I’ve never transferred Pokemon between gens and I’ve never used Pokemon Home, but it seems wild to me to be so invested into such a fickle storage system. Thoughts and prayers for the guy affected

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    1 day ago

    Can you explain how you play the same game for 20 years? Like a basic description of how the game works and what keeps you in it…

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      It’s not that you play one game exactly. The Pokemon games are about collecting and raising monsters. Each of those monsters have some unique stats and metadata.

      Each time a sequel comes out, those games usually give you a way to transfer creatures from the old game to the new game (it used to be by linking games directly, now I think they have a side app).

      Even though each generation brings kind of a totally new game, in same ways they have aspects of expansion packs. You can keep using the monsters you had before and building a bigger collection.

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      It isn’t necessarily the same game just the same franchise/series. You can catch new generations of pokemon every release and most of the time you can transfer your old pokemon to your newest game. You can catch, train, battle and trade with other players around the world.