Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept. 14

[BulbaBot]

Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept. 14, 2010

The official Pokémon site for the Global Trade Station feature present in the Generation IV Pokémon games is set to close on September 14.

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[Battaman]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

The GTS has/had it's own website?

 

[Badal]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

Yes, a lame and useless one at it. I never saw the point in it. Good, its gone.

 

[Agent Gryphon]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

As long as the GTS in the game isn't somehow turned off, or the wifi since they should know that there will be people still playing D/P/P/HG/SS

 

[KidWithTheGoldenArmaldo]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

I wonder if the little "live trades" they would show where Pokemon were jumping from one part of the globe to another was real.

Anyways, the site was fun for about 30 minutes. After that, I lost complete interest in it, so not really gonna miss it. Like the above post said, as long as the in-game GTS is still working, I'm fine.

 

[Silktree]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

I wonder for how long the Generation IV GTS and Wi-Fi Battle Tower will remain functional.

 

[Ampere]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

Until Gen VI's debut on 3DS which will pull a Gen III and make previous gens incompatible.

Or something.

Also, "may probably" from the article is cool.

 

[Somari]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

I forgot about that site. I checked it out before I had wifi and forgot about it.

Since Gen V is coming out it's obsolete.

 

[thedarkbunnylord]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

I wonder for how long the Generation IV GTS and Wi-Fi Battle Tower will remain functional.

I've wondered this too... Hopefully still some years after Black and White.

But anyway, I loved watching GTS site every one and then. It looked really cool, even it was really useless.

 

[Silktree]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

Since Gen V is coming out it's obsolete.

It's not obsolete since the Generation IV GTS is a separate feature. Besides, the Global Link site apparently won't track the trades in the Generation V GTS, either. However, the GTS site was never very helpful due to having no effect on the games themselves; the real question is if the new GTS will have improved search functions like the ones this site had.

 

[Somari]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

It was a pretty mediocre site anyway. Wasn't it for, what, looking for people? The ingame GTS did that for you.

 

[Silktree]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

It was a pretty mediocre site anyway. Wasn't it for, what, looking for people? The ingame GTS did that for you.

It is a mediocre site since it doesn't affect gameplay. But the site does show how limited the in-game GTS is; it shows all the Pokémon desposited into the system (rather than just the seven search results that come up first), as well as their moves. Of course, the GTS' biggest flaw is making it impossible to search for Pokémon you haven't seen, which is a problem the site obviously doesn't have (although that doesn't change anything in the games).

 

[Rafia]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

Does it say 11:00 AM PST when you guys open the bulbanews page?

 

[Joshawott]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

The music was the most annoying thing...

 

[VeggiePopper]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

I won't miss him. However, I hope this doesn't mean that the GTS o¡itself will be shot down soon. I still need to trade many Pokémon to complete my Dex.

 

[TM2-Megatron]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

That's surprising. I would've expected it to keep going for at least a little while after B&W's release. In the grand scheme of things, running that site probably don't cost Nintendo very much; and people will still be using Gen IV games for quite some time.

 

[Gligar13]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

I'm fine with the GTS site shutdown, as long as they don't shut down gen IV wifi. The site hadn't been updated anyway, as there were only D/P/Pt logos on the site.

 

[Mijumaru]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

Yeah, this makes sense. I personally never used the website, only played the games, so I'm not really all that sad, if not sad at all.

 

[Mr.Mister]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

who cares the website barely does anything the games is what has to stay

 

[Mijumaru]

Re: Official site for Global Trade Station announces closure: Site to close down Sept

who cares the website barely does anything the games is what has to stay

It will stay, but you don't need to be so doubtful about the website closing. It has benefitted many people. I personally, however, was not one of those people who used the website.

So, once again, the games will stay.