Honestly this year holiday event sucks, not only costume is mostly locked behind raids, but my area all i see is 5 star raids, im sick of seeing Latios Latias when i was 1 stars
imagine me, playing by myself, early lvl 40, my city is pretty much abandoned, and all I see is mega latios everywhere, just wanted some 1 star raids to be able to participate in the event
Not so much getting worse, just everything is now behind a pay wall. Everything is now in raids or eggs meaning spending money on incubators or raid passes!
honestly, a lot of pogo is paywalled. like, even major events like Tours, Fests and Wilds are paywalled. The only FREE event is the Safari zones that happen around the world. which is... ok? most of it is just limited time wild spawns. PoGo has become one of THE most expensive mobile games to play. Add on top that raids are gambling where pokemon CAN run away AND you get nothing for the money spent. PoGo has become less and less worth playing unless Niantic does some drastic changes to the game.
Well maybe it’s cos I’m new but it’s not that bad? I am mosty ftp, spent money on a couple tickets and feel they were worth it to me (go fest, i cant remember what else maybe thats it). Egg gambling is an obvious no to me and while I got a few remote raid passes with gym coins i don’t Chase hundos or shinies of each Pokémon it is similar Gambie in my eyes and it’s not how i spend my money. I don’t play much games or spend money on them though in general
It honestly isnt that expensive compared to a lot of mobile games. You can buy every event ticket for less than $10, and in a decent bit of mobile games, $10 will get you almost nothing
@@Acefoe Depends where on the planet you live- event tickets here are around $20, our $1 for 100 pokecoins got hiked up to $1.79 for 100 coins without warning & we've not had a $1 com day ticket since before the RRP nerf (last one I paid for was $3.50 & just looked in the webstore to see the current comday tick is $9) etc. So yeah, your tickets might be less than $10/cheap now, but that might not be the case a week, month or year from now.
@@AcefoeThis is just not true, in almost every game there’s a battle pass with decent value in in-game items available throughout a season. Compare that to pogo’s almost non existent guarantees when spending money on raid passes or incubators and it doesn’t even come close. You shouldn’t count events, since they only happen a few times a year.
@@bero1408 non existent guarantee? You buy a remote pass you have a guaranteed attempt to beat the raid and catch the Pokemon? Incubators give a guaranteed chance to hatch an egg? Not quite sure what you’re going on about there. Most battle passes are garbage, they get worse and worse as time passes with every game, idk why people want them more. The only good part of battle passes are ones that have free rewards
Hello from Australia, its not just summer here, we are burning in the depths of hell. Snow doesn't exist, never has never will, so it is nice that we are being more included, but I prefer the ice events, cause its like the only time I ever see ice type pokemon.
New Zealander here, yeah we do still get the winter background, but I imagine Niantic don’t wanna do a whole other sunny background just for the smaller population down here Also it’s still Christmas here, we just do summer things instead of winter
I think one thing to remember that Christmas isn’t snowy for everyone. There is another half of the world where it is warmer and that explains such things like the Summer Pichu. I hadn’t had that one before so it was great to get it from an egg!
Nearly every single event this year was awful. Even community days this year were bummers. New Pokemon releases don't even appear in the wild. They're either raids or through eggs. It's really getting harder and harder to love this game.
This might have been the singlemost disappointing event going into the Dec comm day. Can't even grind for Shiny Sandyghast because last 24 hours of the event its barely around, and the research coming from pokestops changed to the comm day ones and didnt revert to the events before it leaves. Thanks for literally no 1* raids or 5* Shadow raids as well Niantic, love all the Latias everywhere at all times. So frustrating.
I know it feels like it but what might happen with the RUclipsrs is they try a lot too and show us what works. I think they should tell us how many they did so we feel better lol
It's sun hat pichu and some fire type spawns since it's eluding to white kyurem for the first part of the event, and black kyurem for the second part according to PokeDaxi
@@hlzx11 well, I did not pay for the pass.. Got quite a few safari balls from pokestops, sometimes even 2 safari balls in one spin. I agree it was harder for f2p, but still managable to get some mighty pokemon, I got 11, 2 of them were hundos. I came back to game after 8 years and this event significantly improved the quality of play for me. :)
The Safari Ball inconsistency was rough, but I'll still take that over... whatever this holiday event is. The holiday event sucks, and this CD sucks almost as much (despite being one of the best things ever in past years).
I don't know why. But since the update. When I defeat an opponent's Pokemon. The animation for the pokemon disappearing no longer shows. If I defeat a Pokemon it just stays there. Then it switches to their next with no animation
It’s a rare chance on the daily incense, so they want you to use your rare candy (from paid raids), to use Roar of Time to get a higher chance of getting it. In the end they can still make money off of that
Suddenly he is opposed to any paywalls? Last week, it still made complete sense to him that people spend money on this game. All the comments below are way too sweet.
As someone who is into the collecting aspect of the game I hate that I've had to spoof on an alt to fill out my GMax dex. I don't understand why they can't be like the raids in Monster Hunter(another Niantic game) where you have to go to a den in person and it matches you with people globally. Instead I get to open campfire, see the meetup of 5 people 2 hours away, and just teleport to Sydney, Australia on my alt because no one in my state plays this game (or at least doesn't use campfire).
I am a English player with 4 kids who works nights with no chance to plays as they intend so I spoof to new Zealand and do the same as u just for filling the dex
@@graham999 I know a guy who sells Gmax pokemon on Ebay. He makes alt accounts, levels them until they can get the free dmax wooloo, then spoofs the gmax raids and sells the pokemon trainer club account tied to the account on ebay so that the buyer can friend it and max out friendship to get lucky buddy and stuff. I personally think that's going a bit too far, but at this point who cares if desperate rural players wanna get scammed by the Niantic FOMO brigade. The only people who think GMax is fine the way it is are out of touch city dwellers and cheaters who wanna make a quick buck.
@@graham999 can you pls tell me what website / app to go to to spoof ? I’m not able to play day time as I’m working 12 hours a day 😩😞… also .. do they not ban you for spoofing ?
@Anuta03 just don't be silly with it like changing u location every couple of mins they not found me in 3 years and it's pgsharp I play on the free option or u can pay £5 mouth
All of this is why I'm quietly quitting Pokemon go. I'm a rural player and I have to grind harder than others just to keep up. Then niantic did gmax and that's the end for me. they put up a solid wall. even with the very expensive missions we can't do it. It's a dirty and ugly thing they did. but worse players are being taxed harder and harder. what will new players do? they are probably giving up and balling at the costs for everything. long time players have gradually been paying for things little by little but new players are like "nope!" all of this is why I'm quitting and it's getting easier! quit portions of the game one by one.
I’m a suburban player who was recently in a rural area for over a month. In the former I could do some dynamax but gigantamax I just ignore. Most shadow raids the same. I am a new player hahah. Yeah it’s just a game is what I always say to myself. I don’t and can’t and won’t do it all… (edit, oh I sure am not paying more! I paid for a go fest ticket and something else now I can’t recall but otherwise gym coins I feel it’s been worth it )
@@VQuinn-he9rv And that's the point I'm making exactly. They are now forgetting about "new players" or even "returning players." The expectations are ridiculously high but you wouldn't know it because in the dense population areas, anyone can participate in anything because there's always a large number of players. But this level of stupid comes with the ideology they brought in. Female players were (and some still are) upset with the unisex avatar changes. Doesn't affect male players so much... in fact it improves things for male players. But for female players? Not so much. But Niantic flies the "rainbow flags" so you have to know that's why they did that. And the more stupid things you see, the more you have to know it's the people. There was a personnel crisis at Niantic which no one really talked to much about, but looking back it makes more sense now. It's DEI and ideologies. That's why Christmas is leaning SATANIC this year. It's all pretty gross. Pokemon Go was supposed to be a "forever game" but the way they are doing it? NOPE. Have an exit strategy: With all the money I've spent, I could have bought several Nintendo Switch consoles and every Pokemon game for them. So I have two Nintendo Switches now and several Pokemon games. Pokemon Go can transfer lots of pokemon into Pokemon home... for free but takes some time. Thinking of paying for the Home service so I can do more. I've got a level 50 shundo mewtwo... it's going into home! Pokemon Go is only good for occasional grinding to get things easier for real Pokemon games.
It’s not even winter in California where he normally lives! I just traveled from real winter and snow to California and it was weird to see all the heavy handed snowy Christmas theme. Idk why they couldn’t have at least bothered to use a proper season for the entire southern hemisphere like they don’t know what season they have! Niantic “we implemented BiOMeS!!”
I got so tired of the lackluster events and all the crappy spawns that i dont even go to my local park to play anymore. Its the same spawns constantly. Its not exciting at all. The only thing i do is spend 20 bucks on raid passes and raid the 5 raids a day. I dont even use my daily incense or complete special research anymore. Its all a money grab. You can so obviously tell that they are literally sitting in a room together and thinking of scammy ways to promote the game through the go shop. It doesnt feel like pokemon anymore.
@4:12 I'm loving the way you caught the pokémon but accidentally caught /deleted/blew up the christmas tree in the background at the same time. You watch, something else in the background always goes missing after a catch. I dunno maybe it stays inside the pokéball as furniture.
I quit the game ages ago its boring and time to move on to be honest. The games got worse and worse over time just so people can log on and spend more and more money without even thinking about the way the game feels and plays to be honest. Most changes are just not the right way forward for the game.
The background scenes while catching Pokemon? Excellent. Sandygast being the new shiny in honor of the Southern Hemisphere being in their summer right now? Clever and I respect that choice. But you're right...this event feels very lackluster. Delibird with the bow has been around for a while...Santa Hat Psyduck and Scarf Spheal have been around for a while...and ignoring the new release of Dedenne in raids, it just feels like a low energy event with nothing really new to discover.
I like your nuanced take. I don't like this event that much, but not every event can be great and we do have some stuff to look forward to with the December community day at least.
Regardless of Niantic being a data mining company fronting as a gaming company you'd think they capitalize on catering to the remaining player base they have and cash grab where its necessary and still data mine.
I’ve been raiding, doing research tasks, I bought the extra research, catching 100’s of Pokémon, clicking on everything, hatching eggs and I haven’t gotten a single shiny during this event
Ive been saying this for a while! The event pokemon don't spawn in wild anymore. They're all behind a paywall. Cetoddle for instance, I've seen one in the wild in 3 days.
I'm so frustrated with these "raid only" things. If you're going to do that, you should be putting the raids in the gyms. My entire town hasn't had any of these raids of late. Couldn't finish collection challenges because they didn't show the raids. I really wish they would remember not everyone lives in huge cities.
Idk about you but the game has been absolutely popping off in my city. In 2020 when I started I was the only one, now I’ll be walking around on my phone and be asked smt like “yo u doing that snorlax raid?”
Imagine if Zorua community day really happen in Pokemon Go features Unova Zorua and Hisuian Zorua together. All Pokemon in the wild spawn appears based on your buddy adventure. Only Zorua in the original appears in wild spawn for players who don't have a buddy adventure. First ever community day where players Pokemon Go map doesn't share the same Pokemon wild spawn.
The spawns are so bad for me that the only chance of getting to catch a Pokémon for me is my daily spawn and incenses. I even live next to a pokestop with a gym 10 paces north of it and ZERO Pokémon spawn there either.
Good lord I'm glad I quit when I did. I'd be an insufferable rage monster if I still played this game, which is honestly more of a cash grab then game at this point. Unbelievably disappointing to see how Niantic has and continues to treat this game
I have not used any money to Pokemon GO this year. Everything has become too expensive and you get less stuff for that money. The events have also been less interesting.
This event is covering both hemispheres. So even if you are in cold weather, you have to remember the southern hemisphere is in summer. So the spawns are perfect for this event.
Ghost and dark types in part 2, I got nothing. Fleece made a good point in his tiktok live the other day that it’s summer in the Southern Hemisphere so I like that there’s both hot and cold spawns. Hate the paywall and not being able to grind stuff though and part 2 spawns make no sense
the christmas mouse you can get through your daily too, the reason why its Sandygast for the shiny is because of the southern hemisphere, they have black sands for winter i believe. or something like that
18:52 It should be fine to talk about Sprigatito Day; they released a news article on the official site about it. As well as the Fidough event and Mega Gallade Raid Day!
Ways pokemon go can improve: Add sp. atk and sp. def stats to IVs Add Pokémon’s ability like intimidate, sturdy, beast boost etc Allow pokemon to hold items in battles Stop being a p2w
Nicely done & I agree with your evaluation. This holiday event has big highs and disappointing lows for me. The main screen and catch scenery is excellent and the raid holiday costumes are cute. However, the dark and ghost types being part of the Christmas event is a little too weird. Taking the old line “… They’ll be scary ghost stories and tales” from the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” too far. I think there are more appropriate Pokemon to choose from for holiday future events. Hopefully, the makers of this game will hear this kind of feedback and make it more fun for everyone next year. Both paying and free to play trainers.
11:23 😂😂😂 funny how she actually makes the exact same noises. They’ve been together too long. I remember my ex started stealing my lingo and just straight up talking like me 😂😂 I lowkey miss that btxh
The fire types aren't 'random,' and it's the same reason as the Sandygast - this is to be more inclusive for the half of the world that isn't cold at winter! I actually think it's a great touch to have the ice and the fire to reflect that some of the world doesn't get cold winter climates.
These Dedene raids are so rare, I have to ask a friend of mine to log into my account when she sees raids within a driving distance. And I live in a city center
I am level 47 and 10% left to next level. Have not played it for two weeks I don’t think I miss much. I paid to play before but so much feature is behind paywall that I just can’t spend money to play it all. Maybe I will come back or maybe not.
I can say that as a new player (started on dec 26 2024) and I will say from all the hype I heard about events it really didnt live up to anything. (compared to how people described events around me)
I've still not even seen a dedednednnnenndene raid yet, let alone managed to do one! Really sucks missing out on that costume and the collection event.
I agree with everyone complaining about bad spawns and stuff but raids? I live in a small area with about 10 gyms (nearest one is a 15m walk) and i have no trouble walking up there OUTSIDE. Many of you forget that this game used to be simple and about activity
I live in NY and funny cause I was at Brooklyn Tech (winter break starting 🎉) and you were in Chinatown cause I saw the pagoda when you showed all those raids.
theres such a glaring lack of giveaways around a holiday that focuses on giving gifts. and to top off the lack of exciting and/or free content, they are running the buggiest tiny cup of all time for pvp.
i have refused to spend any money since they increased the prices of the raid passes. I will NEVER spend more on this game nor will i play it like i used to. The events are all lackluster and even the christmas event is all locked behind raids. It has only become a cash grab and they wont get my money anymore, there is MILLIONS of other games out there.
I've been playing on and off since release, I've not logged in to play in a couple of months and don't plan to, any quests are boring, spawns are constantly the same 5-6 regardless of events or season, anything worth doing it behind paywalls and due to these reasons the community here has near enough died out.
Honestly this year holiday event sucks, not only costume is mostly locked behind raids, but my area all i see is 5 star raids, im sick of seeing Latios Latias when i was 1 stars
Exactly!!?
imagine me, playing by myself, early lvl 40, my city is pretty much abandoned, and all I see is mega latios everywhere, just wanted some 1 star raids to be able to participate in the event
@@MoonashGames yeah man, i really dislike how they keep popping 5/6 stars
ngl im waiting for glaceon costume for the shiny and there hasnt seen a single raid for it
I can’t find a dendienne raid to save my life but boy theirs plenty of Latios 😩
Not so much getting worse, just everything is now behind a pay wall. Everything is now in raids or eggs meaning spending money on incubators or raid passes!
That’s if you fomo into buying stuff that will be attainable at some point
I got the dedenne from my daily incense so maybe try that?
you don't have to spend any money on those things
@@Oppyyyyyy you do if you live in a rural area with no players as there is no way to earn coins.
FWIW we get two free raids a day this season
Niantic: Hey! We give you mediocre unexciting wild spawns!
Niantic: Why aren't you going outside and giving us your data??!!!!
its -20 and below where i am, glad its kinda lame rn lol
We've got storm strong winds basically everyday by me.
honestly, a lot of pogo is paywalled. like, even major events like Tours, Fests and Wilds are paywalled. The only FREE event is the Safari zones that happen around the world. which is... ok? most of it is just limited time wild spawns. PoGo has become one of THE most expensive mobile games to play. Add on top that raids are gambling where pokemon CAN run away AND you get nothing for the money spent. PoGo has become less and less worth playing unless Niantic does some drastic changes to the game.
Well maybe it’s cos I’m new but it’s not that bad? I am mosty ftp, spent money on a couple tickets and feel they were worth it to me (go fest, i cant remember what else maybe thats it). Egg gambling is an obvious no to me and while I got a few remote raid passes with gym coins i don’t Chase hundos or shinies of each Pokémon it is similar Gambie in my eyes and it’s not how i spend my money. I don’t play much games or spend money on them though in general
It honestly isnt that expensive compared to a lot of mobile games. You can buy every event ticket for less than $10, and in a decent bit of mobile games, $10 will get you almost nothing
@@Acefoe Depends where on the planet you live- event tickets here are around $20, our $1 for 100 pokecoins got hiked up to $1.79 for 100 coins without warning & we've not had a $1 com day ticket since before the RRP nerf (last one I paid for was $3.50 & just looked in the webstore to see the current comday tick is $9) etc. So yeah, your tickets might be less than $10/cheap now, but that might not be the case a week, month or year from now.
@@AcefoeThis is just not true, in almost every game there’s a battle pass with decent value in in-game items available throughout a season. Compare that to pogo’s almost non existent guarantees when spending money on raid passes or incubators and it doesn’t even come close. You shouldn’t count events, since they only happen a few times a year.
@@bero1408 non existent guarantee? You buy a remote pass you have a guaranteed attempt to beat the raid and catch the Pokemon? Incubators give a guaranteed chance to hatch an egg? Not quite sure what you’re going on about there. Most battle passes are garbage, they get worse and worse as time passes with every game, idk why people want them more. The only good part of battle passes are ones that have free rewards
Money, money, money & little substance. Shiny’s nonexistent, raids a joke, etc. field research end up transferring most of useless Pokémon.
Hello from Australia, its not just summer here, we are burning in the depths of hell. Snow doesn't exist, never has never will, so it is nice that we are being more included, but I prefer the ice events, cause its like the only time I ever see ice type pokemon.
There's also never been an in person event here right???
@@stambyy69 I think there was like one event in sydney once
exactly thats why sandygast was made the shiny for part 1 and cetoddle for part 2 sandygast for the summer christmas sufferers
@@stambyy69 dunno if it counts but the Niantic boss came to Sydney for the shadow mewtwo raids
It is slightly clever that, since it’s technically Summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the new shiny is Sandygast.
b-b-b-but, iz Chrizmuz
Don’t tell the content creators lol 😂 they might realize it 😆
@@bungus49 chrizzzzzzmuzzzz!
slightly , however all the people in New Zealand , Austraila etc are getting snowy backgrounds in their mid-summer ... so... maybe not
New Zealander here, yeah we do still get the winter background, but I imagine Niantic don’t wanna do a whole other sunny background just for the smaller population down here
Also it’s still Christmas here, we just do summer things instead of winter
I think one thing to remember that Christmas isn’t snowy for everyone. There is another half of the world where it is warmer and that explains such things like the Summer Pichu. I hadn’t had that one before so it was great to get it from an egg!
It is not even warm in my country, it is just raining all day long for the whole winter. Once in 5 years we have snow, and that is like 1 centimeter😐
Nearly every single event this year was awful. Even community days this year were bummers. New Pokemon releases don't even appear in the wild. They're either raids or through eggs. It's really getting harder and harder to love this game.
This might have been the singlemost disappointing event going into the Dec comm day. Can't even grind for Shiny Sandyghast because last 24 hours of the event its barely around, and the research coming from pokestops changed to the comm day ones and didnt revert to the events before it leaves. Thanks for literally no 1* raids or 5* Shadow raids as well Niantic, love all the Latias everywhere at all times. So frustrating.
Dedenne is not raid exclusive. It sometimes spawns during the daily incense.
Top up once in my daily incense.
@@lelouchchanbc twice for me
Facts. That’s how I got all 7 of mine. Daily incense!
Yet to see one
I’ve done so many field research tasks for sandygast and to see you get one that quick is demoralizing 😭
I know it feels like it but what might happen with the RUclipsrs is they try a lot too and show us what works. I think they should tell us how many they did so we feel better lol
Niantic boosts his odds so don’t feel bad buddy!!
@@VQuinn-he9rvno. Niantic boosts his account because he’s basically a Niantic sponsor
@@Retroactive93 for real!? We’re being deceived?? Haha
Ya literally seen so many sandygast an still haven't seena single shiny not a single shiny this whole event and bee grinding hard! It's ridiculous lol
It's sun hat pichu and some fire type spawns since it's eluding to white kyurem for the first part of the event, and black kyurem for the second part according to PokeDaxi
my mom accidentally master balled a digglet then niantic said "The Importance of the Masterball is amazing, so you cannot get it back.
Diglet diggg
Huhhh??? They said that fr?? Why’d she use it on a diglett though?? I wouldn’t give it back to her either!😂😂😂 wtf
@ she was talking to her friend than misclicked please delete your reply
@ dude get real there are people whose kids use masterballs on pidgeys by accidents and they don’t complain we supposed to refund your mum lmao
Ur mom Also masterballed my diglett.. bahahshs
The best event was go wild area, even for the F2P players. This holiday one sucks.
nah from my f2p friends they told me that they could barely get safari balls
@@hlzx11 well, I did not pay for the pass.. Got quite a few safari balls from pokestops, sometimes even 2 safari balls in one spin. I agree it was harder for f2p, but still managable to get some mighty pokemon, I got 11, 2 of them were hundos. I came back to game after 8 years and this event significantly improved the quality of play for me. :)
@@CPMateusz nice lol i caught like 70 mighty and only 2 hundos w luck for u
The Safari Ball inconsistency was rough, but I'll still take that over... whatever this holiday event is. The holiday event sucks, and this CD sucks almost as much (despite being one of the best things ever in past years).
I found only 2 Safari balls in that event and caught zero mighty pokemon. Also there were not enough people to play the Gigantamax raids. 😅
I don't know why. But since the update. When I defeat an opponent's Pokemon. The animation for the pokemon disappearing no longer shows. If I defeat a Pokemon it just stays there. Then it switches to their next with no animation
Yes, it seems like every update causes a strange new problem that never was a problem in the game before.
Weird I"m not in a snowy area and the whole map is covered in snow...just walking around, NOT just in encounters.
Winter costume Dedenne can also spawn with the daily incense. Got one that way
same
It’s a rare chance on the daily incense, so they want you to use your rare candy (from paid raids), to use Roar of Time to get a higher chance of getting it. In the end they can still make money off of that
Also got a costume moose from incense
It is also a possible reward from the Earn 2 Candies walking your buddy research task. That's where I got mine.
Facts. Got 7
I am envious of your shiny Sandygast. They are one of my fav Pokemon & I’ve been grinding for it
Suddenly he is opposed to any paywalls? Last week, it still made complete sense to him that people spend money on this game. All the comments below are way too sweet.
He literally complained about the paywall within the first few minutes of the video
He probably ( MOST LIKELY ) has a contract to promote Niantics crap, this is his job after all or has been
As someone who is into the collecting aspect of the game I hate that I've had to spoof on an alt to fill out my GMax dex. I don't understand why they can't be like the raids in Monster Hunter(another Niantic game) where you have to go to a den in person and it matches you with people globally. Instead I get to open campfire, see the meetup of 5 people 2 hours away, and just teleport to Sydney, Australia on my alt because no one in my state plays this game (or at least doesn't use campfire).
I am a English player with 4 kids who works nights with no chance to plays as they intend so I spoof to new Zealand and do the same as u just for filling the dex
@@graham999 I know a guy who sells Gmax pokemon on Ebay. He makes alt accounts, levels them until they can get the free dmax wooloo, then spoofs the gmax raids and sells the pokemon trainer club account tied to the account on ebay so that the buyer can friend it and max out friendship to get lucky buddy and stuff. I personally think that's going a bit too far, but at this point who cares if desperate rural players wanna get scammed by the Niantic FOMO brigade. The only people who think GMax is fine the way it is are out of touch city dwellers and cheaters who wanna make a quick buck.
hope your account gets banned for spoofing
@@graham999 can you pls tell me what website / app to go to to spoof ? I’m not able to play day time as I’m working 12 hours a day 😩😞… also .. do they not ban you for spoofing ?
@Anuta03 just don't be silly with it like changing u location every couple of mins they not found me in 3 years and it's pgsharp I play on the free option or u can pay £5 mouth
1:14 in true New York fashion: gunshots
All of this is why I'm quietly quitting Pokemon go. I'm a rural player and I have to grind harder than others just to keep up. Then niantic did gmax and that's the end for me. they put up a solid wall. even with the very expensive missions we can't do it. It's a dirty and ugly thing they did. but worse players are being taxed harder and harder. what will new players do? they are probably giving up and balling at the costs for everything. long time players have gradually been paying for things little by little but new players are like "nope!" all of this is why I'm quitting and it's getting easier! quit portions of the game one by one.
I’m a suburban player who was recently in a rural area for over a month. In the former I could do some dynamax but gigantamax I just ignore. Most shadow raids the same. I am a new player hahah. Yeah it’s just a game is what I always say to myself. I don’t and can’t and won’t do it all… (edit, oh I sure am not paying more! I paid for a go fest ticket and something else now I can’t recall but otherwise gym coins I feel it’s been worth it )
@@VQuinn-he9rv And that's the point I'm making exactly. They are now forgetting about "new players" or even "returning players." The expectations are ridiculously high but you wouldn't know it because in the dense population areas, anyone can participate in anything because there's always a large number of players.
But this level of stupid comes with the ideology they brought in. Female players were (and some still are) upset with the unisex avatar changes. Doesn't affect male players so much... in fact it improves things for male players. But for female players? Not so much. But Niantic flies the "rainbow flags" so you have to know that's why they did that. And the more stupid things you see, the more you have to know it's the people.
There was a personnel crisis at Niantic which no one really talked to much about, but looking back it makes more sense now. It's DEI and ideologies. That's why Christmas is leaning SATANIC this year. It's all pretty gross.
Pokemon Go was supposed to be a "forever game" but the way they are doing it? NOPE. Have an exit strategy:
With all the money I've spent, I could have bought several Nintendo Switch consoles and every Pokemon game for them. So I have two Nintendo Switches now and several Pokemon games. Pokemon Go can transfer lots of pokemon into Pokemon home... for free but takes some time. Thinking of paying for the Home service so I can do more. I've got a level 50 shundo mewtwo... it's going into home! Pokemon Go is only good for occasional grinding to get things easier for real Pokemon games.
I'm quitting too. Pokemon go is no longer rewarding especially for a player like me who likes free to play games.
i wish i could quit but i like playing with my friends and i feel like if i quit i will lose friendships
Wait till this dude realizes that it's not winter everywhere when it's Christmas
It’s not that serious bro 😂
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They're correct though
It’s not winter where I live and I’d very much prefer to hunt ice types during Christmas
It’s not even winter in California where he normally lives! I just traveled from real winter and snow to California and it was weird to see all the heavy handed snowy Christmas theme. Idk why they couldn’t have at least bothered to use a proper season for the entire southern hemisphere like they don’t know what season they have! Niantic “we implemented BiOMeS!!”
@@VQuinn-he9rv California is still... Northern hemisphere...
The pay wall bs … this is how u lose customers
more customers.......they already lost alot so now they pay walling to get the last squeeze before the game just dies
@@ashtonoak4370 my town won't ever stop until it becomes fully shutdown
But a customer is someone who pays for things. If you aren't paying, you aren't a customer. You are loitering
The reason there are summertime stuff is because it is summer in some places
Catch > check IV > evolve > check IV again (because who knows, it might change xD)
Catch > check IV > transfer
For some reason I too check after evolving
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I got so tired of the lackluster events and all the crappy spawns that i dont even go to my local park to play anymore. Its the same spawns constantly. Its not exciting at all. The only thing i do is spend 20 bucks on raid passes and raid the 5 raids a day. I dont even use my daily incense or complete special research anymore. Its all a money grab. You can so obviously tell that they are literally sitting in a room together and thinking of scammy ways to promote the game through the go shop. It doesnt feel like pokemon anymore.
Also the shiny rate on Sandyghast is disgusting. NONE in ALL THE RESEARCH, and none out of dozens or more clicked.
@4:12 I'm loving the way you caught the pokémon but accidentally caught /deleted/blew up the christmas tree in the background at the same time.
You watch, something else in the background always goes missing after a catch. I dunno maybe it stays inside the pokéball as furniture.
1:31 sandygast spawning in this event is a reference to the fact that in the southern hemisphere christmas happens during summer.
I quit the game ages ago its boring and time to move on to be honest. The games got worse and worse over time just so people can log on and spend more and more money without even thinking about the way the game feels and plays to be honest. Most changes are just not the right way forward for the game.
The background scenes while catching Pokemon? Excellent. Sandygast being the new shiny in honor of the Southern Hemisphere being in their summer right now? Clever and I respect that choice. But you're right...this event feels very lackluster. Delibird with the bow has been around for a while...Santa Hat Psyduck and Scarf Spheal have been around for a while...and ignoring the new release of Dedenne in raids, it just feels like a low energy event with nothing really new to discover.
I like your nuanced take. I don't like this event that much, but not every event can be great and we do have some stuff to look forward to with the December community day at least.
ive stopped playing PokeGo for like a few months and just got back, great seeing you Brandon :)
What about them dropping Kyurem as a mistake a few times lol
I am annoyed because I have not been able to get into those raids.
Regardless of Niantic being a data mining company fronting as a gaming company you'd think they capitalize on catering to the remaining player base they have and cash grab where its necessary and still data mine.
I’ve been raiding, doing research tasks, I bought the extra research, catching 100’s of Pokémon, clicking on everything, hatching eggs and I haven’t gotten a single shiny during this event
Deddenne is also a daily incense encounter idk about normal
Ive been saying this for a while! The event pokemon don't spawn in wild anymore. They're all behind a paywall. Cetoddle for instance, I've seen one in the wild in 3 days.
@1:27 It's summer in the Southern hemisphere, so it makes sense for those folks.
also, @14:03 there's a sunhat on the Pikachu for the same reason.
I'm so frustrated with these "raid only" things. If you're going to do that, you should be putting the raids in the gyms. My entire town hasn't had any of these raids of late. Couldn't finish collection challenges because they didn't show the raids. I really wish they would remember not everyone lives in huge cities.
Idk about you but the game has been absolutely popping off in my city. In 2020 when I started I was the only one, now I’ll be walking around on my phone and be asked smt like “yo u doing that snorlax raid?”
It was me. I set a new trend..
jk I’m so glad for you!!
I remember when we got double gift opens for free...
This is am actually helpful and good video I found on RUclips for the last 2 month tbh...
I just caught a wild azelf while walking to a mega gengar raid with my brother
mee too its a level 5
Pog
Same i was at my house and at my friends house there was a wild azelf so I sprinted there and caught it
Imagine if Zorua community day really happen in Pokemon Go features Unova Zorua and Hisuian Zorua together.
All Pokemon in the wild spawn appears based on your buddy adventure. Only Zorua in the original appears in wild spawn for players who don't have a buddy adventure.
First ever community day where players Pokemon Go map doesn't share the same Pokemon wild spawn.
The spawns are so bad for me that the only chance of getting to catch a Pokémon for me is my daily spawn and incenses. I even live next to a pokestop with a gym 10 paces north of it and ZERO Pokémon spawn there either.
Good lord I'm glad I quit when I did. I'd be an insufferable rage monster if I still played this game, which is honestly more of a cash grab then game at this point. Unbelievably disappointing to see how Niantic has and continues to treat this game
Quit fronting! If you quit, you wouldn't be watching PoGo videos on RUclips.
@ I did quit this just showed up on my timeline cause I got into the trading card game again. The game isn’t even in my phone anymore
I have not used any money to Pokemon GO this year. Everything has become too expensive and you get less stuff for that money. The events have also been less interesting.
Bro what ghoul is in the dog park 😂💀(6:20)
Playing winter content in Australia gives me a good chuckle 😂
I remember walking to a Starbucks in the snow to get that winter coat Glaceon when it first came out. 😅
This event is covering both hemispheres. So even if you are in cold weather, you have to remember the southern hemisphere is in summer. So the spawns are perfect for this event.
21:24 well Nightmare Before Christmas is both a Halloween and Christmas movie. So maybe reference to that
I agree before Halloween I have a glitch in my game where I can’t feed my Pokemon at gyms anymore 😢
Niantic shouldnt have banned spoofers. They kept things fresh and active.
true lol
BUT they didn't ban them completely. My best friend from russia spoofs to help me with raids.
I live in Australia and there is quite a bit of snow where I live when it is about 40 degrees a lot of the time
im watching this while being high i love you mystic you are my favourite content creator!
Ghost and dark types in part 2, I got nothing. Fleece made a good point in his tiktok live the other day that it’s summer in the Southern Hemisphere so I like that there’s both hot and cold spawns. Hate the paywall and not being able to grind stuff though and part 2 spawns make no sense
@0:20 bro it's still 2024, not 2025 :P
The event is called the 2025 holiday event
the christmas mouse you can get through your daily too, the reason why its Sandygast for the shiny is because of the southern hemisphere, they have black sands for winter i believe. or something like that
12:15 level fiftehhh 💅 bro been with Syd wayyy too long 😂😂😂
18:52 It should be fine to talk about Sprigatito Day; they released a news article on the official site about it. As well as the Fidough event and Mega Gallade Raid Day!
Ways pokemon go can improve:
Add sp. atk and sp. def stats to IVs
Add Pokémon’s ability like intimidate, sturdy, beast boost etc
Allow pokemon to hold items in battles
Stop being a p2w
Nicely done & I agree with your evaluation. This holiday event has big highs and disappointing lows for me. The main screen and catch scenery is excellent and the raid holiday costumes are cute. However, the dark and ghost types being part of the Christmas event is a little too weird. Taking the old line “… They’ll be scary ghost stories and tales” from the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” too far. I think there are more appropriate Pokemon to choose from for holiday future events. Hopefully, the makers of this game will hear this kind of feedback and make it more fun for everyone next year. Both paying and free to play trainers.
11:23 😂😂😂 funny how she actually makes the exact same noises. They’ve been together too long. I remember my ex started stealing my lingo and just straight up talking like me 😂😂 I lowkey miss that btxh
Niantic call it holidays instead of Christmas. That tells you everything you need to know about them as a company.
@12:40 Syd's sarcastic reaction lol
Egg days are trash in general. We're all stuck with 1 incubator and 5/10ks that are not nearly gone when the event starts.
Dude your shiny luck is ridiculous good shit brother
This new Christmas update kinda sucks ngl
The reason for the sandygast and fire/ground types are for the parts of the world that’s warm during winter times
That’s why it doesn’t feel “holiday like”
Maybe for you. Imagine how we have felt the last 8 years
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Honestly dynamic raids have ruined this game I’ve noticed regular gym raids are almost non existent in my area
The fire types aren't 'random,' and it's the same reason as the Sandygast - this is to be more inclusive for the half of the world that isn't cold at winter! I actually think it's a great touch to have the ice and the fire to reflect that some of the world doesn't get cold winter climates.
It is not only in raids, i've gotten four of the costume to dedenae (likely mispelled that lol) from my daily
These Dedene raids are so rare, I have to ask a friend of mine to log into my account when she sees raids within a driving distance. And I live in a city center
I did a 3 raid boss level Glaceon raid with Christmas costume which turned out to be 1700CP
Yeah so much just escapes now, and it seems as though they buffed grunts, i used to blow through them and now I struggle
The grunts are more powerful depending on your level
0:29 49Km walked 💀
The spawns for these christmas events are so random and unrelated that I feel like they were chosen by AI tbh
I am level 47 and 10% left to next level. Have not played it for two weeks I don’t think I miss much. I paid to play before but so much feature is behind paywall that I just can’t spend money to play it all. Maybe I will come back or maybe not.
Each year gets worse and worse as well as the halloween event
Been debating transfering everything important to Home and just stopping with GO
I can say that as a new player (started on dec 26 2024) and I will say from all the hype I heard about events it really didnt live up to anything. (compared to how people described events around me)
i found the dedenne rat thing in the wild with the costume, was lvl 500 something. not sure if it was off insense, but probably.
lol
“This city is so noisy. I love it 😃” 😂😂😂
I caught a costumed Dedenne using my DAI. Rare, but can occur outside of raids. Still would've been more fun to have them out in the wild.
I've still not even seen a dedednednnnenndene raid yet, let alone managed to do one! Really sucks missing out on that costume and the collection event.
Pro tip for the ar mapping, just shake the camera back and forth facing something that is lit up so it can see and it counts as "moving around" lol 😆
It's a long shot, but you could get a Dedenne in the research "Earn 2 candies walking with your buddy"
I agree with everyone complaining about bad spawns and stuff but raids? I live in a small area with about 10 gyms (nearest one is a 15m walk) and i have no trouble walking up there OUTSIDE. Many of you forget that this game used to be simple and about activity
I live in NY and funny cause I was at Brooklyn Tech (winter break starting 🎉) and you were in Chinatown cause I saw the pagoda when you showed all those raids.
Found a shiny Alolan sandshrew and shiny Alolan diglett in the wild during this event. No shiny sandyghast encounters, unfortunately.
theres such a glaring lack of giveaways around a holiday that focuses on giving gifts. and to top off the lack of exciting and/or free content, they are running the buggiest tiny cup of all time for pvp.
Yeah
I actually really liked this year for PoGo. Started genuinely playing for fun and only chasing Groudon and Latios raids
"This city is so noisy..I love it." 😂
I wish things like remote raid passes and egg hatchets could be obtained without paying all the time.
Oh how I miss getting legendarys from research breakthroughs...
i have refused to spend any money since they increased the prices of the raid passes. I will NEVER spend more on this game nor will i play it like i used to. The events are all lackluster and even the christmas event is all locked behind raids. It has only become a cash grab and they wont get my money anymore, there is MILLIONS of other games out there.
I've been playing on and off since release, I've not logged in to play in a couple of months and don't plan to, any quests are boring, spawns are constantly the same 5-6 regardless of events or season, anything worth doing it behind paywalls and due to these reasons the community here has near enough died out.