
Korean and Japanese developers well most of the Japanese ones Capcom america and nintendo america are going down this route sadly
IMO, Digital Extremes is one of the saint companys nowadays, of course theyre not perfect and make mistakes, but they Never outright ignore the community of Warframe (and all the newer games/updates they plan on releasing). So i would highly recommend, if you want a solid company to follow, go for DE
You have shift up but thats all i know
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Palworld ?
That's dumb.
_"If you're giving me negative feedback then you HAVE TO give me positive feedback as well, or else I won't listen."_
Not really. They want to keep the increased customizability instead of just reverting the changes so they want to know which of the changes players liked and which they didn’t. The absolute last thing they want to do is accidentally throw out whatever people liked about the update because players are too focused on what they don’t like.
@@cathygrandstaff1957 but that’s the problem. They don’t realize that it’s their underlying attitude that is created the situation and they absolutely should throw the entire update out and start the entire thing from scratch. but what they’re going to do instead is try to finesse it so they don’t have to do anything of substance.
"You are very good at typing words on a screen. Also, the update sucks."
Positive and negative feedback :D
@@cathygrandstaff1957increased customizability? When they completely removed the ability to look like they did originally? What a joke
@cathygrandstaff1957
Dude, EVERYTHING about that update is terrible.
Inclusivity should be an additive process. If they cared about being inclusive, the new avatar would've been a 3rd option.
Or just not stay around for this c
Yeah they could add more customization options
And let only trans people be ugly? That isn't inclusive. Making everyone ugly is inclusive.
@linusgustafsson2629 well they are ugly & hideous so it's pretty much accurate lol
Wow... companies really love losing money these days.
When they say hatred will be ignored... What they actually mean is opinions they don't like. They're only going to listen to people they agree with. I don't expect anything to change.
Correction they will only leave positive reviews. Any negative review? Will be removed. But they cannot stop the 1 star reviews when it is blank hahaha.
Spot on thats how niantic thinks
@@NerissaRavencroftJailbirdyou can troll them with the criticism with high star reviews and make them delete that
AGREE : ((((((((((
The dude is a they/them.
Every single TIME
if they really wanted to be inclusive, they should have been adding OPTIONS for players instead of forcing changes. like any other game before it
Thats how works nowadays: monopolization from minor imbeciles that convinced how gamers are "toxic"
So real customers, gamers are toxic for them, they want monopolize everything, exactly how Capcom are listening these woke localizers.
They did. Most of the people complaining are using the options to make their characters ugly on purpose.
@@cathygrandstaff1957 oh so it's just the usual making a big deal and hate then? or did they just screw up all the settings?
@@cathygrandstaff1957shill detected
@@cathygrandstaff1957 That is bullshit. Stop lying.
Bypass the "Community Manager", find a way to e-mail directly to the corporation instead. Due to how detached the executive suite is from the ground floor, this would be the only way to ring an alarm bell and make them question what's actually happening.
Im an lgbt person and this change only made me cry. Nothing about these avatars is good. Im glad i am not the only one who hates their looks
I'm lesbian and I'm sick of them. Just wish they would go away they ruining the world
Niantic hurts itself in confusion. Niantic faints, player wins 🏆
No, nobody wins. That’s the problem.
Niantic has Destiny Bond active.
Somehow.
"Cruelty gets ignored."
Yeah, along all the criticism, of course
_"Anything I don't like is cruel!"_
I'm a lesbian and I'm sick of the them saying they care about women but then do this crap
they don’t care about women. it’s all about money. I.E riot getting sued for their treatment of their female employees. all it took was making two female characters lesbian and they were forgiven. truly mind boggling. i don’t understand why people think corporations actually care about them.
GaymerX sounds like a Family Guy/South Park parody of a real company.
If annoys me that a company who wish to see more growth and profits, would hire a consulting firm for advice before getting feedback from their community. If you want to know what your community wants, ask them directly.
It's because trillion dollar financial institutions will give better loans to companies with higher diversity scores. Consulting with an 'LGBT focused consulting company' improves their diversity.
It's called ESG scores. Investors will either not loan out money to companies with low ESG scores, or will loan money with higher interest rates, directly impacting profits.
So there's probably some statistic that makes this profitable. If they lose X amount of revenue from an annoyed playerbase quitting the game, but they get more money back through better loans thanks to an improved ESG score, then this move is 100% profitable and they'll continue doing it.
@@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 you see, the fact they need a loan despite being THE BIGGEST FRANCHISE IN THE WORLD is the biggest scam there is. Some companies I understand needing loans, even if I disagree with the banks practices and will avoid anything they taint, like most triple a games nowadays, but fucking pokemon? They could probably buy Disney if they tried hard enough.
Until the losses keep mounting up higher and higher to the point bailouts aren't cutting it.
@@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 Short term, it is more money. But long term... no costumer base -> no money. Not that CEOs and others in high positions care when they get a golden parachute from short term gains.
So many companies are dying out due to this practice it is ridiculous.
@@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126yeah but thats a problem with diversity scores in general. "Oh no we need to hire people of colour so we dont get fined" instead of "we need to hire people of colour because they do this better then people of no colour". I like to call it inverse racism where instead of excluding people of colour/woman/lgbt they exclude straight white men wich is still racism (except people dont think it is because "straight white men have "privileges"" even tough we dont have any more privileges then anyone else)
File a class action for discriminatory business practices.
wont work, some time a while back they forced you to agree to terms to keep playing and part of said terms were you wouldnt sue them for the crap they pull.
this was planned well ahead of time.
@@marcusbullock630 nope. It will work and we all can sue. Don't be afraid cus they are some company.
@@marcusbullock630 we could sue, if people who dont play the game do so
@@marcusbullock630 You know if they're colluding with a company that harbors people who commit CSA, should anyone really be letting their kids play Pokemon GO?
@@marcusbullock630 Probably won't hold up in court.
Yeah listen to the sexual misconduct people but don't listen to your fans and customers, good one.
This is damaging for the Niantic and the Pokémon brand. Get Gamefreak to notice as well.
Get _Nintendo_ to notice.
Gotta go a slight bit higher than The Pokémon Company.
Have to get this in front of Nintendo of Japan, and have them exert their control again.
Companies have tried similar things before, and Nintendo of Japan put a stop to it quickly. (Looking at WotC and the Pokemon TCG here.)
Nintendo of Japan needs to step in.
The response by that manager was just damage control.
The company released this update on the 17th and both the Subreddit and Twitter have been flooded with people's detailed or specific complaints, so asking for feedback is redundant.
To be frank, their bio tags were a red flag that the replies would be blocked before the end of the day. The company dropped an update that is universally hated for spoiling avatars people invested years into, so you KNOW you are going to get people that are not in the mood to be respectful, and with GaymerX being involved, i imagine Kestrel got arbitrarily blamed
Nobody is in the mood to be respectful if you mess with people's money. Heck, even scummy AAA games know that.
Early Access Live Service games have bugs and glitches everywhere, but you can bet one thing that's running perfectly is the Cash Shop / In-game Store.
Either they rollback this update, or they're gonna face a barrage of Chargebacks. Let's see if their Credit Score is more important than their ESG score.
1:39 oh boy they're gonna label anything that doesn't pat them on the back as cruelty and ignore it
They can fck right off ❤ never playing that app ever again
That’s been niantic’s MO since the game started
I wonder if backhanded complements will slip through the cracks.
The negative feedback they are actually looking for is any way you could make the new models look even slightly attractive so they can patch it out.
Before watching: They're gonna call their angry customers phobic or entitled or something.
After watching: Oh, they're just lying about listening. Cools.
why are non fat women considered unrealistic?
because women at GamerX aren't non fat women
@@R_wir3 correction,GaymerX 🗿
Big companies working like: they doesnt care about constructive critics, if they are negative they ignore.
Same direction that Capcom doing on.
Crapcom still keeps making Megaman NFT instead of making the actual new game 🤡
constructive or destructive they don't care and never cared. all they want is their view.
you all gotta realize they are playing this game in Sandbox mode. they got de facto infinite money.
and i ask you: what do you care for, other than your view, when you know you got that ∞ symbol on the screen in a videogame?!
I miss the days when they actually listened to customers and their money...
Disney lost literally billions, and they still won't listen to criticism from fans, customers, or shareholders.
Not cool,if they are willing to ruin games it might be better a Code Veronica remake never becomes available for new players and fans,I mean it would be a mounstrosity if they re boot it to make Claire into a crossdressed gay guy crap.
"They doesn't care about constructive critics, if they are negative they ignore."
That's really funny when put into the context of the public relations person being a "they/them".
NEWS: Team Latinite (Or Jum) is making a video about the Pokemon Go's INFAMOUS anti-consumer update somewhere this week or the next one. And oh boy, is it going to be a FUN one. Niantic is already ruined once they touched Pokemon Go.
Niantic ruined so many games that they had under their umbrella, some even shut down because of them, but seems like PoGo is still going because of GameFreak and TPC has an obligation and has control as well as contract over such, and seems like Niantic tried everything to end it but can't because of such and that they see as their cash cow to them, they tried to ruin it as well as making it their money farm, but all I can say is, Niantic need to sell all their games to a much better game developer who can do all of this, but all Niantic do is to sell all their assets and such to the company and that's it, so yeah
Who?
@@bradwhite5884 weird why they don't ruin Monster Hunter Now, yeah the game has a lot of mtx but it's still much better than Pokemon go
@@NetBattler Jum or Team Latinite. I've been informed about his Pokemon Go rants recently. (Including the Pokemon Unite scandal.) (He made the Pokemon Go video a few months ago.) He used to stream Hot Shots Golf and some Dynasty Warriors vids. He also did Mugen Marathons (Mystery Marathon, The Fighters League, and His own Vs. series.) and some Mugen livestreams from every Friday. He's cool.
@@NetBattlerI originally had the intention of only speaking on Niantic and their consistent anti-customer and anti-player activities ever since the Ingress changes in 2016 which basically destroyed the game. However. I feel obligated to point out something regarding Monster Hunter Now, since you brought it up.
Average daily player-count.
Monster Hunter Now is not exactly heavily played globally. With it having an average daily player count around 60k. With the majority of those players being in Asian markets.
Pokemon go averages 10 times that globally. With roughly 200k players from North America alone, daily. (About 600k globally.)
The number of players, and the regions those players are in matters.
The bulk of players for Monster Hunter Now are in Asian nations, where these changes wouldn't be allowed by Government agencies and wouldn't be accepted at all by the players.
While for Pokemon Go, half the playerbase is of a Western audience, so such changes can get made or implemented.
Note. To my knowledge these graphical changes were NOT applied to Chinese, Korean or Japanese versions of Pokemon Go.
"GAYmerX" working with volition is the funniest shit ever. Why hasn't anyone pointed that out yet?
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Gaymerx sounds like the name to a naughty website 😭😭
I love the juxtaposition of the locked replies and the "your feedback is valuable, regardless of who you are." It really captures the spirit of modern woke corporatism.
Woke corporations just like the lgbt lobby consider "phobic" and "hateful" every person that disagree with their ideologies,which honestly isn't democratic or respectful at all but these are the "respect" preachers.I wonder when people will actually wake up,cause woke people aren't woke at all,they should be called "sleepers" or "dreamers".
Guessing the staff and executives wanted that sweet, sweet DEI bounty money to slide into their pockets with zero regard for the impact of Pokémon GO profitability.
No the staff and executives are ideologically captured. Money doesn't matter anymore.
This like trying to evolve a Magikarp into a Gyarados without splashing around too much.
I'm missing the point since EXP/Rare Candy exists.
@@RaceBandit magikarp canonically only evolves through hard work and a never give up mindset
It has to sometimes even swim up waterfalls
It's a karp that becomes a dragon through determination
Here it's like a magikarp that hatched and was never had a shred hardship evolving into gyarados
Magikarp: "Trained? More like f***ing endured, and I'm still a fish!"
You cannot sell me a crate of tangerines when I specifically ordered oranges and act like it’s the same thing.
The same thing happened when niantic ruined remote raid passes last year and still never changed anything when literally everybody complained including 99% of the influencers.
Why didn't they just keep the current avatars then added another option for genderless avatars? More options are always better than less options. The irony and hypocrisy of "diversity" is that they don't actually want diversity, they want exclusive representation.
They end up excluding instead of including
@@R_wir3 that's the point
@@TheGhostFart Ironic
In reality they are just man hating leftist feminists who get off on harassing men with ugly avatars.
That lesbians are collateral damage is non of their issue because feminists couldn't care less about women loving women. It is about hating men.
Actually disagree on the "more options are always better than less options" statement. There's a psychological phenomenon called "overchoice", which describes a mental state when people are confronted with too many options. It causes indecision and second-guessing of already made decisions.
You probably can come up with examples from your own experience where you were confronted with so many options, that you had a really hard time deciding which one to choose.
Damn, no wonder Kingdom Hearts Missing Link is taking so long to come out. Square Enix would rather make a Pokemon Go esc game themselves than let a company like Niantic ruin it for them.
Or delayed because of the DEI company are making them delay their games to force their ideas onto them, just gives you few ideas and questions on how all these games got delayed and how many games that have been delayed for so long for all these years, I don't think they are taking their time to improve them or such, but looking at what's going on and how long these DEI people were in the game industry and how they are affecting the games, you can truly put 2+2 together and see what's really going on, these games weren't delayed so they have more time to develop, but delayed so they can fit to the new DEI standards that's why they are delayed, because of the DEI and how it is ever so changing over the years which cause more delays, so yeah
@@bradwhite5884| I get the feeling DEI wouldn't stall it _that_ much...
Nahhhhh they just drag their feet if it's kh related. Been doing that for decades
The dude is a they/them.
Every single TIME
Square has gotten on board with all of this ESG nonsense as well, as you can see with Forspoken and Harvestella (refused to label the characters as male or female).
They’ll ruin their own game
If you paid for something (custom skins, for example) and then is later changed or you get supplied a different service than initially agreed, isn't that marketing malpractice? Can't they not get sued for it?
This is why it took years for Gumi to figure out a way to fix the OP-ness of Fixed Dice, Setzer's Trust Mastery item.
There are a few lines within the Terms of Service that protect Niantic from lawsuits over changes in in-game content.
Even though you bought it, they can still change it, and you can do NOTHING about it. Because of the Terms of Service.
The manager sounds as shallow as a puddle in the desert.
6 days left til' the release of Stellar Blade.
You can thank me for that one
Wow, so fast to release the true game! 😮
In the meantime consider checking out Nikke Goddess of Victory, it was also made by Shift Up. It's a gacha game but it's very f2p friendly (I say this as someone who has never spent any money on the game yet almost own every character) and they have a PC version too (much better than playing on mobile in my opinion).
At first I tried it out because of the fanservice, but the genuinely good story has kept me hooked. The anniversary 1.5 event is coming up too so there's bound to be a lot of free goodies, it's a great time for new players to start off. They also announced that Memory of Goddess would be added permanently, it's a Vampire Survivors style minigame they added in one event and although they normally go away when events end this one received so much good feedback that they were convinced to make it a permanent feature. Give it a shot, you won't be disappointed.
@@muhammadiqbal99988 also remnant 2 2nd dlc is out in 2 days as well for any1 that plays that as well ^^
how expensive is a ps5 atm?
I really hope we get a pc port, because it looks amazing.
If they refuse to revert the changes, they should at a minimum refund all customers that are disappointed that the cosmetics they paid for now look like garbage (and have been changed entirely from what their money was intended for). Failing that, a lawsuit should be in order.
From the terms of use:
“Generally, we have the right to offer, modify, eliminate, and/or terminate Virtual Money, Virtual Goods, the Content, and/or the Services, or any portion thereof, at any time, without notice or liability to you.”
At best you could make a case that this isn’t part of the ‘generally’ statement at the beginning, which can’t really be proven without supplementary material.
@@bandannadoo Only thing people really can do these days is buy an expensive virtual currency option, and then do charge backs. Because companies get in trouble over charge backs, and their only response to that is to ban accounts. Which if you are going to quit the game is a non-issue.
"Cruealty", AKA anything we don't want to hear.
Yep theyre all pansies
You know what's cruelty saying real women can't exist anymore yet that's exactly what they doing
As a free user, I’m grabbing my shinies and running
Did the same thing, sent them to Home
Why change the characters in the first place
Because they want fight white male gaze for pushing diversity and inclusivity, GaymerX a non profitable consultants are more important than fanbase.
ESG funding.
ESG. It's simple as that. They needed find a way to push the message and here's where they did it. I can assure you they will not change it back.
The equivalent of BlackRock for movies
They are woke left activist
When I first saw the pictures of the update I honestly thought it was a joke. I feel bad for the people who spent money making their avatar look cool or stylish and now have... whatever those are. I personally care a lot about aesthetics and style in games so I understand.
"Whatever those are" pfft the characters are certainly chubbier, less color saturated, more shiny light reflection on the hair, and less... milk. And the expressions look more "😐" to me
@@pumkin610 The longer you look the worse it gets. The torsos are really long, the legs are short, the knees look like they’re way too close to the ankles. The arms are really long and don’t look right with the added massive hands. Overall terrible models on a fundamental level.
Am one such victim of this update, still angry because the update actually ruined my outfit. I've already left a comment about it in the previous vid.
And of course the alphabet mafia was involved once again....
This is why it's important to re-established Mental Asylums.....The crazies are out in full force. Once every Election year.
Absolutely
The bots are being let loose
Ya mean every day as opposed to once every 4 years?
It feels like every day I encounter some crazy person. 😮💨
But anyway, I agree with you.
Bet you anything that any and all criticism will be labeled a "cruelty" and thus be ignored.
they're literally asking for criticism, and cruelty is referring to unconstructive insults and trolling
@@LightCrib2| In a sane world, yes ... but here, anything they don't like is "unconstructive" and/or "trolling".
@@RaceBandit are you just assuming or
@LightCrib2 he is not assuming, they WILL delete any and all negative criticism
@@yuantron3K Do you have proof
I wish the Pokémon video game franchise was in the Public Domain.
it will, but we won't be there to see that happening
Or Nintendo outright bought it and took full control of it, you won't see shit like this or Sword and Shield coming out of Mario or Zelda.
@@elegant_lilligantNintendo of America also has a DEI category on their web
@@elegant_lilligant And you think Nintendo would do a good job with it and not make the game not woke or DEI infested game? Keep dreaming, they are all in it together, Nintendo, Niantic, GameFreak and such are all in on it, so maybe someone who can keep these people in check or slap them around for a bit as well as kick any DEI company out of anywhere where they get their dirty mitts on, so yeah
@@R_wir3 It’s likely it could end up being a nothing burger long term. There’s not enough fruit as of right now. Plus DEI is in a decline.
Im gay af and I do not see how making my character look like they've been genetically infused with blob fish helps my life in any way :/
1:34 I feel like someone with that in their bio has already made up their mind where they stand on the issue. I hope I’m wrong and they show respect to true diversity, allowing those who want attractive characters to have them.
The new models should be completely optional. You should be able to swap to them or not at will. Let’s see which model themes the people choose. Let’s see which is truly desired.
Gaymerx is the moat funniest and dumbest name ever it is funny how japan is roasting pokemon go tho
just as dumb and gross as Sweet Baby Inc.
I really don't get why every "consultancy group" always has that weird,shady and creepy name for their company 😂
Like,can't you be creative at least once?
Again, what were you thinking, Niantic? Oh, wait…
DEI bro, DEI is what were they thinking.
That feminine bodies make a tiny tiny group very mad because they'll never have said bodies, so they must be made masculine
They were thinking that using a consulting company like this will improve their ESG scores, and will make them more attractive to trillion dollar financial institutions.
Which is completely unironic, that really happens.
@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 what exactly are these money coming from ?
I liked my avatar that I had for 6 years.... Pokemon Go doesn't respect my identity, they are evil.
Even Feminist Frequency's hosts don't want their avatars to look like their real selves.
Oh shi~ 🙃🐱
Well well well, another company with a questionable wrap sheet messing with our CC's. I'm shocked
Nintendo and the Pokemon company should know that Pokemon has been on the decline for years and allowing a company using your IP to do anything that brings in a negative reaction on the scale like this is not a very good look. These people seem to need to learn the hard way
Let them learn the hard way
Yeah, SV and now this… Pokémon might as well be a dead brand at this point. No creativity, all-in on The Message. Won’t be buying anything else of theirs.
Sadly while the quality has been declining the sales haven't. Pokemon S&V was one of their best selling games ever despite the mountain of problems and while people cheered on Palworld its already been kind of forgotten and those same people are going to run back to buy the B&W remakes on release day. As long as you give them money they will learn nothing and keep declining in quality because pokemon fans will eat up anything.
@@fullstackweebdev4855 nah you're wrong with Pokémon being a dead brand. Their strong merch sales are still their bread and butter, the games are just there as backbone for the merch sales which is quite sad. Poketubers are still thriving from the games. Rather, TPC has to slap Niantic to the face with this blunder. But it's naive to say TPC didn't have some say to the decision so my theory is they're doing this as a social experiment. Pokemon GO has lost steam. Sure it still has a large community but it's never gonna beat the mainline games.
@@fullstackweebdev4855 SV even with all the bugs *is* an improvement over the previous generation which needed two fucking DLC packs to have the caveat of "at least it's easy to get into competitive". And that's before considering SV's DLC and the return of event mythicals and whatnot. Above all that though, that's just a fraction of the company (Gamefreak) not pulling its weight. Nintendo doesn't touch it. Pokemon has been getting critically panned, and rightfully so, but it's about as dead as the human species atm.
Alerting the attention of the IRS is a definite red flag
Financial crimes are unattractive and not what people usually look for in a relationship.
@@pumkin610 And besides, tax evasion is a common crime SOVCITS (Sovereign Citizens Movement) do
I'm surprised pokemon company or nintendo hasn't pulled on the leash yet.
A thing I never understood is how does a non profit organization work if it’s a charity it’s through donations but if it’s not a charity then how do they you know do shit?
Blackrock and vanguard I'd suspect have a large part to play in that.
Charities are only one kind of non-profit. Non-profit does not necessarily mean it's also a charity. Honestly these are words that only have meaning where the IRS is involved or your regional equivalent and there are grey areas. Non-profit just means all the funds of the organization outside of its operating costs are devoted to some sort of cause. There is a somewhat higher bar to also be considered a charity.
There is no such thing as non-profit. As long as there is money flow and people are getting paid, someone is profiting from it and often in a very consequential way.
it's rich people's tax evasion.
There is no such thing as non-profit; anything free is the always the most expensive.
Non-profit doesn't mean they work for free. In fact, non-profits often make stupid amounts of money. They just balance their books at the end of the fiscal year so that they don't record an annual profit. Theoretically they would do this by reinvesting the profit back into the company in the form of better benefits/pay or employees, donate to charities, etc. In reality they just give the executives at the company big bonuses and hide money in other bank accounts and businesses they own.
Non-profits are a gold mine of scammy bad business practices, which is why politicians love them.
1:33
Whenever you see stuff like this in someone's bio you know they are terminally online and completely worthless.
I get that vibe from pride flag PFP's in general without needing to dig much further.
@@bartofii You just know you're gonna have a bad time interacting with those accounts.
I've never seen people with profilepics like that type something I completely agreed with, or saw controversy with these profilepics NOT on the side the majority disagrees with.
@@m1bl4nup there with soccer pfps in terms of being insufferable to engage with
@@bartofiinot always I have a sunset lesbian flag In mine and I hate this c. I have changed my pfp so many times to the older flags to make them mad
@@m1bl4nI hate then
The only way to get them to change back is only through massive uninstalling so the player base will decrease significantly and plumet their sale down.
Imagine if you had spent money to buy pokecoins to buy clothing to make your avatar look better and then Niantic goes and screws up the entire aesthetic you were going for without your consent. Seems pretty shady to change something that affects people's purchases.
Did Pokemon Go told the fans to flip off?
Yeah, basically
As many companies do, remember Volition with Saints Row and Resident Evil because of the community manager?
@@skyuruyeah, Capcom will regret it
@@R_wir3 until there are idiots that buy their products because they are impressed from some CG graphics it will be hard...even RE4R its a woke sh*t game but it selled 7m...
if only there was a video you could watch that shows what they said
So any negative feedback is gonna be marked as "cruelty" and they aren't even going to read them, are they? No matter how much work anyone does into trying to make it 100% clear to Niantic what exactly the player base is concerned about, they can just skim over it, claim that it's "cruelty", and move on. I doubt these people honestly believe in the causes that they claim to support, they just want to pretend to support legitimate causes as an excuse to shield themselves from any form of negative backlash
it's a fantasy character! why are they always fantasize to be ugly? 🤔
I have been wondering why the trend has been going towards idealizing ugly. Or idealizing unhealthy standards.
It doesn't make much sense.
"Mx" being used non-ironically is the only red flag you need
Isn't Mx the initials for Mexico?
@@TheIrreverentUncleAl It's "gender neutral" Mr/Ms, ugh...
holy shit these people need help...
It's not a bad response on paper, but considering that these are the types that think "constructive criticism = harassment", I don't see this going well.
They'll probably take the criticism like dang I guess everyone is prejudiced, I must make progress at all costs
With all these BS happening. I am finally slowing down and avoiding these games and hobbies. In a sense, QUITTING hobbies I have loved for years because of these antics and settling down to what I still have in my collection. Thanks o progressive "champions of justice and equality". You ruined our hobbies.
... at least I can finally work on that backlog.
I used to be a huge Pokemon fan.
Now? I only play Pokemon Go, and if things keep going the way they have been, I'll genuinely leave the franchise behind.
You know, maybe the Palworld fans were on to something all along, even if their designs are just plagiarized Pokemon.
They don't want equality they want to do evil. Most of them. Not me though
@@VessIGuess an alternative as some would say.
Don't fix something that isn't broken.
I'm late to this but I thought they changed the NPC's not the player character... I had no idea it was this bad holy!
Just imagine if this happened in Final Fantasy 14... actual riots would erupt.
For real here why can't a company not only be honest but not spit at their own fanbase? Pin this important. Because like the company is Nothing without it's workers the gaming company is nothing without it's consumers. Spitting against them is not good for your brand.
Same goes for movies pal. The MCU for example.
Anger is valid criticism, as are angry responses. They are an indication of just how royally you fucked up.
Here here! 🧐👍
Volition was a client? That explains a lot
1:39 - 2:01 - Let's see... What he really means here is...
Point 1 - Cruelty to Kestrel is opinions that disagree with the changes.
Point 2 - Because Kestrel is going to lump it in with point 1.
Point 3 - So that Kestrel will know who to block.
As for the next posts:
Post 1 - Kestrel, don't lie. People like you are some of the most exclusionary people I've ever seen.
Post 2 - Kestrel might as well have posted "Thanks for helping me decide who to block."
2:14 - 2:19 - People like them are so predictable.
This update wouldn't be a problem if it was a simple additional option that didn't take away the existing stuff.
Maybe someone should make a hack that undos the update changes to the avatars.
And then the hack would be patched
@@pumkin610 Can’t the hack would be unpatchable.
I clicked on this link expecting the response was either hide the criticism or a suck it up response...they did not disappoint as usual
The response is NOT a response. If it was, then the comments would have stayed opened, and the contents of the tweets would have ACTUALLY addressed the criticism. As it is, it's a non-response designed to dodge responsibilities.
This stuff is just going to keep happening because sheep will continue to use games and services that do this stuff.
Sounds like something Chris Chan would respond with
Ask him about the arm color of Sonic.
holy shit you're right lmao!
the CM loved the changes. Niantic will not get any actually good data from that one. it's clear they will crop only the data that makes it look good for them.
A class action lawsuit you say?
I doubt actual the Alphahet crowd actually wants these changes.
From what I understand, they might actually hate the agenda in general.
I may not speak for every lgbt person, but yes i definitely do not want these avatars. They look horrifying. And i am sure most lgbt people did not care about the previous avatars nor did they require any change
Member of the crowd here, their update is an insult to my sense of aestetics and i gave their latest review inquiry a solid 1/10.
Also i'm glad GuardianEnigma pointed it out, this agenda mindset of 'including everything, even racism and hate towards different opinions, therefore being very excluding to the majority' would leave me with a permanent hand-shaped bruise across my face, if i gave in everytime the 'there is no such thing as an AgEnDa'-group does something that makes me want to facepalm.
@@bunnyfist4697 Good to hear from you. I've known too many fad-chasers in the crowd, it's good to hear from the actual crowd.
@@ghostthelizard I believe these "consultation" groups actually want to make people angry with the Alphabet crowd, so they can continue to make money off the conflict. Same thing Antifa and BLM managed.
It's one thing to change and alter ingame NPCs, one where they'd have a leg to stand on even if the change(s) happen to be in poor taste. Changing the player's avatar however... the only thing that'd remotely come close to an acceptable reason is if said player's avatar is horrendously obscene, but this is clearly not the case.
If we let them slide, the design will be the new normal
Yup, that's why I take this very seriously and you guys should too.
There's some weird stuff going on with the skin colors as well. My avatar used to be mildly tan and now he looks like a vampire.
Same here 😭 thats so weird considering how the type of people who are all in for inclusivity and diversity probably would not be fans of "whitewashing"
@@ghostthelizarddiversity is including white people yet they say they wish they where all gone
I don't mind if they added the new body shapes and sizes, but why they had to change the default ones and the faces... ugh
Man, these people must really want to go bankrupt, how did they think that ruining all the avatars in the game would make anyone happy?
Well GAMER X is also on the list of things to blacklist.
You forgot that's it's "gay"mer x. 😂
Why couldnt this just be a toggle or another body type option?? if they could change everything, they could have easily just done that
Niantic don't listen to feedback from the community they "claim they do" same company that nerfed remote raid passes to the ground and made them cost more and they ignored the feedback.
Everyday i struggle to believe we are at this level of insanity. It boggles the mind
Oh please we are not even at the halfway point.
The dumpster fire just starting want to watch it with me? As don't mind the pfp I may be lesbian but I ant woke
« Cruelty gets ignored » aka ignoring the « bigoted » comments calling out my dumb shallow decisions.
It will be necessary for companies to break one after another like dominoes for this situation to reverse and this can only be achieved using an anti-ideology with the same commitment