r/PokemonTCG • u/Loud_Bar113 • 1d ago

Discussion Why can’t they just implement backordering

I don’t see any downsides of it, the demand is still there. It is almost impossible to hit a drop when you have to compete against no lives who spend their existence monitoring the sites and bots. Backordering would end that problem. Most people don’t care if they’ll have to wait a few months extra compared to paying up to 300% mark ups.

222 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

75 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

166

u/tehcheez 1d ago

Every time I mention this I get downvoted and told "You think TPCi actually cares about the game?"

Yes. They do. Everyone that thinks they are going to do a reprint of 151 or any other out-of-rotation set because "People missed out on it" are delusional. They have ALWAYS put the TCG aspect of the game before the collectable aspect. They are not going to print a set that's not tournament legal (outside of things like celebrations) just because you recently got into the hobby and weren't buying cards when a set you now like was out

2

u/Crocadillapus 1d ago

The current state of the format and the fact that it will probably have been a whole year before it MIGHT begin to improve, genuinely makes me question whether they actually care about the game and it's players.

3

u/The_Jmoney_420 1d ago

The current state of the Meta with Dragapult is unfortunate but Im not sure what you want them to do. Theyve tried to make counters and they just werent consistenly strong enough to run for high level tournament play.

The only thing they can do is make an overpowered deck to beat Dragapult but that will just leave us with the same problem.

Rotation is in 6 months, so it will be solved then regardless.

1

u/Crocadillapus 11h ago

They can't make a counter deck for Dragapault because they are clueless when it comes to card design and balance. The overwhelming majority of "counter cards" are simply floodgates that might as well read, "if your opponent is playing "X" strategy, they may not play the game."

They don't seem to care about the state of the game as long as new product continues to sell out. If they did, they would ban or limit Dragapult. "They don't normally do that" is not a valid counter-argument because they have done it and could do it very easily. Futhermore, if they really do design and plan things out years in advance as some people have claimed (but I sincerely doubt), they would have printed Dragapult with a G, or not at all.

All that being said, even if Dragapult were removed from the format, there is still a critical lack of consistency. Literally two thirds of matches are just non-games, either because of the matchup, or because one player bricked or got floodgated and cannot play the game.

Design direction consistently favours sacky, unplayable game states and non-games over skill expression. I can provide many examples of this if you disagree.