However, redeeming card codes will be limited to recently released or upcoming sets such as this month’s Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield – Brilliant Stars sets.Ĭurrency for Pokémon TCG Live includes coins – which can only be used to purchase customisation items for your avatar, deck boxes and sleeves – credits, if players want individual cards to fill in empty slots in their decks, and crystals, a currency that can be used to purchase available booster sets alongside any bundles or customisation items players want. Players will be able to enter any card codes they get with physical decks into the game after it fully launches in order to unlock sets to use in-game.
Pokémon TCG Live is an entirely free-to-play game with no in-app purchases, meaning that players cannot spend real currency to buy in-game currency or products. Image: The Pokémon Company.Īny unopened products players might still have in their Pokémon TCG Online app can be converted into currency for Pokémon TCG Live, which can be used to purchase different items in the app’s online store. Alternatively, players can import specific deck lists into Pokémon TCG Live by copying them from Pokémon TCG Online into the new app’s deck list feature.
Players can choose to delay migrating their collection until after the beta ends and the full game releases, thereby enabling them to play both apps until then if they want to. Players will be able to export their card collection from their Pokémon TCG Online account into their new Pokémon TCG Live profile during the beta, but will not be able to access both apps at the same time if they do so. In a preview of the beta, Dicebreaker received an overview of the features and modes included. Set to replace the existing Pokémon Trading Card Game Online app, a beta for Pokémon TCG Live can be accessed by Canadian players right now, with users being able to use various features included in the app ahead of its full release.
Hopefully trading is a feature they plan on adding somewhere down the line, otherwise you might as well rename the game to Pokemon Card Game Live.A limited beta for the new Pokémon Trading Card Game Live App has been launched, but is currently only available in Canada. It’s not supported in Pokemon TCG Live, which leaves players with only two options whenever they want to obtain new cards.īoth include paying up with either in-game currency, or dipping down to the store and uploading your booster back directly. Cards from before 2018’s Lost Thunder set are only transferable at launch, but the press release implies this will change in future updates.ĭespite all of this, there’s one big, looming disappointment you can’t really ignore: the trading.
The Sword & Shield and Sun & Moon – Lost Thunder through to Sun & Moon – Cosmic Eclipse series will be both transferable and playable. Plus, customisable avatars and accessories will be available too.īut not every card is going to be playable right off the bat. You’ll be able to easily browse through your collection and slap together both old and new decks.
More info ➡️ #PTCGLive /YC1ObWOZZsĪdding your digital cards to the app will be as easy as scanning unique QR codes found in physical card packs.