Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket has got off to a flying start on mobile devices, but one feature trainers have been unable to access at launch is trading.
It was previously mentioned trading would not be available on release, and now in an update, The Pokémon Company has confirmed it will arrive early next year in January 2025.
There also appears to be a bit of a catch - it's a slow and limited rollout. The announcement further explains how this feature will only allow "certain cards to be traded" at first, and the plan beyond this is to "gradually expand the selection of cards that are able to be traded".
Along with this, TCG Pocket is planning to add new booster packs before the end of this year, and there are "other new features" already in development outside of the trading system, with more details (including dates) to come.
"We plan to announce more details about these updates as the dates for the addition of these features are finalized, so please look forward to it"
Are you excited about trading? Looking forward to new boosters before the end of the year? Leave a comment below.
[source community.pokemon.com]
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HA! They just want to take more money from whales while it's still possible.
@Vyacheslav333 : I heard from one of my GO buddies that one of his mates had already spent over AU$1,000 on the damn app. 😳
And judging by some of my GO buddies who are on my TCG Pocket friend list, they too have been spending a bit of money on the app.
I don't get it, really. If I wanted to spend money on the card game, then I would buy the actual physical cards. I'm good with my 10+ free daily cards.
@SillyG Well cards experience wear and tear and you need space to store them. It is what it is. Digital goods have their own advantage and disadvantage and not everyone is chasing $$$ 20 years down the line.
Honestly, it's earlier than I expected even though it will be limited at first.
And while it would be great if companies didn't take advantage of them, whales should be more responsible and at least spend less money on things like these, too.
To be fair I never got in to Pokemon when it came out. But this App I am addicted to it, but I will never pay any money to it and I know a few people I have battled have the Mew Two background which is behind a pay wall....
I don't understand how some people spend a ton of money on this game.
I've been playing the game for 5 days and already have 114 out of the 226 available cards.
The game is quite generous with ways of getting packs and cards without having to pay for them.
I'm assuming something to stop people from just making a bunch of accounts and trade to one to get all.
It makes sense to limit trading somehow as otherwise it would be far too easy to complete your dex. I expected trading to be limited to your friends list or something but this sounds like you will not be able to gain the rarer EX cards which is a shame.
It's free to play people, do not spend money on it!
Trading being limited is just because they want people to pay them money rather than BIGBOYTCG983399 on ebay.
If I want to trade something rare for something common that I've been struggling to get I should be able to do so. Rolling this out, making it limited, is really silly. Who cares if people complete their sets? Just keep releasing more. There are at least 9k cards to put out. I'm going to lose interest if every little detail is behind some kind of pay wall.
@Bunkerneath - as someone who have a Mewtwo background, I can tell you it's simply accessible through the premium pass' free trial that has been put at everyone's disposal at the release.
Confirming what everyone says otherwise - you can get by just fine in the game without investing money (so far). It's a really fun and fresh take on the TCG.
@SillyG Yeah, me too. I didn't spend a cent on gachya games. I spend money only on paid/premium games.
I haven't collected Pokemon cards since I was a kid in the 90's, but I never used them in the actual game they were supposed to be played with, so I decided to try this out and it's actually really fun.
Haven't spent a dime but already have three different viable decks built (a fire set centered around two Charizard EX & a Moltres EX, a water set centered around two Lapras EX & a Articuno EX, and an electric set centered around two Pikachu EX and a Zapdos EX). Also have EX variants of Eggsecuter, Mewtwo, & Gengar, but don't quite have the right cards to build decks around them (getting close with Eggsecuter though).
I've won about 40 matches in the event so far.
The game is kind of fun (decidedly NOT standard TCG though), but the coin flips are really going from 'man I've had some bad luck on the RNG' to 'I'm raising an eyebrow suspiciously' and bordering dangerously on 'I've had less awful runs of coin flips on gameboy games that are genuinely, provably rigged and I've already heard of several people having even worse flips, which shouldn't be common'
The gacha pack rates are about normal and what I expect from this kind of thing, but these coin flips man.
Does anyone know how I was able to get a 3 star Pikachu ex as the first card in one of my packs? I thought only the fourth and fifth cards had a chance for anything more rare than a 2 diamond card.
I've been having fun with the app and haven't spent a cent. I'm more in it for the collecting than the battling, but I've built a few decent decks. I haven't built up the courage to battle actual players though.
@ChibiNinja don’t use any coin flip cards then, I avoid them because it adds more elements of chance beyond drawing the cards you want from the deck. I also have the most fun with my single prize deck when no ex cards. It’s great when people’s Misty’s flip tails on the first coin lol
I've been enjoying the game but I feel like they've missed one grave detail... 1st edition stamps!
I want to show off that I got my illustrator cards before everyone else
At this rate I'm going to need someone's help getting that Lapras EX card... I've opened 29 of the promo packs and not 1 Lapras.
There's no way it's equal odds for the 5 available cards.
@Tott I've opened 10 packs so far and 5 were Lapras, 4 were Mankeys and one was Pikachu. I'll literally trade you 2 Lapras for one Butterfree if I don't get one in time.
At this point, the game seems quite F2P-friendly and I haven't felt the need to spend any money on it. Releasing a trading card game without the ability to trade was kind of silly though.
@SpaceboyScreams
You're on. I'm up to 35 now. 4 chancey and double digit each of the other 3. Still no lapras.
It seems so one extreme or the other when you see feedback online. Crazy.
Edits: Clefairy not chancey; it was 34 at the time of posting; but most importantly on 35 pull got a Lapras! FINALLY
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