Just last week, The Pokémon Company officially retired Pokémon TCG Online and launched Pokémon TCG Live out of beta, ushering in a new era of online play for the popular card game. Unfortunately, the new live platform is littered with bugs destroying the experience and leaving the community searching for alternatives, with one coming from an unlikely source.
Since launching from beta on June 9, TCG Live has been missing core features like collection viewers and tournament options that PTCGO already offered before being taken permanently offline. There are also numerous bugs like certain card interactions crashing the game, assets failing to load mid-match, a range of soft locks happening at any point from the loading screen to playing a card, and cards simply taking way too long to resolve.