One of Pokemon TCG Pocket‘s highlight features is the pack selection you make before ripping it open. The game does well to build up the hype, as you choose which booster theme you go for, pick out a pack from a carousel, and then proceed to rip it open. Hopefully, the choices you made will lead to some great cards. Or, maybe not.
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Pokemon TCG Pocket players are unsure whether going through all the pageantry really matters, as many feel that the cards that they finally get are predetermined. Meaning, regardless of picking out cards from a carousel, they will get the same cards every time. Now, it seems that someone has used a custom coded tool to try and prove this.
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To get to the bottom of this mystery, one player decided to use a bit of creative scripting to see the data packets that were sent to the game’s server. As spotted by Eurogamer, a YouTuber named Rustywolf scripted a custom tool that would reveal the card IDs, hence predicting what cards they would get, without opening the pack.
They used this method to twice predict the cards they would get before selecting one of the packs from the carousel. If the YouTuber is to be believed, then it’s true that the pack choices made by players don’t matter. However, this is a custom tool which we cannot verify, and Rustywolf has mentioned that they will not be sharing it as players could use it to abuse the game.
It doesn’t help that the game’s developers won’t weigh in on the conversation, instead offering a non-answer when asked if player choices matter. The Pokemon Company International simply said, “While Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket draws inspiration from the experience of opening physical Pokemon TCG booster packs, we are unable to share specifics at this time.”
The game has become quite popular, earning around $12 million in its first four days. However, it’s highly unlikely that its success will be stifled if we were to get a concrete answer about pack choices. Sure, it will lose some of the presentation that adds to the final reveal, but the overall sentiment will still remain the same.
There are very few things that are as satisfying as ripping open a pack to find great cards, and if Pokemon TCG Pocket can continue to deliver that experience, it might continue to see the same level of success.
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.