Trading Is Coming To Pokémon Tcg Pocket Later This Month (with Some Caveats)

It’s coming a mini later than we initially thought, but The Pokémon Company (TCPi) has yet announced erstwhile Pokémon TCG Pocket’s long-awaited trading functionality is rolling out.

Today, TCPi revealed that, connected pinch Pokémon TCG Pocket’s adjacent group of cards, nan game’s trading characteristic is group to motorboat later this month. TCPi didn’t specify an nonstop time successful its relationship astir nan update, but it did explicate that trading will effect immoderate restrictions and costs. In bid to move cards, group will first personification to beryllium friends pinch 1 different successful nan game.

In bid to move cards, group will first personification to beryllium friends pinch 1 different successful nan game. Trades tin only hap if players are offering up cards pinch nan aforesaid rarity, meaning that you won’t beryllium tin to discarded and acquisition powerful EX cards for overmuch communal ones that are easier to pull. Additionally, TCPi trading is constricted to cards that personification rarities of 1-4 diamonds aliases a azygous prima full-art cards, and TCPi noted that “items must beryllium consumed successful bid to trade.”

It’s not clear which peculiar items players will petition for trades, but it feels apt that nan process will effect spending Poké gold, 1 of Pocket’s aggregate in-game currencies that tin beryllium purchased successful reside for existent money. The constituent petition sounds for illustration logical (but not precisely welcome) measurement for Pocket to make moreover overmuch gross fixed really easy it is to accumulate definite duplicates from each set.

In a follow-up station to X, Pocket’s charismatic narration stated that it was proceeding people’s contiguous concerns astir really this is each going to activity successful practice, and encouraged everyone to proviso overmuch feedback erstwhile nan characteristic is out.