Pokémon TCG Pocket "Actively Investigating" Improvements to Controversial Trading Feature

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has promised to look into improvements to its much-derided trading feature. This week,launched a major update that added the new expansion as well as the ability to trade certain cards with friends. However, the new trading system was met with near-universal derision due to the way that players collected Trade Tokens, the currency needed to make trades. Players have to exchange multiple high-rarity cards to collect enough Trade Tokens to make a single trade.

The developers of have promised that they are looking into ways to improve the trading system. In a statement released to social media on Friday, 's devs explained that the trading system was set up to prevent abuse from bots and users with multiple accounts. However, after receiving feedback from players,the developers have acknowledged that the system prevents players from «casually enjoying» the trading system. In addition to promising to distribute more Trade Tokens, the developers are also looking into other ways to improve the system.

currently uses two separate trade currencies — Trade Stamina and Trade Tokens. While Trade Stamina limits how often players can make trades, Trade Tokens are meant to limit what cards can actually be traded. Players have to use Trade Tokens to trade a card of a certain rarity. As of now, the main way to collect Trade Tokens is by exchanging cards of 3-Diamond rarity or higher. The main problem is that to trade a 4-Diamond or 1-Star card, players have to exchange four cards of the same rarity to generate enough Trade Tokens.

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is addressing some of the problems by giving out free Trade Tokens, which will let players make some trades without getting rid of cards from their collection. just gave away 500 Trade Tokens, which is enough to let players make a single 1-Star or 4-Diamond trade. Another easy solution would be to allow