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I guess half the problem will be solved if they do something about "untradables" clogging up the search results.
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Oh my god, no. Like you mentioned, trading/battling are the two defining features of Pokemon. I don't see them making players pay to trade/battle each other. Ever. Not only would that be a really bad move to pull on the target demographic (which are mostly kids), it would completely go against what Tajiri Satoshi intended for the games when he first created them. Having to pay to trade or battle friends? It goes against the very core of what makes Pokemon, Pokemon.I'm sure it will return. Though whether or not everyone will be able to use it is another kettle of fish entirely. Since you need to pay to access most ingame online features on the switch, unlike the DS and 3DS, it could be that unless a player pays for this service any trading or battling between non-local players would be locked away. Which sucks in my opinion. It's probably not that expensive (like pokemon bank, but costs more because it's for all nintendo switch online play) but for people who don't have incomes like me it's pretty scummy to make something like trading be locked behind that pay for online interaction even though we had no problem letting you doing it for free for the last two handheld AND home consoles to suddenly lock us out of an important feature. Because trading and battling online is one of the big deals with pokemon. Not everyone has friends/literally anyone near them to trade with so online is a necessity. Hell, they made two different versions of the same game since the very beginning to force you to have to trade with others with the opposite version.
I'm really hoping it's not locked behind the online paywall since Wonder Trading actually allowed me to trade with others for the first time EVER after X and Y introduced it, but odds are more in favor of $$$$$$$$$ than they are keeping a feature accessible to all fans. I just hope there isn't an annoying rotom-like feature popping in all the time asking me if I want to buy a subscription to Nintendo's Online so I can access cool features like GTS and [Insert New Festival Plaza Here]!
Does the Gen 7 GTS still ban Mythicals from being traded? 'Cause if so, I hope that the Gen 8 version won't be as picky. But in general I didn't often use the GTS after Gen 4, so I'm not too bothered by what the next version of the GTS will be like.