@Pillowpants Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are different entities, if you start up Pokémon Go Nintendo isn't even mentioned in or about game, the only time Nintendo may get mentioned is when connecting to Pokémon Home an official Pokémon storage and trading platform for Pokémon in which is connected to your Nintendo account, Pokémon Go doesn't connect to Nintendo except to transfer. The Pokémon Company doesn't care as long as you get licenses to use mechanics, names and likeness of the Pokémon franchise.
@Pillowpants Just because you give a license to a company to use it doesn't mean the company issuing the license has any control of the game. Also have you even seen the how the game operates? It uses VP or victory points to do about anything, and if you can guess it, you get victory points from battling. In fact it will be on switch for almost a year before it goes mobile, it isn't launching on mobile till later this year, but will launch on switch April 8th, and it plays like most other Pokémon games, I think the only thing that is added is starter packs.
@Pillowpants those have license to use Pokémon and are not actually Pokémon games developed by Game freak, also Pokémon pocket TCG isn't associated with Nintendo at all it is Pokémon TCG live that is the official online trading card game, and in that one you can buy cosmetics but also buy digital Pokémon cards. Like I said Pokémon go isn't made by Game Freak it is made by a 3rd party who has no ties to Nintendo considering Niantic also has games like Monster hunter now, Pikmin Bloom and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Niantic gets license to use popular franchises for their games.
@Zeeba so you mean you just now came to terms with something that has been in the games since the first game? In the first game it was caused by the fact that the Gameboy could at most be 99% never 100% which ment Pokémon became their opposite color, It became would then become a feature for the game that people could go shiny hunting, and I remember it being a relatively big thing more then 20 years ago.
@TheExile285 @Mando44646 @MegaJ @Pillowpants Nintendo uses the term "free-to-start" to describe free-to-play games because they believe it is more transparent and honest, suggesting that while the initial download is free, additional costs are usually required later. Coined by former CEO Satoru Iwata, this phrase aims to manage expectations, distinguishing games that require microtransactions to progress from those that are entirely free. But Nintendo calls all of its free to play games free to start, but most likely it will be starter packs you can buy and stuff no coins.
@Broosh @TheExile285 @MegaJ @Pillowpants free to start is how all free to play games are worded on Nintendo switch even if there is nothing to purchase in the game. Also it is going to be the main place for official tournaments from now on, so they have to make it free for everyone who already own multitudes of Pokémon games, remember this is also coming to Switch and Switch 2 not just mobile.
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Re: Hands On: Pokémon Champions Promises Top-Tier Battling, But At What Cost?
@Pillowpants Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are different entities, if you start up Pokémon Go Nintendo isn't even mentioned in or about game, the only time Nintendo may get mentioned is when connecting to Pokémon Home an official Pokémon storage and trading platform for Pokémon in which is connected to your Nintendo account, Pokémon Go doesn't connect to Nintendo except to transfer. The Pokémon Company doesn't care as long as you get licenses to use mechanics, names and likeness of the Pokémon franchise.
Re: Hands On: Pokémon Champions Promises Top-Tier Battling, But At What Cost?
@Pillowpants Just because you give a license to a company to use it doesn't mean the company issuing the license has any control of the game. Also have you even seen the how the game operates? It uses VP or victory points to do about anything, and if you can guess it, you get victory points from battling. In fact it will be on switch for almost a year before it goes mobile, it isn't launching on mobile till later this year, but will launch on switch April 8th, and it plays like most other Pokémon games, I think the only thing that is added is starter packs.
Re: Hands On: Pokémon Champions Promises Top-Tier Battling, But At What Cost?
@Zeeba I also don't care for many Shinies I think some of them look awful.
Re: Hands On: Pokémon Champions Promises Top-Tier Battling, But At What Cost?
@Pillowpants those have license to use Pokémon and are not actually Pokémon games developed by Game freak, also Pokémon pocket TCG isn't associated with Nintendo at all it is Pokémon TCG live that is the official online trading card game, and in that one you can buy cosmetics but also buy digital Pokémon cards. Like I said Pokémon go isn't made by Game Freak it is made by a 3rd party who has no ties to Nintendo considering Niantic also has games like Monster hunter now, Pikmin Bloom and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Niantic gets license to use popular franchises for their games.
Re: Hands On: Pokémon Champions Promises Top-Tier Battling, But At What Cost?
@Zeeba so you mean you just now came to terms with something that has been in the games since the first game? In the first game it was caused by the fact that the Gameboy could at most be 99% never 100% which ment Pokémon became their opposite color, It became would then become a feature for the game that people could go shiny hunting, and I remember it being a relatively big thing more then 20 years ago.
Re: Hands On: Pokémon Champions Promises Top-Tier Battling, But At What Cost?
@TheExile285 @Mando44646 @MegaJ @Pillowpants Nintendo uses the term "free-to-start" to describe free-to-play games because they believe it is more transparent and honest, suggesting that while the initial download is free, additional costs are usually required later. Coined by former CEO Satoru Iwata, this phrase aims to manage expectations, distinguishing games that require microtransactions to progress from those that are entirely free. But Nintendo calls all of its free to play games free to start, but most likely it will be starter packs you can buy and stuff no coins.
Re: Hands On: Pokémon Champions Promises Top-Tier Battling, But At What Cost?
@Broosh @TheExile285 @MegaJ @Pillowpants free to start is how all free to play games are worded on Nintendo switch even if there is nothing to purchase in the game. Also it is going to be the main place for official tournaments from now on, so they have to make it free for everyone who already own multitudes of Pokémon games, remember this is also coming to Switch and Switch 2 not just mobile.