Speak for yourself. I play with my family and the removal of trading would be awful for the way we play. I wouldn't mind a crafting system being implemented in addition to the current methods of obtaining cards, but the current system is one that should be improved upon, not completely scrapped. And... "Trading" is literally in the name of the game, is it not?
I don't know why. They know what cards go to which account. I assume you'd just log on the new client with the same credentials. People would lose their GD minds if collections they spent real money on were ditched. It's an obvious non-negotiable feature.
Not only would this be an insane decision to forego, I feel like that would be on the line of a class action lawsuit. I guess nothing is forever, but that would be totally f*cked if Pokemon made a brand spanking new 'PTCGO' with a brand new name and all, but didn't bring over the database of those who have already spent money on their current cards. I just can't see this happening.
What is that process?
I doubt we’ll see one as bad as Duel Links for multiple reasons (TPCi trying it in the past with Gems, anti-loot box legislation in certain countries preventing the game from seeing release in those markets, the age demographic for the Pokémon TCG, etc.), it’d alienate both old and new players and goodness knows how many.
People were seriously harassing them over pack pulls? I won’t disregard it completely (I myself have some criticism over it, especially when the client treats ALL packs as individually-packaged ones with wildly different odds rather than treating 36 packs as a booster box with a general range of UR/SR pulls) but I see more people complaining about the RNG for shuffling and coin flips and the lack of creativity regarding tournaments and features.
You basically get packs from beating opponents, I doubt it’ll ever be a thing though.
That doesn't even sound good to me in a sim tbh. Makes sense for a game, but that's too grindy for this purpose.
While I agree that they should have announced it at the Presents, it's obvious that this was an error the bears decks release around the same time and still only mention PTCGO. Somebody sent the wrong images.
I can see where you’re coming from, but Arena is far from “unbelievably predatory.” I’m completely F2P on it and doesn’t feel hard to build up a couple high tier decks.
Removing trading definitely isn’t the only way to go about it. I mentioned an option or two in my reply to Diego. Unless IAPs make an appearance in Live, I doubt much will change.
I totally disagree with you, I am a full f2p player and have cards like SR quick ball, SR urshifu v/VMAX, and lots of full arts and competitive Pokémon. And I got all of that thanks to the trading system.
You can only get those from winning enough in tournaments though. The only thing a less skilled player can trade is pikachu clothes. Besides, how long have you been playing? A newer player would have to play quite a while to build that up, where as in arena after a while, getting a new deck is possible as f2p
I play this game since 2013 with lots of 3-14 months pauses in between, but I started trading just when I got back when lost thunder came out. The hardest card for me to get was those quick balls, I got back playing in January during vivid voltage and by February when shining fates got out I had them and the whole ADP/zacian deck playset, just by trading.
It takes a while at first, but you do it by playing theme deck tournaments, getting a few packs, and making your first deck. No, you won't be making shadow rider calyrex, which requires, about... 50+ packs, but you can still make a more budget deck to start playing standard and make the grind less boring and luck dependant. The new player could build victini vmax, for instance.
Sniping's a good job, mate. Sadly, flipping, sniping and/or negotiating with peopleon chat is a whole other game on its own. A new player should stick to playing for packs at first, and then cash out with the trading system.
I am aware of snipping, but unfortunately, my internet and cellphone don't allow it, takes about 20 minutes to get to the 8 hour mark, at first I thought it was like that but then I tried it in my school's computer before class and it was super quick.