we The Pokémon Company’s new game already covers a huge number of serious issues Pokemon TCG Livereplacing the decade-old digital way to play Card Battler, Pokemon TCG OnlineBut there is another aspect that has not been reported. Surprisingly this is not a bug. The number of digital cards received from code cards has been halved.and when you talk Kotakuwhich claims to be “best” for players!
You made an incredibly bad decision to migrate your account PTCGO To PTCGL, The mountain of regret is teetering. Change is ultimately inevitable for everyone,online should be turned off immediately live is exiting beta. Postponing it is a great idea for so many reasons.First, clumsy online Maybe it’s not a bug at all. Secondly, being a game with “trading” in the title, the exchange removes all aspects of trading. Third, when you migrate, any card you have more than four of is destroyed with no compensation. Fourth… yeah, you get the idea.
But when I redeemed the code cards and realized that only 5 cards came out of the digital package, I knew something was wrong with the software.Over the last 10 years, all Pokémon TCG The product comes with extra cardboard with a string of letters and numbers and a QR code. These unlocked digital versions of purchased packs or items and made them available online. From booster packs to deckboxes to coins to sleeves it was a nice bonus and let me play an excellent card battle game without ever meeting him in real life and for each of these booster packs his online games You need to unlock his 10 cards for
Online booster packs worked the same as IRL booster packs. You got energy, lots of common and rare Pokemon and trainers, and reverse cavities (or, if you’re lucky, alternate art, trainer galleries, etc.), and rares. felt it was fair.
Now, depending on which version of software you’re using, you’ll either get a full 10, or a full swizz with half the number.It sucked badly and after contacting The Pokemon Company (TPC), Kotaku I learned that it was entirely intentional.
“For mainline Pokemon TCG expansions such as Sword & Shield [and] In Silver Tempest, each code card is designed to generate five cards in Pokémon TCG Live,” said TPC.
This is the strangest way to advertise their products, Less than That’s it for your money it’s beneficial to their customers. Indeed, no one needed the 79 vermee cards they piled up PTCGO, but at the same time they were paying them. Never mind that someone trying to complete their collection might be chasing an uncommon they just happened to miss.
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However, this decision has a (fictitious) economic reason and does not bring any benefit to the player.because PTCGL drowned in so many duplicate and confusing in-game currencies that it became a balancing act that was difficult for TPC to manage. One of these currencies is credits, which you can use to make purchases. Any Cards from any collection the player desires. So yes, you can get alternative art Lost Origin Giratina, or his moon-loving Umbreon from Evolving Skies, if you prefer. These cards can actually set you back as much as $500. Credits are earned by winning games and completing Battle Pass tasks, but they can also be earned by getting 4 or more of her cards.because live You can’t have more than four. If you draw another one, it will be converted to credit. And they seem to have realized that by allowing a lot of credits to be taken from the code card, they are getting “too many” credits. This is not my conspiratorial idea. TPC said to ourselves:
During the development of the game, we found that Pokémon TCG Live’s 10-card booster packs often resulted in a lot of duplication of non-foil common and uncommon cards. Once the maximum number of copies of a card type is reached, duplicates are converted into credits and can be exchanged for cards the player does not already have in their collection (up to the maximum number of copies allowed). This problem was alleviated with his 5-card booster pack, which further improved the balance of the in-game economy and contributed to a more optimal player experience.
So they created a new in-game economy that didn’t work so they halved the number of cards you receive to correct the mistake. Why are any cards limited to four? No clue—having them doesn’t give anyone a disproportionate advantage. It’s tough and you lose half the pull because you’ll break their new system if you don’t.
However, changing those codes to PTCGOyou can get all 10 as long as the software lives.
This doesn’t even mention how disappointing the process of opening packs can be. live compared to online. Previously, I scanned code to create collections for later use. There’s a depiction of the pack, and you can click on each one to ‘rip it apart’ when you want, and you can see all 10 cards pop out and the rares flipped to reveal. It was a lovely experience. Now when you scan a code, you have to open 5 cards immediately, no ritual, no feeling of opening a pack.absolutely all be perplexed design decision.
The good news is that TPC will very It is a new Crystals currency suitable for IAP and there are no plans to allow players to spend real world money. “Pokemon TCG Live It will remain a free-to-play game with no in-app purchases, making it accessible to all types of players. ”
