As someone who goes to several concerts a month, I'm no stranger to the woes of ticket scalpers. Yet, for as irritating as the practice is in the music world, it pales to the scalping within popular trading card games such as Pokemon or Magic the Gathering. In fact, it's becoming so extreme for pocket monsters, The Pokemon Company is looking into age verification to help soothe the market.
The company revealed as much in a statement on the official Japanese site for the Pokemon TCG. The idea is to use My Number Cards, a standardized form of government ID in Japan, as a way to "provide all customers with fair and safe opportunities" for certain purchases through the official store, per a translation from Automaton.
