I'm not disagreeing with the wrongs being committed, but I don't think Nintendo is to blame. Nintendo own the servers I guess, but the machinations of Global Link and the status of unreleased items and pokemon in the main games is all Game Freak. I think Nintendo only cares about how much the games sell, and copyright stuff, as seen with takedowns of Prism and Uranium. Almost everything else is attributed to Game Freak. I think my mindset is based on watching pro wrestling critically, inasmuch as questioning why they did this and that, and the answer I come to, and have to accept, is that they never thought it through. So in the case of the mega stones, they probably never considered adding them all in the game, which is really disappointing. There's incentive with the competitions, but other than that, it's a stupid waiting game since they guarantee everyone will get them, battlers will just get them a month or two early, and with that, you only need to do 3 battles to qualify. Also annoying is the scarcity of apricorn balls, only 1 of each in the game, and now they do distributions if global mission participants hit a certain number. Fortunately that has happened twice, but still, the reward for each is 1 fucking apricorn ball. Really? That begs for hacking, which is what I did in one game, caring more about using those for legendary captures, is it fair that these pokemon with low capture rates to begin with are weakened to 1 HP, put to sleep, and break out of your only Fast Ball, Love Ball, Moon Ball? Hell no, that's torture.
Anyways, there wouldn't be a hacking vs. legit debate if people stopped caring about it, because really it's not an issue. There also wouldn't be this argument if Game Freak didn't half-ass things. Synchronize's 50% rate should be at least 75%, bottle caps should raise IVs period, not in the superficial way done, bottle caps shouldn't be so scarce, breeding is instantaneous, they could even do a fade to and fade from black to signify an egg was produced, it's shorter than spinning around on your Tauros, hidden power is customizable, you go to a guy who changes your HP, and with that, HP shouldn't be tied to IVs anymore especially since there's no Fairy one on account of all possible HP spreads being taken. You'd think in their quest to make the games easier for kids that they'd do more to change more intricate features.