Pokémon Sword And Shield's Latest Limited-Time Distribution Event Gets Online Access

i never understood these; they just give strong pokemon away for free with no apparent reason
i wish it was like older games when they hosted events where you could actually visit new areas to get the pokemom

@novasoup
That would require actual effort, coming up with (brief) storylines and new areas to explore for these events. GF has learned they don't need to expend effort to get engagement or sales.

@Browny Or maybe those are just supposed to be commemorative events for people that are obviously not going to cheese the whole game with them (and new players can't either due to needing to progress to get them to obey), and this kind of thinking seems to be in extremely bad faith.

@BrazillianCara
Imagine playing a game, where the main draw is the adventure fantasy and the act of catching magical critters, and rather than get a small event where you see a unique locale and get to capture a rare monster, you're just handed it and told to be on your way.

I don't know, seems it would be a lot more memorable if you had to put in even a token effort to collect the Pokemon, even if it was all staged (you're given a special Pokeball that has a 100% catch rate), rather than just punching in a code and getting something that will just go into a box and never have any real value.

But that's just my take.

@novasoup I get your point but these PM giveaways are more a collectors thing, they're super rare as once the event ends you have to rely on trading and hope its a legit one you're getting. As i said though most don't use them they just want them so they have them, mines sitting in Home and it will remain there outside of using it to complete a Dex entry in future games.

Thank goodness they're letting us get codes via email this time. I get why they do this, they probably get paid by the stores to get customers through the door, but 5 mythicals are all I'm missing from a living dex, and two of them were part of the last Game giveaway (Volcanion and Marshadow), and my closest two game stores are now just corners inside Sports Direct where the staff didn't know anything about the codes, so I've missed out on that one.

Also I think it's fine to do these giveaways at this point. The game is 3 years old and about to be replaced by a new generation. They've got much better at putting mythicals in the games the last few years, rather than just being distributions, but this is just a sort of goodbye present to Gen 8.

VPN time, baby

@Peach64 Which mythicals are you still missing? Depending on which ones they are and what you can trade for them, maybe I can help.

Never hurts to submit....

@TheBigK Just change your Switch Time zones on NIN and that will work. Why make it harder.

@BrazillianCara That's called SCAM No such thing can be done.

Link seems to no longer work. Redirects back to GAME's home page.

@Folkloner Game warns that the codes will only remain while stocks last
They did warn....

@SwitchForce Ah yes. I'd forgotten about that. Text book artificial scarcity really to capitalise on FOMO. Same goes for the unpopular in-store distribution in the first place. All designed to get you into the store in the hopes you'll buy something, even worse when some stores enforce loyalty card requirements to even obtain a code.

Then they muddy the waters further by allowing distribution of the codes online via email for all of two seconds, and then 'acting' like they've run-out when the distribution runs until 17th November and the codes themselves are still able to be generated at stores.

@Folkloner It was up for at least half of the day here I signed up early this morning when I saw it on twitter. That one reason I check twitter to be sure not to miss anything for Switch or Amiibos or Games.

@SwitchForce Uh, okay. Hardly a satisfactory excusal of the way distribution has been handled and and one that doesn't negate any of the points I and others have made.

Thanks for nothing then I guess

@Folkloner Read what they said.

The offer is stated to be available until 17th November, but Game warns that the codes will only remain while stocks last - so get in quickly if you want to grab this freebie!

They gave themselves a escape clause.