Pokémon Bank Celebi Promotion

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Pokémon Bank is set to launch soon worldwide and will enable trainers to store and transfer their Pokémon as they please. In addition to this it was recently revealed that players will be able to receive a special Celebi if they connect to the cloud storage system before 30 September 2014, access Pokémon Link. While details are scarce, it is currently known the the Time Travel Pokémon will arrive in your copy of X & Y at Level 10, with the moves  Recover, Heal Bell, Hold Back and Safeguard.

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2,475 thoughts on “Pokémon Bank Celebi Promotion”

    • Never trained a Vileplume so I don’t really have any recommendations xD But it sure was a toughy to take out! And Effect Spore, ahh! xD

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        • I was thankful Effect Spore didn’t activate xD Robin was my only hope to take out that Nidoking. If Effect Spore say, put me to sleep, Sir Aaron takes Robin out, and it’s all downhill from there xD

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          • gah oxo i thought you had more pokemon though XD
            and im gonna guess the ability doesnt activate when the pokemon dies XD like rapid spin

          • Effect Spore has an 11% chance of inducing sleep upon, 10% chance of poisoning, or 9% chance of paralyzing (30% chance to activate in total) a Pokemon that connects with a contact move 🙂

            I had Gliscor (Nidoking destroys with Ice Beam), Sableye (Not much it can do offensively to Nidoking), and Mawile (Death by Ground) left. If Robin was gone, Nidoking finishes the rest of my team off ;P

  4. -didnt notice the poll- yes imma buy it despite putting ‘ i dont know’. i just put that because it’s not that i find the price pricey …cause…5 dollars. but that i sorta wish it was just an add on for free XD; im not that big of a fan of games making us buy extra stuff to go with a game we already spent, even though i know that’s how games are becoming lately :/
    -too old style-

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    • It’s not DLC. It’s an app that has connectivity to the game. You don’t need it to play online and isn’t part of the game itself. Gamefreak isn’t making you pay for anything. The fact that it is only five dollars A YEAR shows how Gamefreak is NOT greedy. Huge servers like that, as it is on a cloud, is pretty expensive to upkeep. Operations is all about outputs and inputs. If something cost money to make, companies have to make some sort of profit, or at least a favorable loss, else they’d bankrupt.

      Many games have become corrupted with DLC, but a lot of DLC is actually really enjoyable. Some games, like Borderlands 2, introduced an ENTIRE CAMPAIGN as downloadable content. It was practically its own well made game for like, fifteen bucks. There can be good DLC, so I can’t say I’m against the concept.

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  9. About the Poll…it’s a good price. But I most likely won’t be buying it. I’ll just have to trade for other starters/unavailable Pokemon from the rest of you guys….

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  10. About the polI, think i’ll not buy it, i can use the free trial to trade my old team and my army of mudkipz and treecko… and i have enough space my PC

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  11. My brother gave me a 50 dollar gift card for the Eshop for my birthday. Guess I have ten years of Pokebank. =D

    But it’s still a very fair price. More than that…I think it’s a surprisingly CHEAP price. I don’t think you kids realize how -cheap- five dollars is. A bottle of soda is $2.75 where I live. Keep that in perspective.

    XBL is $60 for one year. Pokebank is $5 for one year. I get it is an app but it’s still a very impressive app, letting you easily transfer Pokemon from old generations with a simple grab and drag. I don’t know about you guys, but I’d play five dollars for click and drag instead of that pokeball catapult game. I don’t care how fun people want to claim that was, it was tedious when all I wanted to do was trade my old mons over.

    This is also an app that Gamefreak has said they will continue to use for a long time. This isn’t a current gen thing that they’ll drop when the next gen comes out. You pay annually for a dedicated program where you can store a large amount of your Pokemon conveniently and easily. Meaning, your annual five dollars isn’t going to be wasted.

    If it was five dollars a month, then yes, I would agree it is over the top. However, it’s annually. Yearly. You pay for the year. You even get a free month in the beginning where you can either try it out or abuse it to quickly transfer whatever you want over to X and Y and NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. You even get a sweet Celebi out of the deal. My God it’s so cheap I wouldn’t even realize those five dollars disappearing.

    The other thing…Gamefreak is a fair company. They have no history forcing any consumer to buy overpriced DLC. They deliver free downloadable pokemon like candy. They don’t care, it didn’t cost too much to create and it makes fans happy with them. Consumer support and happiness is very, very important to companies, especially Japanese companies, they take that shit seriously. However, not all apps and programs are free. They cost money to make. If companies put out money to make things and demanded nothing in return, the imbalance of finances would put the company in danger. Basically, you went out and bought some lemonade for five dollars. You charged nothing for the lemonade you sell to people. You don’t ever make that five dollars back you spent on the lemonade. You might think ‘that’s nice of me’ but you can’t go buy more lemonade to sell to people. The only way to is to dish out more money, and then more money, that you never make back…and then you go bankrupt. This is a basic concept in business-you make a profit (or break even). So I don’t blame Gamefreak for charging so goddamn little for something they had to develop.

    tldr; Gamefreak can’t afford to give you everything for free.

    I hope I helped some people understand the reality of the situation. I think Gamefreak is a fabulous company, they don’t exploit or abuse. If you don’t want the bank service, that’s perfectly acceptable, it’s not there to be forced down anyone’s throats. But I seriously, seriously don’t get the small percent of people who seem to think it should be free or it’s too expensive. It’s FIVE DOLLARS C’MON.

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    • the xbox live comparison is a realllyyy good point.
      as much as paying extra for add ons is something this gen is doing, nintendo is doing it the right way this way xD

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    • This was very well said 🙂 hopefully people who are against paying will read it because everything you wrote is fantastic and true ^.^

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    • I don’t really agree with this. Game Freak had a huge amount of people buying Pokemon X and Y when they were released. They make plenty of money off of the video games they release, and they really shouldn’t need to charge us extra for a feature that was FREE in the previous games! If they had at least made Pokemon Transporter useable without Pokemon Bank, I wouldn’t care. The fact that they’re charging us an annual fee for something that was automatically built into the previous games is unreasonable to me.
      Not trying to be rude, but I wanted to get this out there.

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  14. fff this person wont stop spamming me to trade with her E_E i already gave her a lot of good pokemon i werent gonna use and now she won’t stop requesting trade when all she offered was the really small pokemon i already have . 3. sometimes, a block function does more good than bad

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  22. You wanna know why I don’t like using smeargle as a lead, it allows for people to set up on you to easily, I much prefer other pokemon 🙂
    I battled this one guy and got two sword dances off against his smeargle, and than another against his aegislash when he used kings shield XD

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