It Takes "Just Under" Seven Days To Fully Charge Pokémon's GO Transporter

What is this madness?

Niantic is favoring the whales than the more common users that keep the community a float and its most definitely going to ***** them in the coming months/years. In Their defense it is hard to see this when your making a billion dollars a year.

Very odd decision and I can see how this would turn out really bad but if it’s not that hard to get the currency I don’t see where there’s a problem. I haven’t played go in a very long time from what I remember you get them from raids and such? Seems simple enough if you play enough to have Pokémon you care to transfer

I could transfer 3 or 4 Darkrais (yes, you can transfer mythicals that you can't even trade in Pokémon Go) before running out of energy, or one shiny Darkrai.

I didn't test it for normal Pokémon, but if it's not the same, I think that's fair, considering how easy it is to get legendary, mythical and shiny Pokémon in Pokémon Go. And that all considering how everything is - theoretically - available for free.

I do think however those dishing out for a Pokémon Home subscription should get faster recharging as part of the deal.

@Zoda_Fett No, you get 50 coins per day for 6 hours of defending in an arena (counting one Pokémon, you could also use 6 who defend for an hour, etc.).

However, Transporter energy recharges without coins.
And you can get hard to catch legendaries or even rarer shiny mythical Pokémon from raids or as PvP rewards. You can get all of that for free (theoretically - depends on RNG) if you are patient enough to wait and play a lot.

Just watch, Gamefreak/TPC is going to find a way to inject paying for transfers in the mainline, regular Pokemon entries for the future if this does well.

Mark my words.

@JR150 That already is the case for Sword & Shield. I cannot transfer my Pokémon from Generation VII to Generation VIII, because the ability to do so is locked behind an unnecessary paywall called Pokémon HOME.

@Markiemania95
Oops. Sorry. I don't know how fans can defend this honestly. Real fans call out bad practices.

A dull attempt to reduce the shininess oversaturation.

I am all for this. I think it's perfectly fine. It's a free update to a free game and works perfectly well. I already brought 5 shinys in this way and will bring more next week.

Of course here on NintendoLife Pokemon can do no right. So, uh, boo Niantic, Boo Game Freak, I hate you! But, uh, I am a big Pokemon fan, but boo you suck!

Lol.

I'll patiently wait til it's available for us lower level cretins, lol.

I don't leave comments often but dude...

Seriously ***** this.

Easier to hack them

This is one of the main reasons Nintendo created the Pokémon Company since it’s a PR shield from actions like this, the fingers never get pointed at them.

@Markiemania95 : It doesn't stop there though, because you also need a subscription to Pokémon Bank in additional to PAID subscription to Home.

Madness...

That’s pretty lame. Pay for Sword version, pay for NSO, pay for Pokémon Home, pay for GO transfers. If they incorporate paying for trading in the mainline games, I’m out. This would be a worse case scenario, of course.

This is stupid. Glad I uninstalled Pokémon Go.

Gonna get hacked>?>

@Silly_G Yeah, very true. Insane.

Still haven't tried Pokémon Go yet. Not sure I can be bothered with it as my phone will need charging all the time.

So basically I'd have to defend gym for 6 hours a day for 20 days to recharge the transporter once?

Yeah no. This just puts me off playing Pokemon Go and I was already logging in only once/twice a week when my friend reminded me of its existence.

So wait that's what arround 10 euro to recharge or 20 days of max coins from defending gyms which is what like 180 hours of holding gyms over those 20 days?
That's insanely pricey to recharge.

@JR150 Definitely not
They already did that crap in Gen 4 and 5, especially Gen 5 that required you to own a second DS and Gen 4 games just to complete the National Dex in Gen 5 (people complaining about paywalls now clearly know nothing about Pokemon up until Gen 5)

@Heavyarms55 Pokemon gets a pass for pay to play or wait a week MTX? Well ok, it's not like they're the largest franchise in the world. And thank goodness the brand isn't aimed at children or anything.

If they really wanted to convert Pokemon Go players to the main series, they would make this free and easy. This sort of monetization is crap in any game. It's particularly disheartening to see it in a beloved franchise that has clearly lost its way.

I'd rather send them to my Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and then from there to my Pokémon Home. Seems faster than this nonsense!

@Zoda_Fett I started getting back into the game during quarantine and I can tell you, it is not easy to earn for everyone. No Pokemon appear in my suburban neighborhood, there are no stops or gyms within walking distance. One pokemon appears each day when I log in and that's it. I have not earned a single coin this whole time. This 7 days or 1000 coins thing is ridiculous. And I would love to play more but I literally cannot if all I can do is walk around to hatch one egg at a time or collect two gifts a day. Idk why my neighborhood is so barren but it is really frustrating.

It's video games, so of course this is a problem.

@Heavyarms55 I'll admit some of the criticism is wacky and the tone has been a little over the top in some cases. But that doesn't change the fact franchise and it's creators are deserving of some of it. Of course, I absolutely agree it does no one any good to get bent out of shape about it. And if the franchise is going in a direction one doesn't care for and there appears to be no sign of it changing, then it's probably best to move on. But again, I believe some of the criticism is warranted and I hope Game Freak listens to it and takes the constructive criticism to heart

Given how easy it is to get Pokemon in Go, I think this has to be the case. If you could just transfer all your Go Pokemon to Sword, fast, cheap, or free, it would ruin the experience of the mainline games like Sword. The alternative is not having the functionality at all. Those are the only two feasible options I see.

Well, I guess it´s not like I have to many shinies. Actually, I only have one. So.. i guess it´s fine considering I don´t have to much.

@Tim_Vreeland True, but maybe a bit cheaper.

Hey look ma, even more reasons to stop supporting Pokémon!

Slowly but surely Niantic continues to sour the attitudes of nearly all Pokemon Go players except the most casual of casuals. Even whales are beginning to hate this game, but they will keep playing due to the addictive nature of it until they reach a sour breaking point. I do think Niantic is swiftly destroying this game and they don't realize it yet. It's going to be interesting once their revenue significantly drops and, only then, they will suddenly act like they care about improving the fun of the game.

I started playing Pokémon Go when they announced you would be able transfer Pokémon to Home. I played every day from the announcement to last Spring when I broke my leg.

I was finally back on my feet around the time they announced that Go to Home connectivity was imminent, so I was planning on starting playing again. Unfortunately, the transfer costs make how I wanted to use the service completely untenable.

I would give up the ability to transfer shinies and legendaries if it meant I could move my regular Pokémon over in much greater volume. I don’t have any incentive to play Go anymore. Maybe I represent a very small market, but I was averaging about $20 in currency purchases a month.

@RGB87 I agree this is nonsense. I also live out in the country but I get a couple pokemon a day. However it's just not worth it to be in town constantly unless you work and even then your work might not be or near a gym! They should fix it so you have to be level 25 and make it 1 day recharge.

Also, I'm finally level 36. I think making it available to only lvl 40 at first with a near week wait and making higher CP pkmn cost more is just a money grab.

Pay for Nintendo Switch Online, and then pay for Home, and then pay for Bank so you can move your 'Mon to Home, and then pay for Coins so that you can move you 'Mon to Home, and if you want to stop paying then you lose it all.
At this point it's just greed. Pokémon Home subscribers were promised Go integration. Nearly a year later and we get it, but nerfed to squeeze more money out of customers.
Don't like it? Then lose most of your 'Mon on Home by not paying.

They're making it hard to continue justifying giving them more money at this point.