Some Pokémon TCG Pocket players have taken to social media to demand changes to the community showcases, criticizing the current implementation as too generic.
Showcasing cards and collections has been a core feature of the game since its beta phase. While these showcases provide an additional way to earn Shop Tickets, many players engage with them simply to enjoy browsing others’ collections.
Recently, a growing number of players have united to push for an overhaul of how community showcases are presented. Reddit user AtomicBlue sparked this discussion by sharing a mockup of an improved showcase screen. In their design, players’ custom combinations of cards and backgrounds are displayed together as intended. Currently, the game only shows separate images: a background alongside a small card thumbnail, failing to replicate the original vision of the owners.
Pokemon TCG Pocket Players Label Community Showcase UI as ‘Wasted Space’
Elaborating on this train of thought, AtomicBlue described the current version of community showcases as “so much wasted space.” Their post amassed hundreds of upvotes within hours of going live, consequently appearing on the front page of the r/PTCGP subreddit in early January 2025. Its social media momentum suggests that a vocal subset of Pokemon TCG Pocket players are in agreement with this assessment and would like to see DeNA revisit the way community showcases work.
These calls are far from the first instance of fans asking for changes to the hit mobile game. But since Pokemon TCG Pocket only came out in late October 2024, it’s still too new to be able to tell how receptive its developers will be to unsolicited fan feedback of this sort. In the meantime, DeNA has recently revealed that it’s planning on expanding Pokemon TCG Pocket with the addition of trading, which is currently on course to arrive before the end of January 2025.
The game is also expected to receive even more cards in the near future. Recent datamining efforts have indicated that the next Pokemon TCG Pocket expansion may land on January 29. The new set will reportedly be bigger than the Mythical Island expansion that debuted in mid-December 2024, and offer players a choice between three themed booster packs, similar to the Genetic Apex set.