Pokémon TCG Pocket is about to make sweeping adjustments to its most controversial function.
One of many sport’s key mechanics is about for a sweeping change following participant backlash. The sport’s buying and selling function, which permits gamers to swap playing cards with one another, is about to put off its controversial in-game foreign money instead of a brand new system making use of a separate foreign money gamers have already been gathering from the start of the sport.
A weblog submit on the official Pokemon boards states that when the replace rolls out, commerce tokens, the controversial foreign money which was required to commerce playing cards, will probably be utterly faraway from the sport.
“As a substitute, buying and selling playing cards of three-diamond, four-diamond, and one-star rarity will now require shinedust,” the submit reads. Shinedust is a foreign money that gamers have been incomes for the reason that inception of the sport, and is at present used to acquire particular flairs on playing cards.
Commerce tokens gamers at present personal will probably be transformed to shinedust when the replace rolls out. Whereas no particular date for the adjustments to buying and selling has been introduced, The Pokémon Firm claims it is going to be applied “by the top of Autumn 2025.”
The weblog submit additionally introduced that an in sport function that permits gamers to “share playing cards you’re eager about buying and selling for” will probably be launched in some unspecified time in the future, nevertheless no timeframe was given for that.
Promo playing cards and two-star rarity playing cards, which at present can’t be traded, might develop into tradeable sooner or later, in keeping with the weblog submit.
The Pokémon Firm has stated it has no plans so as to add Pokémon TCG Pocket to the roster of aggressive Pokémon video games.
“We’re all the time taking a look at completely different titles,” stated Chris Brown, The Pokemon Firm director of worldwide esports, throughout an interview with VGC.
“Pokemon Sleep is on the market too,” stated Brown, laughing. Final April, The Pokemon Firm launched a parody trailer for the Pokemon Sleep Champion Event to rejoice April Idiot’s Day.
“However right now there are not any plans for Pokemon Pocket to affix, however we’re all the time taking a look at issues.”
