Why do some people feel that those who use the SV exploit hurts their experience? It's not like they're getting better Pokemon or anything.
I think it's got something to do with
this ...
Not sure about other people but only recently have I become aware of this "Shiny hunter culture" with in the Pokemon fan base. These people randomly encounter 1000s of Pokemon the wild just to come across a shiny via random encounter. These People are hard core, most I see don't even use the FS or Hordes ... they just leave it to random chance over and over and over. This is what I think when I hear how SV or even FS shinys aren't "legit shiny". Hell, she doesn't even seem to like the idea that the OVER ALL shiny encounter rate has been doubled (I believe that's what Serebii and friend are reporting)
And that's OK, they clearly get enjoyment from the mostly random achievement (which is why they keep track of their encounters). I think that's kinda the "hard core" side to shiny hunters. Lighter levels are people who treat shinys like trading cards. And even lighter levels are people like me who use radar and such because we want our bros for personal taste.
I think SV disrupts ALLLL of this shit in favor of lighter shiny fans. It's not a hack-mon because you did NOT Pokegen/ make this Pokemon, all you do is look at the information and send it to where it needs to go to be shiny. It allows any Pokemon to be a legit Shiny so long as they're hatched by the right person. And unlike RNG you don't have to jump up and down as you piss in a bowl sideways and have your Parrot Pokemon talk 5 times with X number of Pokemon in your party to trick the game into giving you a flawless shiny.
For these RE people it makes them feel like people are taking their achievements and throwing dirt on their pass-time. For Shiny traders it's a steaming chunk of a mess because now they can't just have the right nature ... people are expecting flawless breeder level shinys for their trade (encouraging some to flat out try to lie about the IVs they're Pokemon have ... not realizing that people who SV can tell if you're trading them crud). Same with the FS, people mainly want the beldums and such, not the everyday mons. Plus, why would many give up their Shiny when they can beg a breeder for some studs to make their own batch and SV those? I think that may be a driving fear with traders.
Pretty simple really. Before mass TSV access, shiny pokemon were novel. The rarity alone was special, and it was exciting to see a shiny pokemon. Someone could catch a shiny pokemon and be very proud as well as have a valuable pokemon for trading purposes. If used competitively, it would be extra impressive.
Today if you see a shiny, you have no reason to be impressed. The only thing to compare today's shiny to is the standard coloration. Some of the magic of Pokemon has certainly been lost.
Maybe if this was in fancy pancy land without AR or Pokegen.
Thing is that with AR and Pokegen the people who use them .... have zero reason to trade shinys I guess. Why trade for a Pokemon you could create by yourself and for yourself? As I pointed out there's not longer that's divide I guess. You can not Pokegen a 6th game Pokemon ... but you can use a network of players to get legit shinys without back breaking rng luck.
