Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket Surpasses Six Million Pre-Registrations

Whoops, forgot to download it! Thanks for the reminder. 30th October sounds suspiciously possible for a Pokemon Presents, but that's just the cabin fever talking 🤪 Between the Playtest and the inevitable Switch 2 Direct, I think my ability to wait grows perilously thin.

Me and my sister are ready!

Just another reminder of how absurdly popular this franchise is!

Stop teasing us and release the freaking game already! 😭

That is insane, but to be expected Game looks really fun. I think this is the first time I ever pre-registered a mobile game

I'm looking forward to this. I used to love the tcg but stopped playing/collecting because it cost too much, so I'm hoping this can scratch that itch.

Impressive milestone and I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully the monetisation aspect won't put me off like it has done for so many other mobile games.

Not available in The Netherlands.

Oh well, I can always get the physical cards instead, ton of stores sell it here since I was a kid.

I've been playing it with VPN the past few weeks and it's a really fun game.

Im looking forward to it. My personal concern though is that the game itself will get stale very quickly since people will use whatever the most optimal deck is and that's all you see. From the collecting aspect, I don't care about that because its all digital

I hope there's some kind of promotional event going on at launch. It'll be a bit underwhelming if I get my two free packs on the first day and nothing else. I assume they'll at least give you a starter deck of basic cards so you can actually play the game, but this is definitely the first case where I'm mostly there for the gacha.

Make that six million and one!

The crazy thing is seeing the massive influx of New Zealand residents in the past month just to play this game ahead of launch... myself included.

Oi, what is the talk about "current gen piracy and emulation"? Ya know this is an android emulator I was talking about, right? Meant for free to play games such as Pocket here to run on PC? Developed by NetEase!!!! (Mumu Player, look it up and please do your research on the mobile gaming culture if you're gonna report on mobile games, because it's not the same environment as premium console gaming...)

But yeah, to repeat what I just said.

"Is this why the game kept crashing in my emulator? It's not released yet?"

@Rayquaza2510 You can download the game off of QooApp, but just be aware you can't play it, likely due to the current pre-register status blocking us

@Anachronism there's a pretty good tutorial a that with give you multiple decks to play with. You can also unlock "rental" decks that can be used up to 10 times.

@Anachronism Have you not played or watched people start the game yet? You basically get 50-60 packs for free from missions when you start a new account. I have two accounts I have made thus far, both with over 400 cards each after only a handful of days playing. All free to play.

This looks good. Ill give it a shot.

@kal_el_07241 I was under the impression the new app was separate from the existing digital TCG. I might be entirely wrong on that, but I'd honestly prefer it so I could start out on equal footing with everyone else.

@Anachronism
It is. TCG pocket is a shorter game with less complex cards and smaller decks.

Ya'll should put the release date somewhere in the story. Perhaps it is in whatever YouTube video you have embedded, but your sites embedded YouTube videos never work for me.

@nukatha @kal_el_07241 @Fyrewalk Oh wait, sorry. I didn't realize the game launched early in New Zealand. That's...really weird. Are they basically using an entire country as beta testers?

@Anachronism yeah, it's pretty common with mobile game releases

I'm assuming we can trade? This is going to be awesome.