I really wish the next month update will be more gamemode for this game, this game has a great potential to be good competitive online game, i hope there will be new gamemode like ranked or something
Yea, I completely agree. Once trading is implemented, anyone EVEN F2P will have the chance to build any deck they want, BUT what is the point if there is no incentive to play with those decks? Ranked or just fun gamemodes like NO-EX with cooler rewards is needed.
@@GODZLYY no ex sounds like an interesting and fun ruleset, or something more limited like specific types per week (colorless only) in a different gamemode. Here’s to hoping
I know this sounds like I’m being mean, it’s not you specifically buts it’s making me mad why yall think this was ever meant to be taken competitively, that was never the intention of the game it’s meant to be a card collector with the battle mode on the side. If you want to play it competitively Theres an app for that that’s the real game this was just a side mode not the actual game, reason why this is making me mad is because yall are taking way too seriously and I see people mad at the devs for making not as competitive, was never meant to be that game😂
@@royemmer3703 if the dev doesn't meant the game to be competitive, then why there's one event that force player to be competitive to get the win streak emblem in the event?
Hope we can get some sort of rogue-like mode? Where we have to build decks from a random pile of cards, or like monthly challenge such as no-ex, no evolution certain challenges with limitations so some of the underwhelming cards can get some attentention.
PTCGO was honestly the best, when it became PTCGL and got super restricted, it just started to fall flat. The most recent update is honestly awful. Barely worth playing anymore in all honesty.
3:52 - Looks like you got what the 4 diamonds and 1 Star rarity cards generally are. Regular ex are 4 diamond, "illustration rare" type art cards are 1 star. The cards you show in the clip show this, but you vocalized out the art cards as 4 diamond and regular ex as 1 star. NBD, pointing it out.
@@FIAVideo that just proves the statement is true actually. You have plenty spare cards and when trading is out you can go and find someone to trade with and get your starmie EXs for your Machamp EXs
I'm guessing there will be different "pricing" on trades of each rarity level. So trading 2 stars would be more expensive, but the devs might need some stats from lower rarity trading before deciding exactly how expensive.
@@revo5124 im thinking nah i do nothing with 3 crown charizards. u should be able to trade them for the same card tier. i dont see why not, it IS trading card game
Kinda a bummer if it's only between friends. Was hoping for a online trading system like in some official pokemon games, where you could post a pokemon to trading server and set what you wanted in return. Eventually (or instantly) someone would trade into it.
seems like it. I was so hype for trading only needing the 2 stars and up and having spare cards of the ones i do have but yea. SO you only exciting part is the new pack.
I really hope they come out with a option to get your favorite card printed out and shipped to you. I feel like that would bring back the rarity or the want to search for the rarest cards
If they allowed the trading of higher rarity cards, it open up a third market card sellers. People who would bum rush "new accounts" and then sell any rare cards they get. So yeah. This is the smart move. I approve it.
you can’t think like that though. People are alr as probably doing that with their own crown cards. Also, if regular person does that, they’re crazy because you have to spend a lot on 10 packs just to even have a chance for the crowns or full arts. personally I don’t think it’d be hurting anyone. People have duplicates of crowns, I myself included and I would’ve wanted to trade a crown mew for a charizard crown. it’s the name of the game. so I don’t get why. Maybe they don’t want it to be that easy to attain the much rarer cards but it is what it is.
@@edwinchrisverde5625 If they wanted crown rates to be easy to obtain, ummm I think they would've given them a higher pull rate. obviously the whole point of the higher rarity cards is their higher rarity and thus more limited stock. They want you to spend more money opening packs to chase those cards. The only thing trading is doing is giving every player the opportunity to pull playlets of every card, for deckbuilding, as max rarity doesnt matter in battle.
I have an idea that helps with trading and it’s using Pokémon Go as an influence. In Go you have friendship levels which reduce the amount of stardust needed for trades. So maybe they could include something like that where you can level up your friendship by battling each other, trading cards, and maybe by doing Wonder Picks from that friend. Then once you max out your friendship level you can trade any card as long as it’s the same rarity and at a reduced stardust cost. I would love to work for marketing on this game! I have so many ideas on how to improve the game and honestly it’s already better than all the other digital card games and I’ve been playing Duel Links, Master Duel, and MTG Arena since they launched. I’ve always wanted to play the Pokémon TCG but was too wrapped up in Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG but both have just become so expensive both digital and irl! But this game is super fun and has become the only mobile game I really play. I log into my other games to get the daily rewards but then I go back to this game.
They should take another page from Pokemon Go's book and introduce levels of friendship where higher friendship levels would unlock the ability to trade rarer cards. A chat feature would be cool, but might need to have an in app translation if interacting with people with language barriers. Also, would be fun to add emotes or something in pvp
This is great for f2p players. For someone like me that spent around 500 on generic apex makes it daunting spending that much in the future because I was thinking when I got dupes hey atleast I’ll be able to trade it later for a card I don’t have now when I get dupes it’s gonna sting literally just money burnt. Between needing in game trade currency over 2 of same card plus only trading for equal rarity that would basically make the people abusing alt accounts pointless you will almost never get 3 of the same 2 star or higher on f2p alts I agree the alts are a problem but I think that would counter that very well and be nice for the people spending hard earned cash on the game and not have to basically get punished because other people wanted to abuse the system
i got all the tradable rarities as F2P i did start to spent money on the first set to get 2 stars and up. Spent a good amount already have multiple spare cards i wanted to trade. Now i do get why they do not wanna do trade of the higher rarities but now i feel punished. they can easily have a system to do trade ins or something they are working on for the higher rarities but they did not say shit in the post so who knows really. I have 3500 cards i do not like the battles (i am a marvel snap/MTG player) and so the flairs do NOTHING for me. so i sit on cards hoping for a system to get pack points or something so i can complete sets without spending 1000s just to complete a set. I know people do that in RL but in RL i know how much i need to spent because you can buy singles or trade for the cards you need even the big rare cards here you cant. They need to get a extra system in place FAST to get the bigger cards.
They only changes i would make to card acquisition right now is add crowns and immersives to WP and allow 2 stars to be traded. I get that their point is to make money, but don't make it feel impossible to complete your collection if you don't have 10k to drop on the game...
I do NOT think stardust will be the item consumed to enable trading. Everyone has a boatload of stardust, and widespread trading ultimately hurts revenue. I highly suspect that they will release a new consumable item that is tightly distributed item to regulate trades, especially since they haven't shown any reservations when it comes to adding new consumable currencies (both wonder pick events, for example, required newly created tickets for the shop). I suspect we will receive these "trade tokens" at a slow, daily rate, and perhaps it will cost more tokens to do higher rarity trades.
Yea this seems likely, given there is 5 rarities of trade I could even imagine it using the exact same system as wonder trade currency and just making each level cost 1 more, each diamond corresponding to their level then 1 star costing 5.
I think the trading system is decent. It’s definitely good to complete the dex or complete a deck if someone is missing a couple of cards, especially for new players but at that point it’s, just to help out. the point of having the crowns and full arts would’ve made sense because that was the whole point of being excited for the trading. as someone who has literally like all the basic cards and not too many full arts, it’s like welp. I get it because maybe they don’t want it to be easy to attain the much more rare cards but people do have duplicates of those cards so it wouldn’t have been bad. also, it’s like how you can scrap a duplicate crown for flair …. Like it’s the same idea, scrapping/trading a duplicate for something you don’t have. either way it’s cool that the game is even getting trading and excited for the new packs.
The reason it HAS to be same rarity trading is because otherwise people with multiple accounts would be able to just trade 1 diamond pokemon form their "main" for a crown rare to an alt etc. Plus, it would absolutely create an outer economy, like being able to "sell" a card. Here, both giver and receiver are sacrificing something of equal value.
i do get the 2 star and up trading not being in because people can make alt accounts and shit but still. I am not a battler i do not need flair on my cards so all my spare cards are just rotting xD. They need a system FAST to let us do something with them other then flair( or trade for the lower rarities in this trading update)
@@LPM12 I don’t disagree with the same rarity trade, that’s good but it should’ve been that with the rare cards. A crown for a crown and full art for full art.
I guess you are going to be able to trade A2 when A3 comes out so everytime a new big espansion comes out the previous expansion is added to trading. That way you can never trade the latest espansion until it is not the latest anymore
That would incentivise paying player because the latest expansion is always the most opened, and its cards are likely to be the target of people spending money who probably already completed the previous sets
Sadly. Plus it won't exactly help f2p either as meta most likely will shift in favor of newer set. So they never be able to really make meta deck right away after new set drops. But it's understandable from business standpoint yea. Revenue would drop a bit if they allow new set to be tradable.
Tbh i find it good for the game that i cant get all cards right away because it forces me to be more creative on the decks i build and motivates me to cone back to the game every day in order to earn more cards and build new decks. But i also understand tournament players who need the best cards asap otherwise they have a disadvantage. I think with the new set they are going to give away a good amount of free pack hourglasses to mitogate this problem, but still if you dont pull the card its going to either hurt your performance or cost you money
I dont get why they cant just raise the required level to trade like 20 or 25 to keep people from starting new accounts and trading the cards you initially get.
I'm running low on Shinedust as got 10k but i'll get a little more during 5 win event. It's a shame Promo cards has no rarity so i don't think you can trade them
Promo cards have rarity that is 4diamonds or higher.. as if you use them for the pve chalange win with 1 2 3 diamond cards only, you wont complete it if you use promo cards. (At least not with cards you get from pve events)
i think they should let you use pack points for trading at half cost. So currently a gold card costs all your pack points. but trading one would cost half that
I just need the regular Aerodactyl ex and I'll have completed the Mythical Island set (without counting the secret rares) I also need Jolteon and Beedrill to complete the Kanto Pokedex and get the immersive Mew card. I want to have that one done before the Johto Pokedex arrives.
I dont care bout completing the dex since im missing venu ex but have all other ex from mewtwo pac at 3+ so i dont wanna go back to that pack just to gamble for venu ex.. all i need before new packs come is 1 of starmie zapdos and arcanine ex. Then im done with all exes there is at 2+ copy but without venu, which indont like anyways
trading sounds like a cool idea but i feel like it’ll lose them money. people won’t want to open packs just for a certain card when they can just trade it. right now im only missing a few cards(one being poliwrath) so i open only the charizard pack for it. i feel like i wont be as excited if i can just trade for it
the trading is not for all rarity. only one diamond to one star. higher rarity cards are not tradable. and some people like to get full art cards, some like to complete their pokedex. so they still can get money from those people.
This is the exact reason why they limit it to 1 star rarity. It encourages opening packs if you want the rarest cards. Trading is really good to build decks but if you are a hardcore collector it actually encourages you to spend money
There's no chat system and all my friends in my account are just a bunch of randos, idk how we are supposed to get the cards we want with no way to communicate but ill wait till the update for my final thoughts
Blocking rare cards from being traded still seems unnecessary. Yes, there would be people who reroll accounts to get those rare cards, but the restriction that cards can only be traded with other cards of equal rarity would still mean they'd also need to have actually pulled a similarly rare card on their main account.
yea i mean i get it but at the same time how many people will really set up multiple alt accounts to get 2 stars and up xD i am having trouble gettin gmy 2 stars and up on my "main account"(only have the one xD) and i am spending money every weekish too xD SO they either need to get really LUCKY or they just wasting time xD
It will be interesting because they didn’t discuss a minimum card requirement before being able to trade. Do you need atleast 2 cards before you can trade a card? Guess will see.
Why trading only between friends though? That would limit things a lot. I think it would be better to trade with everyone. Like a whole different section where someone will put what he wants to trade and others will grab it if he needs it.
Love this, I literally just want to be able to trade cards I dont use for ones I want. This is a good trading system for F2P cuz of deck building in general cuz other games especially YGO games you have to pay (usually) just to play the deck you want.
Yeah it seems like trading is done well, though it depends how much stardust we will need to spend for a trade. And yeah i do belive it will be stardust. There's no need to make it anything else if the potential currency is already coded in. Plus it has no use for a f2p player. I do feel sorry however for those f2p who have wasted it on the flair already. As for future updates i hope they add some game mode to play for hourglasses other then... leveling up to hit max lvl 50 cap and then having no incentive to play. Yes i see more and more people hitting the lvl cap. They don't need to increase it futher but it would be good idea to make us have some system where after X amount of winning battles you get some hourglasses. That would keep playerbase busy and the game alive for a very long time.
So you mixed it up. Regular EX cards are 4 diamonds not 1 star. And the full art non ex pokemon cards those are the ones that are 1 star not 4 diamonds.
2 bad points about this trading system: -never able to collect past promo (started playing a few weeks after release) -got a third immersive pikachu (but have no other immersive). This third card is just a very good drop but completely useless...
Id rly like to know about promo cards.. cause im missing promo menki which is sad cause of his alternative attack :/ and knowing there is a gap in my promo dex^^'
Whats the point of having to be the same rarity if we're limited to 1* and below? People would sell 2*+ and trade it for caterpie- I get that. But if we can't trade those, why the rarity requirement?
im ok with this, im still missing blastoise and venusaur ex, and i need another copy of moltres ex aswell. so as long as i can fill out my base set to completion im happy, honestly i just care about playing the game so not being able to trade for crown rares isn't a big deal, but i have extra immersive pikachu ex and i don't know what to do with it now lol
I made alt account for different cards not for different rarity card as a F2P . And this is helpful for me to get all booster packs cards to make different dacks 😅 in both accounts so I can match along with P2W players
Wish the player base would stand in solidarity to not buy gold until we could trade at least the two star cards. I don’t see this being an issue if you trade the same rarity cards.. I.E two star cards for other two star cards.
I don’t really see it as an issue big enough to strike over. It doesn’t affect the gameplay. Honestly so far Pokémon pocket is one of, if not the most free to play online TCG on the market.
@ I understand, and agree about free to play player experience; but just to be clear, I’m not advocating for a full on boycott, as in just dropping the game altogether. I, incorrectly, assumed that trading would see similar treatment to how the wonderpick restricts 3 star and crown rares. I also assumed that trades would coincide with how flares are, at the moment, requiring you to have at least 3 copies of that card to crush for a flare. Ultimately, I’d like to see trading reach the two star rarity, and also require you to have at least 3 of said 2 star cards to then trade for a dupe that someone else has. My bias doesn’t escape me, and I understand that this game is part of a business whose purpose to is make money; but I do think that a compromise allowing you to trade higher rarity cards without creating a secondary market economy is achievable. Pokémon Go, I believe, does this incredibly well. You must have a friend on your friends list for 180 days to trade without exorbitant stardust (in game currency required for leveling up Pokèmon and teaching new moves) costs. I didn’t intend on writing an essay, per se, but here we are. TLDR; there are ways to implement trading of higher rarity cards that may actually increase overall spending and demand without devaluing rare cards. I enjoy your videos and appreciate what you do, thank you!
Promo cards have no rarities and the ruleset they have put out excludes them, so unfortunately the answer is no. There is a very slim chance it was an oversight but I don't imagine it is, especially considering the premium pass subscription card is also considered to be in the same set and they wouldn't want that to ever be traded. Promos are also a great way to incite fomo in the F2P play base too.
@@MrCookieMonster565 that would absolutely suck since promo Mankey and Jigglypuff are somewhat essential for apex Primeape and Wiggly EX, respectively. Some promos however i believe have 3 diamond rarity (you can tell by the shiny metallic border of the card, like the chansey picks or Volcarona/Greninja from the Blastoise and Venusaur events) and 1 star rarity (Blastoise, Venusaur)
It is so freaking stupid that you can’t trade whatever cards you want. I understand with the creating account and trading cards with yourself or other people but still, what’s the point of trading if you can’t trade whatever and however you want.
I think the 1 star rarity lock is pointless since it’s limited to cards of equal rarity. Crown for crown, 3 star for 3 star etc… the whales would still have a hoard of awesome cards while the rest of us plebs, would only really have access to a few more of the ones we prefer in exchange for trading something we pulled, that maybe we don’t want as much. At the end of the day f2ps will remain ft2ps and whales will continue to fund the game for the rest of us.
Guys i need someone to trade me a promo pikachu pls Not the one from the shop but the one from the first wonder pick I have a pikachu theme and sadly i missed that event so i still dont have that card
Restricting trading to 1 star max is still stupid, especially if you have to make equal value trades. If I have 3 times 3star Charizard and want a 3star Pikachu I should be allowed to trade one for it
I got a Crown Charizard from a Mewtwo pack before knowing Crown cards don't care about where you pull from besides the set and it felt so bad. Please let me trade this card for anything else 😭😭 Also this seems to exclude promo cards as they have no rarity, I've been farming them a lot cause I thought they would be high value to newer players or those who missed them and I could later trade for promos I missed or just higher value cards for them. As a veteran player of other games with this kind of fomo event exclusive stuff, please let me trade these cards to people. I don't care that it's a flex for playing at a point in time someone else didn't, just let everyone enjoy cards that were free to obtain anyway.
a few Promo cards i think count as 3 diamonds (the ones from chansey picks at least). You can tell from the shiny metallic border of the card. Same as Volcarona and Greninja from the Blastoise and Venusaur events
to be honest there is a lot of player have other account like my friend and they have there own group hahahahahah.. 1 with 3-5 dummy account for this feature. i hope they add more things to do..
You mixed the rarities. Dragonite art is 1 star and ex marowak is 4 diamonds
Yeah normal ex cards is 4 diamonds, you can see it on the bottom left corner
He didn’t compare them to trade dude
I really wish the next month update will be more gamemode for this game, this game has a great potential to be good competitive online game, i hope there will be new gamemode like ranked or something
Yea, I completely agree. Once trading is implemented, anyone EVEN F2P will have the chance to build any deck they want, BUT what is the point if there is no incentive to play with those decks? Ranked or just fun gamemodes like NO-EX with cooler rewards is needed.
@@GODZLYY no ex sounds like an interesting and fun ruleset, or something more limited like specific types per week (colorless only) in a different gamemode. Here’s to hoping
I know this sounds like I’m being mean, it’s not you specifically buts it’s making me mad why yall think this was ever meant to be taken competitively, that was never the intention of the game it’s meant to be a card collector with the battle mode on the side. If you want to play it competitively Theres an app for that that’s the real game this was just a side mode not the actual game, reason why this is making me mad is because yall are taking way too seriously and I see people mad at the devs for making not as competitive, was never meant to be that game😂
They should add a theme deck only game mode
@@royemmer3703 if the dev doesn't meant the game to be competitive, then why there's one event that force player to be competitive to get the win streak emblem in the event?
Hope we can get some sort of rogue-like mode? Where we have to build decks from a random pile of cards, or like monthly challenge such as no-ex, no evolution certain challenges with limitations so some of the underwhelming cards can get some attentention.
Like hearthsrone?
Like Hearthstone arena
The cat knows it’s show time.
They should model the trading like how it was in PTCGO. Post a trade up that you want and wait until someone accepts it.
Yea, the friend system is restrictive.
PTCGO was honestly the best, when it became PTCGL and got super restricted, it just started to fall flat. The most recent update is honestly awful. Barely worth playing anymore in all honesty.
3:52 - Looks like you got what the 4 diamonds and 1 Star rarity cards generally are. Regular ex are 4 diamond, "illustration rare" type art cards are 1 star. The cards you show in the clip show this, but you vocalized out the art cards as 4 diamond and regular ex as 1 star. NBD, pointing it out.
I'm actually about to say this so yeah
You make it seem like everyone is going to easily be able to trade but having spare cards is still hard for f2p
Not really. Just log on every day and you will have plenty spare cards
It will help a lot tho. F2P still won’t have everything but this trade system is definitely good for F2P
@ewanrowson6530 As someone who still don't have a single Starmie EX but 5-6 copies of Machamp EX and Charizard EX, this is a false statement
@@FIAVideo that just proves the statement is true actually. You have plenty spare cards and when trading is out you can go and find someone to trade with and get your starmie EXs for your Machamp EXs
@@FIAVideodon't get me started on my 6 pidgetto ex and not a single new ex from mythical island
I hope they give the attacks animation effects, like the Marvel cards😊
Which marvel game has cards?
@@ImShadowcap Marvel Snap
Trading 2 stars will be a thing in the future. Even without the backlash, devs probably planning on doing so to begin with but not this early
I'm guessing there will be different "pricing" on trades of each rarity level. So trading 2 stars would be more expensive, but the devs might need some stats from lower rarity trading before deciding exactly how expensive.
i hope you're able to trade any rarity later on like a crown for crown, three star for three star, etc.
@ nah crowns and immersives should stay pack exclusive.n 2 stars are already wonderpickable
@@revo5124 im thinking nah i do nothing with 3 crown charizards. u should be able to trade them for the same card tier. i dont see why not, it IS trading card game
@eifiethemeep so what if it's a carr game. It's still a gacha .
Kinda a bummer if it's only between friends. Was hoping for a online trading system like in some official pokemon games, where you could post a pokemon to trading server and set what you wanted in return. Eventually (or instantly) someone would trade into it.
You can just add a random stranger for a trade and unfriend later. Its not that big of a deal
@@tomasdiethelm6553 Well uh yeah, it's just extra hassle that requires third party activities instead of just handling it in game.
I think it'll be like the GTS
You can add 100 friends in game. I am sure between 100 strangers you will be able to find what youre looking for
the only exciting part about the update is the new pack thats getting added.
seems like it. I was so hype for trading only needing the 2 stars and up and having spare cards of the ones i do have but yea. SO you only exciting part is the new pack.
I really hope they come out with a option to get your favorite card printed out and shipped to you. I feel like that would bring back the rarity or the want to search for the rarest cards
If they allowed the trading of higher rarity cards, it open up a third market card sellers. People who would bum rush "new accounts" and then sell any rare cards they get.
So yeah. This is the smart move. I approve it.
you can’t think like that though. People are alr as probably doing that with their own crown cards. Also, if regular person does that, they’re crazy because you have to spend a lot on 10 packs just to even have a chance for the crowns or full arts. personally I don’t think it’d be hurting anyone. People have duplicates of crowns, I myself included and I would’ve wanted to trade a crown mew for a charizard crown. it’s the name of the game. so I don’t get why. Maybe they don’t want it to be that easy to attain the much rarer cards but it is what it is.
@@edwinchrisverde5625 If they wanted crown rates to be easy to obtain, ummm I think they would've given them a higher pull rate. obviously the whole point of the higher rarity cards is their higher rarity and thus more limited stock. They want you to spend more money opening packs to chase those cards. The only thing trading is doing is giving every player the opportunity to pull playlets of every card, for deckbuilding, as max rarity doesnt matter in battle.
You’ve gotta revisit venemoth, it can be improved with some new cards from mythical island
I have an idea that helps with trading and it’s using Pokémon Go as an influence. In Go you have friendship levels which reduce the amount of stardust needed for trades. So maybe they could include something like that where you can level up your friendship by battling each other, trading cards, and maybe by doing Wonder Picks from that friend. Then once you max out your friendship level you can trade any card as long as it’s the same rarity and at a reduced stardust cost. I would love to work for marketing on this game! I have so many ideas on how to improve the game and honestly it’s already better than all the other digital card games and I’ve been playing Duel Links, Master Duel, and MTG Arena since they launched. I’ve always wanted to play the Pokémon TCG but was too wrapped up in Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG but both have just become so expensive both digital and irl! But this game is super fun and has become the only mobile game I really play. I log into my other games to get the daily rewards but then I go back to this game.
4:30 This is exactly why we can't trade high rarities this cuts into their money. New account rerolls equals no packs bought
They should take another page from Pokemon Go's book and introduce levels of friendship where higher friendship levels would unlock the ability to trade rarer cards.
A chat feature would be cool, but might need to have an in app translation if interacting with people with language barriers.
Also, would be fun to add emotes or something in pvp
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This is great for f2p players. For someone like me that spent around 500 on generic apex makes it daunting spending that much in the future because I was thinking when I got dupes hey atleast I’ll be able to trade it later for a card I don’t have now when I get dupes it’s gonna sting literally just money burnt. Between needing in game trade currency over 2 of same card plus only trading for equal rarity that would basically make the people abusing alt accounts pointless you will almost never get 3 of the same 2 star or higher on f2p alts I agree the alts are a problem but I think that would counter that very well and be nice for the people spending hard earned cash on the game and not have to basically get punished because other people wanted to abuse the system
exactly in what universe will your alts get 3 of a kind that high unless you play daily, making 5 new accounts won't allow you to trade anything...
i got all the tradable rarities as F2P i did start to spent money on the first set to get 2 stars and up. Spent a good amount already have multiple spare cards i wanted to trade. Now i do get why they do not wanna do trade of the higher rarities but now i feel punished. they can easily have a system to do trade ins or something they are working on for the higher rarities but they did not say shit in the post so who knows really. I have 3500 cards i do not like the battles (i am a marvel snap/MTG player) and so the flairs do NOTHING for me. so i sit on cards hoping for a system to get pack points or something so i can complete sets without spending 1000s just to complete a set. I know people do that in RL but in RL i know how much i need to spent because you can buy singles or trade for the cards you need even the big rare cards here you cant. They need to get a extra system in place FAST to get the bigger cards.
Trade probably only come after the set go out of rotation to prevent bots to trade and makes full accounts out of nowhere.
They only changes i would make to card acquisition right now is add crowns and immersives to WP and allow 2 stars to be traded. I get that their point is to make money, but don't make it feel impossible to complete your collection if you don't have 10k to drop on the game...
Dragonite is a star card. All those full art cards with that same border are star cards. 4 diamond cards are the regular EX cards.
I do NOT think stardust will be the item consumed to enable trading. Everyone has a boatload of stardust, and widespread trading ultimately hurts revenue. I highly suspect that they will release a new consumable item that is tightly distributed item to regulate trades, especially since they haven't shown any reservations when it comes to adding new consumable currencies (both wonder pick events, for example, required newly created tickets for the shop). I suspect we will receive these "trade tokens" at a slow, daily rate, and perhaps it will cost more tokens to do higher rarity trades.
Yea this seems likely, given there is 5 rarities of trade I could even imagine it using the exact same system as wonder trade currency and just making each level cost 1 more, each diamond corresponding to their level then 1 star costing 5.
I really wanted to complete the collection of 2 star supporter cards, but i guess that wont be possible now
I think the trading system is decent. It’s definitely good to complete the dex or complete a deck if someone is missing a couple of cards, especially for new players but at that point it’s, just to help out. the point of having the crowns and full arts would’ve made sense because that was the whole point of being excited for the trading. as someone who has literally like all the basic cards and not too many full arts, it’s like welp. I get it because maybe they don’t want it to be easy to attain the much more rare cards but people do have duplicates of those cards so it wouldn’t have been bad. also, it’s like how you can scrap a duplicate crown for flair …. Like it’s the same idea, scrapping/trading a duplicate for something you don’t have. either way it’s cool that the game is even getting trading and excited for the new packs.
The reason it HAS to be same rarity trading is because otherwise people with multiple accounts would be able to just trade 1 diamond pokemon form their "main" for a crown rare to an alt etc. Plus, it would absolutely create an outer economy, like being able to "sell" a card. Here, both giver and receiver are sacrificing something of equal value.
i do get the 2 star and up trading not being in because people can make alt accounts and shit but still. I am not a battler i do not need flair on my cards so all my spare cards are just rotting xD. They need a system FAST to let us do something with them other then flair( or trade for the lower rarities in this trading update)
@@LPM12 I don’t disagree with the same rarity trade, that’s good but it should’ve been that with the rare cards. A crown for a crown and full art for full art.
I guess you are going to be able to trade A2 when A3 comes out so everytime a new big espansion comes out the previous expansion is added to trading. That way you can never trade the latest espansion until it is not the latest anymore
That would incentivise paying player because the latest expansion is always the most opened, and its cards are likely to be the target of people spending money who probably already completed the previous sets
Sadly. Plus it won't exactly help f2p either as meta most likely will shift in favor of newer set. So they never be able to really make meta deck right away after new set drops.
But it's understandable from business standpoint yea. Revenue would drop a bit if they allow new set to be tradable.
Tbh i find it good for the game that i cant get all cards right away because it forces me to be more creative on the decks i build and motivates me to cone back to the game every day in order to earn more cards and build new decks. But i also understand tournament players who need the best cards asap otherwise they have a disadvantage. I think with the new set they are going to give away a good amount of free pack hourglasses to mitogate this problem, but still if you dont pull the card its going to either hurt your performance or cost you money
would be nice if it at least goes to 2 stars
I’m just excited to complete Pokédex and get mew.
I get why they did this but it is painful. I only need 2 stars or up xD.
0:07 cat stares into my soul
I dont get why they cant just raise the required level to trade like 20 or 25 to keep people from starting new accounts and trading the cards you initially get.
I can understand that they limited the trade by rarity but why dont add that you can for example trade once in a month a higher rarity?
Can we trade promo cards? As they don’t have any rarity system for them
I'm running low on Shinedust as got 10k but i'll get a little more during 5 win event. It's a shame Promo cards has no rarity so i don't think you can trade them
Promo cards have rarity that is 4diamonds or higher.. as if you use them for the pve chalange win with 1 2 3 diamond cards only, you wont complete it if you use promo cards. (At least not with cards you get from pve events)
i think they should let you use pack points for trading at half cost. So currently a gold card costs all your pack points. but trading one would cost half that
hope they allow promo trading. Almost didn't get volcarona from the last event, and i pulled promo packs on cooldown..
imagine they made a battling mode where you bet a card of a certain rarity and winner takes all
Pokemon would never do gambling (now), which is what that is
@@LPM12 every pack you open is gambling xD
I just need the regular Aerodactyl ex and I'll have completed the Mythical Island set (without counting the secret rares)
I also need Jolteon and Beedrill to complete the Kanto Pokedex and get the immersive Mew card. I want to have that one done before the Johto Pokedex arrives.
Jolteon is my last damn card for the Kanto dex, ughhhhh!! well, ill get it in a few weeks via trading, so im not bothered anymore haha
I dont care bout completing the dex since im missing venu ex but have all other ex from mewtwo pac at 3+ so i dont wanna go back to that pack just to gamble for venu ex.. all i need before new packs come is 1 of starmie zapdos and arcanine ex. Then im done with all exes there is at 2+ copy but without venu, which indont like anyways
trading sounds like a cool idea but i feel like it’ll lose them money. people won’t want to open packs just for a certain card when they can just trade it. right now im only missing a few cards(one being poliwrath) so i open only the charizard pack for it. i feel like i wont be as excited if i can just trade for it
the trading is not for all rarity. only one diamond to one star. higher rarity cards are not tradable. and some people like to get full art cards, some like to complete their pokedex. so they still can get money from those people.
Only being able to trade the same rarity of max 1 star is all there for the money side of it. It won’t lose them money
This is the exact reason why they limit it to 1 star rarity. It encourages opening packs if you want the rarest cards. Trading is really good to build decks but if you are a hardcore collector it actually encourages you to spend money
There's no chat system and all my friends in my account are just a bunch of randos, idk how we are supposed to get the cards we want with no way to communicate but ill wait till the update for my final thoughts
Blocking rare cards from being traded still seems unnecessary. Yes, there would be people who reroll accounts to get those rare cards, but the restriction that cards can only be traded with other cards of equal rarity would still mean they'd also need to have actually pulled a similarly rare card on their main account.
yea i mean i get it but at the same time how many people will really set up multiple alt accounts to get 2 stars and up xD i am having trouble gettin gmy 2 stars and up on my "main account"(only have the one xD) and i am spending money every weekish too xD SO they either need to get really LUCKY or they just wasting time xD
It will be interesting because they didn’t discuss a minimum card requirement before being able to trade. Do you need atleast 2 cards before you can trade a card? Guess will see.
I fully expect that imitation to be implemented, just like how flair works
They still dodging the question on ' are promo card/chansey pick/no rarity card's are being able to be traded? ' .
Why trading only between friends though? That would limit things a lot. I think it would be better to trade with everyone. Like a whole different section where someone will put what he wants to trade and others will grab it if he needs it.
There will not be a chat system, pokemon/nintendo do not do that.
there was chat in ptcgo
My bro pulled full art Pidgeot EX. I want it. I pulled full art Mew EX. He wants it. Well, damn.
Love this, I literally just want to be able to trade cards I dont use for ones I want. This is a good trading system for F2P cuz of deck building in general cuz other games especially YGO games you have to pay (usually) just to play the deck you want.
It’s a great start. But arguably these are NOT the cards people are WANTING to trade but I get it.
Pokemon: releases cards that blocks coin flips. 😂
Celebi users: surprised pikachu faces. 😂😮
They need to make trading in the game like how it was in Pokémon XY
Yeah it seems like trading is done well, though it depends how much stardust we will need to spend for a trade.
And yeah i do belive it will be stardust. There's no need to make it anything else if the potential currency is already coded in. Plus it has no use for a f2p player. I do feel sorry however for those f2p who have wasted it on the flair already.
As for future updates i hope they add some game mode to play for hourglasses other then... leveling up to hit max lvl 50 cap and then having no incentive to play.
Yes i see more and more people hitting the lvl cap. They don't need to increase it futher but it would be good idea to make us have some system where after X amount of winning battles you get some hourglasses. That would keep playerbase busy and the game alive for a very long time.
I hope they improve the battle system and make it more complex
Thank you in advance to the players who help me with trading!
Me Who Make 6 Acc To Trade 😂😂😂 Way Too Excited 😂
Thanks For Information
So you mixed it up. Regular EX cards are 4 diamonds not 1 star. And the full art non ex pokemon cards those are the ones that are 1 star not 4 diamonds.
godzly, i was wondering how u can play tcg on pc, any recommdation on what emulator to use?
Maybe stickers showing the symbol of rarity?
i hope there will be wondertrades - trade a duplicate for a random other card - would be nice for EX Pokemons
2 bad points about this trading system:
-never able to collect past promo (started playing a few weeks after release)
-got a third immersive pikachu (but have no other immersive). This third card is just a very good drop but completely useless...
do you know if promo cards will be tradable like promo mankey
Is the trade in real time or timer gate?
Welp, i guess I'll stay in this game until gen 4 to get mommy Cynthia.
Your cat is the cutestttttt❤ love your decks, having a blast battling with them
Is there any leaks to which packs and Pokémon’s will be added?
All the raritys should be tradeable, making it so you have to trade the same rarity should limit the abuse.
Well im not a collector. So trading cards till 1 star rarity is ok for me to complete most of my deck for a f2p .
Downside is the promo cards .
Id rly like to know about promo cards.. cause im missing promo menki which is sad cause of his alternative attack :/ and knowing there is a gap in my promo dex^^'
Whats the point of having to be the same rarity if we're limited to 1* and below?
People would sell 2*+ and trade it for caterpie- I get that. But if we can't trade those, why the rarity requirement?
Coz ppl can still sell starter account with 1-2 (maybe more) complete meta deck if that's the case?
@invertbrid Yeah, I suppose that's true. Hadn't thought of that.
M guessing shine dust might be an important item for trading..
I have 5800 cards with the only ones I’m missing are 2-star cards. Trading will do nothing for me.
If it's rarity locked, you'd have to trade a gold for a gold anyway... so it makes no sense regardless.
im ok with this, im still missing blastoise and venusaur ex, and i need another copy of moltres ex aswell. so as long as i can fill out my base set to completion im happy, honestly i just care about playing the game so not being able to trade for crown rares isn't a big deal, but i have extra immersive pikachu ex and i don't know what to do with it now lol
that was a really fast post haha
So restricted trading card game 😢
I made alt account for different cards not for different rarity card as a F2P . And this is helpful for me to get all booster packs cards to make different dacks 😅 in both accounts so I can match along with P2W players
From the Stream to the Video in 1H 😅💪
Wish the player base would stand in solidarity to not buy gold until we could trade at least the two star cards. I don’t see this being an issue if you trade the same rarity cards.. I.E two star cards for other two star cards.
I don’t really see it as an issue big enough to strike over. It doesn’t affect the gameplay. Honestly so far Pokémon pocket is one of, if not the most free to play online TCG on the market.
@ I understand, and agree about free to play player experience; but just to be clear, I’m not advocating for a full on boycott, as in just dropping the game altogether. I, incorrectly, assumed that trading would see similar treatment to how the wonderpick restricts 3 star and crown rares. I also assumed that trades would coincide with how flares are, at the moment, requiring you to have at least 3 copies of that card to crush for a flare.
Ultimately, I’d like to see trading reach the two star rarity, and also require you to have at least 3 of said 2 star cards to then trade for a dupe that someone else has. My bias doesn’t escape me, and I understand that this game is part of a business whose purpose to is make money; but I do think that a compromise allowing you to trade higher rarity cards without creating a secondary market economy is achievable. Pokémon Go, I believe, does this incredibly well. You must have a friend on your friends list for 180 days to trade without exorbitant stardust (in game currency required for leveling up Pokèmon and teaching new moves) costs.
I didn’t intend on writing an essay, per se, but here we are.
TLDR; there are ways to implement trading of higher rarity cards that may actually increase overall spending and demand without devaluing rare cards. I enjoy your videos and appreciate what you do, thank you!
Do we know if promo cards will be tradeable?
I hope so, I have too many dupes of promo cards such as Snivy and others
Promo cards have no rarities and the ruleset they have put out excludes them, so unfortunately the answer is no. There is a very slim chance it was an oversight but I don't imagine it is, especially considering the premium pass subscription card is also considered to be in the same set and they wouldn't want that to ever be traded. Promos are also a great way to incite fomo in the F2P play base too.
@@MrCookieMonster565 that would absolutely suck since promo Mankey and Jigglypuff are somewhat essential for apex Primeape and Wiggly EX, respectively. Some promos however i believe have 3 diamond rarity (you can tell by the shiny metallic border of the card, like the chansey picks or Volcarona/Greninja from the Blastoise and Venusaur events) and 1 star rarity (Blastoise, Venusaur)
I hope we can trade with strangers like posting what we want etc, I don’t want to be restricted with just friends list :(
I don't know. Im fine with locking Crown rares and 3 Star rares. But Come on 2 Star rares at least.
U got the 1star and 4 diamonds mixed up
We need to be able to convert our extra cards for pack points. There's no reason what so ever somebody should have 43 psyducks. (Me btw).
Really dumb to restrict it to highest 1 star
I just wanna be able to trade for to koga’s still haven’t pulled them sadly
I hope we can trade promo cards. I really want the Mankey.
RMT is going to have a field day
It is so freaking stupid that you can’t trade whatever cards you want. I understand with the creating account and trading cards with yourself or other people but still, what’s the point of trading if you can’t trade whatever and however you want.
Hope eventually they can make it so 2* also tradable. I feel they dont wsnt to make crowns and immersives tradable and thats fair.
Yea, I could see them doing that in the future.
I think the 1 star rarity lock is pointless since it’s limited to cards of equal rarity. Crown for crown, 3 star for 3 star etc… the whales would still have a hoard of awesome cards while the rest of us plebs, would only really have access to a few more of the ones we prefer in exchange for trading something we pulled, that maybe we don’t want as much. At the end of the day f2ps will remain ft2ps and whales will continue to fund the game for the rest of us.
As much as I don’t like this trading system trading is trading and I am happy for it 🙏🏼
Guys i need someone to trade me a promo pikachu pls
Not the one from the shop but the one from the first wonder pick
I have a pikachu theme and sadly i missed that event so i still dont have that card
Restricting trading to 1 star max is still stupid, especially if you have to make equal value trades. If I have 3 times 3star Charizard and want a 3star Pikachu I should be allowed to trade one for it
WE. NEED. RANKEDS.
maybe make people that can trade need to be level 25++
Too bad… minimum 2 star is where the cards get interesting
so trading is basically absolutely useless 🤣
Ooooohhhh I called it. Trading is the same rarity. Yo I want my credit. Check your last vid. Ooohh
Oh credit stolen 😅🥲2:30
They might lower the chances of getting rare pokemon.
I got a Crown Charizard from a Mewtwo pack before knowing Crown cards don't care about where you pull from besides the set and it felt so bad. Please let me trade this card for anything else 😭😭
Also this seems to exclude promo cards as they have no rarity, I've been farming them a lot cause I thought they would be high value to newer players or those who missed them and I could later trade for promos I missed or just higher value cards for them.
As a veteran player of other games with this kind of fomo event exclusive stuff, please let me trade these cards to people. I don't care that it's a flex for playing at a point in time someone else didn't, just let everyone enjoy cards that were free to obtain anyway.
a few Promo cards i think count as 3 diamonds (the ones from chansey picks at least). You can tell from the shiny metallic border of the card. Same as Volcarona and Greninja from the Blastoise and Venusaur events
you know what else is massive ?
Maybe I can finally get my second pikachu to complete the deck 😠😠😠
to be honest there is a lot of player have other account like my friend and they have there own group hahahahahah.. 1 with 3-5 dummy account for this feature.
i hope they add more things to do..