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I'm trying to wrap my head around this. So the GTS portion of Home essentially lets you trade SwSh Pokemon without having to pay for Switch Online?
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Nope, you need Switch Online.I'm trying to wrap my head around this. So the GTS portion of Home essentially lets you trade SwSh Pokemon without having to pay for Switch Online?
What I like: Instead of icons for representing the Pokemon they used cool cel-shaded versions of the Sugimori artworks.
I’m not really convinced that this generation is much worse than past ones (other than $40 -> $60 for base games but that’s not surprising).That being said, all this monetization between Dexit, DLC, and now Home makes me wonder if TPC new method is to make money off every Pokémon having a cult following.
I certainly disagree with this. It's triple the price as Bank for pretty much exactly the same thing plus a couple bells and whistles without the ability to transfer all the pokemon, and it paywalls GTS a feature that used to be in the base. I'm livid.Overall. It's fine. I would have liked more for the price, or a cheaper price with just this, but it's certainly not an awful price to pay. I do wish we could get that release date sometime soon, something more than February. But hey if it's February 1st I won't complain.
Honest the price increase makes sense since home allows you to do more than just storage. You can be mad that you have to pay more but it still make sense regardless. And even then then it's still not that much for an annual paymentI certainly disagree with this. It's triple the price as Bank for pretty much exactly the same thing plus a couple bells and whistles without the ability to transfer all the pokemon, and it pays ways GTS a feature that used to be in the base. I'm livid.
You're going to have to take that to gaming industries in general, cause this is the norm now. Also GTS is still free. If anything I think having it separate eases things for them a bit@Knightwolf09 How much more are we given when GTS used to be a standard feature, we can't use all the Pokemon in every game anymore, and the minigame stuff in minimal and Pokemon Dream World was a free service at one point?
It doesn't make sense to me at all outside of greed. I don't see any actual value here just price hikes and paywalls
Honest the price increase makes sense since home allows you to do more than just storage.
The norm is fucked then. It is completely justified to complain about the norm when the norm is horseshitYou're going to have to take that to gaming industries in general, cause this is the norm now.
You forgot to mention the bank compatibility plus over 6000 slots for pokemon. Which I'm fairly sure is for living dexersYeah, but the storage and transferring is, I think, clearly the main point of value that they're using to try to justify a paid plan. The other premium benefits are all pretty small improvements on what free users get - premium lets you trade a couple more Pokémon at a single time, lets you host Room Trades instead of just joining them, and gives you an IV judge (wowee some hot premium-tier shit we got right here). I'm glad the GTS and trade features are free, but I can certainly see the "premium is just Bank with some bells and whistles at triple the price" view.
Never said you had to like it. But still it's not that bad compared to other paid servicesThe norm is fucked then. It is completely justified to complain about the norm when the norm is horseshit
This is straight up price gouging.
You forgot to mention the bank compatibility plus over 6000 slots for pokemon. Which I'm fairly sure is for living dexers
There's also the fact you don't have to pay the full annual fee to transfer. About 3 bucks for a transfer, which is even cheaper than what you'd normally pay for with bank. While I see your point about paying more to do what you used to, you still don't have to pay the full fee to get what you want done. This is why I brought up the living dexers having the hardest time, cause it's hard to imagine people having over 200+ mons to take with them unless they were just that.I edited my post to be a little more clear, but I didn't forget to mention those - that's what the first sentence is saying. Premium's big, exclusive benefits are mass storage and transferring; the other perks are just minor improvements on free features. Therefore its most direct comparison is to Bank, which offered those same services for a third of the price. So people specifically wanting to use the mass storage or transfer features are having to triple their payment in order to continue using a service similar to the one they currently rely on, and the other minor perks don't really make up for that since they'd be able to do most of that stuff (with just slight limitations) anyway by using the app for free, and in previous games were able to access them all in the base game itself without paying any extra fees.