Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Just tried downloading pokebank....

P_A

P_A

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However the first thing that came up in the Nintendo eShop was a cruel update screen! Now I honestly thought that I was totally updated after doing the second update already, so I'm assuming this is a third update probably having something to do with Pokebank. Who knows? However I'll keep going and let everyone know what happens.

Edit: Once the update was done, I tried to go back to the eShop, and it says that it's currently down for maintenance. I sincerely hope they have lots of servers online soon so it won't crash when everybody tries to download Bank.
 
Nope, sorry, you won't. At least not now. Here's one of the latest statements from Nintendo that I found online:

"Nintendo and The Pokémon Company International have postponed the launch of Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter - two software applications that were originally scheduled to launch for Nintendo 3DS on Dec. 27 - due to a large volume of traffic to the Nintendo Network service. Due to the high traffic, players are having trouble setting up Nintendo Network IDs and downloading content in the Nintendo eShop on both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. We truly regret the inconvenience, and wish to reassure everyone that providing a solution is our top priority. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your continued patience."

Not even a note discussing possible dates when it WILL be online. That sucks.
 
I just found this out. How did they not expect this? something that you force on a community to be released on a certain date that people are expecting will be mass downloaded. Their servers should have been able to handle this. OR they could have had the transfer feature BUILT INTO the game like it should have been. Lucky for me I setup my Nintendo ID on my 3ds once I found it out.

This is such a shame really. I was really looking forward to this day.
 
It also wasn't hack-checking correctly, from what I've heard. My guess is that they're using the server maintenance to disguise fixing that checking portion.
 
Better to not give a date and have it be a pleasant surprise then to give a date prematurely and be wrong at this point.
 
King Piplup said:
Better to not give a date and have it be a pleasant surprise then to give a date prematurely and be wrong at this point.
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Yeah, I agree with you on this, since real gamers have seen a lot of release delays in the past few years (and are used to it to a certain degree), but .... it would have been better had they gotten it up and running right the first time, and on time as promised. That really is a shame.

I had 19 completely full boxes ready to upload from Black (a lot from earlier games like Heartgold, Diamond and Platinum - wish I could have had my Sapphire pokes as well), and 24 mostly full boxes from Black 2.
 
I dont think the hack check is the problem. There is nothing they can do in that regard but I think it was the huge updates of Miiverse on the 3DS as a lot of people have not done that and you need to do it to connect to the shop. I just want to get my Pokemon. It should not take this long to transfer pokemon. a complete play through should be enough.
 
Well, I finally was able to access the eShop, but when I found info on PokeBank, it just says "Release Date: TBD" Of course TBD means To Be Determined. Not really liking that, but hey, I think it's better that they fix the bugs then release it, than if they let it continue without some assurance that hacked pokemon won't get through. It may not be the problem at this point, but I wish they'd work on it while fixing other stuff too.
 
P_A said:
Well, I finally was able to access the eShop, but when I found info on PokeBank, it just says "Release Date: TBD" Of course TBD means To Be Determined. Not really liking that, but hey, I think it's better that they fix the bugs then release it, than if they let it continue without some assurance that hacked pokemon won't get through. It may not be the problem at this point, but I wish they'd work on it while fixing other stuff too.
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Hacked Pokemon are getting through. Nothing they can do about that without blocking a large number of non native BW/2 Pokemon. I dont think the take down was due to hacks. We have to remember all of nintendo's servers went offline to the huge updates of 3ds systems to support nintendo IDs.
 
vaporeon said:
Hacked Pokemon are getting through. Nothing they can do about that without blocking a large number of non native BW/2 Pokemon. I dont think the take down was due to hacks. We have to remember all of nintendo's servers went offline to the huge updates of 3ds systems to support nintendo IDs.
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I doubt it has anything to do with the software too. Traffic has been insane from what I hear, between Bank, EU getting Super Mario World, and the large influx of new 3DS and Wii U owners, it's probably a case of exceeded expectations. Hopefully that means that sales were amazing this holiday season and with the upcoming maintenance things should return to normal as things are smoothed out.
 
TheRolesWePlay said:
I doubt it has anything to do with the software too. Traffic has been insane from what I hear, between Bank, EU getting Super Mario World, and the large influx of new 3DS and Wii U owners, it's probably a case of exceeded expectations. Hopefully that means that sales were amazing this holiday season and with the upcoming maintenance things should return to normal as things are smoothed out.
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I hope so as well. I just really hope the service is up soon. I have a lot of pending battles and such. Guess this gives me time to get my Heal Bell Articuno.
 
Havent posted on here in awhile (since giving up wasting money on cards), but I figured Id share some information.

Apparently, when you transfer up from BW/2, it will only transfer Pokemon from box 1. So you have to manually move each Pokemon to box one then upload it. Once uploaded they go into a temp box, then you can sort them into Bank. The temp box must be emptied before uploading more.

Also, about the hacks getting through- even though Japan had it for little over a day ( still have it if they got it downloaded), the damage has been done. GTS is riddled with Contrary Snivy's and the like, and pretty much any Pokemon that has been created through outside means as long as it doesnt have stats, attacks or abilities it cant normally have- Hidden Abilities excluded. Also, I have seen pictures of some Pokemon coming across as Kalos native (pentagon symbol in summary), for whatever reason. GF really dropped the ball on this one, and Nintendo did on the server end.
 
Well, thank you NoDice for that info. It's as bad as I first thought. Ok, grin and bear it. Looks like we're gonna have another wonderful mess on our hands and never know if we can fully trust anyone we do a trade with. It doesn't matter now if they make it foolproof for those outside of Japan, since they dropped the ball there first.


Not really all that fond of moving just box 1 pokemon only, since that's gonna take me hours upon hours to move all the pokemon from the 40+ boxes I have ready. Wonderful. Just freakin' wonderful. No wonder they have a $4.99 cost for a years worth - who in their right mind would ever want to use it more than they absolutely had to?

Guess I better just let it go for tonight. I've had just about enough disappointment for one day. Not really happy with Nintendo/Game Freak/TPC/TPCi and anyone else who might even be remotely tied up with this debacle.
 
Someone tried to transfer over a Missingo that was breed with a Porygon that was cloned by a Ditto who had Wonder Guard ability................


my bad................................
 
Yeah, the twisted, evil person who posted post #14 was pretty bitter, but I killed him so we can all get on with life.
 
Here's what I posted in another site:

It wouldn't be so bad if Nintendo would announce a tentative date on when they hope to see it released, and what they will do about the one month free subscription, however even when trying to find out this info and contact their customer service, the website encountered an error and couldn't fulfill my request. I guess until they come up with at least a little more info, everyone is gonna continue to flood their website and eShop and continue to make the delay longer. Kinda sucks, but that's what happens.
 
I know. This is kind of a big deal to me. At this point I dont know what to believe anymore. Nintendo's servers are back online so what can the hold up be.
 
I believe this warrants a Manaphy release Event.....................................................
 
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