Unite ideas?

Why gems exclusive? That would and does make a lot of us mad. They do that anyway with treasure box "challenges" and the throwing ball prize machine which, if you really want the holowear or avatar gear, you end up spending a lot of money. They give us false hopes of actually being able to "win" the items(s) but the reality is that the odds are very much against you.

I say you should be able to earn them & have a gems price. Not gems exclusive.

I still disagree with that first part.

Trainers already pay to get maps completed faster for the dice rolls, or research for the new pokemon completed ahead of everyone else... This is evident when you play ranked and they already have the license for whatever Pokemon it is.

They also make more money now on battle passes since many of us do pay for those (also evident in how many earn the actual holowear) then they used to because they are charging about the same amount now that they charged before the Glacieon battle pass (December 2025?). Before that pass we would pay one amount, for the chance to earn via missions, one good holowear, a secondary lesser holowear for a different Pokemon, and three sets of avatar gear on top of the normal other things. Now they only offer the normal other things and one good holowear. They reduced their product while keeping the price about the same thus actually raising the prices.

I do like the your idea to allow us to be able to earn and pay for older holowear/avatar gear via tickets. I have my eye on sooooooo many I would like, but, alas, I know that in reality, unless they give out boxes more often like we've received over these past couple of months, I will probably never get them. Sigh.

I understand that, but they already allow immediate purchase via gems, in direct and or convoluted ways (i.e. direct purchase via gems, gems purchasing dice rolls/treasure chest openings/upgrade treasure boxes, gems purchasing extra daily throwing balls, gems purchasing research for new licenses, etc) and people who want it/them immediately do already pay for it/them.

Why limit the new things to ONLY gem purchase until a year later for those who need to earn it? We have already put so much money into this game, way more than a standard Pokemon console game....

Consider this.... a standard battle pass as of right now costs about 699 gems. If you can't purchase gems on sale, that would be 60 gems = $1 (USD). So $12 (USD) per pass. Now, you only get the chance to earn one holowear for that pass after you purchase the pass. If you were to buy ONLY the battle passes and no other items, in one year (assuming about one a month which seems to be the standard) that's 12 x $12 = $144 per year per person! That's way more than your typical $70 - $80 cost of a console game. So don't worry, they are making their money as it is. And no, please don't make things gem exclusive until a year from release. In fact, I have barely been playing a year and if we didn't have earnable events, I think I would have been disappointed in this game a long time ago. Right now, it's a fine line they straddle between a cash grab and being considerate of their customers/trainers/players or whatever you want to call us.

Yes, again, it would be nice if we could earn via tickets, older things such as hollower. We currently do that with license points too if you miss the events of newly released Pokemon or didn't pay gems to obtain it early (mostly those people who want to use them in ranked before nerfs and before others have it, so it gives them an "edge").

So again, I disagree with the first part but wholeheartedly agree with the second part of your idea. Sorry, I just view it differently.

We need mega absol, and... INCINEROAR ! XD

Okay so my first response isn't showing for me to edit so sorry if this repost/restructure is on top of my first.

You say you understand, but then immediately your solution is antithetical to the inevitable reality of what they're going to do as a company. Yes, it would be super nice of the mega corporation to allow players who amass tickets to get new mons and cosmetics for free/their investment of time in their free game, but that's never going to happen and keep the lights on for the studio and servers. This games livelihood depends on in game purchases, gottcha mechanics, and subscription style features. There are fair critiques that can be made about the rewards from those products, absolutely.

However; it is critical to understand that you don't have to engage with EVERY single paid feature. You are correct, if you battle pass and subscription max this game, you will be paying a lot of money no doubt, but you don't really NEED every skin or mon on the roster to play. The player who plays every single mon frequently enough to feel the FOMO is far and few between. My idea at least appeals to the structure they will claim they need to justify keeping the lights on while simultaneously offering players a way to get the stuff they really want with time, at the minimum my idea is something I think could actually be implemented vs your idea that everything new should be obtainable for free currency right out of the gate.