Facts!! They sort of guaranteed it for the Sinnoh tour if you got the ticket. If you took the diamond pass you were guaranteed roar of time. If you took the pearl pass you were guaranteed spacial rend
you should be able to use a regular TM during community days to get the move on a pokémon you already evolved. similarly, if there is a shadow pokemon still with frustration and you add a second move and evolve during a CD, the move should be given in that second move slot
@@joaquinnavajo3939It’s not because of lack of common sense, it’s because they want to force people to go out during these events as much as possible. By not allowing you to TM previously evolved Pokémon, it incentivizes people to go out in order to build more of the same Pokémon. Niantic is stupid but this kind of FOMO behavior is without a doubt intentional.
Oh I got burned on Mankey CD where i evolved a shadow with a second move & frustration but no Rage Fist. Stupid how it doesn't let you on the second move during an event.
That's why they added roar of time, it's all a money grab, you use roar of time + candies every time, and by the time they come back around you have to go crazy on raiding them again, mighty would be a brill idea to get on daily incense but, then that was one thing people were looking forward to from what I could see, so they will only do it on events, so people play
Agree with you Dan. I think the aspect Niantic is missing, is that remote raiders enable in person players to raid. Legendary raids need more than one player and we aren’t allowed to have multiple accounts, so you need more people. We cant always gather a group of people to go raiding in person, so we need remote raiders to help out. If they support remote raiding it will enable more players to go out and raid in person knowing that they’ll have people to help them win the raid. I know I have done significantly less raids since the remote raid nerf.
I’ve been a player since it came out on 2016 and this company just keep ignoring their player base needs. Niantic do not care about what we want… PERIOD! I’ve seen how players went from playing this game every single day to completely deleting their account cuz of Niantic decisions and lack of understanding their player base. SMH NIANTIC!!!
Seems Niantic prevents communication so players cant express their issues in game. The raid thing is just us playing with Randos instead of making real in game friends. No connections, no threat from playerbase
I have no issue on previewing features/elements to the game as a trial/demo paired with an announcement. As long as the announcement confirms they will implement/improve on it based on real community feedback/data. Then again, that's something Niantic regularly fails at. Don't add it at all if it will be eliminated/worsened is the best view imo
Dynamax kinda reminds me of those MMO games. Healer, Tank, DPS. So, how cool would it be to have 'dungeons'? You gather a party and walk a certain route with your friends, and along the route you encounter 'bosses', maybe like really difficult rocket leaders you gotta beat with teamwork. And at the end of the route you fight the final boss and get rewarded with something cool. I dunno, just a random thought I had a while ago.
Remote raiding was also a way to make friends world wide in the community. I still have a few friends from both Spain and Korea bc of remote raiding, and it was nice. Also, living somewhere from the city is really depressing after the remote nerf. I understand the business purpose for niantic, but helping out the playerbase would be nice
As much as I would like Niantic to add more things to do in pokemon go, they really need to fix the bugs / other issues before adding new things. It has been this way for so long.
Thanks for the video! I'd suggest two things: 1. Offer the possibility to opt for simplified, non animated backgrounds. It slows down PvP animations and provokes lags. 2. Accelerating several parts of the game. Opening and sending gifts, dynamax... the animations are soool long, you'd like to do these things way quicker. Not even talking about the terrible length of pokemon capture, as there's that fast catching technique.
The funny part is that there is a functional way to skip both opening and closing gift animations (tap the space where the x button was) - there's all these little work arounds that experienced players know and use. What's nutty to me is these are popular things, but Niantic refuses to standardize features based off emergent player behavior
I love this!! We need more content creators bringing awareness to Niantics terrible Decision making. I play this game because i love pokemon. Iv played most an still own some main series games. I was one of the lucky ones who got to Beta test Pogo. I was thrilled and excited to see what this game could become. We've come so far an had lots of great changes like you mentioned in your video but im absolutely disgusted by Niantics shenanigans over the years. I feel like they have strayed off their path to make everyone happy, accessible. inclusion ect. How did Niantic go from listening to the community to everything being about a paid ticket? I just dont get how a company can shaft their player base over and over, gives us great features that everyone loves then have them take them away. It just feels terrible to see other games prosper while were still dealing with Niantics crap. I get there has to be a balance an Niantic vision/mission for the game an all that but they can absolutely give us the features we want they just choose not to an thats disappointing. Love Pokémon dislike Niantic.
I enjoyed the feature, though I didn't use it actively very much. If I want to remote raid I tend to either coordinate with folks on campfire I know, or use pokegenie. Still, was a good feature and I look forward to it returning someday. Hopefully with fewer bugs. I'd like raids and such to keep going later into the evening. I work during the day, then have other activities after work(try and get out for spotlight hours if the spawns or bonus are great). My usual evening pokemon go walk is typically starting close to 9:00. Doesn't give me much opportunity to raid a lot of stuff. I'm not fully sure why rocket grunts continue to be available, but leaders hide after 10, but leaders will show up from balloons. Quit being shy Arlo! Lucky friends with someone? No distance required to trade. That'd encourage folks to do way more gifting. Nothing worse as someone from Canada than hitting lucky friends with someone from India or whatnot and having no chance of ever actually making that trade. I like the game, but I'm not flying to the far side of the world to do a trade. I get them wanting us to need to grind for TMs. I do. So not making them be able to choose a specific move like elite TM(just without the elite moves)... It's understandable even if I don't love it. But I spent *16* fast TMs tonight to get shadow claw on my new feraligator. Bite, ice fang, bite, ice fang, bite, ice fang, waterfall, bite... I walk a lot of routes so it doesn't matter, but... ffs, at least make it so that the move can't be what it just was. Give us a slightly better chance of not just seeing things flip back and forth. Hope the conference is fun, interesting, insightful, life-affirming and with a decent lunch provided!
12:48 yeah i do anything to be against niantic 1, i dont go outside just for this game 2, i dont spend money on this game(very important) 3, if i play this game all i do is gbl 4, if i do a raid it will always be remote
The problem with the in raid feature is that unlike invites you can’t re-enter when/of the game crashes. I lost about 10 remote passes attempting to use this feature. Need to fix the crashing issues before implementing this system full time imo
I stopped using the feature after the game crashed before the raid boss encounter and couldn't re-enter the same raid, losing the remote raid pass. It shows that Niantic didn't think this part through (again). Niantic just needs to do things better rather than emptying the players pockets first and making up excuses of poor connection.
I love to play master league, its by far the most fun league however it is a grind to be able to get these pokemon. I think reducing the XL convert cost is good, however I would only reduce it to 75 or 50 candies. I would much rather see rare XL candy be more available. Regular rare candies are so common in raids, I think rare xl should at least have 1-2 guaranteed for in person 5 star raids, with a variable range and give out more during events or I would even adda small amount of xl candy to the rewards of remote passes (just 1 would make a difference) and to be fair, add 1 more to in person raids. As for other general suggestions for niantic, a big one would be an overhaul of how the tms work especially now that pokemons have a deeper move pool than before. Best case, it would be nice if they functioned like elite tms do where you can choose which move you want, except you cant choose any legacy moves. Id even take the random chance if they cycled the changed moves, ie if a pokemon had a move pool of 5 moves you would use at most 4 tms to get the move you wanted and 3 for the second slot. I wish the rocket events would happen more frequently if only to change up the grunt lineups besides the frustration removal(I wish we could use elite tms). I also wish we could Dynamax our existing pokemon. Requiring us to go out and refarm pokemon we already had is a bit of a slap in the face. Thats why I haven't bothered to use any stardust on them. Its been a while since anyone has talked about this but the avatars still look awful. I really wish they would change them back.
They did say they were gonna test this feature during this weekend. Im sure they are evaluating the result of the live test. As a system developer im not unfamiliar with procedures with how to release new features. With that said im 100% sure this feature is gonna come back, and come back to stay.
coordinating remote raids is for people who are at work, in the hospital or what have ya, for the average player it's friends in the area that aren't quite in range or PvP folks from all over the world in Discords haha. So yeah, we had a lovely option/function--they dangle the carrot, we bit and they take it away... wait for a $50 paid ticket per player to "unlock" that ability with a floor of 10 million trainers lol... it's not beyond Niantic to do that
I agree with your point. Separately, ever have interest in making this type of video but on the positive side? I think this was a great weekend for the game. Do you have any input on giving a rant style formatted video on what you liked and want more of? Mighty Pokémon? PvP relevant raids all weekend? Safari balls?
True I didn't think of American thanksgiving so they are likely out of office Thursday to Sunday. So maybe even tomorrow if they treat Wednesday like a half day
The only way Niantic will listen is if the player base stops playing but that won’t happen, another reason proving Niantic is anti-players. We are all just pawns for their geo-mapping scheme
What would’ve made sense would be to have the 3 additional XLs for in-person only, and keep both premium and remote pass prices the same, and have no limits.
Niantic is weird. The only remotes that I do now are with free passes from the 7 day research. Since the nerf, I've gotten like maybe 5. They really want you to buy them.
The lack of tms especially elite tms, lack of stardust and candy/xl candy to max out pokemon, lack of pvp leagues playable at once, no free remote raid passes so disabled people can't raid more and loyal players can't get a daily free raid without having to travel for it, lack of special trades, lack of days to evolve and use normal non charged tms to get rare movesets half the pokemon aren't usable in pvp, the lack of positive changes for a better gaming experience is just a shame the store is the most important part of the game for niantic
If they really want people to raid in person, increase the IV floor for pokemon raided in person - even an increase to only 12/12/12 would incentivize people I think.
In person raids in rural areas are dead lol, we have like 4 gyms around our village, all had palkia dialga and primal duo gmax toxtricity, not one gym had anyone in the whole of the wild area, 2 days, the game is just so grindy, they want u to do gmax but have to have dmax but want to build things to raid, just put an item in the shop that I can give the Pokémon I already have for dmax/gmax, mighty were good but not a great pool.
Steranka (one of the leading directors) has flat out said in multiple interviews that they genuinely do not really consider rural players much at all, and he basically says it’s unfortunately not the right kind of game for those players. Once I heard him say that, I dropped the game and have never looked back. If you’re a rural player, you might as well just stop playing, because the lead director himself has gone on record saying they don’t care.
Niantic has the backwards philosophy of FORCING players to go out instead of ENCOURAGING, as you mentioned in the video. Instead of offering more perks that incentive public raiding or walking around, they choose to nerf everything else into the ground so that players have no choice but to settle for what we have or stop playing. It is definitely a very scummy and strange design philosophy that I’ve honestly never seen done as often as Niantic does it. They almost always seem to prioritize the stick over the carrot, and put a lot of effort into pushing the limits of what they can get away with before it causes a significant enough backlash. People often joke about how Niantic hates their playerbase and make changes simply out of spite but honestly the more time goes on it seems like less of a joke and more of a reality lol.
Its crazy to me how stingey Niantic is on rewards. This event had you catching 10 electric or 10 poison types for 300 xp or 100 stardust. Most of the research tasks were worthless as well. Like why werent there any rewards for the Go balls. I got pretty lucky getting them at spins, but my friend found like 3 at max and could barely catch any Mighty Pokemon. I get its a free game, and they have to make money somehow, but the level they take it to is just absurd.
I don’t know how they’d do it, and I appreciate it sounds ridiculous, but I’d like Niantic to introduce a feature that allowed you to train Pokemon to improve their IVs and perhaps teach them new movesets. Just a thought.
Maybe not IVs but levelling up I agree 100%. Like don't make it easy but like the best buddy system, have the XL candy but have a way f2p players can level up without having to do 100s of raids to build one, amazes me seeing these poketubers with built Pokémon with thousands of xls left, while I'm here walking to grind out 1 XL maybe every 5-20 km lol
I'm so confused. What are the cons to this raid party feature? Its an extremely popular feature that boosts revenue through the roof with more people buying remote raid passes. What are the cons I'm missing here?
I have a few hundo legendary Pokémon that are meta for master league but can’t use them because I’m in the same boat as you, I don’t have enough time or money to pay for passes to all the raids I need to do just to power them up
I miss the automatic one minute incense spawns from incenses. I walk 4-5 days a week but once in a while I’m bored at home & it was fun to put on an incense & play from home. I also think the price to remote raid is excessive.
I started in 2019 got to level 39 got bored then got back into it these past few months, they seem to aim this game at content creators, but advertise to kids but demand money for pretty much any kind of reward, yes you can be f2p but how long would it take to get enough candies walking a legendary 20km for a candy, that whole level system needs changing, and for the love of god can they make wild spawns a bit more exciting lol
How long we had talk about the bus Topic of Niantic Been Able To Make The Game Better And Bug Free!????? From Day One!!! When the Servers Broke Down ( supposedly) am they decided to divide the players into Day/Night Game Play Without Asking! lol This is just one of many things that they have hidden in the game that we don’t know about bc they took down the people who Date-mine the game for info!!!! We are swimming in the dark with this game am that’s the way they like it!
Great Video Dan - What's the point of raiding for good IV Master League mons all Weekend with a chance of getting it with a signature move? Imagine getting good IV Dialga/Palkia & with no legacy move (Roar of Time & Spacial Rend) & you can't even use an elite TM to get the move - Total garbage move Niantic.
Quit the game, simple as that! The game will have its downfall and be unsupported later anyway or just deleted all together, none owns their accounts, Niantic does
It was also super lame of them to not guarantee the signature move on dialga/palkia for this event
Cash grabbers
And make the odds so incredibly low.
@@libradawg9the odds were 1 in 20 from what I could tell
I catch a hundo palkia with no move and all the xl to max it. What a waste😓
Facts!! They sort of guaranteed it for the Sinnoh tour if you got the ticket. If you took the diamond pass you were guaranteed roar of time. If you took the pearl pass you were guaranteed spacial rend
This is just the most concrete proof that niantic CAN do more and make this game better, they just choose not to.
I agree
They don't even hide it, they are proud of it
Long as they keep hitting they quota 💰 they not gone change or innovate anything unfortunately
you should be able to use a regular TM during community days to get the move on a pokémon you already evolved. similarly, if there is a shadow pokemon still with frustration and you add a second move and evolve during a CD, the move should be given in that second move slot
This company doesn't believe in common sense
@@joaquinnavajo3939It’s not because of lack of common sense, it’s because they want to force people to go out during these events as much as possible. By not allowing you to TM previously evolved Pokémon, it incentivizes people to go out in order to build more of the same Pokémon. Niantic is stupid but this kind of FOMO behavior is without a doubt intentional.
Oh I got burned on Mankey CD where i evolved a shadow with a second move & frustration but no Rage Fist. Stupid how it doesn't let you on the second move during an event.
@@kmrskates same thing happened to me. still doesn’t make sense to me
More walking? Make the daily incense 30 mins and make it possible that mighty pokemon spawn alongside the Galarian birds.
That's why they added roar of time, it's all a money grab, you use roar of time + candies every time, and by the time they come back around you have to go crazy on raiding them again, mighty would be a brill idea to get on daily incense but, then that was one thing people were looking forward to from what I could see, so they will only do it on events, so people play
Agree with you Dan.
I think the aspect Niantic is missing, is that remote raiders enable in person players to raid. Legendary raids need more than one player and we aren’t allowed to have multiple accounts, so you need more people. We cant always gather a group of people to go raiding in person, so we need remote raiders to help out. If they support remote raiding it will enable more players to go out and raid in person knowing that they’ll have people to help them win the raid. I know I have done significantly less raids since the remote raid nerf.
If you're remote raiding in general, you're already getting cucked by Niantic
3 shiny dialgas this event. 1 hundo Dialga. None had special moves
I’ve been a player since it came out on 2016 and this company just keep ignoring their player base needs. Niantic do not care about what we want… PERIOD! I’ve seen how players went from playing this game every single day to completely deleting their account cuz of Niantic decisions and lack of understanding their player base. SMH NIANTIC!!!
niantic hates us lmao
That's actually what i was thinking ninantic hates their players. You do not introduce a variable your players like.. than take it away.
Seems Niantic prevents communication so players cant express their issues in game. The raid thing is just us playing with Randos instead of making real in game friends. No connections, no threat from playerbase
I have no issue on previewing features/elements to the game as a trial/demo paired with an announcement. As long as the announcement confirms they will implement/improve on it based on real community feedback/data.
Then again, that's something Niantic regularly fails at.
Don't add it at all if it will be eliminated/worsened is the best view imo
Dynamax kinda reminds me of those MMO games. Healer, Tank, DPS. So, how cool would it be to have 'dungeons'?
You gather a party and walk a certain route with your friends, and along the route you encounter 'bosses', maybe like really difficult rocket leaders you gotta beat with teamwork. And at the end of the route you fight the final boss and get rewarded with something cool.
I dunno, just a random thought I had a while ago.
You would have liked the Harry Potter Niantic game.
Remote raiding was also a way to make friends world wide in the community. I still have a few friends from both Spain and Korea bc of remote raiding, and it was nice. Also, living somewhere from the city is really depressing after the remote nerf. I understand the business purpose for niantic, but helping out the playerbase would be nice
As much as I would like Niantic to add more things to do in pokemon go, they really need to fix the bugs / other issues before adding new things. It has been this way for so long.
Thanks for the video! I'd suggest two things:
1. Offer the possibility to opt for simplified, non animated backgrounds. It slows down PvP animations and provokes lags.
2. Accelerating several parts of the game. Opening and sending gifts, dynamax... the animations are soool long, you'd like to do these things way quicker. Not even talking about the terrible length of pokemon capture, as there's that fast catching technique.
Same for trading.
All those unnecessary animations make trading such a time consumer
The funny part is that there is a functional way to skip both opening and closing gift animations (tap the space where the x button was) - there's all these little work arounds that experienced players know and use. What's nutty to me is these are popular things, but Niantic refuses to standardize features based off emergent player behavior
This^^^ also for evolving Pokemon
I love this!! We need more content creators bringing awareness to Niantics terrible Decision making. I play this game because i love pokemon. Iv played most an still own some main series games. I was one of the lucky ones who got to Beta test Pogo. I was thrilled and excited to see what this game could become. We've come so far an had lots of great changes like you mentioned in your video but im absolutely disgusted by Niantics shenanigans over the years. I feel like they have strayed off their path to make everyone happy, accessible. inclusion ect. How did Niantic go from listening to the community to everything being about a paid ticket? I just dont get how a company can shaft their player base over and over, gives us great features that everyone loves then have them take them away. It just feels terrible to see other games prosper while were still dealing with Niantics crap. I get there has to be a balance an Niantic vision/mission for the game an all that but they can absolutely give us the features we want they just choose not to an thats disappointing. Love Pokémon dislike Niantic.
I didn't even noticed it :D Poke genie ftw!
I enjoyed the feature, though I didn't use it actively very much. If I want to remote raid I tend to either coordinate with folks on campfire I know, or use pokegenie. Still, was a good feature and I look forward to it returning someday. Hopefully with fewer bugs.
I'd like raids and such to keep going later into the evening. I work during the day, then have other activities after work(try and get out for spotlight hours if the spawns or bonus are great). My usual evening pokemon go walk is typically starting close to 9:00. Doesn't give me much opportunity to raid a lot of stuff. I'm not fully sure why rocket grunts continue to be available, but leaders hide after 10, but leaders will show up from balloons. Quit being shy Arlo!
Lucky friends with someone? No distance required to trade. That'd encourage folks to do way more gifting. Nothing worse as someone from Canada than hitting lucky friends with someone from India or whatnot and having no chance of ever actually making that trade. I like the game, but I'm not flying to the far side of the world to do a trade.
I get them wanting us to need to grind for TMs. I do. So not making them be able to choose a specific move like elite TM(just without the elite moves)... It's understandable even if I don't love it. But I spent *16* fast TMs tonight to get shadow claw on my new feraligator. Bite, ice fang, bite, ice fang, bite, ice fang, waterfall, bite... I walk a lot of routes so it doesn't matter, but... ffs, at least make it so that the move can't be what it just was. Give us a slightly better chance of not just seeing things flip back and forth.
Hope the conference is fun, interesting, insightful, life-affirming and with a decent lunch provided!
100% agree with the take that more people got excited about the "At a raid" button than the dynamax system
"from a business model this doesnt make sense"
its working, we as a collective playerbase are essentially gambling addicts
12:48 yeah i do anything to be against niantic
1, i dont go outside just for this game
2, i dont spend money on this game(very important)
3, if i play this game all i do is gbl
4, if i do a raid it will always be remote
2 and 4 don't go together, you got it twisted
@craigyboy4770 they do, i only put mons in gyms when i accidentily pass them
The problem with the in raid feature is that unlike invites you can’t re-enter when/of the game crashes. I lost about 10 remote passes attempting to use this feature. Need to fix the crashing issues before implementing this system full time imo
I stopped using the feature after the game crashed before the raid boss encounter and couldn't re-enter the same raid, losing the remote raid pass. It shows that Niantic didn't think this part through (again). Niantic just needs to do things better rather than emptying the players pockets first and making up excuses of poor connection.
I love to play master league, its by far the most fun league however it is a grind to be able to get these pokemon. I think reducing the XL convert cost is good, however I would only reduce it to 75 or 50 candies. I would much rather see rare XL candy be more available. Regular rare candies are so common in raids, I think rare xl should at least have 1-2 guaranteed for in person 5 star raids, with a variable range and give out more during events or I would even adda small amount of xl candy to the rewards of remote passes (just 1 would make a difference) and to be fair, add 1 more to in person raids.
As for other general suggestions for niantic, a big one would be an overhaul of how the tms work especially now that pokemons have a deeper move pool than before. Best case, it would be nice if they functioned like elite tms do where you can choose which move you want, except you cant choose any legacy moves. Id even take the random chance if they cycled the changed moves, ie if a pokemon had a move pool of 5 moves you would use at most 4 tms to get the move you wanted and 3 for the second slot. I wish the rocket events would happen more frequently if only to change up the grunt lineups besides the frustration removal(I wish we could use elite tms).
I also wish we could Dynamax our existing pokemon. Requiring us to go out and refarm pokemon we already had is a bit of a slap in the face. Thats why I haven't bothered to use any stardust on them.
Its been a while since anyone has talked about this but the avatars still look awful. I really wish they would change them back.
They did say they were gonna test this feature during this weekend. Im sure they are evaluating the result of the live test. As a system developer im not unfamiliar with procedures with how to release new features.
With that said im 100% sure this feature is gonna come back, and come back to stay.
coordinating remote raids is for people who are at work, in the hospital or what have ya, for the average player it's friends in the area that aren't quite in range or PvP folks from all over the world in Discords haha. So yeah, we had a lovely option/function--they dangle the carrot, we bit and they take it away... wait for a $50 paid ticket per player to "unlock" that ability with a floor of 10 million trainers lol... it's not beyond Niantic to do that
I agree with your point. Separately, ever have interest in making this type of video but on the positive side? I think this was a great weekend for the game. Do you have any input on giving a rant style formatted video on what you liked and want more of? Mighty Pokémon? PvP relevant raids all weekend? Safari balls?
Thursday is American Thanksgiving. So there is a high chance no one at Niantic will be working, so Wednesday could be a GO.
True I didn't think of American thanksgiving so they are likely out of office Thursday to Sunday. So maybe even tomorrow if they treat Wednesday like a half day
11:15 Amen!
The only way Niantic will listen is if the player base stops playing but that won’t happen, another reason proving Niantic is anti-players. We are all just pawns for their geo-mapping scheme
What would’ve made sense would be to have the 3 additional XLs for in-person only, and keep both premium and remote pass prices the same, and have no limits.
Niantic is weird. The only remotes that I do now are with free passes from the 7 day research. Since the nerf, I've gotten like maybe 5. They really want you to buy them.
The lack of tms especially elite tms, lack of stardust and candy/xl candy to max out pokemon, lack of pvp leagues playable at once, no free remote raid passes so disabled people can't raid more and loyal players can't get a daily free raid without having to travel for it, lack of special trades, lack of days to evolve and use normal non charged tms to get rare movesets half the pokemon aren't usable in pvp, the lack of positive changes for a better gaming experience is just a shame the store is the most important part of the game for niantic
Maybe they could improve the daily sign in rewards and for a week of signing in you are guaranteed an elite tm
If they really want people to raid in person, increase the IV floor for pokemon raided in person - even an increase to only 12/12/12 would incentivize people I think.
In person raids in rural areas are dead lol, we have like 4 gyms around our village, all had palkia dialga and primal duo gmax toxtricity, not one gym had anyone in the whole of the wild area, 2 days, the game is just so grindy, they want u to do gmax but have to have dmax but want to build things to raid, just put an item in the shop that I can give the Pokémon I already have for dmax/gmax, mighty were good but not a great pool.
Yup. I already have a lvl 50 Exadrill. Why do I have to build an other? I dont have the XLs.
I can kinda see them doing it after, when everybody has rebuilt all dynamax Pokémon😂 lol I'd be pissed
Steranka (one of the leading directors) has flat out said in multiple interviews that they genuinely do not really consider rural players much at all, and he basically says it’s unfortunately not the right kind of game for those players. Once I heard him say that, I dropped the game and have never looked back. If you’re a rural player, you might as well just stop playing, because the lead director himself has gone on record saying they don’t care.
Nightga livs in a village 💀
They had to remove it, it was way to convenient for rural players, I was able to join raids from my house in the woods, that's just way too convenient
I just got the walk to earn more battles notification yesterday and I was so confused 😂
Niantic has the backwards philosophy of FORCING players to go out instead of ENCOURAGING, as you mentioned in the video. Instead of offering more perks that incentive public raiding or walking around, they choose to nerf everything else into the ground so that players have no choice but to settle for what we have or stop playing. It is definitely a very scummy and strange design philosophy that I’ve honestly never seen done as often as Niantic does it. They almost always seem to prioritize the stick over the carrot, and put a lot of effort into pushing the limits of what they can get away with before it causes a significant enough backlash. People often joke about how Niantic hates their playerbase and make changes simply out of spite but honestly the more time goes on it seems like less of a joke and more of a reality lol.
Love the Arrow reference here
Its crazy to me how stingey Niantic is on rewards. This event had you catching 10 electric or 10 poison types for 300 xp or 100 stardust. Most of the research tasks were worthless as well. Like why werent there any rewards for the Go balls. I got pretty lucky getting them at spins, but my friend found like 3 at max and could barely catch any Mighty Pokemon.
I get its a free game, and they have to make money somehow, but the level they take it to is just absurd.
I don’t know how they’d do it, and I appreciate it sounds ridiculous, but I’d like Niantic to introduce a feature that allowed you to train Pokemon to improve their IVs and perhaps teach them new movesets. Just a thought.
Maybe not IVs but levelling up I agree 100%. Like don't make it easy but like the best buddy system, have the XL candy but have a way f2p players can level up without having to do 100s of raids to build one, amazes me seeing these poketubers with built Pokémon with thousands of xls left, while I'm here walking to grind out 1 XL maybe every 5-20 km lol
I don't play much anymore because of all the things Niantic has slowly taken away or changed for the worse but, I still enjoy watching your videos!
I dont buy remote raid because they are way too prices. I only got them because it was a bundle or a free one
it was an awesome feature and would make them money
Great video man. Appreciate it.
Common Niantic L
I'm so confused. What are the cons to this raid party feature? Its an extremely popular feature that boosts revenue through the roof with more people buying remote raid passes. What are the cons I'm missing here?
If you want me to do in person raids have increased chance of shiny and 13,13,13 iv floor
Dinamax seems to me a stardust and candy sink.
It doesn't make a lot of sense for them to have taken it out as, pokiegenie and raid apps exist, that's the only way I can get legendaries😂
Hard agree, couldn't have said it better
I have a few hundo legendary Pokémon that are meta for master league but can’t use them because I’m in the same boat as you, I don’t have enough time or money to pay for passes to all the raids I need to do just to power them up
Well, the feature did malfunction a lot from what I'm hearing. How many remotes passes were lost from getting kicked out before the encounter?
Oh no, this was the Coolest new feature! Why would they take something good away?
You're spot on
I miss the automatic one minute incense spawns from incenses. I walk 4-5 days a week but once in a while I’m bored at home & it was fun to put on an incense & play from home. I also think the price to remote raid is excessive.
I started in 2019 got to level 39 got bored then got back into it these past few months, they seem to aim this game at content creators, but advertise to kids but demand money for pretty much any kind of reward, yes you can be f2p but how long would it take to get enough candies walking a legendary 20km for a candy, that whole level system needs changing, and for the love of god can they make wild spawns a bit more exciting lol
How long we had talk about the bus Topic of Niantic Been Able To Make The Game Better And Bug Free!?????
From Day One!!! When the Servers Broke Down ( supposedly) am they decided to divide the players into Day/Night Game Play Without Asking! lol
This is just one of many things that they have hidden in the game that we don’t know about bc they took down the people who Date-mine the game for info!!!!
We are swimming in the dark with this game am that’s the way they like it!
Anyone else have any mighty Pokémon vanish from their storage?? I lost a 100% 😢
Agreed with all
This video could have been an email 😅
Great Video Dan - What's the point of raiding for good IV Master League mons all Weekend with a chance of getting it with a signature move? Imagine getting good IV Dialga/Palkia & with no legacy move (Roar of Time & Spacial Rend) & you can't even use an elite TM to get the move - Total garbage move Niantic.
Quit the game, simple as that! The game will have its downfall and be unsupported later anyway or just deleted all together, none owns their accounts, Niantic does
I'm taking a long must needed break from the game
Niantic might be the only company to piss people off by not being greedy enough
I still have that button
I think it ends in like 5 hours.
If you restart your app it disappears