Gen 7 The Scam that is the Nurseries

In preparing a team of Pokémon for an upcoming platinum play through, I was transported back into the past and used a day care. I realized something astonishing. Breeding Pokémon was so cheap It only cost me 100 to switch a Pokémon out of the day care, since most were only in their long enough to get an egg. This same venture costs 500 if you are forced to give into the sun and moon SCAM! and they don't even do anything. Imagine leaving your child at two day care schools. One takes the opportunity to feed, and teach your child, they charge you for the resources used, and maybe a little it to pay utilities. IF you pick them up quickly, it's cheap, if they stay long, it's more expensive. Now you take them to a new, shiny day care, and they plop them in a tv with popcorn, and charge you $500 for the experience!.

Anyway, rant done.

 

I see your point, and that is the perk of the flat fee, but in my time breeding Pokémon, I rarely use low level Pokémon. If they have reached around level 20, and your only breeding a small number of eggs, you won't have to pay much more, or perhaps less, than their flat fee. I suppose though, that if you are embarking on a long term breeding project, such as shiny breeding, or IV breeding, then yes, I'll admit that nurseries might be more advantageous. but 500? I remember reading the first time I played where the nursery worker mentions that it was cheaper, and I was astounded at the price, just to breed a single eevee.

 

I see your point, and I have no problem with the nursery not teaching new moves, I definitely see the value of that, I guess my biggest issue is that it is really only meant for people who IV or Shiny Breed. I do that occasionally, but I like to prepare teams for new games, or fill out my living Pokédex. These require frequent, and therefore more expensive, sessions. I see now though that I may have been hasty in my anger. So many good points I had forgotten to consider.

 

All of that is true, but the Nursery Aide specifically says that they are cheaper. And I will admit, that in many (common) circumstances this is true. Often though I just want a single egg, and paying 500 per Pokémon I switch, versus 100 (since often they haven't been in there long enough) does bankrupt me. Sun is the only game where I have actually HAD to go and grind the Pokémon league in order to afford to breed Pokémon.
That's the scam