My thoughts on website shinies (RANT)
If you didnt know, website shinies are pokemon that people paid for on various websites and can get customized in various ways. They can have perfect IVs, EVs, and can even get held items like a masterball. I feel like if people pay for shinies with an unchangeable name from a website, then what's the point of having the game if your just gonna pay to win? I feel like people who do this are a disgrace to the shiny hunters out there who put in time from their lives to seek the thrill of finding shinies. Its disgusting that people make money from this, and I hate doing surprise trades giving out real shinies, to get a level 100 shiny oshawott with multiple ribbons, and a website for a name. Im asking you, if you ever get a website pokemon, don't trade it, release it. But those are my thoughts. What are your thoughts?
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They need to leave
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As long as it is possible to use exploits, a certain subset of the community are going to use them. That is going to be a factor whatever Game Freak do, short of removing factors like IVs, EVs and shinies from the game and making every Pokémon of the same species identical. But even then people would still find a way to modify stats.
For the most part, I think it is harmless. People want shinies with perfect stats for use in their own single player game or to use against their friends. If everyone involved is on board with it, no one is really being cheated.
It becomes a problem in the competitive scene when a Pokémon is modified to have stats that cannot be obtained legitimately in game, giving the player using the modified Pokémon an unfair advantage, or when these generated Pokémon are traded for legitimately obtained Pokémon to someone who is unaware and/or does not want generated Pokémon.
Ultimately, however you feel about it, in any game, players can only do so much to prevent cheating; especially in a competitive environment where the game pieces (in this case, Pokémon teams) are created outside of the tournament setting and brought in from outside. And honour rules only go so far. Some portion of the population, however small, is going to try to cheat to gain the upper hand. The best we can hope for is more robust tools to prevent and detect exploits.
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I constantly get these when surprise trading. There's a joke among my friends about a ceruledge we got where all it's stats touched the edge of the stat thing, like whenever we lose- "The Ceruledge could've won!"
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