Do Virtual Pokemon have a dollar value?

[ProfessorPokeStats]

I'll be honest. I think genuine, unhacked pokemon have real monetary value. The issue is there is really no way to truly tell if any item or pokemon another player has is real or not. Even cheat pokemon can be legal if in the right parameters. I wouldn't buy pokemon from anyone on ebay solely cause its sketchy in my opinion. I would need a platform that can regulate and monitor such activities for me to even consider it. I still think if I was more involved with tournaments or even collecting, I would be more tempted to purchase pokemon for money.

 

[ProfessorPokeStats]

The problem is people can clone perfectly legitimate shinies and then made decent profit based on those shinies alone, especially if they're competitive, and especially if they're (legal) legendaries. In that scenario, all one would have to do to make a decent amount of money as a side-job would be to just purchase a powersave and get cloning away. Who says you have to hack Pokemon anymore to get anything valuble? Game Freak has made it so easy to breed for perfect IVs that it'd be pointless to.

But if such a platform was created, do you think it just wouldn't work because everyone would buy a powersave? Or do you still think the platform would work, just a lot of people would be making a decent amount of money off of cloning there legit pokemon?

 

[ProfessorPokeStats]

Both, really. A Pokemon marketplace would be overly saturated with everyone buying a powersave to clone legitimate Pokemon to sell. Once people find a loophole in Game Freak's hypothetical marketplace, they're going to milk it for what it's worth and there's nothing that Game Freak nor Nintendo can do about it.

This may sound crazy, but pokemon players making money off of each other and finally not being the consumer to gamefreak/nintendo doesn't seem like a terrible thing.