After Almost a Decade, Pokémon Go Delights Fans by Finally Adding Remote Trading — and for Now, There Are No Strings Attached

Pokémon Go present yet lets players commercialized creatures from afar — a diagnostic that fans person wanted for astir a decade.

Since Pokémon Go launched successful 2016, the crippled has been hesitant to let gameplay that does not promote players to conscionable up successful person. Remote raiding was lone added to the crippled during the epoch of Covid lockdowns, and trading has remained locked wrong a tiny determination radius — until now.

Remote trading volition inactive necessitate immoderate enactment to unlock, with the diagnostic disposable erstwhile in-game friends deed a fresh, 5th enactment tier — Forever Friends — that volition necessitate a mates of months much levelling beyond Best Friends (though this tin beryllium heavy reduced by completing Weekly Challenges).

Once Forever Friends, you'll get to marque a Remote Trade — and there's a clever strategy for selecting 3 creatures you'd beryllium blessed to swap, portion picking 1 from your friends' selection. Only erstwhile some parties are blessed with the matchup volition the commercialized instrumentality place.

Subsequent Remote Trades volition past necessitate a akin hold to unlock again, but this magnitude of clip is not unspeakable — it volition springiness much of a accidental to rotation the Lucky Friends status, and for many, Remote Trading volition beryllium astir utile for existing Lucky Friends successful different countries who person been sat with that presumption successful spot for years. Another affirmative alteration includes a large summation successful person database size, from 450 to 650.

"Hot damn!" wrote Plus-Pomegranate8045 connected Pokémon Go reddit TheSilphRoad. "Huge outcry retired to whoever it was astatine Niantic/Scopely that got this pushed through."

"Finally, I tin commercialized with the feline ive been fortunate friends with for 4 years," added different fan, Abject-Sector-2167. "He lives connected the different broadside of the globe."

Of course, not everyone is happy. "Welp, that's conscionable ruined the constituent of regionals," wrote HappyTimeHollis. "This sucks."

Months of datamines person suggested that Remote Trading has been successful the works for immoderate time, and initially fans had expected much of a strategy that required outgo via in-game currency to usage the feature. Its accomplishment now, arsenic simply different portion of escaped gameplay, has been greeted warmly. Though, of course, determination remains the anticipation that immoderate caller mechanic mightiness beryllium introduced successful aboriginal to velocity the process up.

For now, though, the announcement of Remote Trading is being received positively. Levelling up to Forever Friends is present unrecorded for the game's loyal assemblage successful New Zealand, wherever caller features are regularly tested first, earlier it is rolled retired much widely.

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