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Pokémon HOME details announced: free and paid subscription, Switch and mobile app, GTS is back
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The Pokemon Company is the greediest, stingiest, most out of touch part of Nintendo. This all sounds terrible, but Ill still pay for it cause I'm a fucking idiot.
...but this would mean Pokémon company isn't out of touch lol
Huh. I wonder why the switch app doesn't have the trading function... At the very least I hope they have better options to manage your pokemon in Home. Sort by dex number or something. Mass release function would be nice, too. Usually have 3 or so boxes full of the same pokemon after doing some iv breeding and having to release them one by one is way too slow.
Well technically Nintendo is a part of them, not the other way around
No, the free tier has no Bank connectivity. If you want to move your Pokemon from Bank to Home, you have to at least pay for a single month ($3).
Suppose not, its just extremely scummy tactics. They know people like us will buy the games no matter what awful bullshit they pull lol
Sorting options are shown in the screenshots we've seen with Dex number being the one we've seen.
Ah, nice. I didn't see any in the OP's screenshots but they all seem to be in japanese anyway.
Also, I know it's highly unlikely but here's hoping we'll be able to transfer our poke miles from bank to home. I must have a boatload of those stored up by now.
I like how people's expectations are that $15 is too much. This software doesn't write itself nor it's free to run.
So? They are asking to much and for how pokemon has been recently quality wiseit shows a disconnect.
This is amazingly awful. Sure, there's a Free model, but they aren't even doing a free trial for HOME for Bank users to transfer? Just Bank for free for a month? God, how half-arsed.
But yeah, they took Pokemon Bank, tripled the price, and taped GTS to it (while making it useable on smartphones only, because why would any sane person use Switch for that). They get three bucks from me for a month once the DLC is complete (so I can transfer all compatible Pokemon for SwSh), and that's it. Yeah, I'll wait that long for the DLC to come out before doing any transferring. Bugger off with your tactics, Game Freak.
But yeah, they took Pokemon Bank, tripled the price, and taped GTS to it (while making it useable on smartphones only, because why would any sane person use Switch for that). They get three bucks from me for a month once the DLC is complete (so I can transfer all compatible Pokemon for SwSh), and that's it. Yeah, I'll wait that long for the DLC to come out before doing any transferring. Bugger off with your tactics, Game Freak.
Arent Go transfers a one way trip? Not sure what the incentive is for Go only players.
If Pokemon Bank can cost $5 for one year, why can't Pokemon Home?
I've played Pokemon since the days of Red and Blue. I remember the GTS of generations four and five. Everyone asked for level 1 legendaries.
$16.00/year isn't a very large amount of money, broadly speaking. As a price point for a subscription service, it's even on the low end. But at $11.00/year more than Pokemon Bank, this still feels like a very bad value. Bank already offered nearly unlimited storage, so what new features are actually making up that $11.00/year markup? Extra GTS slots and Pokemon in the wonder box? Hosting randomized trading rooms? The privilege of interacting with Pokemon Bank, which assumes you're already paying TPC the Bank subscription fee on top of the Home fee? This increase in price just doesn't seem merited.
but were pikachu at??
I am intrigued by the title but I also committed myself to the $30 SWSH DLC so I won't be dropping Pokemon this year, I will probably just hold off as long as possible on Home in hope that they improve it.
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outrage is funny af, almost as funny as the outrage prior to the games launch saying swsh were going to be the lowest selling games with their n64 trees etc, lmaoooooooooooooooo
Unless you really need the storage there's not much of a reason to pay over using the free version or a one month sub for transfer assuming you don't have anyone to do it for you.
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Lol at trying to get through to serebii in a pokemon thread.
Not really. You need entirely different hardware to use the GTS, when it should just be in the Switch app.
Are we really calling downloading a free app on a smart device a paywall now?
It is if you dont have a phone and tablet. Like you do realise kids play these games right?
I would imagine kids these are more likely to have access to a table or phone than a Switch lol.
The world is not the US.
Kids here do NOT have the means to use all this crap.
I dont know, not from my experience, im sure there are kids who have their own phones or can borrow their parents ones but it's still another hurdle to use a function that should just be in the game to begin with, or at the very least in the switch version of the app.
Sure and I agree, but this is the first time I've ever seen that called a paywall lol.
I was expecting the two versions to have identical features. I'm not sure if it was a design choice, technical issues between Switch and mobile, or something else entirely.
And that's exactly why they pull this awful bullshit, to begin with. Pokemon fans tolerance to being exploited is literally non-existent.
Heck, most of the people who were actively involved in Dexit bought Sword and Shield which basically defeats the purpose of Dexit.
Maybe that's their way of saying that all of this is intended for older fans and not for the kids that probably weren't even born when Pokémon Bank came out. I mean, even some things like adding friends will be restricted for people under 16.
Trading in the Switch version of the app could require NSO as well, so that would be an even bigger hurdle for kids.
The reality is likely most kids are not that crazy about the GTS, though. Or even Bank/Home for that matter.
I know, I mean that if GTS or any trading feature was part of the Switch app, then it would cause it to require NSO.
It makes no sense to me to not have these features on the Switch app unless TPC is actively bypassing the NSO requirement because otherwise the message would be that Home requires NSO on top of its own subscription.
We have to pay for it otherwise our Pokemon will get deleted when they shut down Bank.
Considering it's a ransom situation, I'm surprised they aren't charging more lol
That's possible and would make sense given how none of the features for the Switch version are online outside of the storage.
But what happens to your Pokemon when you stop paying for Home? I haven't seen anything from TPC saying they will keep them indefinitely. Or even keep them at all.
Im not sure how a subscription is a bigger hurdle than seperate hardware. Either way, it's dumb we're at this point with this functionality.
My Bank has lapsed before and I didn't lose everything (panic attack until I confirmed it though), so I have to hope that for 3x the price, Home won't delete you either.
If you put the app on your phone you could give them more access to your user data that they can sell to advertisers.
You probably just won't be able to remove them until you pay or something.
I don't think anyone has actually had their Pokemon wiped from Bank due to a lapsed sub. They said there was a grace period, but it doesn't seem to have passed yet in the six years of release lol.