The release of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is just over a month away and, to prepare for these new entries to the series, the Pokémon Global Link will soon be undergoing some rather major maintenance.
From November 10th until November 17th (the release date for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon) the Pokémon Global Link will be down meaning that players will not be able to access the site as usual. It also means that functionalities such as the QR Code Rental feature, Online Competitions, and Ratings Battles will not be available during that time. Some particularly good news to come from this, however, is that if you register your new Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon games to the service when it re-opens you will receive a "special gift".
This maintenance is fairly standard procedure; when new Pokémon games are released the Global Link goes through various changes to support the new titles. Eventually support for older titles is discontinued but online functionalities within the games themselves can still be accessed as usual.
Do you use the Pokémon Global Link? Are you looking forward to the newest Pokémon titles? Let us know all your thoughts in the comments.
[source 3ds.pokemon-gl.com]
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Was a matter of time really. I'm still having a hard time getting hyped for this game. Waiting on reviews I guess.
Other than registering for battle tournaments in Sun and Moon so that I could get the exclusive Mega Stones, I haven't used the Global Link since generation five. It's really not all that useful.
I loved the art style in Sun/Moon, but without Gyms I lost interest. I still haven’t completed it, which is a first for me, as I normally can’t stop playing a new Pokemon game. So I won’t be pre ordering Ultra which is another first for me. Currently scratching my Pokemon itch playing Gold.
@Hughesy
Scratching your itch with your avatar picture? I see what you did there!
neat. i need move all my pokemon from sun and moon to Ultra sun and ultra moon. so i hope their an update for that on Poke Transport (or whatever it's called)
The Global Link has been more and more stripped down over time to the point where it's just a glorified leaderboard at this point. Even if I was interested in this game I still wouldn't care about this.
I've never really bothered with the Global Link service TBH. I looked into it in Gen 5 and decided I could live without it.
@Super_Gravy Well I don’t lol, please explain. It’s just a picture of my dog with his tongue out 😂
@Banjos_Backpack I was, for the most part, totally fine with ultra beasts. I liked the story for sun/moon a lot since it was different. Post game felt like you were actually important.
It also, however, felt half done, like things should have been more involving but wasn't for some reason. Whelp, now we know why. They were saving for the second game yet making it happen on an alternate time line or something?
@Banjos_Backpack I say, let us actually fight as the Pokémon already. Something arena like with Pokkén. The turn based stuff is cool and all but now that I've played Pokkén, turned based combat isn't the same.
@Banjos_Backpack I'll take anything! The series look is refreshing but I'll take the cell-shaded look.
I want some confirmation on trading between S/M and US/UM: will we need Pokebank, yes or no.
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