Pokemon TCG Live Delays Its Beta To 2022, Fusion Strike Codes Will Work For TCG Online
It was due for release in only a few weeks.
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The new digital version of the Pokemon TCG, Pokemon TCG Live, has had its multiple betas planned for this year delayed into 2022.
The game was originally going to have a mobile soft launch in Canada, as well as a global beta for the desktop clients, available by the end of 2021, ahead of a worldwide launch in early 2022. However, both have now “been shifted” to 2022, with no confirmed dates as to when, or even if, they will be running.
In tweets put out by the official Pokemon TCG twitter, it was said that it will have “more to share soon” about the soft launch, the desktop beta, and the full launch. It also confirmed that Live-branded digital codes that will be included in the upcoming Sword & Shield: Fusion Strike will be fully compatible with TCG Online. Seeing as all Standard-legality collections will transfer from Online to Live, Fusion Strike buyers won’t be losing anything in the swap.
Pokemon TCG Live is intended to be the successor of the aging TCG Online, and will include new features like battle passes, cross-platform matchmaking between desktop and mobile, daily quests, and exclusive events.
However, it’s also received criticism since its announcement due to it only supporting the Standard format at launch, with Expanded expansions (Black & White to today) being transferrable to Live, but not playable until a later date. Any cards from the HeartGold & SoulSilver expansions, which were the first to release on TCG Online, won’t transfer over to live at all. Live was also criticised for its lack of player-to-player trading, which was seen as one of the best features of Online.
While the old adage about a “delayed game eventually being good” is true, it’s also surprising The Pokemon Company went through the trouble of changing all the branding on Fusion Strike products to include Live instead of Online, thereby leaking its existence to the public, only to then delay the game literally days before Fusion Strike’s launch. This is going to cause a lot of confusion for players when they discover the codes they’re opening in Fusion Strike are for a client that won’t be out until next year, and the only word that they can work in Online being via a tweet.
Pokemon TCG Live will launch for mobile and desktop sometime in 2022.
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