They're not locked behind the DLC and we could stop spreading this lie.
Ok, ok, geez, no need to get feisty.
Yes, the mons themselves come with the update. As for Bank/Home, that's another fee, but theoretically, you can obtain said mons for free via all kinds of trades.
However, one must recognize that their availability is hurt by not purchasing the DLC.
thats fair, i honestly dont belive that dexit should have happened this gen, i just think pokemon fans have this unrealistic idea (when dont they) that gamefreak can just revamp everything and make an open world with all pokemon because "well they have the money lol"
theres a difference between demanding quality that we deserve (this IS a 60$ game) and thinking that just throwing money can solve every single problem and make everything possible. franchises with way bigger budgets and care that can barely port all their dudes when their rosters are in the 300s, there is absolutely no reason to belive that pokemon could bring 900 pokemon while also putting all these improvements in.
i just posted it here because, being completly honest, no matter if swsh was a fantastic game, people are too accostumed with pokemon always being avaliable, and many dont want to compromise losing pokemon (unless its only pokemon they dont like, of course!) for anything. swsh certainly didnt help with the popularity of the idea, though
Yeah, people go a bit too crazy on both extremes. I've heard people expect something like BotW for Pokémon, and that's completely absurd no matter how you slice it.
I believe that if Dexit was going to be implemented, it had to be on SwSh. However, while I'm pleased with certain baby steps GF took (The Wild Area being the most notable), the game looks... rough.
And I don't mean it on just a graphical standpoint, even though those textures are of very poor quality, but you still stumble on way too many places where optimization and polish are absent, boneheaded design decisions, evidence of cut corners, artifacts from previous gens muddying up everything...
It's a game with potential, but the problem is that it's another game "with potential". I'm not saying "throw money at the problem", even though manpower could cover some of these issues, but there's a need to focus more on polish.
For example, the textures I mentioned earlier. They're passable once you're distracted enough, but they're never good. This isn't a particularly demanding problem to fix. Modders had textures for the trees ready in... an hour!?
My word, this is more embarrassing than I remember. I kid you not.
Like, I don't even have words for this. How do you let this happen? Months of roasting over the trees looking like hot garbage and they didn't even bother working on that detail?