'Pokemon HOME' to Launch with Free and Premium Features, GTS, IV Checking
- Thread starter Water Pokémon Master
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Unless you also get guacamole and then you just have to make only ONE less trip.
My observation of this is that it's a lot better than people are making it out to be. Transferring your Pokemon has only been free once and that was when transferring from Gen 3 to Gen 4 with a DS with a Gameboy Advance slot. Every other time after that, you needed another device or PokeBank, so transferring Pokemon being behind a paywall isn't that unusual. The only issue being if you don't intend to pay for the yearly premium subscription and you transfer more than 30 Pokemon that aren't in SwSh, you'll either lose the 31st Pokemon and so on or be forced to keep your premium subscription until you can transfer then to SwSh or when they're usable in later generations. This is essentially holding your Pokemon hostage unless you pay for premium until some of your Pokemon become available in the expansion packs or in later generations.
Other than that, Pokemon Home Premium is pretty sweet. You can GTS trade up to 3 Pokemon at once or Wondertrade up to 10 Pokemon at once (a great way of giving out breedjects). You can also host and do room trades as well as normal trades, but I mainly care about the other two. The best thing is that you can do these from your phone and the phone is faster and usually has a better internet connection than the Switch.
When you pay for Premium, you're paying for 3DS transfer and storage capabilities as well as better trading capabilities but that is otherwise it really. Premium is only aimed at hardcore players who still play the older games and intend to eventually and slowly transfer Pokemon as they need them, while also giving them the storage necessary to hold all of those Pokemon. Otherwise free Pokemon Home will be more than good enough for most people with it allowing you to use GTS as standard and do up to 3 wondertrades at once as well as normal trading, all from your phone. It also allows you to move up to 30 Pokemon at a time between Pokemon Switch games.
Personally for me, I'll subscribe to the premium service after Frozen Tundra comes out since that is probably when I'll transfer Pokemon to Pokemon Home, once SwSh is at it's largest capacity, but I'm thinking of doing only the monthly subscription since I can always keep most of my current Pokemon on PokeBank and because I probably won't need the extra storage space until Gen 10 or so.
Either way, premium is unlikely to be needed as a yearly subscription for most of us and will most likely be bought in monthly or possibly quarterly amounts in order to transfer over new Pokemon every now and then, rather than to be used constantly as a storage.
Other than that, Pokemon Home Premium is pretty sweet. You can GTS trade up to 3 Pokemon at once or Wondertrade up to 10 Pokemon at once (a great way of giving out breedjects). You can also host and do room trades as well as normal trades, but I mainly care about the other two. The best thing is that you can do these from your phone and the phone is faster and usually has a better internet connection than the Switch.
When you pay for Premium, you're paying for 3DS transfer and storage capabilities as well as better trading capabilities but that is otherwise it really. Premium is only aimed at hardcore players who still play the older games and intend to eventually and slowly transfer Pokemon as they need them, while also giving them the storage necessary to hold all of those Pokemon. Otherwise free Pokemon Home will be more than good enough for most people with it allowing you to use GTS as standard and do up to 3 wondertrades at once as well as normal trading, all from your phone. It also allows you to move up to 30 Pokemon at a time between Pokemon Switch games.
Personally for me, I'll subscribe to the premium service after Frozen Tundra comes out since that is probably when I'll transfer Pokemon to Pokemon Home, once SwSh is at it's largest capacity, but I'm thinking of doing only the monthly subscription since I can always keep most of my current Pokemon on PokeBank and because I probably won't need the extra storage space until Gen 10 or so.
Either way, premium is unlikely to be needed as a yearly subscription for most of us and will most likely be bought in monthly or possibly quarterly amounts in order to transfer over new Pokemon every now and then, rather than to be used constantly as a storage.
We're winning the ability to use the transport system, which we already paid for a few gens ago
That's called buying.
Look, I'm not trying to argue anything here; I'm just pointing out that you used the wrong term.
I agree transferring from Pokémon Bank should be part of the free plan
Let's compromise. Not pay to win, it's CASH GRABBING
They should not be charging for this. IF they have to charge, it should cost no more than Bank is right now. I already for for Switch online. These features should come with the game, considering it was very bare bones and twice the price. 16 bucks for features that came with every Pokemon game is a huge ripoff. The only good feature I can see here is the GTS being on the phone.
Think about how much you would save if you paid for the sub for a single month brought everything over and then canceled it. Seriously swsh has everything you need to breed,level and ev train effectively theres no reason to even pay an initial 16 dollars. And if you cant afford that then why are you on the internet and not working as a full time begger on the streets
The complaints aren't from people who can't afford it. People are complaining because they don't feel it's worth it and/or because they feel that TPC owes them free stuff to make up for SwSh.
No here is the reason this is unacceptable i just paid 60 dollars for a game. 120 if you get both plus if you want both dlc thats 30. They just keep charging us and they know we will pay. Well I'm not. And i don't think you guys should either this service should be 5 or 10 at most, ridiculous.