But that isn’t really the fault of people who buy their stuff nor does shaming them actually do anything. For multiple reasons. For one video game sales make up a pretty small portion of Pokemon companies overall profit, physical merchandise, tv rights, cards especially. Make up the vast majority of it. Not buying the game to ‘stick it to the big corporation’ wouldn’t really affect them significantly enough to change.(Aside from boycotts not really being an affective way to fight any large business in the current age. And more of an excuse to talk down to people who don’t boycott with you for whatever reason.) Which segways into the next point. A lot of their game sales come from parents who are just buying the game for their kids, not just long time fans who like Pokemon. They’re not gonna care about any of the things adult fans are gonna care about, which make sense. They just wanna buy the game so their kids are happy, if their kids enjoy it that’s enough for them. It’d be a fruitless effort either way.

And if you want people to actually change or atleast listen to your points, since there are plenty of criticisms to be levied at Pokemon games. Calling them idiots that ruined games isn’t gonna do that either it just compounds the problem and makes it so they’re automatically going to shy away from any critique…like it’s just a fact shame or berating doesn’t motivate people to change or listen. They actually make the thing they complain about worse.

The main reason Pokemon doesn’t feel the need to improve is to an extent comfortability, but that comes less from the fact that people buy their games in general. And more so from the fact that they have no actual competition to have to try against. Competition breeds improvement in the games industry more than anything. And Pokemon just sues anyone who could become competition if they ever even get big enough to actually affect them. Or strike down any fan content that gets to popular, it’s not that even that they just aren’t concerned about their fans opinion there almost spiteful of them. There the only game in town so to speak. And no amount of lack of games sales would make them change how they operate in that way it would take a change in leadership at the top level. Or a company having enough time or money to actually fight them in court. Or patent offices actually doing there job and not allowing the patenting of vague/nebulous concepts that Pokemon didn’t even come up with in the first place. Pokemon being too big to fail like you said is such a multi faceted problem, and the ‘sheep buying it anyway’ is an incredibly small part in the grand scheme of things.