Pokémon Bank & Poké Transporter Thread [READ FIRST POST]

[0danmaster0]

It's only $5? Wow, that's a great price.

5$ a year yeah

 

[Bolt the Cat]

It is free. You just need Pokemon Bank in order to use it.

And back to my point about McDonald's: Should I file a compliant and/or call the police since this extortion? I want my free ranch packets back. Do you think the police and my sole complain will change what a global fast food company charges for ranch? I mean, clearly they are violently and illegally extorting money from me, if the actual definition holds true. McDonald's is intimating me to pay 25 cents for a ranch packet. I am surprised a group of elitist, free ranch packet advocates haven't stormed the halls of McDonald's Headquarters demanding ranch, while costly to produce, be free of charge for all customers. I don't like how McDonald's is threatening me. Clearly a case of old-fashioned extortion.

Your McDonalds example, now that I think about it, isn't quite accurate. Let me revise it for you. Let's say instead you have to pay 25 cents for Ranch AND Provolone Cheese. And even if you only wanted one or the other, you still have to pay the 25 cents. Anyway, what if you just wanted the Ranch? You have no problem paying 25 cents for the Provolone, that's expensive stuff. But you don't want the Provolone, you want the Ranch, which comes in these bulk packets (I don't remember if McDonalds actually does this, but I know Chick-Fil-A does, so let's just say they do for the sake of argument) that they should have no problem giving away for free. So it's a ripoff.

Anyway, as for your question, that would be a bit of an overraction, but at the very least, it's worth complaining about to the manager/corporate/whoever has the power to change it.

All cloud storage programs cost money. It cost a lot of money to maintain these huge servers. Five dollars is laughable when you think about a YEARLY fee. That's less money then a monthly 8$ Netflix subscription.

I think its a genius idea, and I will gladly fork over five dollars a year to them. They knew they had to make cross-gen transferring happen this generation and they got it to work. I don't get what's the big deal with paying an annual fee. They are even giving a long free-trial period for it.

See the analogy I posted above. Charging you for something that's traditionally free subtracts value from the game, since you're not getting as much content out of the game for the same price. It's Day One DLC, they charge you extra for game content that's already part of the game.

 

[Serebii]

Your McDonalds example, now that I think about it, isn't quite accurate. Let me revise it for you. Let's say instead you have to pay 25 cents for Ranch AND Provolone Cheese. And even if you only wanted one or the other, you still have to pay the 25 cents. Anyway, what if you just wanted the Ranch? You have no problem paying 25 cents for the Provolone, that's expensive stuff. But you don't want the Provolone, you want the Ranch, which comes in these bulk packets (I don't remember if McDonalds actually does this, but I know Chick-Fil-A does, so let's just say they do for the sake of argument) that they should have no problem giving away for free. So it's a ripoff.

Anyway, as for your question, that would be a bit of an overraction, but at the very least, it's worth complaining about to the manager/corporate/whoever has the power to change it.



See the analogy I posted above. Charging you for something that's traditionally free subtracts value from the game, since you're not getting as much content out of the game for the same price. It's Day One DLC, they charge you extra for game content that's already part of the game.

For one, it's not day one...

 

[Nevans]

What if you have both x and y what do you get then?

 

[Serebii]

What if you have both x and y what do you get then?

Just get Pokémon Bank on your 3DS, and you can share the boxes between your two games, and easily "trade" between your two games without the need of a second console

 

[EverChanger]

Just get Pokémon Bank on your 3DS, and you can share the boxes between your two games, and easily "trade" between your two games without the need of a second console

Or a second "dummy" Pokémon, for that matter.

 

[Drake Pokétrainer]

Wait, so this will be the only way to transfer pokemon? I thought it'd be a handy tool like Pokemon Box was.
Well I guess I'll have to buy it then. Never did online purchases though so I'll have to activate that option in my bank and stuff. 5 bucks isn't a lot but it's pretty crappy that they charge money for something that used to be free.

 

[Endolise]

but it's pretty crappy that they charge money for something that used to be free.

They could have just not let players transfer their Pokémon at all, and they said that trying to get the 3DS to work with the DS was tricky, so if this is the solution that they came up with, then this is the solution that they came up with. Mind you, transferring Pokémon is an optional feature and not one that you are obligated to use.

This is a better solution in the long run, because they can continue to use the Bank for later installments even after they've moved on from X and Y.

 

[Nevans]

Just get Pokémon Bank on your 3DS, and you can share the boxes between your two games, and easily "trade" between your two games without the need of a second console

Thats worth the $5

 

[Ditto24]

See the analogy I posted above. Charging you for something that's traditionally free subtracts value from the game, since you're not getting as much content out of the game for the same price. It's Day One DLC, they charge you extra for game content that's already part of the game.

But this isn't the same as the transfer to Gen V. Essentially yes the same thing does happen and you can have your older pokemon back, but Bank offers you so much more, 3000 spaces, it gives new life to the Gen V games as well coz you can restart them over and over. Cloud stuff as mentioned before has always cost and it's only natural for GF and Nintendo to do it.

GF didn't have to do this, it's a fantastic feature and for the money their asking for...it's an absolute bargain.

 

[mjunior3]

I'm just hoping that you can transfer without this, because I seriously doubt I'll need a space for 3,000 freaking Pokemon, lol. I don't have the time to catch/ breed that many anyway, lol. :/

 

[Drake Pokétrainer]

They could have just not let players transfer their Pokémon at all, and they said that trying to get the 3DS to work with the DS was tricky, so if this is the solution that they came up with, then this is the solution that they came up with. Mind you, transferring Pokémon is an optional feature and not one that you are obligated to use.

This is a better solution in the long run, because they can continue to use the Bank for later installments even after they've moved on from X and Y.

Yes, I know I'm not obligated to use it. But saving about 10 years of work and an entire dex in my box is worth 5 bucks so I'll use it.
And well, I'm glad they didn't do the same like they did between gen 2 and 3, that really sucked.

Still, I don't see why it's so difficult to make a DS connect to a 3DS. I mean, it's them who make the hardware.

 

[Ditto24]

Still, I don't see why it's so difficult to make a DS connect to a 3DS. I mean, it's them who make the hardware.

No ones batting an eye at PS4 and XboxOne not being backwards compatible. It was expected, I think it should be the same for Nintendo.

 

[Takaru]

See the analogy I posted above. Charging you for something that's traditionally free subtracts value from the game, since you're not getting as much content out of the game for the same price. It's Day One DLC, they charge you extra for game content that's already part of the game.

They are charging you for the cloud storage, and as always extra storage space for Pokemon has always cost extra money, much more then what they are charging now actually. Cloud storage payments usually go around 5~10$ a month. So they are being more then generous by only charging an annual fee of 5$.

Poke-Transfer is still free, but you need Poke Bank to use it, which I can see why someone would see the burden in it. I don't know anything about programming or the limitations the 3DS has with backwards compatibility concerning transferring. So I can't say if there would have been another solution for this. They are offering a free trail for it too, with more then enough time to transfer all your Pokemon onto your game and never use it.

This seems to be the method they are using to ensure that they never encounter the problem that happened with Gen III, and its cloud storage that's always going to have your Pokemon, offered at a very cheap price. If you ask me, five dollars is nothing to fret over.

 

[Serebii]

Wait, so this will be the only way to transfer pokemon? I thought it'd be a handy tool like Pokemon Box was.
Well I guess I'll have to buy it then. Never did online purchases though so I'll have to activate that option in my bank and stuff. 5 bucks isn't a lot but it's pretty crappy that they charge money for something that used to be free.

It is a handy tool like Pokémon Box.

 

[PMG]

No ones batting an eye at PS4 and XboxOne not being backwards compatible. It was expected, I think it should be the same for Nintendo.

plus this will be compatible with future titles

I cant wait to start storing Pokémon also £5? a year is nothing I pay £8.99 per month to play World of Warcraft

 

[Agonist]

It is a handy tool like Pokémon Box.

Right, there's no doubt about that; however, the Pokemon transfer should be separate from the Pokemon Bank.

 

[freezer1]

Might not your Pokemon be a little unsafe stored on the Internet though?

 

[Agonist]

Might not your Pokemon be a little unsafe stored on the Internet though?

Then don't upload them if you're that worried.

 

[mjunior3]

It is a handy tool like Pokémon Box.

OMG, I GET TO QUOTE SEREBII HIMSELF! xD jk

But anyway, I really wish I had gotten Pokemon box, because trading fodders for everything on the games vs. sending them to a transfer tool, but the only problem I could have with this is someone hacking into the Cloud, and deleting everything. *Shudders at the thought*