Why Do We Keep Buying And Playing Pokémon? | PUCL 743

About this episode

The episode discusses the reasons behind the continued engagement with the Pokémon franchise and the potential issues with recent game quality.

Are we the problem? This week, Thatch is joined by Clod9 and Bocefus to talk about why they keep coming back to Pokemon and discussing if they might be the problem with some of the recent quality of Pokemon Games.

People in this episode

Host: Thatch

Guests: Clod9, Bocefus

Topics covered

• Pokemon games
• game quality
• player behavior
• franchise loyalty
• gaming community

Keywords

• Pokemon
• gaming
• franchise
• quality
• player engagement
• video games
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pokemon

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