Though Pokemon TCG Pocket has been extraordinarily profitable since its debut final yr, not every little thing within the recreation is in style with gamers. Working example, the commerce tokens launched in late January had been met with an especially damaging response, partly as a result of gamers needed to destroy their duplicate playing cards to earn them. Now, the sport’s builders, Creatures Inc. and DeNA, have revealed that they are going to be eliminating the buying and selling tokens and changing them with one other in-game forex.
As shared on Pokemon’s official site, commerce tokens can be utterly faraway from the sport by this fall. Of their place, shinedust will now be the forex used to commerce playing cards. Any commerce tokens that stay in gamers’ collections after the switchover can be transformed to shinedust.
Shinedust will solely be required for trades involving playing cards with three-diamond, four-diamond, or one-star rarity. Nevertheless, the precise breakdown of the price in shinedust wasn’t disclosed. Shinedust is robotically earned when gamers get a card they have already got registered of their Card Dex. Since Shinedust can be used for trades, the builders are trying into rising the quantities which can be given to gamers.
The in-game buying and selling operate will even obtain an replace sooner or later that lets gamers share the playing cards they need to commerce for, which ought to make the buying and selling course of go extra easily. The devs additionally said that they’re investigating how they will let gamers swap playing cards that are not at present capable of be traded, together with promo playing cards and two-star rarity playing cards.
The Triumphant Gentle growth for Pokemon TCG Pocket launched on the finish of February, as the sport handed 100 million downloads. Earlier this week, Pokemon Go developer Niantic’s gaming division was bought by Scopely in a $3.5 billion deal. That will not have an effect on plans to deliver Pokemon Go Fest to Paris and different places this summer time. The following Pokemon Swap recreation, Pokemon Legends Z-A, not too long ago unveiled just a few of its starter Pokeman forward of its launch later this yr.
