Pokémon Buying and selling Card Sport Pocket gamers will get to commerce “sure playing cards” come 2025, the Pokémon TCG Pocket operations workforce introduced Wednesday. After launching in late October, Pokémon TCG Pocket has been a wild hit: The sport has reportedly made greater than $12 million throughout greater than 10 million downloads. Opening booster packs, amassing playing cards, after which battling with them has been the large draw for the reason that sport’s launch date, however buying and selling has at all times been on the docket. Now, gamers know when to anticipate it — in January. However the Pokémon TCG Pocket operations workforce isn’t going to open the buying and selling flood gates, as an alternative opting to maintain the performance restricted to “sure playing cards.”
“We’re planning to step by step increase the number of playing cards which might be capable of be traded,” the operations workforce wrote.
The addition of buying and selling is extremely anticipated, but it surely might essentially change the sport, one thing that The Pokémon Firm acknowledged at a press occasion held in November. “We all know introducing buying and selling right into a sport all about assortment goes to have important implications,” a Pokémon Firm consultant mentioned on the preview occasion. “We wish to see how individuals are enjoying the sport and what one of the simplest ways we might do that in a manner that is smart for TCG Pocket could be.”
Whereas buying and selling continues to be a number of months out, although, the Pokémon TCG Pocket workforce did say Wednesday that it plans so as to add new booster packs “by the top of the 12 months,” however didn’t specify a date. Different “new options” are in improvement, too, which the corporate plans to announce extra sooner or later.
