The Trading system is horrendous

QuirkyTrainer4 · January 31

As a child I was never allowed to collect Pokémon cards, so I was really excited when tcgp was announced as a free to play game. I waited patiently for the trading feature to be added , and have defended it several times as to being a late addition under the reasoning that the dev team must be making it very well and testing it out a lot to ensure it is a good mechanic . I was disappointed when it was announced that we could only trade up to 1 star rarities , however I still stuck by defending this game and suggested it might be changed in the future .

When the new trading system actually launched . My friend and I eagerly opened up the app to trade some EXs, only to discover we needed 500 trade tokens , which can only be obtained through exchanging cards. To trade a 4 diamond ex, you need 500 trade tokens , but for some reason the dev team made the decision to have it so trading in a 3 star rarity card gives you a measley 300 trade tokens !?! This exchange rate is awful and while it is useful for lower rarity cards if you want to fill out the Pokédex , it completely destroys the original intention for the game. Both cards need to be the same rarity , however this neglects the want to trade several lower rarity cards for a higher rarity one .

My friends and I are very disappointed with this mechanic and will not be trading anything above 3 diamonds even with some of us happy to have spent money on this game .

I hope this is changed soon