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Pokémon Focus

Can you expand on this? o:

Do you mean there's not enough pokemon discussion in general, orr...
 
Ahaha, I understand. This may be a Pokémon forum, but most of the discussions and activities I find myself in have nothing to do with Pokémon at all. Granted I don't wander into the Pokémon discussion forums much at all either, soooo

As far as the VIP Forums go . . . unless we come up with some interesting activities or discussions that don't necessarily belong in other sections, then I don't see much need.
 
I disagree that we've lost any semblance of a Pokémon factor. We have nearly two dozen sections that embody Pokémon related discussion, several categories, roughly a hundred Pokémon related styles, we have a Pokémon battling server, our Moderators promote discussions, competitions, and community spirit among all Pokémon sections. We are still called PokéCommunity.

We never lost the Pokémon factor, we merely expanded into other areas. If you try to look regain what isn't lost it will feel like trying to draw blood from a stone.
 
I've never found the Pokemon focus on PC to be lacking, honestly.

Before I moved down to TT I was always hanging out in the Pokemon forums and on Showdown, and I definitely got my fill of Pokemon. There's tons of events surrounding new games all the time on here and within their respective forums. Showdown users and our Battle Staff especially probably feel pretty "Pokemon'd" while on PC.

I think the only reason our Pokemon focus seems dry right now is because we're also in a dry spot for Pokemon games. :P
 
If that's the case then I'd just say, be the change you want to see; speaking generally, if members want to see more activity in the board, then they would actually need to make the effort to post there first, and then work above and beyond that.

It's the same for all the boards, really~
 
All i ever do is write pokemon rp.

hayy
 
I aint sayin that PC has lost it all but a lot of older members such as p much the entire supporter group aint much for Pokemon and we're the ones stickin here? Maybe we should be more about the 'mon a lil bit.
 
This specific forum isn't quite focused on Pokémon as most other areas in the forum such as Pokémon Gaming Central and the Trade Corner, Battling, Challenges, and Gen VI forums, so I doubt this area needs to focus much on that so much as it does things based on us members.
 
noooot talking about VIP yo talking abt supporters as a group being more into the pokemon scene
 
There's currently no new games so I doubt I'll lurk at the Pokemon sections often for now. I still occasionally visit though.
 
There's more to Pokémon than gaming, though. There's also anime, TCG, manga, and merchandise, which are all never in a slump. And even with gaming alone, we get new members joining every day who have yet to talk about their gaming experiences and preferences. So I wouldn't blame a lack of new games to be the cause for a slump. Besides, a new spin-off was just announced :P

Her point is that for a Pokémon fan site, it seems like many of us aren't that in love with Pokémon, especially the members who have been around here for a long time. We have a lot of members who love to talk about Pokémon.

It's not that it's bad that the off-topic sections are super active, it's just weird seeing that there are off-topic forums that output more activity than some of the Pokémon forums combined. Why isn't that level of discussion happening in the places that most of us joined the site for?
 
Point taken.

But from what I've seen on my personal chatgroup of friends that I met during a live VGC tournament, I think it's natural for a community to slowly switch from its main discussion to the daily chit chats. My chatgroup first existed because we got close during a tournament, and so our first discussions mainly revolves around Pokemon. However, as time goes on it slowly switches into a daily chit chat. The main focus of the group being VGC Pokemon discussions isn't gone though, but it's just that it'll get a little stale after a while.

PokeCommunity isn't like other forums such as Marriland, Serebii, Bulbagarden or the like. We don't have a Pokemon fansite after all. So like any group of friends, the discussions will slowly shift into the off topic discussions. However, we still go to Pokemon discussions if we find any interesting topics to discuss.

Plus, each of our interests when it comes to Pokemon are different, so even if there's a new anime episode, new TCG expansion packs or new merch, not all of us will be interested. New games are the ones that can pull in the community back to the Pokemon discussions as that's the one common interest that we all have aside from ROM hacks.

And that's how I view PokeCommunity, especially on the most active users on the forums: we're just a big group of friends. The fact that its off topic discussions are really active shows it. It's also one of the reasons why most of the PC regulars from other big Pokemon forums tend to not come back to those forums as well.
 
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