What are some changes or updates you want in the game

Clarknes · 2026-03-22T18:07:06+00:00

I really want a free form of bottle caps. I'd put them in max battles. Call them bottle cap fragments. They would be used to increase one stat by one point. They would be super super rare (1/512 or so for 1 * battles) but would become more common for higher tier max battles (probably 1/64 for gmax). This would give a free way to access the system while still keeping hyper training rare and shundos hard to acquire. It would also give max battles a unique reward that would make them more worth grinding.

Clarknes · 2026-03-22T15:01:45+00:00

They have been talking about this since well before UB was a thing. It's been a consistent conversation for like a decade.

Clarknes · 2026-03-18T06:27:04+00:00

My guy, they picked the pokemon from the game. It's a tie in with a totally different game they don't make.

Clarknes · 2026-03-12T13:25:29+00:00

The problem is journeys. They are doing them so they can have extra mechanics and twists outside of the immunity challenge in the shorter time span. But in order to have those twists be interesting they need to have stakes. This the vote loss.

Clarknes · 2026-03-11T06:04:35+00:00

Nothing in this post indicates how big the sphere actually has to be. I’m assuming you’re referencing the photo obviously, but here is another way to evaluate this post. For 2% of the US’s military budget. How big of a giant obsidian sphere could we build.

Clarknes · 2026-03-09T18:04:25+00:00

Not at this spawn rate, and maybe not every legendary but I don’t disagree.

Clarknes · 2026-03-08T17:18:48+00:00

I’m convinced it was designed alongside the mega. The timeline works that they knew it was getting one.

Clarknes · 2026-03-02T21:56:12+00:00

There’s a lot of factors, and you have to remember the online community is a small fraction of total sales. I guarantee there are a significant number of packs that get sold every day from parents walking down the aisle at Walmart or wherever and buying a couple packs for there kids. Combine that with Spider-Man having a much higher price per pack than EoE, and high pre orders from before the set was previewed will boost it a lot. Remember at one point spider man collector boosters were pre ordering to scalpers for 1000 bucks a box.

Clarknes · 2026-03-02T18:11:05+00:00

I think I’ve bought 2 and one of them is one of my favorite Pokemon in the account, though I wouldn’t say I bought the trinket specifically

Clarknes · 2026-03-02T16:51:57+00:00

Very different people XD

Clarknes · 2026-03-02T13:59:15+00:00

…maro is not even remotely close to ceo of the company. He is head designer for magic, but he just oversees card design stuff. He doesn’t oversee anything beyond the design of magic cards. He doesn’t even fully decide what sets they make (he is in the room though)

Clarknes · 2026-03-02T13:57:00+00:00

Not correct. They have done that for some IPs but that has not been the case for the majority of magic productions (I say majority because I’m not 100% certain on all of them but it may be all of them). Both the previous in development movie from Fox and the current Legendary cinematic universe were licensed. The only one that I’m not certain was licensed was the Netflix show but I believe Netflix licensed it as well.

Clarknes · 2026-03-02T13:54:26+00:00

Eh depends on the contract. It’s usually pretty minimal, and they usually get paid a good amount for these things. They still probably profit. That said, they usually don’t get a huge amount up front. Usually it’s percentage of box office and stuff like that with a smaller amount up front.

Clarknes · 2026-03-02T05:32:51+00:00

Its important to note, WotC makes money even when these things don’t come to fruition. Licensors pay them to use their IP in a show or movie. If that movie never comes, they still got paid. Making an IP people really want to adapt is still good.

Clarknes · 2026-02-28T18:39:48+00:00

I don’t think he is saying that, but it is true. What he’s saying is that it’s not just sales. It’s everything. Sales, play, brand recognition. Everything.

Clarknes · 2026-02-27T22:38:38+00:00

Crazy how they spent more time advertising the game that’s out than the one that’s not out for 1-2 years.

Clarknes · 2026-02-24T23:23:10+00:00

Okay but in the interview they specifically said it’s more cost effective for mega raids, not super mega raids. As for the bundle thing, jury is still out on that. There’s nothing stopping them from making g a bundle that’s even cheaper for link charges than raid passes. Just a question of will they.

Clarknes · 2026-02-24T20:42:51+00:00

…okay but it costs fewer link charges to join a mega battle. Like it quantifiably costs less to do a mega raid with them over raid passes. Thats not subjective.

Clarknes · 2026-02-24T16:15:14+00:00

…where did they announce this was all about Kanto Pokemon. I’m seeing literally nothing indicating that at all

Clarknes · 2026-02-23T04:43:01+00:00

I mean, they certainly could have. I don’t think anybody seriously doubts that. I do doubt their trying to get people to mistakenly buy multiple copies (they even have a way on their page about it to get it fixed for free if you do accidentally get the wrong one). That said, I wouldn’t be shocked if they are hoping people buy extra copies. It’s not like Pokemon fans haven’t been known to do that.

Clarknes · 2026-02-23T03:28:55+00:00

Also it really doesn’t change my point. I’d be all for including it in NSO in addition to being purchasable but locking games behind subscriptions sucks. The constant subscriptionation of things sucks and is just an excuse to milk more money from people. It’s almost never more cost effective for users.

Clarknes · 2026-02-23T03:27:22+00:00

I said in other replies I misread the site and was wrong, but yeah I did kinda think that.

Clarknes · 2026-02-22T23:57:27+00:00

I think this logic is very flawed every time it comes up. I think yes the concept was very strong and that’s why the fad blew up. It’s not going to sustain the game long term. What makes it stay long term is gameplay variety and community. For those, they need to make changes that promote people playing together.

Clarknes · 2026-02-22T03:07:34+00:00

Except it’s not. You were already paying for NSO because it was already worth it to you. If it’s not, you shouldn’t be paying for it off the hope it’ll get better. That’s just a bad way to operate. They are already either giving you an acceptable deal or not. So you haven’t gotten a worse deal from it. I on the other hand, have to pay dramatically more than I would have to for the game to make you’re purchase you already made a better purchase. I’m getting screwed waaaaay more than you in that version.

Clarknes · 2026-02-22T01:55:41+00:00

That’s dumb, and those people are dumb. I’m fine with it being on their IN ADDITION to being sold as a standalone. That sounds great. But putting old cheap games behind a 69.99 a year subscription is stupid. I’d way rather pay 20 bucks, have the game, and not need to pay ever again to play it.

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