Ponder for a moment

[xSilentOmenx]

I have come to a cross road of thinking. We've all found an online trade that looks amazing. That one Pokemon we've been looking for and at such a deal you can't go wrong. You make the trade all content at your find. Then you come across your first problem. You attempt a random match up and it notifies you that your team has a problem. At first you try to figure out what the deal is. Then it slaps you cold in the face.

That amazing deal was too good to be true. You, my friend, were just had by a hacker. It's a growing concern that makes online trading rather risky. You can be fed promise upon promise but be disappointed everytime. There is no governing law online that says trading hacks is punishable by death.

What I've come to wonder (and perhaps someone can answer) is what is the purpose beyond trolling people for trading hacked pokemon? If you are looking for some good pokemon in your game, couldn't you just hack whatever you want? What is gained from trading people hacked Pokemon?

Feel free to share your horror stories of coming across your bad hack trades.

 

[Porkman]

Yeah, it's a shame Pokemon is so easy to hack. I left my pokemon hacking days (along with all my hacked pokemon) in previous gens (or Pokemon Ranch). I realized the reason I got so quickly bored with gen 4 is that I used Action Replay to death...So when Heart Gold and Soul Silver came out (it being a remake of my favorite generation) I dropped all use of Action Replay and learned how to EV train and such. My Pokemon Collection has never been bigger.....or stronger, lol.



EDIT: Oh and catching my very first Legit Shiny (doduo) was awesome.

 

[Hellfire]

nintendo/game freak should mmake it so all hacked pokemon have a special icon on the trade screen showing they are hacked.

 

[MrPoetanky]

Before Milotic was so easy to get I had the fairest in all the land. Traded a lvl 1 Munchlax for a Milotic with all 999 stats. Totally hacked. Had to start a new game. Coincidence?

 

[MrPoetanky]

And it lagged when I went to the stat screen.

 

[MrPoetanky]

I also remember in the original red and blue you could find Pokemon at lvl 7838:$:$82!;&1 like a Snorlax and of course Missingno and me being the super pumped 6 yr old caught the missingno.....sad moment.

 

[SpoonySage]

Please don't triple post. If you need to add something to your previous post, then hit the Edit button to do so.

 

[Yoshi64Mario]

I didn't know of it till we got an Action Replay for the GBA and started catching everything like mad. And then the DS rolled in and we got an AR for that too. Then Black and White came out, and I just couldn't be bothered anymore with it and decided to catch everything properly regardless of what it took. And no, I don't think I'll look back. I prefer catching them instead of using cheat codes to catch the ones I really want.

It's also a reason I won't use the GTS. Sure, it's great and all, but I'll never be able to tell between a Pokémon caught regularly and a Pokémon caught through AR. Unless the moveset and stats are astronomically stupid. I'll gladly trade if the Pokémon comes from a reliable source though (Spoony, Porkman, Gelivable).

The only cheating I seem to do these days is on the Wii and I'm more interested in texture hacking and new tracks on MKW then I am with 'cheating'. I dunno what it was but I just decided to play Pokémon properly again, and I think it's better that way - it feels more like an accomplishment to catch a legendary (can anyone please explain how one Ultra Ball worked on Zekrom please?) or a Shiny (which I have been unlucky with, only ever seeing one and accidentally KO'd it.) or just something really rare. (Reminds me. Emolga. Bloody thing. I hate Audino's when they take away the rustling grass that COULD just be an Emolga, but nooooooooooo.)