Welcome to the official Pokémon Forums!

Click here to review our official Rules & Guidelines.

Trading is heavily anti-consumer and borderline offensive to fans

I'm sorry but I must voice my concern. As someone who has been enjoying Pokemon TCG Pocket for a fair few months, enjoying card collecting, battling, and engaging with the community, I was looking forward to trading. However after every subsequent news and information (or lacketherof) leading up to the DELAYED release of trading has me disappointed and frankly digusted.

These predatory game mechanics of adding yet another TWO WHOLE CURRENCIES are both arbitrary and asinine and further raises questions about peddling gambling mechanics to children. We understood trading was going to be restricted, but never to this extent where your'e expected to destroy rare cards for the ability to trade lesser value cards just for another of the same rarity, one time per day.

Can you imagine if real life trading was this convoluted, restricted and monetised?

I was happily engaging in this game as a premium user with my peers, however I cannot in good conscience continue to support or recommend this game anymore. Effective immedietely I will be deleting this game, and discouraging my peers from purchasing/downloading this app until trading has been fixed and made more consumer-friendly.

A Pokemon TRADING Card Game with heavy delays/restrictions on the actual TRADING aspects should be investigated for false advertising practices.

Simply greed over gameplay. 😡