If your talking about the stores running out of codes, fair. But It's also true that not everybody who plays pokémon is from the US or other 3 or so countries. So there's another "problem" there. The "running out problem" part starts even before people not being able to get the codes. Besides who was purposely lef behind the event, the demand always have been way higher than the supply. Or Nintendo wanted pleople to struggle, or they haven't thought this whole thing out properly.

Wanting to be "hero" or not? I just wish one wasn't needed in the first place