Key Takeaways
- TCG Pocket experiences slow progression & costly microtransactions – affecting player sentiment.
- New shop in Pokemon TCG Pocket raises prices by 50%, leading to negative reactions.
- Despite negative reactions to the new shop, the game’s first event is live, offering new promo cards.
It’s fair to say Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket is off to a mixed start. Crashing issues, slow progression, and expensive microtransactions have marred what is an otherwise fun mobile title.
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With complaints of slow progression and an expensive shop, you’d imagine The Pokemon Company would be doing what it could to change sentiment. Instead, it’s just added a new shop with prices 50 percent higher.
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’s New Monthly Shop Is More Expensive
Two of the main items players are likely to purchase from Pokemon TCG Pocket’s in-game shop are Pack Hourglasses and Wonder Hourglasses. These items allow players to forgo the extensive wait time between opening packs.
When the game launched, players could pick up a single Pack or Wonder Hourglass from the ‘Hourglasses’ section of the shop for two Shop Tickets and six Pack or Wonder Hourglasses for 12, with a limit of ten of each.
Inflation hitting within two days of launch is crazy.
The new ‘Refreshed Monthly: Hourglasses’ shop lists the same items in the same quantities, except they’re 50 percent more expensive, costing three and 18 Shop Tickets, respectively, once again with a limit of ten purchases.
The reaction, as you can imagine, has not been positive, with one player on Reddit declaring, “I guess they decided we were having too much fun,” and another adding, “Inflation hitting within two days of launch is crazy.”
Pokemon TCG Pocket’s new shop tier did launch alongside some good news, with the game’s first event now live. The Wonder Pick Event Part 1 will give players the opportunity to get brand-new Chansey and Meowth promo cards from Wonder Picks, alongside some new Meowth-related items in the game’s Shop. It’s far from the most exciting event, but it’s something.
If you are playing the game, don’t forget you can claim your free Pikachu Illustration Rare.
Experience the fun of collecting Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) cards with Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, an upcoming game for iOS and Android devices from Creatures Inc., the original developers of the Pokémon TCG, and DeNA Co., Ltd.
In this game, you will be able to open two booster packs every day at no cost. You can collect digital cards featuring nostalgic artwork from the past as well as brand-new cards that are exclusive to Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket.
Be on the lookout for new “immersive cards,” which will make you feel as though you’ve leapt into the world of the card’s illustration.