[Released] PokéRogue - Web-Based Pokémon Roguelite

[Sake-Kun]

Hey I have been watching pokerogue content for quite a while and i wanted to play it but whenever I tried to open website the loading bar would not load or if it does my device crashes plus help

Their server/s are often overwhelmed by the amount of traffic the site seems to get, that's why the game can get stuck on a loading screen.

 

[kingdomharms]

Some rumors claim he felt guilty about the addictive nature of the game's mechanics he was working on like the egg gacha or the candies as a mechanic.
According to other rumors, he had a respectable ideological disagreement with the members of the dev team.

And according to the rumors of the Twitter Mob led by Akuma, spurred on by selective screenshots, he committed a "hate speech" against trans people.
After he left the team, it was this group that apparently decided to try to defame him on Twitter/X for revenge, thereby politicizing the drama.

If this Twitter mob attack on Sam is true, I want to know the names of every single one of the moderators & the dev team members on PokeRogue that was involved with the Twitter mob.
And then I wanna know their connections to other fan games. Preferably through DMs because I personally am not interested in speaking about this matter any more than this publicly.

Because I don't want to be associated with people who are quick to throw others under the bus like that, no matter how righteous they believe their causes to be.
Also, I know that some of the people behind the Pokengine project have also been helping out with PokeRogue's development, so this is extra crucial for me to know in terms of whether I will agree to play along with the Pokengine community or blacklist them from interacting with me entirely.

This is... wildly inaccurate and dramatized. Wow.

First of all, everything you claimed as "some rumors" was proven to be true. Sam literally provided his own statement for his departure.

Sam leaving the dev team/PokeRogue actually had nothing to do with any of the incidents that happened afterward, which were perpetuated by a few bad actors that were not on the moderator or dev teams of the PokeRogue server. It was started by one specific "community contributor" (basically someone who gave suggestions/helped with graphics) who heavily abused their power and influence and caused an absolute shitstorm in the server that left the moderators no choice but to lockdown the server for like, 4 days.

Also what Sam said was absolutely true, no matter how "selective" the screenshots were, they weren't out of context and you shouldn't be dismissing what he said. The mentality he was shown to have towards trans people is extremely dangerous and harmful and he absolutely deserved to be disowned from the community. If you do not agree with that you are very much free to block me and good riddance.

For the sake of not reviving the drama too much and also not bringing it to this forum I am not going to respond ay further but I just wanted to clear up the blatant misinformation you seem to have received and believed, ironically from Twitter. Very strange behaviour for you to react to it the way you do though, immediately willing to throw literally every single developer who may have a connection to disavowing Sam's transphobia under your own personal bus and not interact with them or their games, leaving no room for benefit of the doubt. Not only an overreaction but also extremely hypocritical considering you're doing exactly what you want to block people for doing.

 

[Sake-Kun]

This is... wildly inaccurate and dramatized. Wow.

First of all, everything you claimed as "some rumors" was proven to be true. Sam literally provided his own statement for his departure.

Sam leaving the dev team/PokeRogue actually had nothing to do with any of the incidents that happened afterward, which were perpetuated by a few bad actors that were not on the moderator or dev teams of the PokeRogue server. It was started by one specific "community contributor" (basically someone who gave suggestions/helped with graphics) who heavily abused their power and influence and caused an absolute shitstorm in the server that left the moderators no choice but to lockdown the server for like, 4 days.

Also what Sam said was absolutely true, no matter how "selective" the screenshots were, they weren't out of context and you shouldn't be dismissing what he said. The mentality he was shown to have towards trans people is extremely dangerous and harmful and he absolutely deserved to be disowned from the community. If you do not agree with that you are very much free to block me and good riddance.

For the sake of not reviving the drama too much and also not bringing it to this forum I am not going to respond ay further but I just wanted to clear up the blatant misinformation you seem to have received and believed, ironically from Twitter. Very strange behaviour for you to react to it the way you do though, immediately willing to throw literally every single developer who may have a connection to disavowing Sam's transphobia under your own personal bus and not interact with them or their games, leaving no room for benefit of the doubt. Not only an overreaction but also extremely hypocritical considering you're doing exactly what you want to block people for doing.

Let me repeat this again: I don't care how righteous you think you are in condemning his religious views as said "transphobia". The people you defend here still committed an action that was ideologically motivated, and thus I reserve the right to hold you to the appropriate scrutiny for acting in political interest. I hold such an offense as one of the most severe violations of social contract possible, as ideology is the easiest justification to hide possible malignant motivations behind, and thus I deem physical removal principle (as in using freedom of association) as the most appropriate action to take.

If having a moral backbone & principles to not compromise the entire community over political disagreements in a space that should be free of such RL grievances & grudges is considered strange behavior these days, then I don't know what to tell you other than you will reap what you sow. It is the actions of the very people you are falling over yourself to defend here that make people like Sam who would have otherwise tolerated them despite disagreements in ideology avoid them like a plague. Sam accepted his lot, your turn to reciprocate.

The information you're trying to offer me doesn't change my verdict, especially when you try to present me as the unreasonable one in same breath.

 

[rwbonesy]

it's a video game

 

[Sake-Kun]

it's a video game

I know, right? The most ridiculous part about this whole thing is that when you peel away the rainbow folk vs church-goers controversy, PokeRogue to me is just your average Roguelite game.

 

[rwbonesy]

you're taking this too seriously, i mean

 

[Tendoman77]

Wow, umm...I'm just gonna take Kingdomharm's word over the situlation fully. Sorry I even asked in the first place, I'm not gonna press the subject anymore and move on.

 

[torterra69]

Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this. But some of my blue rare and red rare shinies aren't appearing one I go to use them. Is this a known issue?

 

[Sake-Kun]

Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this. But some of my blue rare and red rare shinies aren't appearing one I go to use them. Is this a known issue?

You're better off going to their discord to ask those questions. The people over on a certain other fan game community has been saying that the PokeRogue devs that took over have been rude & uncooperative, though, so temper your expectations accordingly.

 

[WanderingHero]

I enjoyed it for hours but I don't like having to grind for good IVs. Rage quite when I got to Lysrandre at wave 165 and I couldnt win against his team of Paradox Pokemon, Mega Gyarads and Yvetal, it just felt full on unfair