I need to be clear that I don’t need to dismiss anybody’s story and it’s attainable that everybody’s telling the reality. We don’t know when Equipment & Krysta needed to do the phase and so it’s attainable the coverage has modified. It’s additionally attainable that there was merely a miscommunication with somebody. As many have identified, many streamers use a ROM hack to do a randomized Nuzlocke problem and it’s very attainable that TPC had conflated the randomized model with a superbly official set of self-imposed guidelines. One other risk is that TPC was simply attempting to avoid wasting face when speaking to Merrick and Sarumi. Possibly TPC simply didn’t need to folks to suppose that they formally endorsed Nuzlocke which could result in rumors or hopes and goals that at some point it could be an official sport mode or one thing.
I believe that there’s sufficient info lacking from the puzzle that we are able to’t come to a conclusion. It makes probably the most sense to me that TPC had conflated the official model with the ROM hack, therefore their harsh language. I may very nicely be improper although. All the identical, I believe all of us must take a deep breath. In the event you wish to play official Nuzlockes, go for it. It’s not for everybody, and also you don’t want TPC’s blessing to play it. Possibly sometime I’ll really give it a go myself.