The Pokemon TCG Pocket community is rallying for a significant change to the game's card acquisition system. Players are requesting that every 10-pack bundle should guarantee at least one Pokemon EX card, as the current gacha-style mechanics provide no built-in pity system to protect against unlucky streaks.

Unlike many free-to-play gacha games that implement soft or hard pity systems to ensure players eventually receive rare items, Pokemon TCG Pocket maintains fixed odds regardless of how many packs a user opens. Popular titles like Genshin Impact demonstrate how pity systems can work, guaranteeing rare drops within specific pull thresholds.

The current system presents particular challenges for competitive players. Four-diamond Pokemon EX cards, which are essential for meta decks, have an exceptionally low drop rate of approximately 0.333%. Without any form of guaranteed acquisition, players can theoretically open hundreds of packs without obtaining these crucial cards.

While the game does offer an alternative through its Pack Points system, the exchange rates make this option impractical for most players. Crafting a single EX card requires 500 Pack Points, meaning users must open 100 packs from the same expansion to accumulate enough resources - an enormous commitment for free-to-play participants.

The community's proposed solution would implement a hard pity system where every tenth pack opened guarantees an EX card. This change would maintain the excitement of random pulls while providing a reasonable safety net for players investing time and resources into the game.

Recent announcements about upcoming updates to ranked matches and trading features have given players hope that the developers might reconsider the current card acquisition mechanics. While no official response has been given regarding pity systems, the community continues to voice their concerns through various platforms.