{"id":27738,"date":"2018-06-23T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/pokemon_go_lfriendsr_and_trading_services_are_now_live"},"modified":"2018-06-23T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T04:30:00","slug":"pokemon-go-friends-and-trading-services-are-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/23\/pokemon-go-friends-and-trading-services-are-now-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon GO \u2018Friends\u2019 And Trading Services Are Now Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/pokemon_go_lfriendsr_and_trading_services_are_now_live\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/pokemon_go_lfriendsr_and_trading_services_are_now_live\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemon GO.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/pokemon_go_lfriendsr_and_trading_services_are_now_live\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/pokemon_go_lfriendsr_and_trading_services_are_now_live\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon GO.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>On Tuesday we <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/pokemon_go_will_finally_allow_you_to_trade_pokemon_with_new_friends_feature\">reported<\/a> the new \u2018Friends\u2019 feature for <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/strong><\/a> would rollout later this week. With Niantic slowly making this service and trading available to higher level players over the past day, the major release of the \u2018Friends\u2019 and social features is now live. This makes the services accessible to all trainers and trading available to players who are level 10 or higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new social update implements Trainer Codes, which essentially function the same way as Friend Codes on Nintendo devices. Once you\u2019ve added a friend, you\u2019ll gain additional benefits in-game like receiving gifts which can be passed on to your buddies. According to the official Pok\u00e9mon GO twitter account, there are confirmed reports of Alolan Pok\u00e9mon hatching from eggs gifted by other trainers:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alola, Trainers! \ud83c\udf34 Professor Willow has confirmed reports of Alolan Pok\u00e9mon hatching from Eggs that were gifted by another Trainer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JXUHd2gYWl\">pic.twitter.com\/JXUHd2gYWl<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Pok\u00e9mon GO (@PokemonGoApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokemonGoApp\/status\/1010251323328090113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you happy the trading and friend services have finally arrived in Pok\u00e9mon GO? Have you perhaps returned to the game in preparation for the release of<\/em> <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu and Let\u2019s Go, Eevee<\/strong><\/a><em>? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday we reported the new \u2018Friends\u2019 feature for Pok\u00e9mon GO would rollout later this week. With Niantic slowly making this service and trading available to higher level players over the past day, the major release of the \u2018Friends\u2019 and social features is now live. This makes the services accessible to all trainers and trading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}