When will Expanded be fully available on TCG Live?

@TechHog I understand that people can make some bizarre claims and assumptions about the client and various companies associated with the development and monetisation of the TCG app. We can't even seem to agree who makes it, who manages it and who profits from it.

But I feel your thought process often stops short of the logical conclusion that might bridge the gap between your position and the people you find yourself arguing with.

The app is underdeveloped, with bugs and missing features. Everyone mostly agrees on that point, I think.

The app might lack direct in-app pack sales, but people can buy physical packs, and those packs include codes for digital packs. However much an individual may personally value those codes, and however much of the revenue from those sales actually makes its way to funding TCG Live, some of that money logically must reach TCG Live and its developers.

The app does not exist out of the goodness of a few developers' hearts, toiling away for free in TPCi's basement. People are paid salaries, servers are funded, electricity bills are paid, art assets are licensed...

I think the average user's contention is that that money is not enough. The app is undercooked, and more resources need to be dedicated to improving it.

But here you seem to resort to a thought terminating cliché. The app does not directly make money, and the people developing it do not decide where those funds go, so...

So what? Your thinking seems to end there, as if TCG Live's development (or lack thereof) were a fundamental law of the universe. It just is. There is no one capable of making decisions or reallocating funding. That is just the way things are.

And I do not think you are stupid or ignorant. You clearly have a lot of insight into the franchise, software development and the TCG.

Perhaps it is resignation to the status quo? Cynicism? This is the way things are, and the people in charge will never be convinced to change them, so complaining about it is fruitless. The game can never receive sufficient funding, the bugs will never be fixed and older sets and formats will never be added.

One thread is unlikely to change things. And we can debate the reasons and motives behind this state of affairs all day (we have often come to loggerheads over whether encouraging more people to play Standard is a motivating factor).

But I think if the issue is raised frequently enough and the people in charge (whoever they are and whichever Pokémon related corporation they work for) are made aware that people do care about the client and its features, changes and improvements can be made.

TCG Live's dire state is not an insurmountable challenge.

It's not happening. They removed the "beta" tag on Expanded without changing anything, so it's safe to say the plans are scrapped.