I was still okay with this since I expected this from the beginning.

This made it so the only shinies that you couldn't get by cheating in previous games was 6th gen shinies. Later the Shiny Value trading was invalidated then pokebank got released. It gave value to pokemon that you put time into breeding. Although I never was able to use the Shiny Value trading or duplication, I didn't have a problem with it, because it at least brought people together to trade and breed perfect IV pokemon (something else I really enjoy). That was still a heck of a lot better than someone using a cheating device and getting perfect shinies effortlessly. The pre-pokebank meta was a lot of fun and shinies were all legit except for the ones involving the Shiny Value trading and duplication.

With that said, for me, the highest point of the fun factor in pokemon was during the beginning of X and Y.

I've been playing pokemon since the very beginning, playing pretty much every game that's been released amassing thousands of hours of playtime.

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