Talk:Treader Town/@comment-129.241.127.92-20140903210412

So... you can buy the TMs for Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Ice Beam and Smack Down for a combined sum of 15,500 coins at the Game Corner. If you buy coins for money, that's the equivalent of $310,000.

Then, just a nudge further down the storyline, you can buy the exact same TMs in Blackfist Department Store - for the combined sum of $10,500. That's almost 30 times cheaper.

Tell me... why have those TMs for sale here at all? Even buying one of the "elemental beams" would set you back $80,000, which is a considerable portion of your savings at this point in the game. It might be slightly helpful for the Evil Team base, and possibly Mt. Press, but hardly worth that great investment. Then it turns out that if you wait until the next city, you can have 4 of the 5 Game Corner TMs for pocket change. Unless you fall into the trap and shell out your entire savings just to complete the TM list as early as possible, you'll have no reason to want to buy TMs here at all - heck, Shadow Ball can be found for free in Kivu Town, which is much earlier in the game.

Is the Game Corner simply selling TMs for ludicrous prices just to troll players? I thought that inaccessible Poké Ball in Shadow Path was bad, but this certainly takes the cake...