Okay, so anyone who's played Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver are probably painfully aware of the removal of the slot machines in the game corners, and the inability to purchase coins in order to get the rewards (namely the useful TM's), and the implementation of the "voltorb flip" game that replaced them.

But why? Why would the pokemon company/gamefreak do this to us loyal pokemon players? I remember reading somewhere that they did it because the slot machines "promoted gambling" or something like that.

So, I figured, okay, that's a semi-reasonable thing, in this day and age with parents coming down on game companies to make their games not have bad things in them (lol?). I suppose it's understandable that a game, like pokemon, that's meant for younger kids would have gambling shunned, right? We should give props to them for raising their morals and removing gambling from the game, right?!

So, can somebody explain to me why the game has "scratch off cards" in the battle frontier? Did everyone overlook this?

Oh, no, kids! Gambling is bad for you! But, the Lottery is fucking A-OK!

>:C So much for morals! Fuck you, Nintendo/GAMEFREAK! Fuck you!