Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket developer Creatures Inc. is “actively investigating methods to enhance” the buying and selling function which launched final week to main backlash from gamers.
Creatures Inc. launched an announcement on X/Twitter that thanked gamers for his or her suggestions and stated they deliberate the controversial buying and selling function with the intention of stopping gamers from abusing it, however “a few of the restrictions put in place are stopping gamers from having the ability to casually take pleasure in” it.
It additionally promised to alleviate complaints by introducing required gadgets as rewards in upcoming occasions, however has already failed to take action because the Cresselia ex Drop Event launched as we speak, February 3, contains none.
Alongside the usual Pokémon TCG Pocket mechanic that restricts gamers from opening packs or Wonder Picking or, now, buying and selling an excessive amount of with out spending actual world cash, the function was additionally launched with an additional restriction referred to as Trade Tokens. Players criticized the excessive price of acquiring these, as they basically needed to delete from their collections 5 playing cards earlier than buying and selling one of many similar rarity.
“The merchandise necessities and restrictions applied for the buying and selling function have been designed to stop abuse from bots and different prohibited actions utilizing a number of accounts,” Creatures Inc. stated. “Our purpose was to steadiness the sport whereas sustaining a good atmosphere for all gamers and preserving the enjoyable of amassing playing cards that’s core to the Pokémon TCG Pocket expertise.
“However, due to your suggestions, we perceive that a few of the restrictions put in place are stopping gamers from having the ability to casually benefit from the function as supposed. We are actively investigating methods to enhance the function to deal with these considerations. Going ahead, we additionally plan to supply a number of methods to acquire Trade Tokens together with via occasion distributions.”
The assertion is actually as obscure because it will get, with Creatures Inc. providing neither specifics into what adjustments might be made or when they’ll arrive, nevertheless it at the least confirms that neighborhood considerations are heard.
Players of Pokémon TCG Pocket are additionally left in the dead of night as to if their present trades might be refunded or compensated in any method, as if the Trade Token price adjustments, these benefiting from the function in its opening days could lose far more than in the event that they waited.
Creatures Inc. would not appear significantly decided to incorporate Trade Tokens in occasions both, because it solely made a complete of 200 accessible as premium rewards to those that pay $9.99 a month for the Battle Pass when the refresh arrived on February 1. This is sufficient to commerce a single 3 Diamond card, the bottom rarity that requires Trade Tokens to commerce.
It additionally failed to incorporate any as rewards within the aforementioned Cresselia ex Drop Event which arrived as we speak. Players can choose up new promo playing cards, Pack Hourglasses, Shinedust, store tickets, and expertise from finishing the occasions, however Creatures Inc. would not supply a single Trade Token regardless of its vow to take action simply yesterday.
Fans complained buying and selling is pretty clearly being applied as a method of accelerating income for Pokémon TCG Pocket, which is estimated to have made $200 million in its first month, earlier than buying and selling was attainable.
This can also be evidenced by the shortcoming to commerce playing cards of two Star rarity or greater, as if gamers may instantly commerce for his or her lacking playing cards, they would not must spend $10 or $100 or extra for a random probability of getting them. It price one participant round $1,500 simply to finish the primary set, for instance, and the third in three months arrived just some days in the past.
Players referred to as the mechanic “predatory and downright grasping,” “hilariously poisonous,” and a “monumental failure.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
