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Do the devs just throw out updates haphazardly?
Overhauling the economy on a whim? What a complete mess! Do they even calculate anything or think about the consequences before messing with the economy and rewards?
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On spot, they are mostly careless and clearly amatures... they keep making bad decisions and breaking the game, that’s why so many players left the game.
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I have been trying hard to hang in there just becuz i have always been a fan. But everytime i try to enjoy this game, i just end up liking it less an less. An theres alot of reasons. All complaints fall on deaf ears.
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I thought that they did this to regulate distribution of digital copies of Pokémon TCG cards, and give everyone roughly the same chance to obtain them.
Letting players who were hoarding trainer points to exchange them for most valuable cards from new expansion, to build top performing deck in the very day of release is not ideal.
That's not what this exchange system was designed for in first place. It was designed as substitute for trade to allow players who opened countless boosters, yet they are still missing some cards, to obtain them this way.
For that purpose, the change would ensure that this system is working as intended, if was restricting crafting on all newly released cards, not just the "secret rare".
The way it is, it only ensure that illustration cards are truly rare even in digital version.
I see reason why some people who play for long time feel upset about this, I however also see reason for such change.
Also… most important thing remains, that they have to keep even PTCGL profitable, and probably only way they generate profit from this game is indirectly from players redeeming codes in physical products purchased at retailers. 🙂
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repeatedly buying the Shadow Rider VMAX deck. Every card was craftable—even though the game was riddled with bugs at the time, its economy system still received widespread praise.
As the Pokémon TCG launched in new language regions, PTCGL's player base grew. But around March last year, a critical economy bug emerged, followed by the rise of third-party servers. Player numbers began steadily declining.
This March, no major bugs occurred—yet the PTCGL team seemed dissatisfied. They forced artificial updates: drastically inflating daily mission rewards to absurd levels while locking new overnumbered cards behind a 6-month crafting delay. This move left veteran players deeply frustrated.
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I'm just a code seller, and ever since this update, my code sales have dropped by half. I suspect the developers originally intended for players to use their daily Trainer Points to buy the latest Booster Packs and unlock rare cards—with the idea that if they still missed a lot of cards, they could then purchase codes for extra pulls. But here’s the problem: players have no reason to spend Trainer Points on the newest Booster Packs because repeatedly buying Celebrations Booster Packs gives them way more Trade Credits. As a result, using Trainer Points for the latest packs just feels pointless. This has led to tons of players outright skipping the newest rare cards.
What really baffles me is this: If the goal was to let players earn rare cards through daily rewards while still encouraging code purchases, why not make the daily rewards work like Pokémon TCG Live’s ‘Pocket’ system—directly awarding the latest Booster Packs? They could keep a small Trainer Points reward in the daily tasks and replace the rest with one of the newest Booster Packs. That way, the in-game economy stays balanced, code trading gets a boost, and player engagement increases. It’s a win-win.
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ive been a player for the last couple rotations and have lost all patience with the state of the app. this rotation in particular has been quite a shock to the system, i have no motivation to update my decks when i cant even practice with them on the app, and when i do i either get dogged by dragapult or raging bolt or charizard or a stupid meme deck. its exhausting to try to even play a single game, its just not fun anymore when the only response from the 4 total devs is "submit a ticket" when my energy is better spent playing a game that actually works, its been a long time coming but i think this rotation is the last straw, they made it so much harder to build the decks when i have to grind for things that i cant even grind for because the stupid app is busted beyond playability. im so done honestly, time to learn a new card game 😅
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Constant freezing an bugs. Go through 10 matches quitting instantly out of 7 or 8 of them because of the terrible rotation when dealing cards. Whole system needs to be scrapped an just start over. Game is so pointless anymore.
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