Pokémon TCG Pocket lastly arrived on iPhone and Android this week after tender launching in New Zealand final month, a lot to the delight of sequence followers worldwide. Nevertheless, after collaborating within the tender launch final month, I’ve seen a giant change to the in-game store, and I’m not impressed.
For many who don’t know, the forex for getting new packs in Pokémon TCG Pocket is primarily pack hourglasses. Throughout the tender launch, you would choose up six pack hourglasses for the value of 12 store tickets – sure, I do know that is getting into a really mathy course, however follow me. Now, after going international, six pack hourglasses price 18 store tickets, including a fats 50% to the unique asking worth and making it even tougher to trace down a few of the massive hitters from our Pokémon TCG Pocket tier listing.
It appears like I’m not the one one who’s seen the change. On the time of writing, the second hottest put up of the Pokémon TCG Pocket Reddit is somebody complaining concerning the change, calling it “an enormous dampener long run on card acquisition.” Truthfully, I couldn’t put it higher myself, and whereas it’s commonplace for a cell sport to make these types of alterations to push customers in direction of spending cash on in-game sources, it’s nonetheless disappointing.
It wouldn’t be as a lot of a problem if the in-game store wasn’t already a bit irritating, limiting the variety of pack hourglasses you possibly can choose up utilizing store tickets a month at 70. That’s the equal of simply 5 packs, with ten hourglasses to spare, each month. Certain, you get two packs at no cost each day, three when you’re a premium consumer, however that also makes card acquisition fairly sluggish contemplating there are over 200 playing cards to gather from the primary three units. Put merely, it’s going to be no imply feat to gather ‘em all.
Sadly, it doesn’t appear possible for the Pokémon TCG Pocket store change to revert again to the way it was throughout the tender launch, so we’re going to must get used to spending extra sources on pack hourglasses. If that’s put you off the brand new sport, why not remind your self why you continue to love the sequence with our information to the very best Pokémon video games? Or, when you’re extra within the real-life TCG, try our sister website Wargamer’s guides to probably the most highly effective Pokémon playing cards and the rarest Pokémon playing cards.
