{"id":43000,"date":"2025-01-21T12:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=43000"},"modified":"2025-01-21T12:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:18:58","slug":"pokemon-tcg-pocket-player-shares-outcome-of-hitting-the-games-daily-spending-limit-every-day-since-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/pokemon-tcg-pocket-player-shares-outcome-of-hitting-the-games-daily-spending-limit-every-day-since-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket player shares outcome of hitting the game\u2019s daily spending limit every day since release\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese YouTuber Hajimesyacho revealed on January 19 that he has been hitting the daily spending limit in <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game Pocket<\/strong> every day since the game released on October 30, 2024. This has allowed him to amass a whopping 50,000 cards in the\u00a0game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\u65e5\u304b\u3089\u6bce\u65e5\u4e0a\u9650\u8ab2\u91d1\u3057\u30665\u4e07\u679a\u9054\u6210\u3057\u305fwwwww<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B1%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30dd\u30b1\u30dd\u30b1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdbZH61iUX\">pic.twitter.com\/KdbZH61iUX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u306f\u3058\u3081\u3057\u3083\u3061\u3087\u30fc(hajime) (@hajimesyacho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hajimesyacho\/status\/1880862419544936589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To limit players\u2019 daily pulls, Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket imposes an upper spending limit of 720 Poke Gold per day, which means that you can spend a maximum of around $120 on microtransactions daily (or about 14,000 yen in Japan). Hajimeshacho did so for over 80 days, which would imply that he\u2019s spent well over 1.12 million yen on the game so far. It seems this is the amount needed if you want to assemble a 50-thousand-card collection in Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket in less than three months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1159\" height=\"649\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1159px) 100vw, 1159px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250121-43000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250121-43000.jpg 1159w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250121-43000-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250121-43000-768x430.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, The YouTuber\u2019s viral post about his lavish Pok\u00e9mon spending spree prompted some interesting comparisons \u2013 players who have been playing the game diligently every day since its release without spending any real money <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/xoxotube\/status\/1880910181577675133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> having collected between 1,000 and 1,300 card for roughly the same period.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company recently revealed that Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket players from all over the world have collected a total of 40 billion cards. The game has been making headlines for its impressive revenue ever since its release, and the Japanese player base has been a particularly large contributor to its earnings. It\u2019s kind of weird knowing how big a stake a singular Japanese YouTuber probably had in the overall figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese YouTuber Hajimesyacho has been purchasing the daily limit in Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game Pocket for over 80 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":43003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,70],"class_list":["post-43000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-pokemon-series"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket player shares outcome of hitting the game\u2019s daily spending limit every day since release\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Japanese YouTuber Hajimesyacho has been purchasing the daily limit in Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game Pocket for over 80 days.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/pokemon-tcg-pocket-player-shares-outcome-of-hitting-the-games-daily-spending-limit-every-day-since-release\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket player shares outcome of hitting the game\u2019s daily spending limit every day since release\u00a0 - 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