The Pokemon Company has brought on the ire of some fans with a handful of the recent decisions made concerning products like Pokemon GO and Pokemon Home. While The Pokemon Company has made major improvements to Pokemon Home within the last few months, some fans aren’t happy with the app.
Recently, the decision to make Pokemon GO transfers cost PokeCoins made plenty of players upset. Now, a recent Pokemon GO datamine reveals a similar additional cost might be added when transferring legendary and shiny Pokemon to Pokemon Home.
The Pokemon Company has been teasing Pokemon GO transfers with Sword and Shield for quite some time, thought the feature is currently somewhat limited. To transfer Pokemon from Pokemon GO to Pokemon Sword and Shield players need to have a copy of either Let’s Go Pikachu or Eevee for Switch and can only transfer Kanto Pokemon. Transfer between Pokemon GO and Pokemon Home is planned to arrive by the end of this year, but recent datamines are souring players reception to this as time goes on. Recently, a user on TheSilphRoad subreddit performed a massive datamine on Pokemon GO’s latest update.
Reddit user martycochrane made an incredibly in-depth post breaking down what the 0.191.0 update brings to Pokemon GO. Arguably the biggest piece of news is the long-awaited transfer integration with Pokemon Home. There’s a ton of information about how the process works but one bit of information sticks out like a sore thumb: “As part of the Energy Costs setting, it appears that your class (legendary, mythical, etc.) and if it’s shiny or not will affect how much it costs.” The Pokemon Company already revealed that Pokemon GO transfers to Pokemon Home would cost PokeCoin currency, but now it seems it may add an additional cost to certain valuable Pokemon.
For those who aren’t familiar with Pokemon GO, PokeCoins are the games premium currency. This means that PokeCoins are harder to come by through regular play and can be purchased for real world money. This news is frustrating for players for multiple reasons, as it was already an annoying addition to add an in-game currency for Pokemon GO transfers in the first place. The possibility that there may be an additional transfer cost on top of the previous cost makes the idea of moving valuable Pokemon GO Pokemon to Sword and Shield even more of a hassle.
Since Pokemon moving from GO to Sword and Shield need to move through Home first, there’s no getting around the PokeCoin cost should players want Pokemon from their mobile game on console. Now that the Crown Tundra DLC for Sword and Shield brought every legendary Pokemon back, GO players will no doubt want to move over some legendary Pokemon. While this information remains officially unconfirmed at the time of writing, it’s hard to see this potential move as anything other than overly greedy.
Pokemon Home is now available for the Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
Source: martycochrane (via Reddit)
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