Water Pokémon Master said:
I've been sent a lot of information but I don't think I want to make a ginormous post spoiling everything. If anything, I'll release it gradually. Or maybe not even at all. I'm not sure yet. It really depends on whether or not I think TPCi cares. For the card game, they obviously cared, but I think it's different when it comes to the games.
It would really help to know how much/what kind of information that is, to judge about this whole situation(of course you can't tell without telling, I guess)
I already posted part of this somewhere else, but since the discussion seems to take part here, that's my two cents on that topic:
IMO it would be fine to tell people, the reasons for this:
- people don't have to read it, he should do it under a huge spoiler tag, with disclaimers or send pms or sth, it should not be posted on the front page and to see it you should actively agree to view a large amount of spoilers
- who says all the information he got is right? Maybe some of it isn't, to know for sure we'd still have to wait for official reveal, right? I mean hypothetically he might just know some things and make up some random stuff to troll, nothing is confirmed until it is confirmed.
- didn't he say his insider talked to other ppl about it, too, even if he didn't, to me he seems like he wants the stuff revealed so probably he will tell sooner or later anyway and I would prefer finding it out on here and for ppl being optional to find out.
- it's not like any visual stuff(I guess? If so, visual stuff houldnt be revealed IMO), so even if all of it turns out to be right, there would be enough to look forward to, still, the pokemon looks, region, trainers...
- it wouldn't be anything else than it always was for us for pokemon games, normally we knew everything already before they came out here, and it never spoiled the whole game for me or anything(again, people do not have to read it), I know they are doing it this way for a reason, just saying knowing everything before playing the game never killed anyone...
- it's true that many people don't want to know this stuff, in fact there are many that don't want to know anything, what do they do? They just don't read it. Not telling us will not harm anyone, but would probably make some really sad, however telling the ones that want to know will not harm anyone either. The game will still be hyped and they'd still be excited for any official news confirming the 'insiders' stuff.(that's why I think it wouldn't harm TPCi)
- wouldn't it be nice for him, too? He got this extra special information on his website, wouldn't there be many coming to look for it?
On a side note: I think the big mistake that was made here is telling us that there is more information. It was not a good move to do so, and it makes people feel cheated of it and denied something they could easily have.
It seemed unfair to say, 'hey I have this huge bunch of super interesting, amazing news, but you know what, I'm not gonna tell you haha.' (I know wpm didn't mean it that way, but this whole thing s a not well thought through mess and it places him in a powerful position)
I feel like there was no reason to tell us he knows something if there's no way for us to find out that information, it just feels bad and unfair and annoying. But whatever, that's how it is now and we should make the best out of it.
I'm glad wpm is the one who knows this stuff, though, since he didn't just post it to get Internet fame or sth or spoil it for the people that don't want to see it. I'm sure he will make the right decision about it and I don't think it would be fair to attack him for whatever he decides to do. This is not a war and whatever he does some people will be unhappy about it.
We should thank him for being reasonable and accept whatever he wants to do.