Pikachu Skin Costs $100s... What Exactly Are We Paying For? | Pokemon Unite

[@jonemillester]

"if your a broke boy just say so"-Pokimane

[@spragels]

lol

[@astropult9377]

Pokimane Unite

[@phillipminer3554]

I’m a broke boy

[@John_TalbainN]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@elekktro4736]

you aint nothing but a broke boi boi boi

[@alexriggs1110]

I want new maps, news modes, and economy fixed Timi: Best we can do is 200$ holowear event

[@Yougetwhatyoudeserve95]

Lmao

[@Parasaurolophusful]

The fashion ticket and holowear ticket pools not being updated since like 2021 makes me irate.

[@WardofSquid]

Real tho. So many useless currencies. Heck even the main currencies to buy Pokemon isn't useful if you just play the challenges or cave into buying the pokemon

[@iansevera]

Dude, I have thousands of tickets I can't use. But GameFreak wants me to pay $200 on a gambling spree.

[@thatclassicaries268]

No like Pokemon unite took such a disgusting turn when they became almost entirely P2W. It’s so hard to find the game enjoyable when you can’t use the in game currency to buy new Pokemon on launch, and said new and broken Pokemon gets nerfed to the ground when it’s accessible for coins 🫤

[@chikoritamining4437]

this is why I dont buy anything; they're neglecting obvious things while pushing out more cash grabs even a delete button for those things would be nice enough because they clog my inventory otherwise...or maybe new fashion or holowear ticket content would be nice :,)

[@keyfur93]

Honestly... Since I played for free but would buy a Pokemon here or there - this holowear ticket exchange not updating for years is a big reason I stopped. The only rewards I was getting...are useless

[@TanBrosSAndYYT]

The devs just expects us to be stacked on aeos gems at this point…

[@spragels]

haha maybe

[@goldleafsnivy6304]

Another friendly reminder that this ridiculous event (and the ones prior) with insane costs is why the Dutch and Belgium playerbase are getting the boot next year.

[@d-chudasama]

The game gets slightly worse every month , this was a very good game, it's just turning into a spamer

[@moonblastx1996]

Appreciate your honesty about how little this game pays back the support that we all have given it over the years. If they weren't literally using the Pokemon IP, this game would have flopped so fast (and kinda has anyways)

[@MobilPlayz]

*Laughs in free-to-play*

[@fluffymonster396]

I mean, they've stopped giving nice things to free to play players too

[@garmadone124]

Not if you leave for a month then come back the welcome back bonus gives 5 free licenses so during busy months like December I play but lax months like August I let it sit and get free skins, licences and play bonuses for just being patient lol​@@fluffymonster396

[@cocoa-punite]

animated background... more like switch lag-inator

[@WardofSquid]

Lol

[@Skip_Loom]

Real.

[@E2daz101]

That’s a system problem lol

[@xxWicKedWayZxx]

This feels like a warning sign tbh. Are they just trying to eke out the last bit of money they can before they shut this version down? Idk. It feels like a slap in the face especially considering matchmaking and the balance patch

[@nicolomanfrini8671]

Probably. Combined with the change in matchmaking which has drastically increased waiting times and caused many people to quite (me and my group included) cause waiting 2 minutes in matchmaking and 2 more jn draft for a 10 minute game is unacceptable, I'm pretty confident the game has entered the final part of the death spiral. I give it 6 months before to they announce the discontinuation of the service. It was fun while it lasted.

[@kyo4386]

Considering what happened to another game Tencent was behind. It definitely is one. In the case of that game, they slowly started drifting away from the game while pushing for gamling esque cosmetics. Hacker problem started getting really bad and out of nowhere, when the season of ranked ended. There was no new season. A few weeks passed by with just being able to play customs and casual. I stopped playing and tuned into a few months later and I got an emd of service notice. They were very "humble" and gifted temporary expensive skins that lasted 1-3 days zzz

[@Navue-cn2tx]

better search for Marvel Super War and see how it went out

[@KUNDANKUMAR-eo4hj]

@@kyo4386 what game was it bro

[@aryansharma3083]

He is definitely talking about clash royale, tencent killed it totally

[@feyanpulman010]

100-200 dollars for a skin??? These people are sick

[@whitedragonzerureusu4480]

It probably costs more or less than depending on which county currency you're buying it in... Let that sink in.

[@whitedragonzerureusu4480]

Country*

[@techno_otaku]

I'm starting to think Riot started something of a chain reaction with that $500 Ari skin....

[@faendal8894]

Thank Tencent.

[@ltgletstalkgame]

I think I should be Spragels anger translator, because I know he just wants to lose it at this point.

[@mr._jgp]

Lose*

[@sparx6766]

​@@mr._jgp🤓

[@Chronorust]

​@@mr._jgpum...no. Just, no.

[@MAUSOLEGRUM]

a $200 skin is actually psychotic,, it feels like the devs behind pokemon unite are just clowning on their player base at this point

[@AR-K9]

Really hoping this doesn’t turn into a Pokemon Quest situation where the US version has basically come to a complete stop while the China version added other generations, legendaries, and events and is still ongoing :/

[@KnakuanaRka]

I’ve heard the Chinese version is shutting down too.

[@SaltySteve_777]

all of this on top of their garbage balance patches and lack of updates. thanks for making this video.

[@JosephStock-dp9ts]

In all honesty I just want old skins to be added to the holowear ticket exchange. I feel like this would help the holowear part of the game. I'm never motivated to get holowear because I need to pay at least 10 bucks for most of them.

[@coshepuffs]

Spragels, you’re the man. Thanks for all you do.

[@spragels]

appreciate you

[@luminousxii]

If you check the tier ribbon by this skin its different from the a9 one they just released. Who would've thought they'd add a new skin tier right after an absurd new tier lol

[@ElCornpop]

Here is the games pattern over its lifetime. Timi: we sorry and were going to improve. Result game gets worse. Timi: we are going to change match making. Result game gets worse. We're at a point where the body(Unite) is alive and the brain is dead. No hope at all for this game on my end.

[@pharaohonthetrack9544]

Yeah they need to emergency nerf this price

[@novicecreed]

Something I realized about letting the boxes unlock naturally, is that you're unlocking one per day only because for whatever reason they have it so the timer starts going down after one of the boxes finished unlocking... Like why couldn't they allow the timers to go off at once? You're still going to have to pay per level up anyway... And if this thing only lasts 20 days like the last one did, then youre at most only gonna be able to open 20 naturally and the rest you're going to have to rush through with gems regardless. Considering its Pikachu, im assuming we're going to go back to orange tier unless its an ultra special skin? Regardless this entire gatcha thing is just trash...

[@wildfoxflowerfarm4480]

this ^ because I get multiple boxes for how much I play but have to wait? like come on.. and not a few minutes its hours..

[@chikoritamining4437]

simple: they don't have the timers going down simultaneously for all the chests because its a cash grab

[@Kinosho_Ichigo]

I love that you keep using your platform to call these things out. Hopefully they decide to give us a timeline soon of what they plan to do. Thanks Spragles.

[@ToBadNoSad]

I don’t have a another kidney to give though 😔

[@spragels]

ill take it!

[@ToeTickler-s2l]

Grow another

[@frostghost4417]

Not broke just not stupid. So glad I will never dump that much money for a skin. 😂

[@milkman701]

Good lord just charge us $20 and call it a day. It would sell way more often than the whales supporting this game lol

[@KevinPearsall-hj8mt]

I've been saying this for a while! They would make so much more money if you had an actual price tag or put them on super flash sale for like 24hrs or something like that

[@sahishnukonar7634]

Once again, he is the only person who understands and talks about the real probs instead of freaking out on something useless.

[@Ayush-kc2vx]

I play alot of gacha games (mainly honkai star rail) and we all know how people spend in those games i mean i know people who spend atleast 2000$ every single patch but we are also getting alot of content in those games every single patch. When compare that to unite and this new system and how much these new holowears cost we have only 2 maps and like almost no difference gamemodes, plus bad match making and poorly balanced Pokemons it's like devs just don't care about the playerbase at all and they just want money.

[@yveshku5583]

I do understand it is a free to play game at the end of the day, needs to make money somehow. And while the monetization seems annoying, it doesn't affect gameplay, it does seem rather pricy in general for both the cosmetics themselves and as you said, it not reflecting much in development of the game. Also for the little thing at the end, I can point almost anywhere in my room and be correct. Exactly four things in my room (house in general has more), cost over $200 individually. My Nintendo Switch, my laptop, my bed, and if I'm being generous, the cremation and urn of a previous pet, sits on my shelves.

[@Gatchu137]

Free to play games usually have a wider price range for cosmetics, and give higher quality skins for significantly cheaper. Unite skins have been close to double the price of similar skins in other games since day 1

[@neonoah3353]

Most f2p do have pricey stuff, but they give back to the player what they put in the game, and its not "giving back" in the sense of only what they bought, its giving back on good content added to the game, bigger expansions, better servers, more quality to the games content in general. Heck, konami is one of the most predatory companied when it comes to f2p formats, but they never made something as disgustingly scammy as this box event and the prize machine thingy where you throw balls to get stuff.

[@GracideaJo]

At this point I play every 15 days just to get free gold and that’s that.

[@Just_Anup]

I also do that, it's much more healthy than playing everyday to get some minor rewards

[@Gatchu137]

I can't believe Jake won't let us watch him play Elden Ring

[@TheFallenStarlight]

The Unite Devs will never update the Holowear Ticket Exchange Shop. No respect to their f2p (free to play) players.

[@tatsukinomiya]

Why the heck do these skins cost so much?! Like.....WHY???? This outrageous pricing is why i predominantly pay for the battle pass stuff rather than the other stuff. Trainer skins shouldnt cost this much, no one really sees it. Holowear shouldnt cost this much when *ahem* WE DONT HAVE MAP ROTATIONS IN RANK, WE DONT HAVE AN OPEN WORLD LIKE CHINA, WE DONT HAVE SKINS THAT COME WITH DIFFERENT MOVES, AND MORE....like wth are we even doing here asides having a guilty pleasure for a Pokemon MOBA???? Bro, if it WEREN'T Pokemon, i wouldve quit after seeing that we havent left T.Ruins for what? 2yrs???

[@Daniel-lp3sh]

Because there are ppl who pay for it.

[@willglanton9]

They cut the game in countries to sell this garbage. While yes the holowear is cool no denying that. What isnt cool is the scummyness TiMi is doing to market it. Honesty screw the treasure event.

[@light570]

If the skin gonna cost that much at least make the skin something cool like armor mewtwo cause honestly most of the skins in unite sucks including this pikachu skin lol

[@jackskipper4839]

S to the C to the A to the M. There's a good reason why you can't play Unite in The Netherlands or Belgium anymore, and it's this.

[@TomWolf-nq9ss]

Thanks for talking about this Sprangels,I was waiting for you to talk about this❤ guys don't buy this,there's more PERMANENT stuff to buy in real life

[@SpecialWiener]

100-200 for a skin is literally ludicruous. I feel like they are starting to alienate the non whale players that would have bought a skin for 10-20 Aside from how scummy it is to me it seems rather stupid. Like by now there are no events with tangible rewards for normal players ,no skins to earn,cant ever earn gems,we rarely even get aoes coins now. Theres like no actual rewards to keep you playing

[@desertpinkmunchkin7277]

Honestly as expensive as this is, its still not as big an issue as matchmaking currently is. I just got matched with a guy playing attack weight on darkrai and when we lost from him doing nothing almost the entire game he got on mic to boast about him being better than the rest of us(he wasn't), God matchmaking needs to be fixed so these people aren't in my que anymore

[@havokgmg1430]

as someone who recently got into unite within 3 months ago and has purchased skins it really sucks that for quality skins that dont just have movement fx you either cant purchase it because you missed the event or get ready to cough up $50-(now)$200. But its fine at least darkrai and psyduck still aren’t problematic…🙃

[@havokgmg1430]

Also I havent seen anyone talk about how bad the membership is, $10 a month is kinda crazy for a bunch of 1 time rewards and things that are only useful for a short time and the gems are only 30 A DAY??

[@goldensparkles7648]

ah yes, pokemon unite attacks again with more cosmetics locked behind money

[@Snail_Lord75]

Like I said in an earlier comment, the skins should have been like this for the price of the purple tier skins, not 100 bucks

[@DelphinusVyse]

Yup, also many other games have skins like this for less than we pay for the purple tier skins in the shop. Unite skins have been overpriced since day one.

[@shamilton1990]

Yeah, I wanted the holiday Mew skin from the holiday battle pass.. but I decided not to spend another single *cent* because of how little the game has changed since launch. Plus, not really worth it when all you care about is the green quality skin they give you just for buying the battle pass lol. The skins are way more expensive than they deserve to be.

[@sstandarsh]

The goal break emblem is pretty cool, I hope that isn’t always trapped behind $100 price tags

[@ALonelyStone]

It is 100% correct that people would not care as much about this if the game was simply better. Sure, theres always going to be the sentiment that people feel the prices are too high, but if the game was getting the constant love the other version was getting, then people would absolutely not care about this as much as they act like they do. Jake put it perfectly, the game just doesn't feel deserving of a transaction that high, and while some people might say it should never be that high, i guarantee they would just voice their opinion once and then continue to enjoy the game. But the sad reality is the game isnt distracting us enough from the pricing because the updates have been lackluster. New mons are great and all but we need some meta shaking items, new maps, all sorts of stuff Jake already mentioned that would make it feel more worth it. Charging a high price in a half baked feeling game just feels insulting, which makes people seem more mad about this than they really would be

[@josephlouis9]

They want to catch-up with LOL and Ahri's skin (basically a multi-tier skin costing from $50 - $500, iirc). Tencent is just despicable to the very core. The best I can do is $20 and I feel that my mom will scold me if I tell her.

[@Monkeyfuzz]

I open the boxes to get rid of the red dot.

[@oolureoo]

I think that's a glitch that happens every once in a while on Unite, because even if you open all the gift boxes/click all rewards, the red dot can still remain, at times. The red dot bug has also appeared on the "Tournament" section of Unite too, for me 😭🤦

[@DMSportsWorld]

Pikachu as Brand Ambassador surely deserve best tier Holowear

[@SeriouslyJaded]

I spent 4500 gems on Gengar’s orange tier skin but this crystal tier is just way over the top. I spent a lot less on BG3 and that’s the best rpg ever made. So, it’s a big nope from me this time around.

[@c4nnske]

If people hadn't paid for the previous ones, they wouldn't have made yet another holo tier. So you're part of the problem 🤷🏻

[@elementofsurprise2273]

seems like he will be full time pocket content creator. or at least be his main channel. no longer called B-tier and gets way more views.

[@uWAVES]

The only thing I like about these holowears are the move effects sadly

[@estebanpinedasanchez9282]

Oh! Good point, actually if there were no information or notice about the China Version, It'd have been way more difficult to accept that kind of prices for a skin. The game is kinda stuck, and every time we have a recurrent event (Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc) have been less rewarding to play them with each passing year 😐. 😷Its like things aren't moving (for the better) inside Pokemon Unite. But as we have hopes on the future (a merge of versions) we endure a bit better the lack of excitement.

[@tajinderkumar9647]

Spragels pikagamer collab with you in short Mew best steal ever

[@kingkai3729]

The Sylveon and Ninetales gold holowears were nicer

[@jawza6896]

Jake… unite is staring to make me sad 😢

[@puckyou0012]

Honestly, I wish we knew ahead of time when the gem sale was happening

[@sunsetter4940]

If you include furniture and long term tech (tv, computer, etc) there is a good chance this skin will be the third most expensive thing in the room. Also that poor stantler.

[@gaminghuskies]

Having started Marvel Rivals recently, it's just wild if you compare their battle pass costs, the cosmetics you get and how much Pokémon unite is over charging for essentially the same quality of stuff. It's messed up.

[@NatWestC]

Pokemon unite be like. It’s a free game, just the cosmetics are just to cheap to keep the game going.

[@markmushyguy]

All hail spragles honestly for keeping it real. Thank you for being our voice and speaking out ahaisnt us

[@KwehKwehKweh]

this is why i stopped adding money to it months ago, i was gonna sub to the thing about but by the time i was about to they reduced the amount of gems u get and raised the battle pass which now no more new skins for me and honestly i might quit for good until they do the update like how the Chinese version has

[@Skip_Loom]

"The Treasure Challenge." It challenge u to spend as much money as possible

[@giovannigagliardi7395]

So ive had thoughts on simple improvements to the the. The tower defense mode and boss rush should just become standard. Boss rush can have weekly rewards and the tower defense could be monthly. But give us more modes to casually play, that way they can kinda be done with it and focus on new stuff. But these modes require different ways to play and different mons to use so perhaps there is more initiative to get skins that there is monetary value into an addition like this

[@jennyperpa5302]

The lack of content is making me think about uninstalling the game. It's clear to me that the China version is the one they care about most. The global version is just a beta test. I knew this game was gonna be rough when they announced Tencent and Timi were the developers. I saw how Tencent ruined League of Legends monetization. It's just a shame. Because the gameplay is good! But the monetization and lack of content is sad.

[@Daniel52289]

*points to everything in the room that costs less than $200*

[@himadrimukherjee8670]

This game had so much potential mixed with skill and nostalgia but they ruined it.. I left the game like a year ago but occasionally watch spragels' videos when they pop up randomly

[@neonoah3353]

Same, i came back this last weekend, but it didnt take me a day to just not play anymore, this game is just... Shitty, good gameplay, awful company.

[@Daniel-lp3sh]

700 dollars for that moustache is fair enough. It have a perfect shape, you can save food there fot later if you are hungry. Good deal

[@Ghostmnm]

Question with holowear. Has any Pokemon received holowear that you can use holowear tickets for post release?

[@ToadetteTails6969]

*Insert that Cronk meme.* "No, no. He's got a point."

[@iamnobody4685]

At this point pokemon unite dev is just money hungry ngl

[@nikogls1128]

You are right Jake and you made very good points. They also couldve add more battle items etc. and i love playing unite, but i need my kidneys😂the pikachu skin tho looks amazing

[@leonlai2130]

I'm kinda relate to this.... I was regret spending so much of money into this game for holowear....after hearing their future plan in China and even shutting down some country..... I don't see the game developer is going to do much on this update.... Now giving out unite license for free n etc.... So how abt those ppl who actually spent real money for it??? Usually this only happen when the game base has gone down and ppl are alrdy moving away from this game / uninterested

[@TheSushiDad]

True, lots of my friends abandoned this ver to move to chinese version.

[@Prince_Spoopy]

The only orange tier skin I have is for Alolan Ninetales. I also have Sacred style but I have both skins because I main A9. I cannot fathom spending even more money for the pikachu skin when I don’t even main pikachu…. If the guesstimated minimum price for a Crystal tier skin is 200 it’s more so on the cheap end for other other mobas with their prestige skins which cost even more, but the MASSIVE issue I have is that not only is this a massive Gacha but your tickets do not roll over. It almost feels like all countries are just funding the Chinese version while every other country is given crumbs at a price

[@EVPnutButr]

We need the Pokémon Unite B Tier Version so bad right now.

[@dweeds]

Its how they eat, and they think that 200 dollars price point times the number of people who will spend, its a good total

[@Lerbull]

Brawl stars does this well. The most experience skiin is about 30 dollars and the gane it self is full of content and gets good development. It has great releas schedule and is really well put together. Unite could take a lot of inspiration from other games and even from there own Chinese version.

[@johnc.392]

I can point to something in my room that costs more than 200$ me because the actual cost of raising me + living cost + all that nonsense has added up to who knows how much 😔

[@lopunnyplayzthepinkgang3025]

I get 100 quid a month and i thought that buying aeos gems monthly would be fine for battles passes and stuff if i wanted i could afford the orange tags every month but the fact that this crystal tag is even more than 100 is just insane like if u have the worst luck your paying nearly 300 quid thats borderline criminal

[@Duskrunner23]

I agree with your sentiment that we aren't getting the value from the game that we should. Speaking of value, your mustache is not worth 700 dollars. It's priceless. Get it right, Cowboy.

[@milescummings5185]

I would pay real money for SHINY SKINS. Which would be an easy win for devs because they don't even have to design anything, just change the color...

[@jeffthibodeaux6137]

This skin looks so fugly it hurts.

[@emeraldgiss]

This is going past free to play. This is now a different in culture. Jappan has this more normalized, even when getting toys. An example is League of Legends ( which is free ) people hating this type of stuff to the point they do dam that charecter every time.

[@Symonne]

This holo just looks like baby clothes Edit: also matchmaking sure as heck hasn’t been fixed, 80% of my games my team is under 200 battles while the opponents are all 2k or 3k+ battles and it shows when they steamroll my team who don’t know what they are doing

[@bug70079]

But wait! You forgot to mention the Stage Style: Pikachu Button Customization in the shop for 199 gems 😂💀 lmao

[@Attainable_]

If they reduced the prices by 5-10x I really do think they'd make more money overall.

[@wipvanrinkle8525]

1 skin for the price of TWO full games

[@worldofcricketcartoon]

Spragels Pikagamer collab with you of mew steals short

[@Whodathunkit1234]

They’re trying to make the money up from dealing with palworld lmao🎉

[@fernandosimon5621]

No new map, no new objectives, same old matchmaking, laggy switch menu, rehashed events, new pokemon cost more, bp costs more, membership no longer gives holowear, less gems in the membership, no new energy rewards, no new fashion and holowear ticket items to buy, random buffs/nerfs, no penalty for AFKs and griefers.... Yeah... I'm glad I quit. I still watch Jake cause he's fun!

[@Rich_Unhinged]

My entire networth is like $200 with these rent prices

[@AlexMetamorphCamel]

Today's quote: Our world and system and universe is built on the basis of desire. Desire causes conflict. Conflict causes dissatisfaction and suppression. Therefore I suggest a possibility to escape this universe. That is all.

[@venheartzeil3070]

You should see how much I just spent on this Jinx skin. 🤣

[@balrajkumar848]

Spragels pikagamer collab with you in short of best steal by mew

[@orange5423]

There was another dupe since 1.0 which can do a lott in one time

[@phillipminer3554]

LET’S GO GAMBLING 🎰 Aw dang it

[@Chronorust]

😂

[@Drop0sauce]

WAYYYYY TOO MANY GOOD GAMES ARE OUT TO BE PLAYING UNITE

[@wildfoxflowerfarm4480]

I agree with the cosmetic argument that its not worth it for how the game is right now... the level of development does NOT match the price listed.... I mean same stuff but we need a facelift and new maps!

[@alexanderhikel2350]

Well if I could write it off as a business expense on my taxes I probably would get it….

[@brunorodriguez7137]

Biggest scam in all poke mobile history. 🥶

[@spragels]

the real scam were the friends we made along the way

[@brunorodriguez7137]

@@spragelsbro you have the platform to create a positive movement. No Pokemon unite day and see if the devs care enough about us to fix their game. We all love your content. I’m sure if you ask the community to not play for a bit they would listen and hopefully get the game moving in the right direction starting the year. Right now the game is in the stage of “let me milk the customer until no more cash comes out” it’s all part of how mobile games find their limit on how much to charge and that’s until the community has had enough. Please lead the way brother. Cheaper and more fixes for the game or something ! Please 🥺

[@brunorodriguez7137]

@@spragelsreminder we stand behind you ❤

[@Hatterene-g7n]

I Got The Skin Last Night.I'm lucky

[@gamerboi_27]

As an indie dev, I would never charge the players for special skins. I'd rather offer a great game to play and add free updates like Eric Barone. Greed and corruption shall be vanquished.