The recently launched Pokémon Trading Card Live "limited beta" on computer and mobile devices has made a minor but significant change to digital card codes players receive in physical packs.
Instead of 10 digital cards per code, this number has now been halved. When you now input or scan a code into the game, you'll receive just five digital cards. Kotaku reached out to The Pokémon Company about this, to find out why this adjustment was made.
Here's the full response, which explains how it's to "reduce the rate" of non-foil common and uncommon:
“For mainline Pokémon TCG expansions such as Sword & Shield [and] Silver Tempest, each code card is designed to yield five cards in Pokémon TCG Live, which helps reduce the rate at which non-foil common and uncommon cards are obtained.”
If you would like to give the new version of the digital Pokémon Trading Card game a go, head on over to the official website. From there you can download it on Windows, MAC, Apple's App Store and Google Play.
What are your thoughts about this adjustment? Comment below.
[source kotaku.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Translation: TPC are stingy *****.
Atrocious. I couldn't get into the pre-existing online game due to the sheer stinginess of TPCi or whoever calls the shots. I just wanted a fun digital version of the game that I can play without having to invest in the physical cards themselves.
And the GBC games (including the above-and-beyond excellent fan translation of the Japanese-exclusive sequel) are the ones to beat. They weren't stingy with distributing cards (most battles end with you receiving two 10-card boosters) and they made for such a fun and very addictive experience. Even my cousin in Turkey who isn't fluent in English easily grasped the GBC game (though I did have to explain many of the attacks and Powers) and saw it to completion.
So, unless they give us something in the spirit of the GBC games, I'm not interested. They could make an annualised series of games that feature the latest cards with every instalment (while perhaps phasing out some of the older ones), and I'd be all in every time.
I was even a little tempted to grab the Yu-Gi-Oh card game on Switch due to how comprehensive it was despite my lack of interest in the series.
I strongly doubt that making a decent video game adaptation is going to harm sales of the card game in any meaningful way.
Collect them all!
It is disgusting that TPCI doesn't release a one-time-cost game again akin to the Game Boy TCG games.
It is equally disgusting that people pay for games that use this payment model.
Yeah Live pretty much sucks right now. I'm sad TCG online will be shut down and replaced with it, it's such a downgrade. No themed decks or tournaments or anything I really enjoy with Online. It's all gone 😐
Yeah i really prefer the old one. Only thing this game has going for it is that i can play on my phone, the old game is superior in every single possible way. What does giving 5 per pack even benefit them???
If anything they should INCREASE the amount to make up for what they did to Scarlet and Violet lmao.
I'm sure reducing the rate at which things required to play the game are obtained will make people want to play the game.
But guys, don't you realise, those digital cards cost so0o0o much to manufacture. We are in a recession, you can't expect them to keep the amazing value of 10 cards per pack forever. /s
They just did it to get you to buy more physical cards. All it is is a cash grab. Less digital cards in a pack, the more codes you have to obtain to build out decks.
Yeah surrreee. We all know they’re just reducing card count in online packs cause they’re going to implement microtransactions or in-game currency so people can buy more cards. I love Pokémon but the Pokémon company is quickly earning my distrust. I literally only play online and now you’re telling me that the irl card packs that I purchase (and spend decent money on) so that I can get online packs will now only give me half the cards? That’s actually gross.
@ScribbleDot
They for real removed themed? Cause I played mostly themed.
Lammmmmmmmmmmmmme.
Is there anything this game is doing right? I feel that the current game is fair in its distribution/handing out of in-game bonus packs. Restricting boosters to 5 instead of 10 is really lame and does not make me want to go out and buy additional packs when I'm being ripped off.
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