‘Pokémon TCG Pocket’ player spends £1200 to complete game

20 November, 2024

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One Pokémon TCG Pocket player has already caught ‘em all, spending close to £1200 in the process.

Pokémon TCG Pocket is a free-to-play mobile collecting game. Players can open two free boosters in a 24-hour period with each packet containing five random cards while developers have also released a handful of limited-edition cards as rewards for in-game events. In total, there are currently 303 different cards to collect and one player has already got them all.

Taking to Reddit, Weens4Life shared a screenshot of the reward they got for finishing the game. “Congratulations! You’ve collected every card in this expansion,” reads the message. While Pocket is free-to-play, fans can buy Pokegold for physical-world money to open more boosters. 

They went on to explain that it cost them $200 (£157) to collect every Pokémon but discovering every rare variant cost them $1500 (£1184). “It took opening 1741 packs and collecting 8582 cards. There is no reward for doing this,” they wrote. Opening that many boosters also took the player to level 47. Their most common card is the standard Slowpoke, which they pulled 129 times.

Pokémon TCG Pocket launched at the end of October. It’s been reported that the game has already been downloaded over 30million times and has earned developers over $120million (£94.6million).

And while Weens4Life may have collected every card in the Genetic Apex deck, Pokémon TCG Pocket is set to receive new cards before the end of the year. Limited trading will also be introduced in 2025. Posting on Reddit, Weens4Life said spending that much money on the game “was worth it to me” but “for future packs I will only be collecting the base set though.”

In other news, it looks like Minecraft could be coming to your favourite theme park. The hugely popular video game franchise has made a deal with Merlin Entertainment, the company behind Alton Towers, Legoland and Sea Life, to launch two themed attractions before the end of 2027. 

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