- Why does Pokemon Home have the fans raging?
Pokemon demands one thing of its fans,
one thing alone.
You've got to catch them all.
It's a mandate.
But it can be nearly impossible,
considering there are almost 900 Pokemon
with differing versions spread across
a dozen video games and platforms.
However, The Pokemon Company is looking to streamline
all of this with a brand new subscription service
called Pokemon Home.
But surprise, surprise, like with all things in life
and Pokemon, some fans are all about it,
but not everyone is clambering to jump aboard.
And it's causing a massive rift within the community
with many taking to social media to voice their displeasure
or voice their displeasure
about people voicing their displeasure.
Anyway, people are gonna voice.
So what exactly is Pokemon Home?
And why are fans getting in an Incineroar about it?
Let's break it down.
Well, in the simplest terms,
it's a cloud-based storage system for Pokemon
you've caught across multiple Pokemon games.
While it had been first announced last year,
official details for Pokemon Home
were finally revealed on Tuesday,
including pricing plans, trading,
as well how it's going to facilitate
exporting and importing Pokemon across devices.
The Pokemon Home app will be available
for both the Switch as well as iOS and Android devices.
Switch users will be able to pull their Pokemon
from various titles like Sword and Shield
and the Let's Go editions and save them into Pokemon Home.
And Pokemon Go will be available
at some point down the line.
While users can funnel their Pokemon back and forth
between its original title and Pokemon Home,
any new Pokemon imported to Home
can cross over and be exported into Sword and Shield.
And as for the 3DS users who's been using
the other paid service, Pokemon Bank,
Home will let them pull over
those saved Pokemon to use as well.
However, once they make the move
from Pokemon Bank to Pokemon Home, you can't go back.
You can always go home again,
but you can't go to the bank again, it's closed.
It had bank holidays.
While there are a few other features
like adding the Global Trading System or GTS
back into Sword and Shield,
the goal is that fans are gonna have
a centralized location to store and trade
up to 6,000 Pokemon from across
all of the compatible titles.
That is, if users spring for the premium package.
And therein lies the rub.
While there's technically a free tier, or basic, ya basic,
it feels like a trial version
because it limits users' storage to only 30 Pokemon
and disables most of the app's functionality.
Now, of course, the aforementioned premium tier
opens everything up and comes at $3 a month,
$5 for three months, or $16 a year.
And some are okay with this pricing structure,
but many and oh so many are not.
Let's run down some of the highlights
of what people are saying.
Like @LordKazuya1, who said,
Pokemon Home sounds like a complete (bleep) show, hot damn!
Hot damn indeed, LordKazuya1.
Now, @CandidCassowary explained the pain in more detail.
LMAO, Pokemon Home is a joke.
$60 game, $30 DLC, $5 Bank subscription,
$16 Home subscription, $20 Online subscription,
that's a little too much for me, dawg.
I'd rather sink a couple hundred
on a max rarity TGC deck, thanks.
Oh, the collectible card game, you say?
You can actually play that?
I thought you were just supposed to trade
for a shiny Charizard at the local pool.
But maybe I'm just a Boomer, who knows?
@Arrsum_Kong spoke to some trends in modern gaming
when they tweeted, Pokemon Home should really
be a free service.
Like genuinely, in terms of branding,
what Pokemon markets itself as.
The price of entry should be the price of the games.
Well, that is a well thought out comment,
actually, on the internet?
Wow, will wonders never cease?
@mugmannn may have gotten to the heart of the matter with,
dudes'll pay $15 a year for Pokemon storage,
but they won't pay their rent?
You're worried about the wrong home, bro.
But not everyone is passed, that's a good one.
Not everyone's pissed at Pokemon Home.
Some are fine with it and instead,
they're pissed at people who are pissed at Pokemon Home.
Like @BunnyNamedSunny, who said,
people complaining that Pokemon Home thing's $15 a year,
but'll likely spend $20 on an Ubereats delivery
for some McNuggets, shut yo ass up!
Now, to be fair, the best fast food is fast food
you don't have to leave the house to get.
Actually, that makes it kind of slower food in the long run,
but hey, it's your life, live it.
@himborgan explained it succinctly with,
why are people so mad about Pokemon Home being $15 a year?
That's not much money,
and you get twice as much as Pokemon Bank.
And there's a free version, like, c'mon now!
But it's also, like,
totally about the principle of the thing, man!
You know, Digimon would never pull this.
And @JenHedgehog, who brought up the difficulties
of the ancient gaming history with,
people are really about here bitchin'
because they've gotta pay $2.99 for one month
of Pokemon Home, so they can transfer their Pokemon?
Or $15 a year?
LMAO, okay then, I'm pretty sure it cost more than that
for a Link Cable back in the day, but go off.
Wow, I haven't thought about the Link Cable
since I got all 151, 152 if you count Missingno,
when I was in fifth grade, first in my school!
You didn't win, Mike Gurgeon, wherever you are right now!
Hope you're havin' a good day.
But wherever you may fall in this debate,
maybe it was at @connorstonehere
who summed up the entire state of things with the tweet,
Nintendo in 2016: Pokemon Go encourages you to go outside
and see the beauty of the world
with all your favorite Pokemon friends.
Nintendo in 2020: All right, you lazy, sedentary bastards,
here's Pokemon Home!
Whether you're for or against Pokemon Home,
there's no stopping it.
We're just gonna have to see how it fares
when it debuts in February.
But what do you folks think?
Is Pokemon Home worth the price of admission?
Or is that price point too much for you?
Will it still make you try to catch 'em all?
Be the best like no one ever was?
Let's discuss.
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