Pokémon TCG Pocket simply made its most loyal gamers very, very upset

Pokémon TCG Pocket’s launch final yr was an enormous success for the Pokémon Firm, with tens of millions of gamers worldwide downloading and spending money on the game. Nonetheless, it appears the sport has hit a snag with gamers after its latest replace, which lastly launched buying and selling.

The sport’s new buying and selling system has not been received well by gamers, with some saying it’s too convoluted and has too many necessities and restrictions. In response to the backlash, the Pokémon TCG Pocket improvement staff released a statement thanking gamers for his or her suggestions and promising to research their considerations.

“We perceive a few of the restrictions put in place are stopping gamers from with the ability to casually benefit from the function as meant. We’re actively investigating methods to enhance the function to handle these considerations. Going ahead, we additionally plan to supply a number of methods to acquire commerce tokens together with by means of occasion distributions,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.

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What went incorrect with buying and selling in Pokemon TCG?

Gamers imagine the system is simply too restrictive and complicated

The commerce system launched to the sport limits the function in a number of alternative ways. First, solely playing cards with the identical rarity degree might be traded. Second, solely playing cards with a rarity between 1 and 4 diamonds in addition to 1-star playing cards are eligible to be traded.

An in-game foreign money can be required to provoke a commerce, referred to as a Commerce Token, which might be gained by trashing playing cards you do not want. Buying and selling additionally makes use of stamina, which is regained through the use of a Trade Hourglass, which you will get a mission reward. The Pokémon TCG devs mentioned the buying and selling options was “designed to forestall abuse from bots.” Gamers on Reddit had been fast to criticize the feature.

The precise resolution to this buying and selling fiasco is unsure. One participant thinks a level cap for trading can be a greater resolution than Commerce Tokens. Nonetheless, some imagine the tokens are right here to remain as an incentive to purchase card packs. The builders must tread fastidiously to please gamers who’re clearly irritated at a complicated system.

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