Pokémon Trading Card Pocket Pocket today received its long -awaited commercial update and despite the fact that players slammed the mechanics for Creatures Inc. programmers, revealing how it will work last week, somehow was launched to even worse.
Players started to social media to share their frustration from the commercial function, criticizing it for too many requirements and too many restrictions. While the latter were disclosed after the announcement of Trading last week, the former were covered in the statement “Positions should be consumed to trade”.
Unlike the Wonder Pick function or opening amplifier packages, each trade instance will require two separate, recent elements. The first is similar to those other mechanics, where commercial strength must have player in order to trade. This recovers over time or can be exchanged for Poké Gold, which means money from the real world.
Commercial tokens
However, the second subject causes a stir among the Pokémon TCG community. Trade tokens are also required for trading with any card for 3 diamonds or higher. 120 commercial tokens are required for trading a 3 -day card, 400 are obliged to replace the 1 -star card, and 500 are obliged to replace the 4 -day card, which means the former Pokémon.
Trade tokens can be obtained only due to the sale of cards. Players can remove from their collection a 3 -day card for 25 commercial tokens, 1 -star card for a 100, 4 -day card for 125, 2 -star card for 300, 3 -star addictive card for 300 and a golden crown card for 1500. Lower rarities cards are worthless, although they also do not require any trade tokens.
This means that players must, for example, sell five ex Pokémon, before they can replace one ex Pokémon or five 1 -star cards (the rarest for trade) before they can replace one 1 star. What’s more, the sale of one Rarita Crown card, which is the rarest in the game and may not be obtained even after months of play, only net players tokens enough to replace three ex Pokémon.
By selling one of the next rarity, 3 -star artistic cards used the point of sale for the Pokémon TCG pocket itself, does not provide enough trade tokens to replace the 1 -star card or card with 4 diamonds.
“Monumental failure”
“Trade update is an insult,” he wrote Wholesale At Reddit in a post with over 1000 reviews, a player who vowed not to spend another penny on the game. “It’s just frustrating. Greed is so excessive that I can’t be willing to spend another dollar. They should probably remove the “card game” from the title screen. He just offends it. “
“It is stupid to burn two addictive cards to be able to mention only one 4 diamond ex,” said someone in the comments. “I understand that they want to stop people from creating bots and using the system, but now it is absurd.”
Others called it “hilarious toxic” and “monumental failure” and regretted that “a safe way for the community to connect” was devoted to something “so laborious”. It also takes about 15 seconds to exchange something for commercial tokens, which means that many will have to spend minutes on the menu before they can replace one card.
“If they are commercial costs, the application should be renamed Pokémon Card Game Pocket Darkmalice In the comments of the post discussing high costs. “I don’t think they want to trade at all,” said another user. “That’s why they made it so bad.”
Pay Day
Fans complained that trade is quite clearly implemented as a way to increase revenues for Pokémon TCG Pocket, which, as estimated, earned $ 200 million in the first month before trade was possible.
This also proves the inability to commercial cards with a 2 -star rarity or higher, as if players could immediately replace their missing cards, they would not have to spend 10 or $ 100 or more on an accidental chance to get them. For example, completing the first set, for example, cost one player around USD 1500, and the third in three months will be available tomorrow.
“The trade system is predatory and even greedy,” he wrote ACNL on Reddit, which outlined the conversion rates of trade tokens. “He is simply a mixed man. How did he designed it? If there are other ways to get tokens, it may be passable, but at the moment there are no other ways to get tokens.
“This is not balanced at all. In addition, you can’t even burn the card unless you have three copies. If you want to replace this game, better buy a lot of packages and buy them on. “
Creatures Inc. It stays silent
Creatures Inc. He has not yet commented on the slack in trade. Such behavior is a scarce move for a programmer, but he did it in the case of initial complaints, when trade was disclosed last week. “Your fears are visible,” he said then. “When this function becomes available, I would like to invite everyone to try and transfer your opinion. In this way, the game can still evolve in a pleasant way for everyone. “
This answer meant that things could be better than expected fans, but it certainly is not. Ign, as Creatures Inc. was asked for a comment on this reaction and if any changes are planned.
As mentioned by some users, trade mechanics can be slightly repaired by Pokémon TCG Pocket, including commercial tokens as prizes for missions and the like. It is more likely that commercial strength will occur in them, because until now it contained neighboring items such as Wonder Stamina and Pack Hourglasses as awards.
Regardless of this, the introduction of such a badly received mechanic is today a bad look of the game, which debuts another enormous update that will introduce Diamond and Pearl Pokémon, such as Dialga and Palki to a digital card game.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN reporter. He will talk about The Witcher all day.
