With the release of Detective Pikachu Returns on October 7, select GameStop stores across the U.S. will be hosting a Trade & Play event. According to GameStop’s website, customers꧑ that visit participating stores at noon on Saturday will receive a free Trade & Play Kit of Pokemon cards. The event comes one day after the rele♐ase of the second wave of Pokemon 151 products, including the Ultra-Premium Collection, Alakazam ex box, and 151 mini tins.
Though we don’t know the ꦰspecific contents of the Trade & Play kits, GameStop promises “great games and activities” and invites Pokemon fans to come play games and trade cards. Without having all the details, this sounds like a fantastic way to get some free cards to young fans and encourage them to actually trade and play with their cards. T📖he only problem is that it takes place at GameStop.
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A GameStop is not a community space, and it's ridiculous to think there will be any trading and playing going on this Saturday. I can’t even count the number of glaring issues with hosting a TCG event at a GameStop. Where are kids going to play? On the floor next to the Five Nights At Freddy’s shirts and Overwatch plushies? Are they supposed to build a little table out of Funko Pops? Who’s going to be facilitating these games and keeping the event organized? Gamestop employees are not Pokemon Professors or event planners, nor should they have to be.
There isn’t going to be any trading or playing at this weekend's Trade & Play. It’s going to be like every other free Pokemon card event: filled with dozens of scumbag scalpers that are just there to take as much product as possible or throw it up on eBay the second they get back to their cars. Maybe I’m still sore over the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Van Gogh debacle last weekend, but I just don’t see any🤪 way this turns out to be the kind of wholesome or fulfilling experience for kids it’s intended to be.
I get that this event is partly a promotion for the new Detective Pikachu video game, but I’m getting pretty sick of seeing local game stores left out of Pokemon promotions. An event with free Pokemon cards that encourages kids to play and trade is a great idea, and there’s a perfect place to host an event like that. They&r๊squo;re big spaces filled with tables for playing, the employees are experts on the Pokemon TCG, and there’s at least one in almost every town in the country. Every time The Pokemon Company gives a museum, a big box store, or McDonalds exclusive Pokemon product, it takes away an opportunity to connect young players with local game stores. That’s where communities are built and relationships are formed around Pokemon, not GameStop.
If you’re planning on heading to a GameStop this weekend, please don’t be part of the problem. Don’t take product that could go to an excited kid, and don’t set a bad example. The only reason Pokemon is so popular today is because it was so accessible to us as kids, but today’s youth are losing that opportunity to form attachments to the TCG thanks to greedy adults that treat shiny cardboarওd like the stock market. If Pokemon is going to survive into the next generation, we’re all going to have to stop acting like animals, and TPCi is going to have to do better than GameStop Trade & Play Day.