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Pokémon HOME details announced: free and paid subscription, Switch and mobile app, GTS is back
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Yup, I'm a prisoner. I have the income to support it, but this really sucks for children.
Can someone answer this because I'm a bit confused, I have a lot of Pokemon on X and Moon , am I required to buy Bank, just to then also get Home? Or can I go straight from X/Moon into Home?
You will need to go through Bank into HOME. They're providing Bank for free for a month when HOME releases, but after that you will need to pay for Bank.
You will also need to pay for HOME in order to transfer from Bank.
You need to pay $5 for Bank and $16 for Home.
Or you can hack your 3DS and Switch and use PKHeX I guess.
At least it'll be free during that time. Guess I'll have to hurry up with it.
This starts sounding like the sensible alternative.
Scratch that, I'll just store my teams on showdown for free.
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Once again, the Game Freak hate brigade starts again for something generally not worth getting angry about.
And it's from a bunch of people who probably haven't even played or planned on playing Sword and Shield in the first place, but still felt the need to say their piece.
And it's from a bunch of people who probably haven't even played or planned on playing Sword and Shield in the first place, but still felt the need to say their piece.
I have like 400 hours in the game.
I bought the DLC already.
Yes as a matter of fact, I am!
I saw all those things on the front and you know what I think about them?
I DON'T CARE.
Meanwhile the corporate bootlickers, many of whom also probably haven't played Sword and Shield, come out of the woodwork, try to dismiss any criticism (to varying degrees of legitimacy, admittedly) as 'entitled, toxic gamers', and continue to think the big corporation is their friend and are happy for the 'service' that is now being provided at an additional cost.
Thank goodness those corporate apologists are also here to 'speak their piece', and then never be seen from in the thread again.
Am I doing it right?
Should have been included in NSO.
It would have been worth that price if it had a basic form of Pokémon amie or a battling function, but this is way too barebones for that price.
It would have been worth that price if it had a basic form of Pokémon amie or a battling function, but this is way too barebones for that price.
The one way transfer Bank>Home is bullshit, I'm supposed to put a Pokémon in Home to complete the pokedex and then just leave it there, hoping for it to be added and usable again in a future game?
Why can't I put them back in Bank? Why can't Home just read the Bank Pokedex/save?
Why can't I put them back in Bank? Why can't Home just read the Bank Pokedex/save?
Nah, I'm sure it'll be some variant of "it was a design choice to free the GTS from the confines of a single game and make a true universal service that can be used on any device* totally for free**"
* any device being a smartphone
** restrictions apply
Then why do you care if people are critical of the pricing/features?
I bought Shield but I can still be a little peeved that the GTS, a feature that was included in the DS and 3DS games, was removed so this app can get its $15 price tag.
I've played every single main line game including SwSh, which I don't like. Pokemon Home is fucking ridiculous, from the price, to the contents, to that pathetic "free" tier.
Grow up, your post is embarrassing.
Heck, remember when GF said that Home would have exciting features and other ways for you to interact with your pokemon who didn't make it into a regional dex?
I'd love to know the reasoning for splitting the features between a smartphone app and a switch app (in addition to the game).
Seriously, why do some dev persist thinking that companion apps are "cool" ?
Seriously, why do some dev persist thinking that companion apps are "cool" ?
uhhh... no?
I actually enjoyed the game, but this whole thing feels not cool. Terrible value and the changes to the GTS are bad.
Yeah gonna call bullshit on this. The ONLY way this makes sense/works is if this is the future proofed plan for pokemon trading between games to avoid compatibility issues in the future, but I don't trust Nintendo to stick with that (or more specifically Gamefreak) which is the problem.
The easiest conclusion is these features were pulled out of sword and shield to put it behind a pay wall, but for 15 bucks for 12 months, and hopefully future proofing it's not the "worst" idea for a franchise as steady going as Pokemon.
Pros
-Future proofed with Cell phones not going anywhere anytime soon
-can trade and stuff even when not playing the game and anywhere at any time
-if the framework allows can be used to transfer all future mon data
Cons
-Features ripped out of the base game to pay for them
-the limitations put on people for non payers
-the selling of things like Pokedex as "features" when it used to be standard
I'm really not liking how Gamefreak is handling this but Bank cost me money and I loved it because I could put my pokemon anywhere but it was stuck on the 3DS, my hope is this is the final evolution of this system for the forseeable future because I'm not really happy about the pay to play mentality.
The easiest conclusion is these features were pulled out of sword and shield to put it behind a pay wall, but for 15 bucks for 12 months, and hopefully future proofing it's not the "worst" idea for a franchise as steady going as Pokemon.
Pros
-Future proofed with Cell phones not going anywhere anytime soon
-can trade and stuff even when not playing the game and anywhere at any time
-if the framework allows can be used to transfer all future mon data
Cons
-Features ripped out of the base game to pay for them
-the limitations put on people for non payers
-the selling of things like Pokedex as "features" when it used to be standard
I'm really not liking how Gamefreak is handling this but Bank cost me money and I loved it because I could put my pokemon anywhere but it was stuck on the 3DS, my hope is this is the final evolution of this system for the forseeable future because I'm not really happy about the pay to play mentality.
Not even close, but you know that, you're just trying to stir the pot.
Yeah I fucking remember. Still waiting to see what that is. Checking stats and abilities isn't interacting, I can do that shit in-game.
This is actually the worst post I have ever seen.
Im not paying 15 dollars a year to keep all the rockband dlc I bought, cross platform from ps3 ovee 10 years ago, and that shit actually has licensing issues and fees! How can anyone defend this?
You can't do that with Pokémon that aren't compatible with Shield!
You can with Home though!
Oh, so people who aren't in a fit of rage over this are bootlickers huh?
What if I don't care about the paid option and am perfectly content with this set up? Does that make me a horrible person? Well?
While that's true the features you get for the free version are extremely limited. You get what basically amounts to a single box of Pokemon which is not even close to enough to hold the average amount of critters I catch in an average playthrough.
The Pokemon Company has long had an obsession with getting the userbase on mobile. It's not a huge surprise they'd keep trying with how the platform has evolved.
You can say that without making broad ad hominem attacks.