Definitely, duel links are even more f2p than master duel, too. You just got sourced all gems at first in MD or 20 packs pokemon pocket case. If you have to do a 10 pull method in your ptcg pocket, and I hope you get lucky, kind of thing.
I played duel links when it came out and it took hundreds of dollars to buy out boxes then you had to reset and buy out again to get a couple of the top rarity which were required to be competitive. I have spent 23$ and am missing like 10 cards with 3 weeks of play. Share whatever y'all are on. Must be good and cheap with how you talk about this games monetization. Go play snap or hearthstone and retype your comments, I dare you.
@@stevenroberts4356 if u play that much, u are youtuber level....at least at 5 digit subscriber. If your experience and thought is well explained. Nobody in this world had this much time, most only good at 1 - 3 games max
@@gbo2steam I don't know if I could share screenshots but, that account is level 20, with about 40 wins have a purely ftp on my old phone with one week on this account and about 85-90% of the cards on my 23$ account. It also has some cards that I don't have on my main like Gengar and a few others. I just learned when to move on to the next pack and got a tad lucky with ex mons besides Pikachu, Gengar and Blastoise. Like I said it's very ftp friendly. I'll take a doubling in pack points but 6 weeks will net you 90% of the collection and you don't have to battle just login once a day and open two packs for the daily.
It's more likely people who kept rerolling the game for better cards. Cut the starting missing in half makes it so less packs can be opened on the first days, meaning less of a chance of people pulling gold cards on alts and saving them for trading. They did this because of the data they collected.
@Oracle2448 they cut pack point prior to soft launch. So I don't think there was any data collected aside from content creators that went to early access events.
I don't think it's so bad open a pack when you wake up open one before you go to bed.....seen so many with way worse system.... Mainly waiting to see how trading works.
@@Antisocialnerd2 If I had to guess it will be like a balance system to make sure people with multiple accounts cant just send them to each other freely.
You're better off just buying REAL Pokemon cards. Yeah, it's more money, but at least you own everything PHYSICALLY. However, this is just my opinion and whatever anyone wants to do with your money is up to them ❤
Yeah but heres my reasons for prefering the digital cards. 1. Permanent psa 10s they wont get damaged. 2. I dont have to deal with a bunch of cards, sleeves, deck boxes, coins, binders, and slabs. 3. If i want to use them to play its very easy. Vs with the real cards, it's a process. 4. Dont need to worry about any drama no fakes, no weighted packs, no resealed packs, no sold out packs. 5. Flippers cant take all the cards.
here is the kicker... its free >.> TF waste real money for cardboard vs free $0 cost cards.... hmmmmm ill go free TY. when you grow up and get a job and stop using mommy's money, your opinion might change... bills come first kid
Missed opportunity to drop a "if you plan on spending any money on PTCG Pocket, you're part of the problem and wish nothing but stubbed toes in your future" lol
Mad because you can't battle well with people who spent money? Or upset people would rather have digital cards than deal with pokemon drama like weighted packs fake cards resellers and the fanatics 😂
I'm really disappointed with the game. I thought this was some twist to original TCG but simplified. Turns out it was OVERLY SIMPLIFIED. And all the cards and its effects are changed to make it so braindead.
Lol ive been training for this. Ive been playing monster legends compleatly f2p for a few months now so i will never.... wait is that a special gardivoar pack?
So glad they kicked me off for a week. I started playing TCG live and think ill just keep playing that instead of forking over $30 each month for playmats, I have an lgs I can buy real playmats from
TCG live problem is the horrendous UI and the animations being ridiculously slow, but yeah F2P wise it's much better you start with very strong decks which need only a little modification to be top tier and through daily quest can get any meta deck after you have played a while.
It makes me so mad that they put a gift box next to the Erika bundle. It’s so misleading… like there’s something in the box. I just spent $10 to get a coin. Lol get rekt me
On surface it feels like a very chill casual game that really tries to be F2P only, with some fomo nudges here and there. On the other, the inner TCG nerd knows that at any point the complexity might skyrocket and you gotta be ahead of the curve. I feel like the thing that gets people all mixed up is "will it evolve in complexity soon?". Personally, I think it's inevitable, and this is just the very early vanilla phase with barely any flavors for PVP. As a casual fan, it's plenty, but mobile games don't survive on casuals.
not with this game.. as you know live is a 1 to 1 to the original TCG. this is a lite version with its own cards & Battle Rules separate from Live and TCG irl
Wait, to make sure I understand, could you "purchase" the premium pass, cancel it before the 2 weeks expires, and then repurchase as normal to get what is essentially 6 weeks for $10 vs 4? I'm trying to understand if the Premium Pass is "1 month and the first 2 weeks are free", or "2 free weeks then we charge you for a month FOLLOWING the free trial."
I just started yesterday and I had a battle with all those gardevoir skins. I felt kinda bad bc they lost with my default Pinsir deck i edited a bit (added items from the tutorial). They are prolly a kid. 😅
Yes but it’s purely cosmetic and not progression related so it’s fine tbh, I’d buy a koga one if they did it but that’s it I think people attach to things they like I don’t see the reason to have every single bundle The game is incredible cheap I was collection complete during the NZ launch Premium pass is good if you’re only going to buy one thing and I think that’s what people should be spending and then if they really like a cosmetic Gold is pointless to me now until a new set arrives
@@ninecity2455 but it true. Just because it just released doesnt mean the game should be this basic. Pokemon TCG is already one of the most basic card games in the world, play Yu-Gi-Oh! and you will see how insane the card mechanics and effects are.
But Pokémon didn't. They have had 15+years to do this as an introductory way to learn over the tcg. And they only care to compete with other mobile tcgs now that they are popular. Not to mention they seem to perffer this cash grab app over the actual tcg app that was arguably made worse in the last few years. Despite the old app working perfectly fine. @ninecity2455
dont know why they would shrink pack points from 10 to 5 cause even at 10 its impossible for f2p to get everything especially if they rapid fire sets out every other month. doing the math its kinda insane how much money they can squeeze out of people by cutting it in half
@@jaerelle you will get a harsh surprise when they add new expansions, or do you think they will keep only those three? You wasted all your tokens on the early sets, and has nothing for the upcoming expansions.
What do you mean EX card free???, YOU NEED 500 POINTS TO GET ONE FREE EX CARD and wonder pick doesn't help either since they make it you choose randomly, gamefreak really want their player suffering
Right like how can people not expect a free to play game/app to have micro-transactions. Take this game, Star Wars hunters and even the two Disney games that came out a few years as an example. All free to play but they have microtransactions/dlc in their games
I genuinely dont understand why people dont just play the actual app instead of this cash grab. Pulls are better the free battlepass just throws you free packs ontop of a new full deck every season.
Idk, I put in maybe like 5 hours on the new app bc I thought this was basically a relaunch of the old digital game. It's clearly not, and just an insane cash grab geared at kids who will sign up for subscriptions
Pocket is simply a rip-off and doesn't even have anything to do with the real cards. Unfortunately, there are enough naive people who spend their money on such an obvious rip-off.
Just don't buy it. EZ
Correct. Let them know people ain't buying if its stupid.
That's exactly what I am doing
yeah im not buying ANYMORE
im part of the problem :(
@@ElvisBeBack you're not a problem bro
You can buy 26 packs with the required poke gold for the full Erika bundle, pretty obvious imo.
The Pokemon Company cut my what in half?
they circumcised us
@@Colin-dk4ym ha! good luck getting a grip on mine to cut it
PP! Need to get more of those PP UP items…
Your PP
No one talks about the high prices this game demands, it’s as if people are afraid to speak against something or just accept whatever they’re given
Whats so expensive its much cheaper than the real verson
I enioy pocket enough, I'll play for free and just vibe with the simplicity. It's an escape from Zard Ex and Dusknoir
This should have all the likes from ppl who also play/played TCG online. This is way too relatable, but mewtwo gardy is becoming an issue.
@evanschneider3485 its not that OP only 150 dmg a turn... what else am I supposed to do with the 5 mewtwo EXs (1 being the cutscene card)
@@UnsocialChimp Then run Greninja or Gengar Fearrow disruption
This why I only play agianst the AI. But then agian I'm just a 4th rate duelist with a 3rd rate deck
@@UnsocialChimpif they dont get gardy set up it sucks though
It's funny how a kids' game, cartoon, and tangible card game is now a credit card digital game for adults.
They managed to make this game more expensive than Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links and with a worse PVP system, lmao.
Definitely, duel links are even more f2p than master duel, too. You just got sourced all gems at first in MD or 20 packs pokemon pocket case. If you have to do a 10 pull method in your ptcg pocket, and I hope you get lucky, kind of thing.
I played duel links when it came out and it took hundreds of dollars to buy out boxes then you had to reset and buy out again to get a couple of the top rarity which were required to be competitive. I have spent 23$ and am missing like 10 cards with 3 weeks of play. Share whatever y'all are on. Must be good and cheap with how you talk about this games monetization. Go play snap or hearthstone and retype your comments, I dare you.
@@stevenroberts4356 if u play that much, u are youtuber level....at least at 5 digit subscriber. If your experience and thought is well explained. Nobody in this world had this much time, most only good at 1 - 3 games max
@@gbo2steam I don't know if I could share screenshots but, that account is level 20, with about 40 wins have a purely ftp on my old phone with one week on this account and about 85-90% of the cards on my 23$ account. It also has some cards that I don't have on my main like Gengar and a few others. I just learned when to move on to the next pack and got a tad lucky with ex mons besides Pikachu, Gengar and Blastoise. Like I said it's very ftp friendly. I'll take a doubling in pack points but 6 weeks will net you 90% of the collection and you don't have to battle just login once a day and open two packs for the daily.
@@gbo2steam 0072051111407693
My friend code for the 23$ account verify if you like mate.
Ah the pack points being cut in half makes sense, the acquisition rate of them feels super low
It's more likely people who kept rerolling the game for better cards. Cut the starting missing in half makes it so less packs can be opened on the first days, meaning less of a chance of people pulling gold cards on alts and saving them for trading. They did this because of the data they collected.
@Oracle2448 they cut pack point prior to soft launch. So I don't think there was any data collected aside from content creators that went to early access events.
Been 5 points the entire time I lived in New Zealand.
That 12 hour recharge for opening 2 packs is ridiculous
I don't think it's so bad open a pack when you wake up open one before you go to bed.....seen so many with way worse system....
Mainly waiting to see how trading works.
@@Antisocialnerd2 If I had to guess it will be like a balance system to make sure people with multiple accounts cant just send them to each other freely.
@@kevinreeves3084i really dont was a restricted trading system
I really hate it how these big content creators justifies spending money on this God awful expensive game. Not a really good example for the viewers.
You're better off just buying REAL Pokemon cards. Yeah, it's more money, but at least you own everything PHYSICALLY. However, this is just my opinion and whatever anyone wants to do with your money is up to them ❤
Yeah but heres my reasons for prefering the digital cards.
1. Permanent psa 10s they wont get damaged.
2. I dont have to deal with a bunch of cards, sleeves, deck boxes, coins, binders, and slabs.
3. If i want to use them to play its very easy. Vs with the real cards, it's a process.
4. Dont need to worry about any drama no fakes, no weighted packs, no resealed packs, no sold out packs.
5. Flippers cant take all the cards.
here is the kicker... its free >.> TF waste real money for cardboard vs free $0 cost cards.... hmmmmm ill go free TY. when you grow up and get a job and stop using mommy's money, your opinion might change... bills come first kid
Divorce is breaking all values promises between a husband and wife.
I just bought the premium pass and the 3 first time buyer poke gold . F2P from this point on minus the premium pass 😅
I dont see the Erika playmat stuff? Where am I suppose to look, its not in the pokegold shop
Missed opportunity to drop a "if you plan on spending any money on PTCG Pocket, you're part of the problem and wish nothing but stubbed toes in your future" lol
Poor people problems 🥱
@@banded_eon711 its funny how normalized that is to says nowa days lol
@@Omega_thehuskythey milking us in this economy :(
Mad because you can't battle well with people who spent money? Or upset people would rather have digital cards than deal with pokemon drama like weighted packs fake cards resellers and the fanatics 😂
@@RS3Boomer This as well. Stop complaining and put up a fight.
I'm really disappointed with the game. I thought this was some twist to original TCG but simplified. Turns out it was OVERLY SIMPLIFIED. And all the cards and its effects are changed to make it so braindead.
That's true. I got bored after 1 day. I've got nothing to play after day 1 lol
Thats speed dueling man😅
@@RS3Boomer in yugioh speed duel use same card as real card. This is completely new fake ass card that doesnt exist real life.
@Bos_Meong look better to
@@RS3Boomer no
Lol ive been training for this. Ive been playing monster legends compleatly f2p for a few months now so i will never.... wait is that a special gardivoar pack?
So glad they kicked me off for a week. I started playing TCG live and think ill just keep playing that instead of forking over $30 each month for playmats, I have an lgs I can buy real playmats from
TCG live problem is the horrendous UI and the animations being ridiculously slow, but yeah F2P wise it's much better you start with very strong decks which need only a little modification to be top tier and through daily quest can get any meta deck after you have played a while.
It makes me so mad that they put a gift box next to the Erika bundle. It’s so misleading… like there’s something in the box. I just spent $10 to get a coin. Lol get rekt me
Wait what did you get?
whats the best reroll acc in ur opinion, and how do you get greninja
On surface it feels like a very chill casual game that really tries to be F2P only, with some fomo nudges here and there. On the other, the inner TCG nerd knows that at any point the complexity might skyrocket and you gotta be ahead of the curve.
I feel like the thing that gets people all mixed up is "will it evolve in complexity soon?". Personally, I think it's inevitable, and this is just the very early vanilla phase with barely any flavors for PVP. As a casual fan, it's plenty, but mobile games don't survive on casuals.
not with this game.. as you know live is a 1 to 1 to the original TCG. this is a lite version with its own cards & Battle Rules separate from Live and TCG irl
you can only blame the one that presses the BUY button hook line and sink....
What's the point of card sleeves in a virtual card game? They can't get damaged
Another thing they can milk monetarily. Whales who want everything will have to pay for one more thing.
if you want to be the only one with default backs while dueling then more power to u Mr default
How do you equip the play mats
Wait, to make sure I understand, could you "purchase" the premium pass, cancel it before the 2 weeks expires, and then repurchase as normal to get what is essentially 6 weeks for $10 vs 4? I'm trying to understand if the Premium Pass is "1 month and the first 2 weeks are free", or "2 free weeks then we charge you for a month FOLLOWING the free trial."
It's following, I haven't payed yet but have gotten all the premium pass benefits
I tried the game but the excessive over monetisation was enough for me to walk away.
The people with the Erika cosmetics are the people that bought the $100 pokegold and had some leftovers or they are the biggest Erika fans
Literally a non issue. Two free packs a day is a lot more than other games lol. Its supposed to be casual so play it casually.
So many people take is so seriously I was berating some people who think thier geniuses for playing the most basic mewtwo ex or charizard ex deck 😅
I just started yesterday and I had a battle with all those gardevoir skins. I felt kinda bad bc they lost with my default Pinsir deck i edited a bit (added items from the tutorial). They are prolly a kid. 😅
I can't play because of the anti-gambling laws in my country😔✌️
i actually have a question about that doesnt that mean all physical tcg's atleast there packs are against the law? it doesnt make sense other wise
You can actually sell physical tcg cards though@@Omega_thehusky
Yes but it’s purely cosmetic and not progression related so it’s fine tbh, I’d buy a koga one if they did it but that’s it I think people attach to things they like I don’t see the reason to have every single bundle
The game is incredible cheap I was collection complete during the NZ launch
Premium pass is good if you’re only going to buy one thing and I think that’s what people should be spending and then if they really like a cosmetic
Gold is pointless to me now until a new set arrives
This game is just way to basic I’m already bored with this cash grab of a game
battle is not fun at all, its just a dck measuring contest, no strategy at all due to removal of most effects and ability in the card.
agreed little to no strategy & only 20 cards makes it very stale/boring.
bro the game just released
@@ninecity2455 but it true. Just because it just released doesnt mean the game should be this basic. Pokemon TCG is already one of the most basic card games in the world, play Yu-Gi-Oh! and you will see how insane the card mechanics and effects are.
But Pokémon didn't. They have had 15+years to do this as an introductory way to learn over the tcg. And they only care to compete with other mobile tcgs now that they are popular. Not to mention they seem to perffer this cash grab app over the actual tcg app that was arguably made worse in the last few years. Despite the old app working perfectly fine. @ninecity2455
dont know why they would shrink pack points from 10 to 5 cause even at 10 its impossible for f2p to get everything especially if they rapid fire sets out every other month. doing the math its kinda insane how much money they can squeeze out of people by cutting it in half
Yeah thought so.
Average pokemon experience
I think this game can be played fully without paying any money
You can get ex card for free
So many booster pack for free
What you need more
True.
Once you complete all the missions & battles those free booster packs decline verryyyyyyy quickly.
Im at 199/226 card dex after playing 1 month. Didn't spend single penny and I have 6 meta decks i can use
@@jaerelle you will get a harsh surprise when they add new expansions, or do you think they will keep only those three? You wasted all your tokens on the early sets, and has nothing for the upcoming expansions.
What do you mean EX card free???, YOU NEED 500 POINTS TO GET ONE FREE EX CARD and wonder pick doesn't help either since they make it you choose randomly, gamefreak really want their player suffering
Can i save and use premium ticket later after pass expired?
I would assume so but won't know for sure until my free trial ends after the 14 days.
Okay, that's nice and all but where's the macrotransactions?
It's not a free-to-start gacha game if it doesn't have macrotransactions.
Right like how can people not expect a free to play game/app to have micro-transactions. Take this game, Star Wars hunters and even the two Disney games that came out a few years as an example. All free to play but they have microtransactions/dlc in their games
I genuinely dont understand why people dont just play the actual app instead of this cash grab. Pulls are better the free battlepass just throws you free packs ontop of a new full deck every season.
Idk, I put in maybe like 5 hours on the new app bc I thought this was basically a relaunch of the old digital game. It's clearly not, and just an insane cash grab geared at kids who will sign up for subscriptions
I bought all the bonuses. Pulling is fun
And I bought it.
lol game doesnt have much meat on bones more for digitally collecting cards seems like hella of a cash grab.
I was hyped for global lauch but all we got was 2 new offers on the shop and new items to the subscription. 😞
There will be events one after the other starting tomorrow.
Yeah the game is really flat. Idk getting bored of playing it already. Battles are so boring
This $hit made me appreciate live and master duel lmao
You don’t buy it. I’ll be the 100000 comment but it’s the go to comment to complaining about micro transactions for the last 15 years.
Pocket is a funny game to have in your phone and check from time to time.
Having the real TCG cards is better. ALWAYS.
Yeah, I’m just gonna buy the pass every month and that’s all
date of birth error pokemon tcg
Help me pleassss
I player today,made two meta decks free and still got Bored,unistall the game,good Luck spending money😅
Bought all the packs and cosmetic and the pass
Happy launch
Will there be set rotation in this game?
Irelefant
No content update but that shop sure got updated huh😑
Pocket is simply a rip-off and doesn't even have anything to do with the real cards. Unfortunately, there are enough naive people who spend their money on such an obvious rip-off.