Pokémon Bank

[Bowie]

I'm sure that all you Pok?mon fans out there are familiar with the new Pok?mon Bank system, which will introduce a new way of transferring and storing Pok?mon from the fifth generation of Pok?mon games to the new sixth generation of games.

The main feature of Pok?mon Bank is the possibility of players depositing up to 3,000 Pok?mon from the games in an online cloud. The referred cloud will work as a PC, and will have 100 Boxes capable of carrying and (like in a normal PC) 30 Pok?mon each.

Players using the system before the end of the 30-day trial will receive a special event Celebi! What do you guys think about this new application?

 

[Dr J]

Celebi was announced before the delay though, so its just an event pokemon we'll get with the bank(and you have until September 2014 to get the bank and recieve Celebi. Plus the 30-day trial is available the moment you download the bank, regardless of when.

Think of WoW. You buy the game and make a brand new account, you get 30 days of free gametime; then your payments start being needed to continue playing. Same idea with the Pokemon Bank. A month of free use, then you pay a fee to keep using it[and to keep the bank servers going, otherwise the bank will be another useless app within a year].

But yeah, it wouldn't make sense for them to say we have until september 2014 to claim the Celebi, then limit it to only available to those who get the bank during the first month of its release >.>

edit: Not that we're likely to see the pokebank release any time soon. Guarantee they'll re-release it in Japan first, then make us wait an entire month before they let the rest of us have it. I mean, the eshop is working fine now, there's no reason to continue delaying the bank[unless they're hiding the real reason they took it down(which we all know is because they thought their usual method for checking for hacked pokemon was actually efficient{TV and HTV})]

 

[Suave_Spencer]

Where do you propose they get the money to keep the servers up? That's why we have to pay, people just don't seem to realise this. This also means that they don't have to move money from profits from game development/localisation to keeping the servers up.
It is optional. You don't HAVE to use it, but it helps. Like the Dream Radar or whatever it was called. It wasn't necessary, but it was a good to have (and really fun actually).

 

[KarlaKGB]

I understand requiring a subscription fee to use the storage bank portion of it, but requiring that same fee to simply move your older generation Pokemon into X/Y is stupid.

 

[Silversea]

I was hoping it would help me determine how many of my legendaries and GTS finds are "legit", though it sounds like its hack check is inadequate.

 

[Box9Missingo]

I was hoping it would help me determine how many of my legendaries and GTS finds are "legit", though it sounds like its hack check is inadequate.

Same here. Yep. On a side note, it would be REALLY hard to get all of them, since some of them are legitimate looking. But they should be able to stop the really bad, shoddy ones.

 

[Scribbler397]

I don't see price as too big of a problem. It works out to less than 50 cents a month. I don't like having to pay, but I understand that the servers that they need to support such a large system is expensive. If you have siblings or other people in your household that also play you can all go in on one Pokebank subscription and just use the 3DS you downloaded it on to transfer Pokemon between games because it works with an unlimited number of copies of x and y.

 

[Silversea]

Personally I'll just transfer all pokemon onto X and never have to worry about it again, unless they require it to do XY -> XY2Z

 

[Riiiiptide]

Where do you propose they get the money to keep the servers up? That's why we have to pay, people just don't seem to realise this. This also means that they don't have to move money from profits from game development/localisation to keeping the servers up.
It is optional. You don't HAVE to use it, but it helps. Like the Dream Radar or whatever it was called. It wasn't necessary, but it was a good to have (and really fun actually).

Then it should be offered as an optional premium service while free users should still maintain the bare-bones ability to transfer up as in previous generations.

 

[Dr J]

Then it should be offered as an optional premium service while free users should still maintain the bare-bones ability to transfer up as in previous generations.

Except then everyone would go free to use unless there was a damn good reason to get premium service. And just being able to transfer an entire box wouldn't be enough of a premium bonus for a lot of people.

Though.. I don't see why you feel the need to complain about YEARLY fee of $5.

 

[Swiftstream]

Is it released yet? I heard there was a delay after they released it since there were communication problems

 

[kittenrobotarmy]

Not that we know of. Nintendo just doesn't get that some people are smart enough to easily bypass their filters by creating seemingly legit Pokemon with movesets, EVs, IVs, etc. that make sense.

 

[Dr J]

Chances are they're delaying now because they're attempting to fix the bank to stop hacked pokemon from getting into X/Y. And I bet they release it in Japan first again, only to remove it again as soon as more hacked pokemon get through.

 

[kittenrobotarmy]

They should just not bother. No matter how many times Nintendo attempts to fix it, people will still get hacked Pokemon through. If they want to transfer hacked Pokemon, let them. It's not like it's going to destroy Nintendo's servers or something.

 

[Suave_Spencer]

They should just not bother. No matter how many times Nintendo attempts to fix it, people will still get hacked Pokemon through. If they want to transfer hacked Pokemon, let them. It's not like it's going to destroy Nintendo's servers or something.

No, but it makes it extremely difficult to find people to trade with when most expect everything to be perfect IV and/or shiny.

 

[id6016]

no hacked pokemon?
all that time i wasted getting pokemon with 31 ivs and max evs is all a waste now

 

[Silversea]

No, but it makes it extremely difficult to find people to trade with when most expect everything to be perfect IV and/or shiny.

I don't think stopping hacking will prevent requests like this.

 

[oath2order]

I understand requiring a subscription fee to use the storage bank portion of it, but requiring that same fee to simply move your older generation Pokemon into X/Y is stupid.

Preach it brotha

 

[Dr J]

Nintendo needs to either give us some more information on WHY the bank continues to be delayed now that the eshop is back up and running; or give us the damn pokebank already and just release a patch later to 'try' and stop hacked pokemon from getting through.

 

[3DSfan134]

First of all, Pokemon Bank is the only reason I got Y. But with the delay and it was also removed in Japan, why would Nintendo delay it if they removed it in Japan? I mean Pokemon Bank was supposed to come on the 27th but then after it was removed they had to go with the delay. -_-

Well all I can say is if they delay it again I'm going to lose my mind if they do that.........