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The more that I read this thread, the more I ask to myself... Why all this complaining before we know anything?!?

Until now, the ONLY thing Nintendo have been announced but haven't been realizes is the "international english product release" scheduled for the en of August. It's a shame, imported Pokémon-e cards are selling really good down there. And the product is from USA, not in italian :p

But, about OP organization... MTJimmer said that some announcements will be made in a few weeks... Then, why keeping this hate againts Nintendo/PUI?
Why not waiting for these announcements?

Pokémon USA, Inc. is committed to coordinate the OP for the whole world.

They have no interest in losing players. The only error they are doing is to leave without official support OP in the rest of the world.
But it's not a conspiracy against Europe, or Australia, or even Asia!

Nintendo is in charge of this game from July. As you see, it's really difficult to them to manage the OP thing for USA (look at the wrong jumbo cards for Season 2 League...).
And remember also these last months, when MTM decided to give prize support for international FATs... It was not so simple, and the big amount of delays (especially for our UK friends, unfortunately) was due to a lack of time, 'cause MTM was busy with 1000 other issues, and some troubles are always on the door.
Do you really think that for Jimmer & co. it's simple to manage directly the whole World OP organization?
They need the support of local companies, especially for distributing product.
If PUI starts to send directly to UK, Italy, France, Belgium, Australia, Holland, Sweden, China, etc. the League/Ladder packs, not only they will spend too much on sending (and these moneys will be subtracted for the quality of cards...), but they'll make a lot of errors, and then everyone will be there to complain again "PUI make a lot of errors, we are tired of that" etc.

Keep your local Leagues, play, support as you can OP in your city, and wait for OP starts in a few months... or in a few weeks? We'll see.
 
Its not hate...

PUI made a string of promises to the International Community...
They have not delivered on the majority of them.

there has been a great deal of retraction by PUI on their International Commitments.

So much so that PUI is NOW USA ONLY.

This is much as we predicted. But it seems that shooting the messenger when the news is unpalatable remains common practice.


PUI are handing all resonsibility over to a NEW team. It took PUI several months to get going. So how long will it take this new team to get going. How big is the International team? Will it be as well funded as its USA counterpart? Will the PUI website retain its USA bias?

The rumor mill has it that a few league kits are being delived to Europe this week. Anyone like to guess as to how many we might be getting? My top estimate is 20ish kits for the WHOLE OF EUROPE. One kit per distributor!

I remain concerned as to the level of comitment that we will receive from distributors. Some will be more committed to OP than others, as was the case in the past under WotC. But while I saw NO REASON WHATSOEVER WHY PUI COULDN"T SEND OUT A HANDFULL OF PROMOS to the currently active leagues, I never proposed this as a final model for delivery of OP. Successfull delivery of OP requires successfull distribution of the materials.

My position remains much as it has been for the past years..

Where's the Beef​
 
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Ok fellows hows this...

On a recent phone call to Nintendo Australia at their service center I asked about the pokemon Card game. Their response was that they do not distribute the card game and go to out local supplier (Croftminster) in which I was given a phone number that was laying around the office.

I then asked about the Pokemon EX and Pokemon Battle-E cards (We never go them here in australia... At all, not even with the pokemon Ru/Sa game) and they asked "What is Pokemon EX and the Battle-E cards"

It appears to me that reguarding this issue. Nintendo's Left and doesn't know what its right hand is doing. I think for all of our sakes that something is done about this.

As stated earlier in the thread. I am not here to bash the companies. I am here because of loving the card game. I honestly hope that all parties get their act together and make this a world wide thing as soon as possible. This is getting too far beyond a joke.

I hope that OP happens in all of our countries, and I hope that this happens so that the game we all love doesn't end up dieing a slow painful death.
 
Hello Everyone:

Yesterday, I phoned Nintendo, and I made some inquiries. The primary reason for my call to them yesterday was to ascertain the name of the NEWLY appointed International OP manager for the Pokemon TCG.

Because I am not aware whether this information is public yet, I will not post it here to the forum. However, I don't see any harm with providing the information to our International Contingent through "Private Messages".

So, for those of you that are interested, please PRIVATE MESSAGE me, and I will provide you the information.

Take Care,

Skywolf1
 
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NoPoke said:
Its not hate...

PUI made a string of promises to the International Community...
They have not delivered on the majority of them.

there has been a great deal of retraction by PUI on their International Commitments.

So much so that PUI is NOW USA ONLY.

This is much as we predicted. But it seems that shooting the messenger when the news is unpalatable remains common practice.


PUI are handing all resonsibility over to a NEW team. It took PUI several months to get going. So how long will it take this new team to get going. How big is the International team? Will it be as well funded as its USA counterpart? Will the PUI website retain its USA bias?

The rumor mill has it that a few league kits are being delived to Europe this week. Anyone like to guess as to how many we might be getting? My top estimate is 20ish kits for the WHOLE OF EUROPE. One kit per distributor!

I remain concerned as to the level of comitment that we will receive from distributors. Some will be more committed to OP than others, as was the case in the past under WotC. But while I saw NO REASON WHATSOEVER WHY PUI COULDN"T SEND OUT A HANDFULL OF PROMOS to the currently active leagues, I never proposed this as a final model for delivery of OP. Successfull delivery of OP requires successfull distribution of the materials.

My position remains much as it has been for the past years..

Where's the Beef​
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Actually, it's about 30 built kits that they took with thier luggage.

The rest of the materials from those kits are being handed over to the international team for delivery to the European and international markets so that they can produce localized versions of the league kits based from our materials. The same will be true of our season two materials, and hopefully, by season three or four, we'll be running the seasons concurrently with all international markets and the US.

If you'd like more information regarding the rollout of leagues and tournaments in Europe and the rest of the world, I highly encourage you to email [email protected].


Prof. Dav
 
Hopefully yes...
If I understood correctly, localized kits are produced in the related country. So distribution and prduction are totally up to the local distributors/responsibles.

It will make things more difficult, and more different from country to country, but at least we know that OP is coming soon.
 
I think this just means that each country will have their own local language translation of the League material, just like League Year One. Norway had Norwegian badge books for Year One, nothing has ever been printed in Norwegian since.
 
Dave: I added a Pokemon USA Icon to your profile to make it clear that you are speaking officially.
 
This message of Prof Dave is in contradiction with the info we got from out National Distributor, so who must i believe.
For a fact our distributor was not allowed to print any promotional material like windowclings to promote the R/S pokemoncards. There were some other things which i'm not allowed to publish which are in total opposit what the "official" source is saying.

O yes and mailing that emailadress will not give you any help, your email is forwarded to your national distributor, who knows nothing at this time and round is the circle, no answers more questions.

My eyes are focused is on the European OP convention tomorrow in Spain. Meaby some answers are given there. Beware because those answers/OP start have to be established by your National distributor. And from what if have heard from sources all around Europe that most distributor don't have a clue how much is involved by really running sanctioned OP events. (read: you can learn pokémon tcg in 1 hour and start a league in 2 hours and run/judge events in 3 hours)
And once and for all we don't need promocards in our national language, the English ones are fine for all dedicated players around the world. And because they are meant for those players there is no need for any delay to get them.
The only translation needed ( i think) is the guideline about how to run a league and some of the
 
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Happy to be wrong about the number of league kits.. 30 kits for all Europe is much better than 20ish.
 
Rainbowgym said:
This message of Prof Dave is in contradiction with the info we got from out National Distributor, so who must i believe.
For a fact our distributor was not allowed to print any promotional material like windowclings to promote the R/S pokemoncards. There were some other things which i'm not allowed to publish which are in total opposit what the "official" source is saying.
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I said official, not accurate. :p
 
Tego said:
Good news, Prof Dav. So we can expect localized versions of League kits soon?
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I hope so. We're going to distribute the remaining materials over to the international team as soon as they return, and it'll be in the hands of the Int'l OP director, to make sure the stuff is sent out and that the distributors, or strategic partners, are on top of getting the localizations done.

Of course, we are also sending along NON localized marketing items, such as posters and window clings, that will be usable as is by our partners, that they may choose not to use since they're in English.

Guys, I know you're frustrated, but we ARE trying to address everyone's wants and needs regarding Pokemon OP and product.

Thanks,

Prof. Dav
 
Dave I hope this means we at last confirm that the distributors present at Barcelona are the ones that will be delivering OP for Europe ... and that for the UK that means :

Hobby Games and Esdevium

Certainly we plan to offer both as much help as possible in making their involvement a success and growing the game. Here's hoping the kits find it to the leagues and not onto eBay ...
 
This message of Prof Dave is in contradiction with the info we got from out National Distributor, so who must i believe.
For a fact our distributor was not allowed to print any promotional material like windowclings to promote the R/S pokemoncards. There were some other things which i'm not allowed to publish which are in total opposit what the "official" source is saying.
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I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I never said that distributors were going to print anything, other than localized materials for kits. The licensing restrictions on the Pokemon brand are very tight, and it makes far more sense for us to provide the already approved materials to them, and allow them to modify them for localization.

Not a word have I said regarding product support, as I don't know a thing about that.

O yes and mailing that emailadress will not give you any help, your email is forwarded to your national distributor, who knows nothing at this time and round is the circle, no answers more questions.
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If they are not answering your questions at international, we need to be made aware of this. [email protected] is checked everyday by the OP staff, and we will bug them if they are not answering your questions satisfactorily. However, we will always tell you to email them at the international email address. They are better staffed than they were even two weeks ago, so we should see them becoming more effective as we go forward.

And once and for all we don't need promocards in our national language, the English ones are fine for all dedicated players around the world. And because they are meant for those players there is no need for any delay to get them.
The only translation needed ( i think) is the guideline about how to run a league and some of the
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I've said nothing about translated cards. You guys are getting our US printed US language promo cards that we are using here. As I stated MUCH earlier in this thread, I ALWAYS push for consistency among all of our programs, though I don't have the final say.

Thanks,

Prof. Dav
 
Nice to have the confirmation that things are moving and that we seem to be close to OP in Europe.

I'm still afraid of one thing anyway. Will all the distributors be as positive as in Holland ? Will they be interested, will they involve themselves in POP, will they follow the instructions given by PUI ?

No answer to these questions up to now, and unfortunately I think it will be different from country to country.
 
It's like I said, things are moving forward and they are trying hard to get International OP going. It just takes time...
 
Okay so US Cards sent to distributors and US posters and that took time why TEGO?

I know as a company man you have to toe the line but we have been screaming for some help for months and what we asked for was some US promo's sent direct to the MPs and now we get US promos sent to distributors to do with as they will...

Still cannot see why there was a delay and still is a delay... in getting support to active leagues, still cannot understand why active leagues are not registered and advertised on Pokemon-TCG site, still cannnot understand why a My Nintendo account is needed to use things like deck builder on the site .. why exclude the rest of the world for a little bit of thought?

And Dave how about answering the questions asked? Certainly we have experienced a lack of response from international OP and that is a reason we have moaned .. but then we also have had a lack of response from yourselves and yet other European Professors have had a response?

Your messages are not coming out to us all at the same time and in the same way :( Do you have a list of Non-US Professors and have you tried emailing them?

How about starting by introducing Jarrod Nack to us all? Certainly we are glad 30 kits are coming over and I for one have briefed the Distributors to grab as many as they can .. it will be interesting to see what comes out of that scramble...perhaps it's how we tell which distributors are commited to OP by how many kits they manage to nab ;)
 
I think what everyone is asking is that we need some way of seeing that there is support coming. The Pokemon-TCG website does cater from some of these by providing an email link but thats all it provides. The only information is that we will know more in the fall and also a link to the distributers.

We would probably like links to the current gyms (leagues) or even recognition that there are leagues outside of the US. Please correct me if I'm wrong guys.

I come on here most days and read what everyone has said, putting my 2 cents in, hopefully with what myself and others have put in, we can get this thread closed and make it so that we all get what we want.

What do we want? Similar if not better organisational leagues and good if not better support from Pokemon - USA.

I'm not critisizing any companies here but we would like to get things as underway as soon as possible.

Like I said before I wouyld like to see a league that is good, if not better than the ones Wizards provided, and I think thats what we all want.
 
What do we want? Similar if not better organisational leagues and good if not better support from Pokemon - USA.
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I would go so far as to say whatever leagues are left in the rest of the world have to be better organised than the US otherwise they would not have survived this long with no support.

What I; and I believe the other UK professorsare looking for is, equal access and treatment in terms of leagues listed on the Pokemon-TCG website and access to material and programmes on there.

We want our professors and TO's and Premier Event TOs to be recognised and we want PUI to actual trust us... otherwise there is truely no point in being a professor at all if the company we are supposed to be working with will not list our leagues, support our OP or even include us in the decisions that form the future of the game.

Even stupid little things like the re-setting of the print run for Marill outside the US mean we have no access to free retreat Marill.. that is not an issue until they rule that it is legal in Organised Play. Now those people that grey imported are rewarded and those that did not are slapped in the face...

It's these silly little things that show if a company really are considering those outside the US or not... 30 kits is a start.. not enough of one to even cope with what is left here in the UK alone but it is a start.. please PUI make sure it is not as we fear too little too late :(
 
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