Are you trying to come to terms with your crippling addiction to trying to obtain infrequent creatures? Well, either you’re a person who should probably be kept out of animal shelters, or you’re playing Pokemon TCG Pocket along with everyone else who helped it pass the 30 million downloads mark.
As announced by the game’s official account via Twitter, the game about collecting cards and then doing things with them has surpassed this impressive total in its first week of existence, betting heavily on what looks like it will be a Trajectory-style Pokemon Go, in terms of becoming an extremely popular thing, is physically impossible to avoid.
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“Ttt-thirty million?! How many packages were opened then?” – we read in the post. “On behalf of everyone working on the game and myself, thank you for all your support! Seriously. If you haven’t downloaded it, give it a try and let us know what you think.”
I’ll tell you what I think, Pokefolks, I think at least three of my co-workers have basically had their lives stolen so far, so if you could at least ease their frayed minds and give them some nice cards, that would be nice.
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Anyway, leaving aside the impact on the lives of VG247 employees, to put it into some context, Pokemon Go reached 30 million users by the end of its first month and has obviously made a lot of money throughout its existence, even if the content days of 2016 in which Gone are the headlines like “Pokemon Go players water-bombed by Sydney suburban residents and police called” (hey, he still works here!).
We already know how the TCG Pocket rakes in the fat stacks, to utilize the right business term, so it’s likely that some suits are sitting in the building today, toasting to themselves and thinking about buying another Bentley, this time with packaging that looks a bit like This.
Either way, we feel less bad about what we did to Connor and Kelsey, encouraging them to dive even deeper into TCG Pocket, please check out our huge set of helpful guides on things like getting started and assembling the best decks, and stay up to date with coverage of all the chilly stuff the TCG Pocket community is up to.
