Pokémon Buying and selling Card Recreation Pocket gamers will get to commerce “sure playing cards” come 2025, the Pokémon TCG Pocket operations staff 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 massive draw for the reason that sport’s launch date, however buying and selling has all the time been on the docket. Now, gamers know when to anticipate it — in January. However the Pokémon TCG Pocket operations staff isn’t going to open the buying and selling flood gates, as a substitute opting to maintain the performance restricted to “sure playing cards.”
“We’re planning to steadily broaden the collection of playing cards which are in a position to be traded,” the operations staff wrote.
The addition of buying and selling is extremely anticipated, nevertheless it 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 vital implications,” a Pokémon Firm consultant stated on the preview occasion. “We wish to see how persons are taking part in the sport and what one of the simplest ways we might do that in a approach 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 staff did say Wednesday that it plans so as to add new booster packs “by the tip of the yr,” however didn’t specify a date. Different “new options” are in improvement, too, which the corporate plans to announce extra sooner or later.
