Yesterday, the Pokémon Firm launched its newest Buying and selling Card Recreation growth, Destined Rivals, by way of its on-line retailer. As was predicted, the set proved to be massively standard, and plenty of of these hoping to choose up one of many sought-after Elite Coach Bins have been hit with website crashes and a number of hour-long wait instances.
If that wasn’t tough sufficient, we have in the present day learnt that even those that managed to position an order might not really be capable to get their fingers on the elusive ETB, as The Pokémon Firm seems to be retroactively cancelling orders (thanks for the heads up, VGC).
As flagged throughout social media, prospects who’re nonetheless ready on a affirmation e-mail after what gave the impression to be a profitable pre-order are discovering that their buy has been quietly cancelled. This hasn’t are available an apology from TPC, however relatively by heading to the Pokémon Middle web site and coming into their order quantity. Briefly, for those who suppose your Destined Rivals order is within the submit, you may wish to double-check.
What’s extra, it does not appear to be that is an remoted incident, as a fast look at social media instructed us:
As many followers left yesterday’s queues empty-handed, Destined Rivals Elite Coach Bins rapidly started to crop up on eBay with massively inflated asking costs — an indication of one other TCG launch marred by bots and scalpers.
The Pokémon Firm has began to take some motion in opposition to such profit-based practices, akin to eradicating plastic wrapping on choose orders within the Philippines, however till the demand dies down, we have little question that the insanity will proceed.
