I did message niantic recently regarding a few things and one of them was making sure they were aware that people are talking regarding the extortionate amounts of money that they are now charging people. The response was and I quote "I'm sorry you feel that way". They know what they're doing and they don't care.
@@skipbrainless7527so untrue. Pokémon go used to be a kids game. Now kids can’t even play the game to their fullest ability cus they cannot afford to. Ur opinion is straight up wrong and everyone else knows they charge way too much. 2 dollars per remote raid pass to more than likely get a 2 star shitty Pokémon that you’ll never power up. You have to do hundreds of raids to possibly get the hundo. And I’m someone who does spend hundreds of dollars on Pokémon go every year. But it’s way too pricey for most players.
I appreciate the video and honesty Billy. The game isn't what it once was - it's only paywalls and FOMO now. I've been saying for the last few years Pokemon GO peaked around 2019. Honestly the main reason I still play it is because of the friends I've made and the money and time investment. Otherwise I would have quit long ago. And I'm not even going to start on the "luck" in the game.
I haven’t liked Niantic’s attitude toward their player base for a long time. As Niantic releases new play options like routes, Dynamax, Gigantamax, I inwardly shrug and respond “nope, not doing that.” Nor do I raid much for Legendaries I already have. Why would I? I am finding CDs tedious now. You mentioned “opportunity cost” in your discussion, and I absolutely agree. Life is finite. Choose wisely how you spend it. The time is even more precious than the money. To newer, less jaded players, who enjoy the game and are more willing to spend on it, have fun. You do you.
Agree totally. I ignore most of the special tickets but still play. I'd go for bottle caps if they were physical, like with the non-GO game. Maybe a renewal of the PoGO trading cards with specials, caps, and pogs? More PTP that's totally online doesn't add much. (I note that "shiny" was a European name for special cards in trading cards, like holograms and prisms, if anybody wondered how the name was chosen for PoGO. Trading card games are the ultimate of paywall!)
they increased the price for a lot of things inserted paywalls for weekend events, now not only go fest is a 15$ event each year, but the worse one is that here(Hungary) the community day ticket now costs 5 times more. Every time i went out for community day i bought the ticket, but now its not worth it, even with the few extra things you get from it
Even with 2x I haven't bought a ticket since it increased. It was fun with a simple dollar, nice little research to add on, and $11 through the whole year. Now with the idea it's $22, that sounds a little worse (whether it is or not...) and not worth the price tag.
As someone who is a pay-to-play Pokemon Go player, I think that the issue isn't the prices, but rather the fact that so much is behind the paywall. I play several other games and just about all of them have a paywall for extra items, and as with PoGo, you can still play game and progress through it. Niantic definitely needs to re-evaluate their pay system as the fandom is, more than not, unhappy with how much is behind paywalls, even for $1 USD, but in the end, they aren't really doing anything that just about every other game is doing.
It absolutely has. Ive been playing since launch and have never put the game down. Up until til a few years ago, there were only a few special tickets or events to spend money on every month. I used to buy almost everything offered. Now, it seems like there’s multiple tickets for sale at all times. One or two things coming out every week. With the way the cost of living right now it has become nearly impossible for me to keep up. I haven’t stopped playing, but I’ve missed a lot that I feel like I wouldn’t have otherwise, if at least the prices weren’t so high. Not even counting events, remote raid passes used to cost 0.67 each if you bought 3-packs. Now it’s almost $2 each or $5 for 3. It has gotten beyond ridiculous. All these prices have gone up and a new event is for sale every other day, but they haven’t raised the 50 coins per day limit from gyms. That’s like never raising minimum wage. It’s ridiculous. I love the game but they give you a lot to hate these days.
@@Fredoindallas I just meant that it’s not something we should be getting accustomed to using all the time. Pokémon go main goal is to meet friends and walk around and remote raids defeat the purpose. I say “luxury” as in if you have a few coins saved up from defending gyms you can treat yourself at the games shop and buy remote passes for a lazy day
I agree, I was just using remote passes as an example of how much prices have gone up. Triple the cost on those, gift boxes all much more expensive, coins-wise. Tickets for Comm Day research didn’t exist at first, then they were $1, now $2. Incubators much more costly. It really seems like Niantic got money hungry (even though they already were) but it’s so bad now.
And all this not even taking into consideration DynaMax and GigantaMax raids which we can only get 800 Max Particles a day unless we want to buy extra… what will be the next thing they come up with on top of everything else?? I can spend $40-$50 a week on this game no problem if I let myself, and $200 a month is a nice chunk of change!
The most frustrating thing for me is not the price itself, but the shift towards more and more things that can only be purchased with real currency. I play enough that I don't mind buying the $99 pokecoin bundles or the physical pokecoin gift cards for my friends, but I can't use those pokecoins to pay for event tickets. I think if I buy pokecoins, I should be able to spend those pokecoins on whatever I want, whether that's in-game items or event tickets.
I appreciate you taking the time to make this video, excellent content for all aspects of playing this game instead of event specific factors. Thank you, Billy!
You're also PAYING to play a BROKEN game. I don't think people would object to most of these "paywalls" if the game ran and funtioned like it should. Niantic is so wealthy, this game should be nearly flawless. With the last update, all of my "tags" folders lost the purple, blue, green, and black colors. Not fixed yet. Will it be? Who knows. A small thing, but tons of small things equel a sloppy game.
Found out I spent over $500 in January and I'm not very proud of it. I definitely need to cut down and focus on more f2p activities. My issue is I'm either 0 or 100. If I'm not going super hard my brain gets distracted and I do something else and then I end up missing some type of event. Sometimes missing these events bothers me for months/years. I'm still annoyed I missed Keldeo in 2022, its the only pokemon I dont't have and it bothers me.
Dope vid Billy, as a spend to win player , I don’t mind spending money on myself or my friends, case and point , during the pandemic era, with Unlimted remote raids I was spending $60-100 a month , now it’s far removed from that
I pretty much stopped buying tickets unless they're for the big Go Fest kind of events. I used to enjoy community day tickets because of the lore you'd get about the pokemon of that day, but they axed them for some reason and then raised the price. It's also rare for me to go bonkers in buying remote passes anymore. Now I just spend five bucks and do as many raids as that will offer and then quit. It's not like those legendary or shiny won't ever be released again.
The A game by Pixsonic called War Robots... you can play for free but you just stay in the lower tiers... whenever you progress higher in the tiers you end up just being fresh meat for the grinder for the people who do pay... last time I played you had to buy 7 different curency just to play, you had to buy powercell just to power you're robot, guns 7 different robots needed to be brought, then you had to upgrade them, Titan robots you needed to buy, then upgrade buy grinding for month or paying... but the real kicker is once you had your robot at the top level of play Pixsonic would then nerf the gun or robot to the ground & you would have to start all over again... all that money spend (if you did pay) for a few months of feeling powerful... pokemon go is not that bad but its headed that way
The airplane example can confuse some. Both first class and coach will still arrive at the destination at the same time. A better example is when there's a cross country race from CA (Lvl 1) to NY (Lvl 50). There are 3 participants: one will ride a 🚴🏼♂️, one will 🚗, and one will take a flight ✈️. Riding a bike is free and will take you the longest to reach the finish line however, the one taking a flight will progress and get to the goal faster because they spent $$$ to get ahead. To answer your question: the bigger pay wall game is the game of life.
I do agree that the times that were fun were the ones before all the pay to play stuff started popping up but honestly Niantic is basically stripping the game down to the BARE MINIMUM without payment now. Events have all the featured pokemon in eggs or raids, big events have tickets on top of tickets on top of tickets with MORE stuff in eggs and raids. There's constant raid and Max battle events going on that require more money to get the most out of. Honestly I WISH I could stop playing because I dont have friends that play anymore but its so ingrained in my daily life now that I cant imagine not playing, and skipping out on things gives you the worst fomo because you never know when stuff is coming back. Like this weekend with Gmax Kingler, I KNOW it will come back eventually but unlike the megas that are always around not a single GMax has come back after the limited time it was available, and at this rate they will probably ONLY be featured during big events or max battle weekends because they designed them to need a whole lot of people to do, basically making you rework your schedule around these events just to be able to get one pokemon.
It’s annoying. I don’t play as much anymore. I used to buy the tickets for events. Now there’s just too much. It’s hard to even figure out what each level of payment gets.
I was a free to play player for a long time. More recently I've made peace with paying sometimes. I use gym coins for incubators, but am stingy with incubators. I'm ok with paying for an experience I enjoy (like a movie or doing something else fun), but I don't find raiding fun unless it is with friends. I would be ok with paying for the Kingler event if I was going to be out there with friends for the afternoon. But I'll have my kids and they will get bored fast (plus I'm not paying for them), so we will do our free raids and be done.
Lets be honest the amount of paywalls are coming from their remote raid nerf and they are feeling the effects. Before the nerf there were tickets yes for comm days at $1 which ok fine. Sure there was the Mr Rime ticket back then BUT there were not as many tickets and so much more. Post nerf and some months its pretty astounding how many tickets there are and sometimes can be close to about $30-40 USD. Had they not messed with remote raids and the pricing I would argue we would not see as many tickets in shop and costing a lot.
You hit the nail on the head, all these tickets are to fill the gap left from the remote raid nerf and price hike. Even with these tickets I am still spending less money on the game because I used to raid a lot more
Thank you for this video, please keep making this type of motivational video that keep us less depressed or left out from being a free to player. Keep it up Billy! 👍🏼
Started off with having extra bonuses in tickets, now the event is in the ticket. I don't mind monetization, but they have to realize that is has to be incentivizing enough for the player
I wish we could at least optionally increase or decrease an IV point by 1 after best buddying a pokemon. Would allow players to "train" their pokemon, wouldn't be too op by niantic standards, and people would be playing the game more to get best buddy hundos
I’d love to see an exp share like system for a battle party that earns candy with your current buddy. This would feel more like training a team than catching more of something. Puffins could still decrease distance (and encourage buying/earning them).
I'm F2P for the most part now. The only time I spend money on anything is for a favorite shiny that I could potentially get and transfer to my console, as well as pokemon that I don't have in my dex yet on the console games. Otherwise, I tend to keep weather boosted lvl 30+ relevant pokemon to use in raids since IVs don't matter as much in that aspect and use the pokeball plus+ to item and stardust grind to power up my high IV relevant shadows or PVP pokemon that my pokeball catches each day.
This coin bundle is useful considering the bundles that pop up around go fest and tours. Almost all of the systems have been quite stable, the passes have had stable value and the new things have been pretty skippable or more oriented towards speed. We're in a dynamic where new players are in extraordinary crunches trying to get raid teams going whereas the majority of us don't have a reason to engage with the game day to day. We've had too many one and done researches that would be worth rerunning specifically the apex shadow research.
Niantic should also consider giving more to the FTP(free to play) players, increasing the daily coins amount from 50 to 100, more premium items, more often even once a week for a pinch of items would be very much appreciated from if not most communities all communities. The daily free coins from the Chinese New Year event is definitely a step in the right direction. Even the extra free passes for raid days are also fantastic for people cutting back on spending or not spending at all is also something many of us are appreciating.
This. More of this, I've been going out for every raid day BECAUSE of the free passes and it's been glorious I get more to trade with and my experience is much better
Keep up the great work in the videos. The one thing I'd like to say, I am a free to play player and I do enjoy it. It's a marathon type of game, not a race. But when you pay to play is the same concept, it's like going to a casino, you're going to invest money, so hopefully Get something out of it, but just know When you go to a casino, you can lose a lot of money so if you can accept that. Then go for it But if you can't don't invest money... ifs unfortunately everything in the world is about money but if u enjoy it then go for it .... keep up the great work
RuneScape is a game with worse paywalls though that is a computer game not a mobile ar. I agree I have the most fun exploring and hiking and playing pogo. I’m also an ingress player and my favorite thing in that game is capturing uniques and submitting wayspots. I have paid for passes to get shiny legendaries but honestly not getting a dex entry doesn’t bother me anymore. I love the early days nest reference, I remember having a lot of fun figuring out what the nests were and hanging out at parks that had Pokémon that I needed to evolve or power up. Today it just seems like we wait for events then catch as many as possible to get the resources needed.
There are definitely ways for free to play players to enjoy the game. Campfire is a good app for meet ups in your area and to help host raids. If their are no meet ups or players in your area than get your friends & family to play. That’s what I do
When you had millions playing the game and each putting in a dollar in 2016 and 2017 to only hundred of thousands playing today and still looking to put in a dollar, they had to generate that lost revenue somehow. The size of the consistent player base has dramatically decreased and that ultimately affected the bottom line, so in essence you are being punished for being a loyal player.
Dynamax is a frigging joke, same old Pokémon most long term players have high level high I've Pokémon already, then Niantic expecting people to power up crap iv Pokémon to raid other no big deal Pokémon that will more than likely have crap ivs rinse and repeat . Honestly i just don't care. Niantic is literally the worst run gaming company i have ever seen. Ignorance, greed and stupidity. Oh and the fact that they think we are actually walking around especially in the winter, when the reality is we have 24 people in 20 cars all driving around and polluting. IDIOTS
Don't forget, that if it has a gigamax version, then that's better than dynamax and you have to then go for that one, but you have to be in a party of relatively 30+ or you'll never get one.
Honestly if Niantic keeps going this path with pokemon go, they will just bury the game, and this is probably how the game will end because if it gets to expensive people will just stop playing the game, some brutal honesty from a long time player!
I'm F2P except for Go Fest. I'm currently sitting on about 6300 coins, waiting for thise value boxes. One additional reaource for free to play players is to ise Campfire to try to find Community Ambassador sponsored events. Im lucky, there a park near me in Chicago with a STRONG community and a community ambassador. On Wednesdays, there are a few dozen of us who rally to do some raids, so raiding is easy, AND there's usually a free ticket for checking is, where you can get another raid pass. Not tonnes, but its something. Then on community days and bigger events, maybe 100-150 people will be there for raid days, etc. with additional free tickets for checkin. And while a long time ago I came to acceptance on not neing able to keep up with those who choose to pay, focus on quality over quantity. When raiding, i may not ne able to field 6 L50 Dialga, but if you have a couple of people to raid with, that's probably overkill anyway. A mixed bag with some 2:042:04 L40's is probably good enough. Get iut there. Have fun. Meet some people. Help out newer players. Etc.
700 necro raid. That in itself is nuts IMHO. Even if you are writing it off on your taxes. And THEN to not land a hundo out of all that. Madness. This game sucks compared to what it could be. Just painful to consider.
Yeah definitely there's this interesting force at play, people want things like shiny, hundo, and now the question is whether or not people are willing to spend money (mostly) and time to get them. I think niantic missed the point of how people perceive the value. For me personally, when remote raids are unlimited and only $1, i never mind at all and had fun raiding chasing more shinies, more hundo (therefore player happy, company makes $$). But fastforward to today, they limit remote, also double the price, at $2, even if its unlimited (or even them making it 20 limit), i dont raid anymore since i dont perceive the value. Shiny is just inside the game not having value, hundo i can always wait for next time. At this point, i rather spend the money to get a nice steak meal and have a nice stomach. That's why, I dont really play much anymore. From my community, most people share the same feeling as well, especially the OG older players that love the game
The fact that Pokemon go is becoming increasingly pricy - with all the extra paid tickets that were never seen before and the price increase of all tickets - is worrying me. In my work, I have seen a ton of other companies doing similar things (meaning getting all the extra $ from their customers) and it basically means 2 things: 1) the company is targeting a new audience, in this case, all the "whales" who pays for all or most part of the ticket while upsetting all free players leading them to ultimately leave the game, but hey that means less fixed cost for Niantic. The second option is that Niantic is on the verge of bankruptcy and they are desperate to gain fast and easy $, but then what's the point of buying pokecoins if the game shut down
I spent quite a good amount of money on the game especially on the mewtwo releases doing 100 sometimes up to 200 raids a day but realized Niantics behavior was only getting worse in 2021 and have largely quit the game. I think ive opened it twice in the last year? There are other mobile games to play, getting my pokemon fix with pocket at the moment
I think the analogy would be more like two people needing to get to another city, one on a bike and the other in a plane. But I'm quibbling. Someone will probably disagree, but I draw a distinction between gambling with real money and gambling with funny money. If I'm spending actual money I expect a guarantee or it's just gambling. If I'm using an in-game currency gained by work, then I'm gambling with my time. P2p is like playing monopoly with real money, f2p is like just playing the game with fake money. I never gamble with real money because it's a slippery slop (for me anyway). Plus I get stubborn when the manipulation to do something is this blatant. I've spent money in the past because I enjoyed a game, but the wallet closes when a game is designed to make it uncomfortable deliberately to convince me to avoid the discomfort. Otherwise, dealing with the pinch points that try to get you to spend is frustrating, but you are correct. It's a choice and I have to live with it.
They gave us bs excuse about going out and exploring, when they nerfed the remote raids. The time when those who were willing to pay to raid made niantic rich. Now, with all the tickets they shove…… they barely making 50% of what they used to make
Has it gone too expensive? Yes Does it affect your ability to play the game? No As someone who for the most part is a free to play player and has been playing since 2016 it never really bugged me when a pay wall is given to a Pokémon or an event. I do my best to make the game enjoyable for my personal taste. I’ve gotten friends & family to play so I can do raids. I download campfire & raid app to invite players & find meet ups. I take advantage of every bonus from free events that are available and overall just put effort into the game. Now I’m a level 47 player with over 1,000 shinies & 150 Pokémon that are level 40 Pokémon. The best advice I can give you all is to remember that every Pokémon will eventually be easy to access and yes this includes the legendaries
I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this but it would be nice if they had a special Berry that doubled the stardust or increase it somehow, stardust is annoying in my opinion only a hundred for an average pokey it's like taking back your cans for a nickel every average pokey should be like a Meowth gain seeing as though each level up is 1,000 + stardust
I haven't been spending money on the game, and I have told my adult son to stop gifting me certain tickets because of the constant price increase. The game is becoming less appealing, less fun because of poor rewards, repeats of pokemon too much difficulty in obtaining newly released pokemon, the list goes on. Niantic truly has lost it's concern and respect for the players who have made the game what it is today.
It's definitely not pay to play, but there are so many paid activities, particularly those that expire, I kind of just stopped looking at them. When the paid activities were special, I took notice, because they offered more and better rewards, had more to do, and were more fun. Now, every event has an additional paid component that offer almost nothing different than the regular event. I actually prefer having exclusive paid events that only people who pay can participate in over the lazy open-to-everyone events that have paid components. And paying for timed components on events that start and end on a weekday with no weekend in-between is crazy.
If you don't see the value, don't drop the coin. Just manage your expectations of what you can get and what you can't do. I buy incubators and the occasional event ticket. But I know others spend a lot more.
The direction Pokemon go has decided to go has been VERY clear for a long time now, if your not happy and are still playing YOU'RE the idiot not Niantic.
I'm an OG 2016 player and I don't buy boxes or tickets unless the deal is insanely good. I mostly use my earned pokecoins for more storage. Safest bet.
I've been getting the $5 egg ticket they've come out with. It seems worth it instead of paying 150 or 200 for wach incubator. I've cut back on raids and even when I was raiding a lot it was only 1-6 raids a week. Now unless its a legendary I don't have I don't raid.
I refuse to spend real money on this game, I miss out on some stuff, and sometimes it’s just too cold to go out and play (It’s cold where I live), and I refuse to drive to an indoor mall and play because I’m not wanting to spend the gas either. Over the past few years I’ve just stopped playing as much.
For all of the people that remote raid heavily and complain about the price, you should ABSOLUTELY purchase the coin bundle. By doing so and then purchasing the box that gives 2 remote passes and 5 potions for 315 coins, the net cost per remote pass is actually cheaper than the original (pre-2023) cost of remote passes.
I think pokemon go one of the better games to be free to play it is expensive if you play with other people. Spending money doesn't guarantee you anything except the resource. You can pay for a raid pass and not catch the legendary. I don't feel pressure to spend unless I'm helping out friends or its an event. Everything is made available free at some point so there's no need for FOMO just be patient.
5 coins a day helps you alot. Really. If you could spin stops get get 20 of those tasks a day it would help but I'm sorry +5 coins per day is not really helping anyone.
There are way too many raids that are the equivalent of 5 star raids. Shadow, 5 Stars, Gigatamax, Crazy Dynamax Legendaries, all these require tons of coordination which the app itself does not cater towards and with the dumb stance they have taken on remote raiding on some of these its impossible to even Pay to play some of this content unless you are already part of a community and dedicate you weekend to it. Not to mention the crazy shiny gatekeeping thats been going on since day 1
No, they are just trying really hard to find ways to make money the way they where generating when remote raid passes where unlimited. They have meeting like come on guys remember when we made millions with raid passes ? We need to make that money so give me ideas to make people spend money
I don't understand why people are complaining that much about how expensive the game has become. The game was and has been free-to-play for several years. I just find it funny that the same people that are complaining about the prices are most likely the ones buying these things. If you're going to complain about how you're choosing to spend your own money, maybe don't waste it in the first place...
The fun in this game is gone, period. I haven't played since the fiasco they created about the remote passes. We all know they have become a greedy corporation, and they do nothing more than take from the players and give nothing back. If they happen to give back, it's a pittance, and it doesn't come without a fight. I used to play all the time, but I can't anymore. They have removed all the fun and the constant thing of playing how THEY want it to be played. It used to be ALOT of fun not anymore and it's a shame because it really did a lot of good for ppl to get out and get moving. I miss a lot but just refuse to pay for it anymore. If you are only going to let your paying customers get the great items, then I can put my money elsewhere into other, more tangible things.
As a new p[ayer the start of the game is a hell of a struggle. You have no inventory space, no pokemon space and rubbish pokemon. I have really been debating buying the coins but then realised WTF am I doing its such a P take. Literally tap the screen game play and no return on what you pay for haha.
In many years before I spent a little money but after I realized this game is totally F2P you don’t have to spend anything and you get coins for free every day and you will still get everything by time Other games you miss a lot if you don’t pay here at least very F2P friendly
They had the worst sales since 2017. Of course they have to try to get it back somehow. But they are going the wrong way. In order for people to spend money, there has to be new content. Of course there is something with Dynamax, but for many it is too frustrating because they can't get a community together for it or they don't push bad Pokemon because they don't see the point in spending the Stardust on it. They have to stop doing the same boring event over and over again and hiding new Pokemon behind money. And I could list more, but what can you do.
Since now we can access no debut shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Go by referring to Pokemon Go new update in shiny Pokedex. How about we can access those Pokemon still not debut in Pokemon Go by new update of new Pokedex in Pokemon Go 🤔
One thing that could help people spend less money is realizing that 100% iv Pokémon don’t matter as much as you think, sure they are a nice prize to have but there are lots of videos out there explaining the percentage difference between a hundo and a Pokémon with zero ivs and is not that much of a difference, so there is no reason to do hundreds of raids trying to get a hundo every time a new Pokémon is in raids.
Just too add a little perspective, because of how gaming and people have become or have always been competitive the search for the best ESPECIALLY in the pokemkn franchise is likely never to stop. The motto GOTTACATCHEMALL really got us in a choke hold
Having something decent from a lucky trade (decent can be subjective but for me i mean in the 90s, even low 90s) can be worth investing more than a pure raid hundo depending on a person's resources. As mentioned before, the difference is pretty small. The only time it likely matters is in certain pvp matchups. And even then, not a whole lot of players would play open master league anyway.
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I did message niantic recently regarding a few things and one of them was making sure they were aware that people are talking regarding the extortionate amounts of money that they are now charging people. The response was and I quote "I'm sorry you feel that way". They know what they're doing and they don't care.
The only response that would have been worse than that is “lol”.
Honestly good response from them. Pokémon training shouldn’t be cheap, mobile raid passes are too cheap if we’re being honest
Tbf you're messaging a customer support. What answer did you expect? "DAMN, you right fam. We gonna fix it next quarter"
@@skipbrainless7527so untrue. Pokémon go used to be a kids game. Now kids can’t even play the game to their fullest ability cus they cannot afford to. Ur opinion is straight up wrong and everyone else knows they charge way too much. 2 dollars per remote raid pass to more than likely get a 2 star shitty Pokémon that you’ll never power up. You have to do hundreds of raids to possibly get the hundo. And I’m someone who does spend hundreds of dollars on Pokémon go every year. But it’s way too pricey for most players.
Yelling at a wall will get you nowhere. Not worth ur time
I appreciate the video and honesty Billy. The game isn't what it once was - it's only paywalls and FOMO now. I've been saying for the last few years Pokemon GO peaked around 2019. Honestly the main reason I still play it is because of the friends I've made and the money and time investment. Otherwise I would have quit long ago. And I'm not even going to start on the "luck" in the game.
I haven’t liked Niantic’s attitude toward their player base for a long time. As Niantic releases new play options like routes, Dynamax, Gigantamax, I inwardly shrug and respond “nope, not doing that.” Nor do I raid much for Legendaries I already have. Why would I? I am finding CDs tedious now. You mentioned “opportunity cost” in your discussion, and I absolutely agree. Life is finite. Choose wisely how you spend it. The time is even more precious than the money. To newer, less jaded players, who enjoy the game and are more willing to spend on it, have fun. You do you.
Agree totally. I ignore most of the special tickets but still play. I'd go for bottle caps if they were physical, like with the non-GO game. Maybe a renewal of the PoGO trading cards with specials, caps, and pogs? More PTP that's totally online doesn't add much. (I note that "shiny" was a European name for special cards in trading cards, like holograms and prisms, if anybody wondered how the name was chosen for PoGO. Trading card games are the ultimate of paywall!)
they increased the price for a lot of things inserted paywalls for weekend events, now not only go fest is a 15$ event each year, but the worse one is that here(Hungary) the community day ticket now costs 5 times more. Every time i went out for community day i bought the ticket, but now its not worth it, even with the few extra things you get from it
Even with 2x I haven't bought a ticket since it increased. It was fun with a simple dollar, nice little research to add on, and $11 through the whole year. Now with the idea it's $22, that sounds a little worse (whether it is or not...) and not worth the price tag.
As someone who is a pay-to-play Pokemon Go player, I think that the issue isn't the prices, but rather the fact that so much is behind the paywall. I play several other games and just about all of them have a paywall for extra items, and as with PoGo, you can still play game and progress through it. Niantic definitely needs to re-evaluate their pay system as the fandom is, more than not, unhappy with how much is behind paywalls, even for $1 USD, but in the end, they aren't really doing anything that just about every other game is doing.
Some prices are too much though
I agree i feel sorry for f2p gamers
It absolutely has. Ive been playing since launch and have never put the game down. Up until til a few years ago, there were only a few special tickets or events to spend money on every month. I used to buy almost everything offered.
Now, it seems like there’s multiple tickets for sale at all times. One or two things coming out every week. With the way the cost of living right now it has become nearly impossible for me to keep up. I haven’t stopped playing, but I’ve missed a lot that I feel like I wouldn’t have otherwise, if at least the prices weren’t so high.
Not even counting events, remote raid passes used to cost 0.67 each if you bought 3-packs. Now it’s almost $2 each or $5 for 3.
It has gotten beyond ridiculous. All these prices have gone up and a new event is for sale every other day, but they haven’t raised the 50 coins per day limit from gyms. That’s like never raising minimum wage. It’s ridiculous. I love the game but they give you a lot to hate these days.
Well the remote raid pass increase was on purpose to get people to do more in person raids. It’s a luxury item so I can understand the logic behind it
@@Dark-Wolf27calling a digital item luxury is wild
@@Fredoindallas I just meant that it’s not something we should be getting accustomed to using all the time. Pokémon go main goal is to meet friends and walk around and remote raids defeat the purpose.
I say “luxury” as in if you have a few coins saved up from defending gyms you can treat yourself at the games shop and buy remote passes for a lazy day
I agree, I was just using remote passes as an example of how much prices have gone up. Triple the cost on those, gift boxes all much more expensive, coins-wise. Tickets for Comm Day research didn’t exist at first, then they were $1, now $2. Incubators much more costly.
It really seems like Niantic got money hungry (even though they already were) but it’s so bad now.
And all this not even taking into consideration DynaMax and GigantaMax raids which we can only get 800 Max Particles a day unless we want to buy extra… what will be the next thing they come up with on top of everything else??
I can spend $40-$50 a week on this game no problem if I let myself, and $200 a month is a nice chunk of change!
The most frustrating thing for me is not the price itself, but the shift towards more and more things that can only be purchased with real currency. I play enough that I don't mind buying the $99 pokecoin bundles or the physical pokecoin gift cards for my friends, but I can't use those pokecoins to pay for event tickets. I think if I buy pokecoins, I should be able to spend those pokecoins on whatever I want, whether that's in-game items or event tickets.
"If you see people getting cool shhhstuff..." @11:11 xD
The fact you brought up bottle caps made me extremely happy. Have been wanting those for a long time.
I appreciate you taking the time to make this video, excellent content for all aspects of playing this game instead of event specific factors. Thank you, Billy!
You're also PAYING to play a BROKEN game. I don't think people would object to most of these "paywalls" if the game ran and funtioned like it should. Niantic is so wealthy, this game should be nearly flawless. With the last update, all of my "tags" folders lost the purple, blue, green, and black colors. Not fixed yet. Will it be? Who knows. A small thing, but tons of small things equel a sloppy game.
Found out I spent over $500 in January and I'm not very proud of it. I definitely need to cut down and focus on more f2p activities.
My issue is I'm either 0 or 100. If I'm not going super hard my brain gets distracted and I do something else and then I end up missing some type of event. Sometimes missing these events bothers me for months/years. I'm still annoyed I missed Keldeo in 2022, its the only pokemon I dont't have and it bothers me.
Dope vid Billy, as a spend to win player , I don’t mind spending money on myself or my friends, case and point , during the pandemic era, with Unlimted remote raids I was spending $60-100 a month , now it’s far removed from that
I used to spend when remotes were the original price. My monthly spend is now less than 1/4 of what it was.
@ I understand
I pretty much stopped buying tickets unless they're for the big Go Fest kind of events. I used to enjoy community day tickets because of the lore you'd get about the pokemon of that day, but they axed them for some reason and then raised the price. It's also rare for me to go bonkers in buying remote passes anymore. Now I just spend five bucks and do as many raids as that will offer and then quit. It's not like those legendary or shiny won't ever be released again.
April 2023 was the darkest month in Pokemon Go history.
If you know, you know.
@@nyxxose and from my perspective, they never fully recovered #RestoreTheRemoteRaidCommunity
The A game by Pixsonic called War Robots... you can play for free but you just stay in the lower tiers... whenever you progress higher in the tiers you end up just being fresh meat for the grinder for the people who do pay... last time I played you had to buy 7 different curency just to play, you had to buy powercell just to power you're robot, guns 7 different robots needed to be brought, then you had to upgrade them, Titan robots you needed to buy, then upgrade buy grinding for month or paying... but the real kicker is once you had your robot at the top level of play Pixsonic would then nerf the gun or robot to the ground & you would have to start all over again... all that money spend (if you did pay) for a few months of feeling powerful... pokemon go is not that bad but its headed that way
The airplane example can confuse some. Both first class and coach will still arrive at the destination at the same time.
A better example is when there's a cross country race from CA (Lvl 1) to NY (Lvl 50). There are 3 participants: one will ride a 🚴🏼♂️, one will 🚗, and one will take a flight ✈️. Riding a bike is free and will take you the longest to reach the finish line however, the one taking a flight will progress and get to the goal faster because they spent $$$ to get ahead.
To answer your question: the bigger pay wall game is the game of life.
I do agree that the times that were fun were the ones before all the pay to play stuff started popping up but honestly Niantic is basically stripping the game down to the BARE MINIMUM without payment now. Events have all the featured pokemon in eggs or raids, big events have tickets on top of tickets on top of tickets with MORE stuff in eggs and raids. There's constant raid and Max battle events going on that require more money to get the most out of. Honestly I WISH I could stop playing because I dont have friends that play anymore but its so ingrained in my daily life now that I cant imagine not playing, and skipping out on things gives you the worst fomo because you never know when stuff is coming back. Like this weekend with Gmax Kingler, I KNOW it will come back eventually but unlike the megas that are always around not a single GMax has come back after the limited time it was available, and at this rate they will probably ONLY be featured during big events or max battle weekends because they designed them to need a whole lot of people to do, basically making you rework your schedule around these events just to be able to get one pokemon.
just STOP spending money on this game - they literally don't care about their player base
Been saying this for years yt don’t care it’s a tax write off for them
thats why I Just spoof to get ahead instead
It’s annoying. I don’t play as much anymore. I used to buy the tickets for events. Now there’s just too much.
It’s hard to even figure out what each level of payment gets.
I was a free to play player for a long time. More recently I've made peace with paying sometimes. I use gym coins for incubators, but am stingy with incubators. I'm ok with paying for an experience I enjoy (like a movie or doing something else fun), but I don't find raiding fun unless it is with friends. I would be ok with paying for the Kingler event if I was going to be out there with friends for the afternoon. But I'll have my kids and they will get bored fast (plus I'm not paying for them), so we will do our free raids and be done.
Lets be honest the amount of paywalls are coming from their remote raid nerf and they are feeling the effects. Before the nerf there were tickets yes for comm days at $1 which ok fine. Sure there was the Mr Rime ticket back then BUT there were not as many tickets and so much more. Post nerf and some months its pretty astounding how many tickets there are and sometimes can be close to about $30-40 USD.
Had they not messed with remote raids and the pricing I would argue we would not see as many tickets in shop and costing a lot.
You hit the nail on the head, all these tickets are to fill the gap left from the remote raid nerf and price hike. Even with these tickets I am still spending less money on the game because I used to raid a lot more
Thank you for this video, please keep making this type of motivational video that keep us less depressed or left out from being a free to player. Keep it up Billy! 👍🏼
Started off with having extra bonuses in tickets, now the event is in the ticket. I don't mind monetization, but they have to realize that is has to be incentivizing enough for the player
I wish we could at least optionally increase or decrease an IV point by 1 after best buddying a pokemon. Would allow players to "train" their pokemon, wouldn't be too op by niantic standards, and people would be playing the game more to get best buddy hundos
I’d love to see an exp share like system for a battle party that earns candy with your current buddy. This would feel more like training a team than catching more of something. Puffins could still decrease distance (and encourage buying/earning them).
I'm F2P for the most part now. The only time I spend money on anything is for a favorite shiny that I could potentially get and transfer to my console, as well as pokemon that I don't have in my dex yet on the console games. Otherwise, I tend to keep weather boosted lvl 30+ relevant pokemon to use in raids since IVs don't matter as much in that aspect and use the pokeball plus+ to item and stardust grind to power up my high IV relevant shadows or PVP pokemon that my pokeball catches each day.
Thank you! Great episode!
I only came here to say that Keona bringing you a pinecone is the freaking cutest thing EVER.
This coin bundle is useful considering the bundles that pop up around go fest and tours. Almost all of the systems have been quite stable, the passes have had stable value and the new things have been pretty skippable or more oriented towards speed. We're in a dynamic where new players are in extraordinary crunches trying to get raid teams going whereas the majority of us don't have a reason to engage with the game day to day. We've had too many one and done researches that would be worth rerunning specifically the apex shadow research.
Niantic should also consider giving more to the FTP(free to play) players, increasing the daily coins amount from 50 to 100, more premium items, more often even once a week for a pinch of items would be very much appreciated from if not most communities all communities. The daily free coins from the Chinese New Year event is definitely a step in the right direction. Even the extra free passes for raid days are also fantastic for people cutting back on spending or not spending at all is also something many of us are appreciating.
This. More of this, I've been going out for every raid day BECAUSE of the free passes and it's been glorious I get more to trade with and my experience is much better
Keep up the great work in the videos. The one thing I'd like to say, I am a free to play player and I do enjoy it. It's a marathon type of game, not a race. But when you pay to play is the same concept, it's like going to a casino, you're going to invest money, so hopefully Get something out of it, but just know When you go to a casino, you can lose a lot of money so if you can accept that.
Then go for it But if you can't don't invest money... ifs unfortunately everything in the world is about money but if u enjoy it then go for it .... keep up the great work
Well said
RuneScape is a game with worse paywalls though that is a computer game not a mobile ar. I agree I have the most fun exploring and hiking and playing pogo. I’m also an ingress player and my favorite thing in that game is capturing uniques and submitting wayspots. I have paid for passes to get shiny legendaries but honestly not getting a dex entry doesn’t bother me anymore.
I love the early days nest reference, I remember having a lot of fun figuring out what the nests were and hanging out at parks that had Pokémon that I needed to evolve or power up. Today it just seems like we wait for events then catch as many as possible to get the resources needed.
After this go Fest I think I'm going to retire
I wish it was more free to play friendly
There are definitely ways for free to play players to enjoy the game. Campfire is a good app for meet ups in your area and to help host raids.
If their are no meet ups or players in your area than get your friends & family to play. That’s what I do
When you had millions playing the game and each putting in a dollar in 2016 and 2017 to only hundred of thousands playing today and still looking to put in a dollar, they had to generate that lost revenue somehow. The size of the consistent player base has dramatically decreased and that ultimately affected the bottom line, so in essence you are being punished for being a loyal player.
Dynamax is a frigging joke, same old Pokémon most long term players have high level high I've Pokémon already, then Niantic expecting people to power up crap iv Pokémon to raid other no big deal Pokémon that will more than likely have crap ivs rinse and repeat . Honestly i just don't care. Niantic is literally the worst run gaming company i have ever seen. Ignorance, greed and stupidity. Oh and the fact that they think we are actually walking around especially in the winter, when the reality is we have 24 people in 20 cars all driving around and polluting. IDIOTS
Don't forget, that if it has a gigamax version, then that's better than dynamax and you have to then go for that one, but you have to be in a party of relatively 30+ or you'll never get one.
Honestly if Niantic keeps going this path with pokemon go, they will just bury the game, and this is probably how the game will end because if it gets to expensive people will just stop playing the game, some brutal honesty from a long time player!
It’ll be dead by 2028
I'm F2P except for Go Fest. I'm currently sitting on about 6300 coins, waiting for thise value boxes.
One additional reaource for free to play players is to ise Campfire to try to find Community Ambassador sponsored events. Im lucky, there a park near me in Chicago with a STRONG community and a community ambassador. On Wednesdays, there are a few dozen of us who rally to do some raids, so raiding is easy, AND there's usually a free ticket for checking is, where you can get another raid pass. Not tonnes, but its something. Then on community days and bigger events, maybe 100-150 people will be there for raid days, etc. with additional free tickets for checkin.
And while a long time ago I came to acceptance on not neing able to keep up with those who choose to pay, focus on quality over quantity. When raiding, i may not ne able to field 6 L50 Dialga, but if you have a couple of people to raid with, that's probably overkill anyway. A mixed bag with some 2:04 2:04 L40's is probably good enough.
Get iut there. Have fun. Meet some people. Help out newer players. Etc.
My favorite experience was Christmas 2020. I caught 2 hundo tauros at my house back to back days.
My Pokédex thinks I saw one of those once, cant say I remember it tbh. Still don’t have one.
The best way to avoid the paywall as much is lucky trading and community networking.
700 necro raid. That in itself is nuts IMHO. Even if you are writing it off on your taxes. And THEN to not land a hundo out of all that. Madness. This game sucks compared to what it could be. Just painful to consider.
Thanks for the positive mindset!
I like how this video has more comments than the last few videos and it’s only been up for 2 hours
Rush Royale is the other pay wall that I play. It used to be more FTP but now you can’t compete unless you spend tons. 😢
I do agree the game is getting expensive. I do miss some big events like raid days as no money. I spend when I can and do raid days when I can
Yeah definitely there's this interesting force at play, people want things like shiny, hundo, and now the question is whether or not people are willing to spend money (mostly) and time to get them. I think niantic missed the point of how people perceive the value. For me personally, when remote raids are unlimited and only $1, i never mind at all and had fun raiding chasing more shinies, more hundo (therefore player happy, company makes $$). But fastforward to today, they limit remote, also double the price, at $2, even if its unlimited (or even them making it 20 limit), i dont raid anymore since i dont perceive the value. Shiny is just inside the game not having value, hundo i can always wait for next time. At this point, i rather spend the money to get a nice steak meal and have a nice stomach. That's why, I dont really play much anymore. From my community, most people share the same feeling as well, especially the OG older players that love the game
The fact that Pokemon go is becoming increasingly pricy - with all the extra paid tickets that were never seen before and the price increase of all tickets - is worrying me. In my work, I have seen a ton of other companies doing similar things (meaning getting all the extra $ from their customers) and it basically means 2 things: 1) the company is targeting a new audience, in this case, all the "whales" who pays for all or most part of the ticket while upsetting all free players leading them to ultimately leave the game, but hey that means less fixed cost for Niantic. The second option is that Niantic is on the verge of bankruptcy and they are desperate to gain fast and easy $, but then what's the point of buying pokecoins if the game shut down
This is insane how much pay to win is in this game
I spent quite a good amount of money on the game especially on the mewtwo releases doing 100 sometimes up to 200 raids a day but realized Niantics behavior was only getting worse in 2021 and have largely quit the game. I think ive opened it twice in the last year? There are other mobile games to play, getting my pokemon fix with pocket at the moment
Egg hatching event you say, imagine if there was an auto walking app .....wait
Great video!
I think the analogy would be more like two people needing to get to another city, one on a bike and the other in a plane. But I'm quibbling.
Someone will probably disagree, but I draw a distinction between gambling with real money and gambling with funny money. If I'm spending actual money I expect a guarantee or it's just gambling. If I'm using an in-game currency gained by work, then I'm gambling with my time. P2p is like playing monopoly with real money, f2p is like just playing the game with fake money. I never gamble with real money because it's a slippery slop (for me anyway). Plus I get stubborn when the manipulation to do something is this blatant. I've spent money in the past because I enjoyed a game, but the wallet closes when a game is designed to make it uncomfortable deliberately to convince me to avoid the discomfort.
Otherwise, dealing with the pinch points that try to get you to spend is frustrating, but you are correct. It's a choice and I have to live with it.
They gave us bs excuse about going out and exploring, when they nerfed the remote raids. The time when those who were willing to pay to raid made niantic rich. Now, with all the tickets they shove…… they barely making 50% of what they used to make
Has it gone too expensive? Yes
Does it affect your ability to play the game? No
As someone who for the most part is a free to play player and has been playing since 2016 it never really bugged me when a pay wall is given to a Pokémon or an event. I do my best to make the game enjoyable for my personal taste. I’ve gotten friends & family to play so I can do raids. I download campfire & raid app to invite players & find meet ups. I take advantage of every bonus from free events that are available and overall just put effort into the game.
Now I’m a level 47 player with over 1,000 shinies & 150 Pokémon that are level 40 Pokémon.
The best advice I can give you all is to remember that every Pokémon will eventually be easy to access and yes this includes the legendaries
I enjoyed this video dude, I like when you get philosophical God bless
I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this but it would be nice if they had a special Berry that doubled the stardust or increase it somehow, stardust is annoying in my opinion only a hundred for an average pokey it's like taking back your cans for a nickel every average pokey should be like a Meowth gain seeing as though each level up is 1,000 + stardust
To increase the cost, time and physical effort is insane. Niantic is killing this game 😢
I haven't been spending money on the game, and I have told my adult son to stop gifting me certain tickets because of the constant price increase. The game is becoming less appealing, less fun because of poor rewards, repeats of pokemon too much difficulty in obtaining newly released pokemon, the list goes on. Niantic truly has lost it's concern and respect for the players who have made the game what it is today.
It's definitely not pay to play, but there are so many paid activities, particularly those that expire, I kind of just stopped looking at them. When the paid activities were special, I took notice, because they offered more and better rewards, had more to do, and were more fun.
Now, every event has an additional paid component that offer almost nothing different than the regular event.
I actually prefer having exclusive paid events that only people who pay can participate in over the lazy open-to-everyone events that have paid components. And paying for timed components on events that start and end on a weekday with no weekend in-between is crazy.
If you don't see the value, don't drop the coin. Just manage your expectations of what you can get and what you can't do. I buy incubators and the occasional event ticket. But I know others spend a lot more.
The direction Pokemon go has decided to go has been VERY clear for a long time now, if your not happy and are still playing YOU'RE the idiot not Niantic.
I'm an OG 2016 player and I don't buy boxes or tickets unless the deal is insanely good. I mostly use my earned pokecoins for more storage. Safest bet.
The game is maximized for profit and not maximizing game-play, and fun. Can you blame them? people still buying into the worst option.
I've been getting the $5 egg ticket they've come out with. It seems worth it instead of paying 150 or 200 for wach incubator.
I've cut back on raids and even when I was raiding a lot it was only 1-6 raids a week. Now unless its a legendary I don't have I don't raid.
Short answer yes, every event needs a ticket or something you need to buy which will ultimately lose players
Yes. Unfortunately, I stopped playing a while ago because of that.
I refuse to spend real money on this game, I miss out on some stuff, and sometimes it’s just too cold to go out and play (It’s cold where I live), and I refuse to drive to an indoor mall and play because I’m not wanting to spend the gas either. Over the past few years I’ve just stopped playing as much.
Rick Grimes from the Walking Dead 😂
For all of the people that remote raid heavily and complain about the price, you should ABSOLUTELY purchase the coin bundle. By doing so and then purchasing the box that gives 2 remote passes and 5 potions for 315 coins, the net cost per remote pass is actually cheaper than the original (pre-2023) cost of remote passes.
Whare are you going to play Gigantamax Kingler raid ?
Now I’m level 50 I’m not spending another cent. Even if I miss every raid and paid research
Yup.
I think pokemon go one of the better games to be free to play it is expensive if you play with other people. Spending money doesn't guarantee you anything except the resource. You can pay for a raid pass and not catch the legendary. I don't feel pressure to spend unless I'm helping out friends or its an event. Everything is made available free at some point so there's no need for FOMO just be patient.
Niantic is more focused on our wallets just to have fun in rushes with an 80% frustrating instead with their issues they haven't really sorted
I got catch 3 Pokémon for 5 coins green quest today, helps a lot for free to play peeps like me lol
5 coins a day helps you alot. Really. If you could spin stops get get 20 of those tasks a day it would help but I'm sorry +5 coins per day is not really helping anyone.
There are way too many raids that are the equivalent of 5 star raids. Shadow, 5 Stars, Gigatamax, Crazy Dynamax Legendaries, all these require tons of coordination which the app itself does not cater towards and with the dumb stance they have taken on remote raiding on some of these its impossible to even Pay to play some of this content unless you are already part of a community and dedicate you weekend to it. Not to mention the crazy shiny gatekeeping thats been going on since day 1
Paywall in PoGo is more loot box and a gambling aspect.
Max mushrooms 🍄
Niantic has already started their dope game
Lord Mobiles,........ You need deep pockets if you want to be "good"
No, they are just trying really hard to find ways to make money the way they where generating when remote raid passes where unlimited. They have meeting like come on guys remember when we made millions with raid passes ? We need to make that money so give me ideas to make people spend money
I don't understand why people are complaining that much about how expensive the game has become. The game was and has been free-to-play for several years. I just find it funny that the same people that are complaining about the prices are most likely the ones buying these things. If you're going to complain about how you're choosing to spend your own money, maybe don't waste it in the first place...
Trainer club has gone, full trainer tips, with the Robin Williams Jumanji hair
No way. He's Rick Grimes. LOL
I mean, screw $99 for that. Just use the trick to buy it in rupes for $33.
Getting to the point I’ll just put all my shinies into home
Galaxia is the biggest pay wall. If you don't spend money, you won't be able to advance to the next level
as a free to play player i couldnt agree more with luckies id say 5 out of my 12 best pokemon are all lucky
The fun in this game is gone, period. I haven't played since the fiasco they created about the remote passes. We all know they have become a greedy corporation, and they do nothing more than take from the players and give nothing back. If they happen to give back, it's a pittance, and it doesn't come without a fight. I used to play all the time, but I can't anymore. They have removed all the fun and the constant thing of playing how THEY want it to be played. It used to be ALOT of fun not anymore and it's a shame because it really did a lot of good for ppl to get out and get moving. I miss a lot but just refuse to pay for it anymore. If you are only going to let your paying customers get the great items, then I can put my money elsewhere into other, more tangible things.
As a new p[ayer the start of the game is a hell of a struggle. You have no inventory space, no pokemon space and rubbish pokemon. I have really been debating buying the coins but then realised WTF am I doing its such a P take. Literally tap the screen game play and no return on what you pay for haha.
In many years before I spent a little money but after I realized this game is totally F2P you don’t have to spend anything and you get coins for free every day and you will still get everything by time
Other games you miss a lot if you don’t pay here at least very F2P friendly
Yes. Too expensive. Every week a 5 dollar weekend event. Every other week a 2 dollar event . And then the cost of incubators and raid passes.
Bro got the man hair of I live off grid but still handle business style hair cut like it bro plus its to cold for this type of short hair
People act like these things can't be avoided by the person itself.
They had the worst sales since 2017. Of course they have to try to get it back somehow. But they are going the wrong way. In order for people to spend money, there has to be new content. Of course there is something with Dynamax, but for many it is too frustrating because they can't get a community together for it or they don't push bad Pokemon because they don't see the point in spending the Stardust on it. They have to stop doing the same boring event over and over again and hiding new Pokemon behind money. And I could list more, but what can you do.
Since now we can access no debut shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Go by referring to Pokemon Go new update in shiny Pokedex.
How about we can access those Pokemon still not debut in Pokemon Go by new update of new Pokedex in Pokemon Go 🤔
One thing that could help people spend less money is realizing that 100% iv Pokémon don’t matter as much as you think, sure they are a nice prize to have but there are lots of videos out there explaining the percentage difference between a hundo and a Pokémon with zero ivs and is not that much of a difference, so there is no reason to do hundreds of raids trying to get a hundo every time a new Pokémon is in raids.
Just too add a little perspective, because of how gaming and people have become or have always been competitive the search for the best ESPECIALLY in the pokemkn franchise is likely never to stop. The motto GOTTACATCHEMALL really got us in a choke hold
Well all those PoGo content creators only focus on shundos and hundos , and it makes every player pay for raids etc… FOMO LOL
Having something decent from a lucky trade (decent can be subjective but for me i mean in the 90s, even low 90s) can be worth investing more than a pure raid hundo depending on a person's resources. As mentioned before, the difference is pretty small. The only time it likely matters is in certain pvp matchups. And even then, not a whole lot of players would play open master league anyway.
Yes it has!!
Yes.
Why is it so easy to get lucky friends across the ocean, but not across town? This needs to be addressed