Is this really the the only way to end scalping?https://www.ign.com/articles/the-pokemon-company-announces-facial-recognition-system-to-help-kill-scalping-at-japanese-card-stores-mandatory-from-elementary-school-age
When did Nintendo go full globohomo? Was it palworld? Turning Peach into a girlboss? I knew they were always scummy but this is next level.
>>98413422Maybe some sort of penis inspection too
>>98413422Lottery, one entry per bank card and/or address.
>>98413440They are doing anything they can to secure sources of income other than video games because they know very well that the traditional premium video game market is fucking over once millennials stops buying video games.
>>98413440>Was it palworld?QRD on Palworld? Casual look suggests it's some indie-ish "totally not Pokemon" vidya. Is it another Stardew situation where the knockoff is better than the original?
>>98413422Just stop people from buying more than one? Lol
>>98413518It's a survival crafting game with Pokémon characteristics. Nintendo only got pissy about it because it sold really well and they started throwing lawsuits at it to try to shut the game down, but all that's been accomplished is forcing Palworld to remove little gameplay touches like throwing balls to release monsters and using not!Pokemon as hang gliders. Apparently things have gotten bad enough that the Japanese legal system is starting to get upset at Nintendo for being so petty and trying to copyright incredibly vague mechanics.
>>98413479they will try anything except make a quality video game.
>>98413518Yeah, it's a more fun pokemon game than anything official and if the studio execs weren't braindead they should've stumbled upon the formula of "go catch monsters in a 3D open world and build your base with your critter friends" at least once by dumb luck over the past 30 years.
>>98413518Ark clone that btfo SV and Legends ZA and recently won a lawsuit from Nintendo over Gameplay patents.Has cute anime girls you can catch alongside the monsters.Game causes much butthurt among certain parts of the pokemon community, the kind that takes umbrage at Marnie or Lillie lewds so the worst scum.
>>98413554I forgot where I heard this, but the budget for legends ZA was like 15 million but Nintendo spent 40 million to lose a lawsuit.
>>98413422invalid question, it's not a way to end scalping
>>98413518>Stardew situationThat's a better analogy than most Pokemon enjoyers are willing to admit. Nintendo could have done it years ago, but there was no reason to innovate (1 generation gimmicks are not innovation) so they didn't and now they are mad. They could have released "World of Pokemon" during the MMO craze and raked in millions, but they didn't.
>>98413588My favorite part of Stardew is how it keeps outselling Marvelous' shitty farming sims despite being this old.
>>98413518The developer was a like 3 person studio who didn't really know how to make games. They ended up having an actual developer apply to their company because he liked one of their Unity engine asset flips. They ended up building the entire game project around one artist and one guy who knew how to develop for UE.The game is a generic survival base building game plus Pokémon. It sold over 40 million copies.
>>98413588By what I know Game Freak - who still get to be dysfunctional despots about the Pokemon video games - have been the bottleneck in upscaling Pokemon vidya despite pressure from both Nintendo and Pokemon Company suits.Game Freak is still a privately owned independent company and they use their freedom to stubbornly live in the past in way that is almost admirable. They are change resistant to the point that entire Game Freak still only has like 200 employees.
>>98413551Not copyright, patent.But patents are much more concrete than copyright and much easier to fail at acquiring. Patents are mechanical in nature. If you create a new machine that functions in a new way, you get the patent for it. If you write new code that functions in a way that no one else has done, you can get a patent for it. But patents expire relatively quickly and their credit cannot be shared So basically any example of the thing existing before Nintendo did it kills their patents, because whoever did it first was the only one who would be eligible for the patent if they wanted it (and it hasn't already expired). Retroactive patents in support of a current lawsuit are also scrutinized even more than regular patents are. They lost the legal battle against Palworld mobile because some random Pokemon fan game did all the things they claimed before they themselves did.
Man these TCG Card Shop Simulator DLCs are getting hardcore
>>98413422This is why I'm glad I collect digimon cards. No one gives a shit enough to get into street brawls over them but they're in enough demand that they won't can in it at least for another year.
>>98413518It's everything pokemon games should have and could have been, except Nintendo decided it was better to keep rehashing the exact same game for what, 30 years now? More? Instead of expanding or introducing new game styles, and then someone made what they should have been making for the past decade and it is popular and that makes them salty.
>>98414093I would have simply grabbed a box out of his cart. What's he gonna do, catch an assault charge over pokemon cards?
>>98413479The Pokemon IP dies with the video games though that's what they don't get.
>>98413422Scalping will only stop if they print enough cards for everyone.
>>98414266It could survive without the games if the anime was any good. (It's not.)
>>98414281Or stop printing cards
>>98414225People have literally gotten into brawls over these cards, so the answer is "probably".
>>98414284They're not based enough for Liko's swimsuit special: the movie (featuring busty May from the Pokémon series).
>>98413422I legitimately don't understand how scalping can be a problem on a corporate level. Scalping exists where there is more demand than there is supply, yes? So if you're the company whose products are being scalped, why don't you just make more products?It's not like these are complex items; they're literally just pieces of paper. If you don't want them to be scalped then fucking print more until there isn't enough demand to drive a scalper market. How is this not a win/win for the company? If people want more product than you have available then by making more product you get to sell more and make more money while also making scalping less attractive.
>>98414225>>98414093Yeah this is more an indictment of the coward parent sitting there filming while some fat boomer cucks his child.
>>98414533>So if you're the company whose products are being scalped, why don't you just make more products?They do, they're just trying to make sure its not so much they overproduce. Knowing you're going to sell out is great for business and predictions. You're assuming the company doesn't want to sell out but instead wants to make more of a thing than people will buy. That's fucking dumb. They're trying to make money.
>>98413422No, there are two other ways of combating scalping1) is having a permanent "made to order" backlist where a person can order any set at any time. 2) beating the scalpers to deathTwo is a much more practical method.
>>98414533>I legitimately don't understand how scalping can be a problem on a corporate level.It isn't; product is moving, product was sold. Then you do some bans/rotation so anyone sitting on product is SOL and has to pull the lever you own again.You might notice they're only doing this in Japan, where they have public facing brick and mortar stores.
>>98413518I kind of get mad at the Pokemon comparisons because the game is almost literally ARK: Survival Evolved with Pokemon aesthetics rather than having much gameplay similarity to Pokemon, even including the newer Legends games.
>>98413444>trips of concern
>>98413444So do only the big penises get to buy pokemon cards, or do only the small penises?
>>98414738>1) is having a permanent "made to order" backlist where a person can order any set at any time.Fucks up their artificial scarcity business models.
>>98414917When it come to abusing the market for personal gain the clue isn't so much in penis size, but rather in the absence of foreskin on the tip.
>>98414533I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's because demand by actual end users hasn't gone up, and sales are just artificially inflated by people trying to resell them for profitprinting more might get rid of scalpers (unless their speculation is just that delusional), but then nobody's going to buy new cards because the market's been saturated with cheap used packs
>>98413537Stores want to sell all the product, they don't care about it if one people buys all the product as long as they don't suffer financial problems because their other customers stop shopping there. Japan's different, because being rude is one of the worst things you can do there and they like to try to make it against the rules to be rude, if possible.
>>98413518>QRD on Palworld? Casual look suggests it's some indie-ish "totally not Pokemon" vidyaIt's nothing like a classic pokemon game but it's a way better version of what "modern pokemon" is trying to be. Think of something like scarlet and violet with a much better open world and more systems that let you use caught pokemon that aren't just fighting. Yes its an open world crafting survival game but it integrates the monster collection aspect very well and its just fun and well made
>>98415136Buy an ad
>>98414225>be me last year>going to walmart for something>there's multiple cop cars out front>nobody's being allowed in>text a friend of mind who works there asking what the fuck happened>a couple of fat neckbeards got into a knife fight over pokemon cards>one dead the other one got hauled off the the hospital with multiple stab wounds>pretty sure he died too
>>98415588Just let them go to Casinos so they aren't a blight on society for the rest of us.
Yes goyum, let the camera scan your face so you can buy some Pokemon cards.Yep let the kids do it to!. We promise nothing will get leaked and fed into deepfake AI machines
>>98414225>scalper pulls out gun
So what's the actual reason these cards are so heavily scalped? I looked up the card values from the most recent set and the highest priced one was around $120.I know some sets have these massively valuable pulls but are these retards just buying whatever they see in bulk?
>>98413518I get confused at people calling it a Pokemon clone when it's more like an edgy SNL parody of it. I'm not sure what the hype is outside of the "fuck Nintendo" mindset but that might because I feel burned by early access bullshit.
>>98415713Now, there is the rational scalper who sees that the price is far to low for the supply and demand. I don't think anyone scalping pokemon cards is that kind of scalper. They saw social media buzz that you can make money from pokemon packs and went crazy over it without doing any research or planning. Like those people who bought amiibos and PS5s only to be left holding a massive stock they couldn't sell once supply caught up.
every pokemonfag i've seen that wasn't some unfortunate kid is always some fat gay loser who is being a countergoblin and bragging about how much their cards are worth. fucking hate these cunts. they deserve this humilation.
>>98413422Britbongs in japlandIt never ends huh
>>98413518Other anons have already given pretty good summations about Palworld, so I'll say this. All the pedofaggot mongoloids on >>>/vp/ constantly seethe about it--and it's hilarious. Want guaranteed (You)s? Make a positive post about Palworld and watch the good goys vouch for Japstein.>>>/vp/59450976
>>98415857>>98413518All comparisons to Pokemon aside, I didn't like it because its all the modern game slop piled into a single game>open world>survival >crafting These games get attention because there's a huge Pokemon divorcee market that are desperately looking for a Pokemon replacement after GF slighted them with mediocre games. Same thing happened with Tenten and that games dead as shit
>>98415588Did they try to scalp each other?
>>98415964I wonder if we'll see more divorcee markets, it does seem to be a trend. Star wars, pokemon, mlp. Sort of Warhammer. Probably more that I'm forgetting. It seems like the only solutions to these situations is to kill the IP so the fans can make good things themselves. There isn't really an existing mechanism to do that though.
>>98415588>Knife fight over Pokemon cardsAt first I thought this was bullshit, but then I remembered the tussles for Pokemon in the 90s. >They both dieSomebody goes to the hospital and somebody goes to the morgue, that's how a knife fight ends.
>>98415773Funny island people.
>>98415588Give location of the store
>>98413597My favorite part is that a single guy made all of it.
>>98414533Artificial scarcity drives valueThat’s how collectables workRealistically they do want this (100% sales)
>>98415736It feels very much like “fuck nintendo” is the main factor - especially from third worlders eg south americans
>>98415736>>98418950Yeah no you very much hit the nail on the head. The fans never seem to be able to discuss what makes it good without comparing it to Pokemon, and any doubt or criticism is generally replied to with "POKETODDLERS SEETHING PALCHADS WON"There was a thread on /toy/ that was like 90% just people taking imaginary victory laps around the hated tendies. It's weird there's this whole anti-Nintendo ecosystem thats risen up. There's plenty of points to criticize them on but it really feels like it's just the rise of third worlders with internet access who can't afford to play anything that doesn't come to PC and can't figure out emulators.
>>98413422the other way is to just stop using artificial scarcity, gambling and rarity as a business model. but thats far too lucrative to give up so they'd rather resort to surveillance dystopian pokehell instead
>>98413422>japanese card storesThey will never get walmarts and all the other shithole stores outside Japan to improve.
>>98419045While that may be a valid complaint about some reactions to this, I think the disgust for Nintendo is just as valid if not more.Their whole drive to shut down fan-games, videos, emulation or anything that expands past their cookie cutter sequels of their game series (pokemon in particular) has spoiled a huge portion of their fanbase and even outsiders that catch strays. Not only that but their trigger happy lawsuits against normal people the past decade are pretty shitty.Palworld is not really a 'edgy snl' clone as >>98415736 put it. It's more of an ARK meets pokemon game that surpasses their originals.
>>98413422Everywhere is doing this.This is just this stores particular excuse.Did you know Aldi sends the cctv data to israel?
>>98414385>Hitting a child and guarenteeing jail time over pokemon cards.Do boomers really?
>>98417622Hows the flock cameras working out?
>>98417246>Somebody goes to the hospital and somebody goes to the morgue
