One alternative, albeit a pretty slow one, is that you can get someone else to transfer your Pokémon for you. Since I had planned on getting Premium (I'm an adult with an office job; $16 is a drop in the bucket compared to the other bills and subscriptions I have to pay), I had also planned to help people bring Pokémon over, albeit I think I can only really do it one at a time with the resources I have. Certainly, I've already announced I'd do this over the Discord groups I'm in, though it looks like for the gaming communities that aren't Pokémon-centered, there isn't any interest in bringing them over.
R.I.P to those that intend to use Home as a means to store their collection since the 1-year Premium subscription costs somewhat close to a 1-year NSO subscription. At least NSO is not needed to access it. Only intend to get the 1 or 3-month plan just for the purpose of transferring over some of my breeding stock from the previous games.
And disappointing to me, as I have no need for storage outside of my games, and I can't imagine how anyone ever would.
I currently have about 55 full boxes in
Pokémon Bank, and I have only 3 empty boxes left in
Pokémon Shield.
Pokémon Home will become available just in time before my in-game PC fills up.
Sheesh, if people are complaining about having to scrounge up $41 a year for NSO, Bank, and Home, imagine their horror once they actually grow up and buy a house, and all the hassles that come with it
Heh, that's what I was thinking. To be fair, when you're still a minor, something like $16 can look like a lot because you probably aren't earning much money. But in the adult world, these are the things that are roughly $16 (I haven't included things that vary wildly from person to person, such as interest on your credit card, income tax services, or monthly rent):
A Giant sized sandwich at Jersey Mike's
A large pizza
Three cups of coffee at Starbucks
Approximately one month of ad-free TV streaming...per service
Half a box of Blue Apron meal kits
Your monthly gas bill when it's not that cold out
Half to two-thirds of a tank of fuel for your car (and if you're like me and you live in a commuter city, you're filling up weekly)
Two weeks of car insurance if you're in good standing and you've picked a cheap brand
A bottle of synthetic motor oil for your quarterly oil change (unless you drive a luxury car)
Telecommunications (phone, Internet, TV) for one week
Eight cans/bottles of cheap beer, or four cans/bottles of high-quality beer
Two months' membership to Costco
Two novels
Three months of smartphone fees (this isn't even counting the phone bill)
A box of Mucinex cold medicine
Two to three small flat rate packages, sent domestically
And for a more parallel comparison, Xbox Live Arcade is $60 per year. So is the PlayStation Network. $16 is also four booster packs or one pre-constructed deck for the
Pokémon TCG.
As for me, I have about 20 Switch games that use Nintendo Switch Online in some capacity, so for me, it's approximately one dollar per game per year.
Pokemon Home is also basically the Pokemon transfer thread right? Meaning it's pretty much expected to talk about Pokemon getting transferred from Gen A to Gen B. On another note, in terms of that mindset. Yeah, Landorus doesn't scare a lot of people but if your playing with Pokemon with a consistently-made team filled with Pokemon that don't fit the OU or even UU standards, then Landorus is something to worry about and I prefer to play that way, using Pokemon I like as opposed to Pokemon that are deemed competitive.
I don't think we'll be seeing Landorus quite as much this generation compared to previous ones. There are some frighteningly strong Ice-types that can easily fight him, Galarian Darmanitan from the offensive side and Eiscue from the defensive side (and we can assume Landorus is a physical attacker), as well as Corviknight and its Intimidate-bouncing Mirror Armor. There will probably be a bunch of him at first, but he'll drop off in use as people start putting Pokémon on their teams that can deal with him. Once Sniper Inteleon is available, he could feasibly counter Landorus too.
I am a Johnny type of player too, so it's important for me to figure out what the top threats are and how to reliably take them down. (For that matter, it's hard to use well, but if we see a lot of Landorus and Incineroar come back, it may be a good idea to start using Adrenaline Orbs.)
What's everyone's opinions on the pokémon models/sprites used for Home? They're ok, but I think I'd prefer the same game models that they've been using since Gen 6 and that everyone & their Aunt Trixie have been complaining about -_-
I'm fine with it. They remind me of the PC in
Pokémon Colosseum and
Pokémon XD.
I really like that they've got the same poses as the original Sugimori artwork. Bringing back the old player avatars is a nice touch too. Wonder if it'll just be the protagonists, or if we'll be able to choose from NPC's avatars as well
I...didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. That's actually a very nice touch, honestly.
I know that everyone gets a free month of bank with a premium subscription upon release. If my Bank sub expired over a year ago, do y'all think the free month will be like a renewal (with any surviving pokemon still there *fingers crossed*) or will it be like a brand new empty Bank account?
You'll need to be sure they haven't purged your account yet. Eevery now and then, they clear out and delete Pokémon from expired
Pokémon Bank accounts, though no one knows what the other conditions are.