Pokemon TCG Pocket Players Are Disgusted By The Trade Requirements

Three months after its launch, Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket has finally added trading, and with it, the function’s requirements have been revealed.

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These requirements are extremely costly, and the game’s community is already revolting at what it calls a “predatory and downright greedy” system.

Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’s Trading Is “A Mess”

We knew trading would be limited in Pokemon TCG Pocket; the developers confirmed that as soon as they revealed the function. What we didn’t know was just how aggressively expensive it would be.

To start, players will only be able to part ways with cards that have a rarity of between one and four diamonds, along with one-star rarity cards, an acceptable compromise to keep things fair. Unfortunately, though, it will require two currencies to trade, one of which is very hard to come by.

Players will need both Trade Stamina and Trade Tokens in order to swap cards with another player. Trade Stamina, like many other things in the game, recovers over time; Trade Tokens, on the other hand, most certainly don’t. You’ll need to discard many of your most valuable duplicates in order to get the new currency.

Discarding a random four-star card will net you 125 Trade Stamina. To trade a four-star card, you need 500 trade stamina. That means, in order to trade a single four-star card, you’ll need to discard four of them first. To make matters worse, you need three of any given card to trade it for Trade Tokens. It’s a system that doesn’t make sense, and naturally, it hasn’t gone down well with the game’s community.

On the Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket subreddit, dozens of threads have been created discussing the fact that “trading is a scam.“

The system has been called a flurry of names, including “an insult,” “predatory and downright greedy,” and “broken,” and with the restrictions, players are convinced that the developers don’t actually want you to trade.

Given that you need three copies of a card to get tokens, casual players are also concerned about being priced out of the mechanic. Reddit user ACNL said, “If you are like me who has less than 1,000 cards, you will barely be able to trade. Maybe 1 or 2, but that’s it,” adding, “If there were other ways to get tokens, this might be passable, but at the moment there are no other ways to get tokens.”

It’s clearly designed to stop players from profiting from the game, the developers even said so themselves, but implementing it like this seems mindless. I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen a community turn on a feature as quickly as this. Roll on Space-Time Smackdown.

Released

October 30, 2024