6th Gen Thoughts on Pokebank being a paid service?

[Monophobia]

My take on Pokemon Bank being a paid service: it is an international technology service Game Freak is providing for $5, which is pocket change. To everyone who complains, stop complaining. And to those saying they do not want to spend $5 on this service, consider the frivolous goods, services, and activities you regularly spend $5 on without complaining. That should put the issue in perspective. I apologize if I come across as harsh, but all the people whining about the $5 service fee exasperate me.

But what about the people who don't have the pocket change? The kids whose parents don't give them chore money or anything? Sounds like your passing judgement a bit too quickly. People want to transfer their old 'mons, which was previously free, but now it's leeched onto another service which costs (which I'm sure a lot of people won't use).

 

[Dustmop]

People want to transfer their old 'mons, which was previously free, but now it's leeched onto another service which costs (which I'm sure a lot of people won't use).

Yeah, speaking of that, how many people actually need the option to store Pokemon elsewhere at all? Especially as many as 3,000 pokes? Who actually intends to use it for that and not just storing failed breeding projects for the pokemiles/BP?

I collect a lot of weird things, and I still have several empty boxes in my PC. The only reason I'm storing anything at all in the Bank is for the BP as long as I have it -- I have several boxes chock full of male Eevees I have no use for, and would have just released them all otherwise -- but thinking about it now, it feels like the purpose is more for collecting virtual currency by paying with real money. Or like that was their redeeming factor in paying for it.

Kinda like bookface games.

 

[Meksal]

I understand that storing 3,000 pokemon should be a payed service, but not to simply transfer pokemon from one game to another, I'm not a big breeder/catcher, i'll probably never use Pokemon Bank other than to transfer my pokes, which is a one time thing.

 

[Necrum]

Pokemon Bank is meant to be something that's here for a long time. This isn't something that's going to go away when Gen 6 is over. The whole point of it is to make it easier to keep your collection in the future. Making it a separate service from the game was necessary. It's much easier for them to do transfers on a separate piece of software. For them to do it any other way would probably require 2 3DSs which would be much more expensive than the $5 per year they're asking for. Poketransporter needs a place to save your Pokemon while you switch carts, and Bank fits the bill. These are simply the facts. Sure, it would be nice to have another way to transport, and maybe they'll come up with something, but right now it needs the Bank.

 

[Pendraflare]

I don't mind it being a paid service, for the fact that you're using the internet to hold onto your Pokémon - it's basically extra storage. I myself think of it as DLC, but that's just me.

 

[Skirovik]

To everyone talking about transferring for free, how on earth did you transfer previous generations for free?

Because I remember having to buy another ds to transfer my pokemon across games. I would really like to know how this is the "free" and preferable option. Seriously...

 

[Necrum]

To everyone talking about transferring for free, how on earth did you transfer previous generations for free?

Because I remember having to buy another ds to transfer my pokemon across games. I would really like to know how this is the "free" and preferable option. Seriously...

Exactly. If anything this is significantly cheaper than the previous method. I mean unless you had a good friend to help you, but I'm almost 23 and don't have any friends who still play.

 

[Lihtal]

wow, so people complain about $5 PER YEAR as being horrible to store AND transfer pokemon (people keep forgetting it's not JUST to transfer pokemon from an old game to a new game) but when you start a new game you can get your old pokemon right away almost at the start of a new game. (so you can breed what you want and start a new game with what you bred)

I respect and understand your opinion, to certain point. Know i know 5 dollars aint much, but let me fill in a gap: Not everyone lives in a first world country now with that in mind let me explain to you how things work here in my country, if i were to buy pokebank sure the best idea would be to use a credit card right? no big deal. BUT WAIT oh you cant use local credit cards can you? noup only way could work would be a international credit card and pay additional fees just for that i say no thank you to that, whats my other option then? a e-shop card? COOL but oh wait... we dont have a official nintendo distributor shop, heck we barely got us a decent store where you could buy legit copies of games... now that to mention we do somehow manage to ship them here in our country, down side to it? well if you want to pay an extra 15 bucks for handling and shipping that takes us to a whooping $35 just to be able to get yourself "PokeBank" Perspective right? now including that let me tell you the trip just to get to that store would be around 10 bucks of gas. With $45 i might as well just buy another game...

HOWEVER, $5 per year is just a horrible, horrible thing, and people would rather spend the money on a second DS or yet another remake in order to get pokemon not currently available? the $40 spent on a pokemon game pays for 8 YEARS of Pokebank. Just saying. Seriously, a large bag of chips is $4. Perspective! ;-)

5 dollars isn't that horrible no... believe me if it was that easy here on my country i would have the exact same opinion as you have. but sadly the only legit easy way here ain't no easy way... With the 8 years of pokemon bank yoy could buy. Here with my conditions i would only be able to buy one year. As i repeat i respect your opinion and by anymeans try to contradict it, not even the slightest chance of going against it no. But seriously dont forget that you and your country isnt the only one with access to the game, third world countries have that privilege too. Don't blame me for not having the easiness that you have to access pokebank i'm sure as hell that it isn't my fault to live here. Just putting you on another perspective and please PLEASE don't get me wrong with my reply i'm here to put the tails side of the quarter.

PD: The next time you get yourself a big bag of chips, think about me... that could mean a whole year of pokebank to me ;) Perspective...right?


BIG EDIT:
I might as well correct about the official Nintendo shop i mentioned. What i meant was Nintendo distributors shops AKA gamestop, wall-mart etc. You get the point. thanks

 

[Ephraim225]

I just skimmed this thread, here's my thoughts.

First, each generation so far (except G5) has had some kind of mass storage app, and you had to pay money for them too, unless you borrowed it from a buddy. You can't do that with Bank, so if you just want to get your old Pokémon on the new cartridge, you're shelling out.

But compare that to the previous generations. Gen 1 and 2 had the Stadium games, which you need an N64 and that transfer pak thing which is useless for anything that isn't Stadium or Mario Golf. Gen 3 had that utility that was only available in New York or something. Gen 4 had that WiiWare game which doesn't work with Platinum, HGSS, or Gen 5 and it won't even let you withdraw a Pokémon with a different ID number unless you use hacks. In other words, the money you burn just for storage/transfer gets worse every time.

Compared to that, $5 isn't much...though I really REALLY wish it were a more user-friendly app. Why in the world does it need to be two separate programs and why can I transfer Box 1, and ONLY Box 1, off the Gen 5 cart? Why does it only work with Gen 5? Why isn't there an item bank too? Why is GF still playing Big Brother when it comes to hacked Pokémon? (I've heard it's very picky about letting legit event Pokémon in) And the thing that bugs me the most...why doesn't the free Celebi have a fixed nature? Seriously, mine's ADAMANT. XD

 

[KillerTyphlosion]

I agree with that €5,- isn't much but what i hate is that there lowest e-shop card here is €15,- and yea i could save it for 3 years so i would buy 3 years worth of pokébank but it's tempting if i still have €10,- left and then a new games come's out for digital copy and my reaction would be . hey i already have 10 euro on my system so i am gonna upgrade it so i can buy the game. And then next years come and need to upgrade 15 euro again :/.Even with creditcard the lowest amount is 10 euro,but in my country almost no one uses a creditcard here we use internet banking payments here and even though lots of international webshops have adapted to it. But google play stor e-shop and all those others haven't so i don't want to pay 15 euro for something that is 5 euro.

 

[She_Delphox]

Well I agree with Howmander. You can breed some Pokemon you would like to have when you start a new game, and just store them on Pokemon Bank, take them out in your new game and you're all set! :)

I had to get used of the idea first too, but (in my case) 5 euros a year isn't that big of a deal. I used Pokemon Bank and Pokemon Transfer quite a lot now, and I'm pleased with how it works. These two new things helped me filling up the entire Pokedex in my Pokemon X game, and I like the idea you have a safe place to store your valuable Pokemon.

I study as a Network/ Computer Administrator, and they have to pay the maintenance, performance and reliability these servers need somehow...
I have over 65 shinies now in my Pokemon X game and worked really hard to get some of them + all the legendaries too! Took me ages, I would go crazy if I would ever loose them... So I'm really happy there is a place and opportunity now to store those Pokemon somewhere safe, that's at least the 5-euros-a-year-worth for me! :3

 

[Jakeremix]

Well I agree with Howmander. You can breed some Pokemon you would like to have when you start a new game, and just store them on Pokemon Bank, take them out in your new game and you're all set! :)

I had to get used of the idea first too, but (in my case) 5 euros a year isn't that big of a deal. I used Pokemon Bank and Pokemon Transfer quite a lot now, and I'm pleased with how it works. These two new things helped me filling up the entire Pokedex in my Pokemon X game, and I like the idea you have a safe place to store your valuable Pokemon.

I study as a Network/ Computer Administrator, and they have to pay the maintenance, performance and reliability these servers need somehow...
I have over 65 shinies now in my Pokemon X game and worked really hard to get some of them + all the legendaries too! Took me ages, I would go crazy if I would ever loose them... So I'm really happy there is a place and opportunity now to store those Pokemon somewhere safe, that's at least the 5-euros-a-year-worth for me! :3

Just saying, I would NEVER store my shinies on Pokebank. They've even admitted that there is no way to guarantee that all pokemon stored in the cloud are safe... that's one of the things you agree to when you get it. Js.

 

[Oblivion Wing]

I only use it for whenever i want to transfer pokes from x to y or vise versa. Or when i want to start up a game, to have a good lv 1 team plus ALL my pokes. :)

It gets my 0.014 cents a day lol.

 

[She_Delphox]

Just saying, I would NEVER store my shinies on Pokebank. They've even admitted that there is no way to guarantee that all pokemon stored in the cloud are safe... that's one of the things you agree to when you get it. Js.

Well all my shinies are in my game now :), I meant when I want to store them when I start a new game or just as a back-up for several days (or when I have double shinies, I do store them). And yes, I think they can't guarantee that it is 100% safe because there are so many things that could go wrong, but that's the same with all other everyday technology ;)

 

[SamStyle]

I don't need more storage, but I want to send Pokemon over, and I don't think I should have to pay for that.

Thoughts?

maybe you should have got it during the trial period

 

[swiswi18]

I also agree with Howmander, I think it's great! And it's way easier to transfer pokes now then before. Really? 6 at a time and annoying mini games? No thanks!
But I'd have to say that PokeBank is laking a few things. Mainly having the ability to automatically organize boxes by number or name or wtv.

 

[Meksal]

Well I bought it, I thought it was 4.99 a month ._.

A year is reasonable enough.

 

[Meksal]

I always had my brother's DS to use when I wanted to transfer.

 

[Ammako]

(though it's probably impossible for the game or 3DS to hold the data of 3000+ Pokémon in it as well as the game itself).

The 3DS has an SD card slot + 3000 pkm files worth of Pokémon would take roughly 696KB of space.

 

[Nah]

The 3DS has an SD card slot + 3000 pkm files worth of Pokémon would take roughly 696KB of space.

Oh, that's a lot less space than I thought pkm files would take up. Guess they could make the PokeBank an in-game transfer system like in the past...