restarted pokemon Y today and got really quite sad about the fact that the game starts with a prompt on the bottom screen to go online, and if you do, you are reported that the online services are discontinued. no more friends and acquaintances popping into pokemon amie, no more messages of "GG" from a guy in germany after a fight. it was the first pokemon game i got to play with others and now nintendo will hunt down anyone who wants to return functionality to the games they paid for