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Pokemon TCG Pocket Adds Trading, But Fans Aren't Happy

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Summary

  • Trading has been added to Pokemon TCG Pocket, but many players are frustrated by the feature’s high price.
  • Players can only trade if they have enough Trade Tokens, a new in-game currency.
  • Trade Tokens are earned by sacrificing duplicate cards, which many players have already been doing to earn Flair.

Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket‘s highly anticipated trading feature is now live, but many players have been left feeling disappointed. Fans have been asking for the ability to trade cards in Pokemon TCG Pocket since its launch, but the high cost of trading has plenty of players looking at other methods to obtain new cards.

After months of anticipation, the development team behind Pokemon TCG Pocket revealed the game’s trading details less than two weeks ago. In that announcement, the team explained that trades would only be available between players who are already in-game friends and that not all cards would be available for players to offer up for trade when the feature launched. However, the detail that upset fans the most was that, like most actions in the mobile card battler, trading would require players to spend a special type of in-game item.

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With the launch of the trading feature on January 29, players now know more about those in-game items, which are called Trade Tokens. What’s most upsetting to players is that, in order to get Trade Tokens, they need to get rid of duplicate cards of at least three-diamond value, which generally represent basic art Stage 1 or Stage 2 Pokemon. Pokemon TCG Pocket has eight card rarity levels, but the number of tokens received for exchanging a card on the lower end of the trade spectrum is minuscule, netting a player just 25 trade tokens. Actually trading a three-diamond Pokemon costs 120 Trade Tokens, while one-star trades require 400 Trade Tokens and four-diamond trades require 500. That means trading a single three-diamond card will require a player to get rid of five other cards of the same value.

Pokemon TCG Pocket Trade Token Exchange Rate and Cost

Exchange Rate

  • One Diamond: Not Available
  • Two Diamond: Not Available
  • Three Diamond: 25 Trade Tokens
  • Four Diamond: 125 Trade Tokens
  • One Star: 100 Trade Tokens
  • Two Star: 300 Trade Tokens
  • Three Star: 300 Trade Tokens
  • Crown Rare: 1,500 Trade Tokens

Cost

  • One Diamond: Free
  • Two Diamond: Free
  • Three Diamond: 120 Trade Tokens
  • Four Diamond: 500 Trade Tokens
  • One Star: 400 Trade Tokens
  • Two Star: No Cards Available for Trade
  • Three Star: No Cards Available for Trade
  • Crown Rare: No Cards Available for Trade

The cost of obtaining Trade Tokens is immensely high for a lot of players, as the game will not allow fans to trade or exchange cards for items unless they have at least three copies of the card they’re trying to get rid of. Compounding that problem, players have already been getting rid of duplicate cards by trading them in for Pokemon TCG Pocket‘s Flairs, holographic-like effects that activate when players put their cards into play. While Flairs were a feature that initially gave players something to do with their unusable duplicates, and they’re still available, players who traded cards for them in the past will now have more difficulty scrounging up enough Trade Tokens to complete basic trades.

Pokemon TCG Pocket‘s developers commented on trading concerns shortly after the feature was announced, asking players to wait until it was released before they offered further criticism. Now that the feature is available in-game, players seem even more vitriolic over the exchange rates, with some calling the practice greedy. Other players are expressing disappointment that they won’t be able to help their friends fill out the missing slots in their card lists after all.


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