The Pokémon Mobile Drama + Cloud Gaming App Closes!🧐

PLUS: the Sims turns 25, a cloud gaming subscription closes down, an RPG scores 9.0 on MiniReview, and much more!

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Sune "NimbleThor" Thorsen
February 06, 2025

🎮 Pokémon TCG Pocket Addresses Player Concerns About the Newly Introduced Trading Feature

When Pokémon TCG Pocket released in late 2024, it was missing one tiiiny feature… card trading! I mean, it’s not like trading is an integral part of a “TCG”, right?… right?

Thankfully, trading is now here, but the community isn’t exactly pleased about its implementation, with many players upset that trading costs tokens - among other things.

To their credit, the dev team quickly responded on X, saying they’d add ways for players to earn trade tokens for free through events.

Trading remains expensive, however, which might help explain why the game recently earned $7.7m in a single day. We complain, but apparently we keep buying.

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