Pokémon GO now offers its own web store outside of the game. What’s different?
What kind of store is this? So far you could only use one store in the game itself, now there is also an outsourced variant.
The official Pokémon GO site now also has an off-game store. Here is the link to the store at pokemongolive if you want to check it out.
Is the store available in Germany? Not complete yet. You can reach a German version of the store via the link, but purchases there are not yet activated.
If you click on one of the offers, the message appears: “Coming soon. It is currently not possible to make purchases in this region. That may change in the future.”
So if you want to use the store in Germany, you will have to wait and see.
What’s in the new Pokémon GO web store?
According to the “Pokémon GO Hub”, the store is already active in Australia, Norway and Singapore. Users can already make purchases there.
There are currently four PokéCoin bundles available in the shop. The special: Depending on the bundle, you get a few PokéCoins on top.
The four bundles are as follows:
It is currently unclear whether more items and offers will be added over time.
Are the offers worth it? That remains to be seen for the time being, until the prices in the German store are known. In the subreddit “TheSilphRoad”, however, users from Australia point out that according to the current status, the 100-coin option in the game is even cheaper for them compared to the new bundles (via reddit).
It is currently unknown how the prices will be in this country and whether the offers will be worthwhile. As soon as the store is also available in Germany, we will keep you informed here.
But there are other ways to get coins in Pokémon GO. So you can still get them by defending arenas as usual, a purchase in the store is not necessary to get coins. However, the limit from arenas is 50 coins per day.
There is also the possibility to get coins in Pokémon GO via Google surveys. MeinMMO author Franzi Korittke explains how this works in the guide on “How to get coins in Pokémon GO with Google surveys”.