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!
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.
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
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.
@@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 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
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.
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
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!!”
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
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
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.
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?”
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
they seriously need to revert that remote raid nerf, i didnt even play when it wasnt nerfed but raiding is just so expensive that i feel bad about just playing the game sometimes, especially during raid days/hours
fuck that, it's pokemon go not pokemon farm legendaries from the couch. That was an amazing change. If you're feeling bad for spending money... don't, I'm lvl 50 free to play, you absolutely don't need to spend money. You just need to control your fomo, everything becomes accessible down the line.
@orion6742 you don't seem to realize that not everyone is you, they have different lifestyles and struggles so good for you but don't assume everyone's the same
@connorstawicki8467 struggles? wtf you talking about. it's a struggle to resist spending money on the game? or do you mean disabled people? because again, it's pokemon go... there are mainstream games for those people.
@Hakaimono ok so? You don't have to do raids. If you're in a rural area and you care that much about legendaries why play? the 95% of players in cites don't want their game ruined by 5% of rural players, I say this as someone who spent half their time playing in a town of 2000 people.
@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.
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.
The fact that they held a fused Necrozma day without giving new and returning players a cosmog is criminal. So we just wait months and "watch out on social media" for when they give people one is just cruel. They expect kids to look on social media? If Niantic wanted the cash from a fusion day close to christmas, giving out a cosmog is part of the deal. Now we've got half the holiday pokemon locked in raids as well. Just getting worse and worse :( Next year it'll be holiday part 1 ticket A, B, C, D, E etc the way we're heading. Just testing their playbase every new event with how much more expensive and how many tickets they can fit into each event.
That’s been really annoying to me too. For anyone who has the option, it may be worthwhile to try to obtain one via trading. (E.g. if you’re attending a comm day event this weekend )
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
ngl they cated to the new and causals too much........then they said f it and went straight to pvp since they can now host tournaments that make them money, but the OG players the ones who been here, we get NOTHING because they want yall to catch up.........ive been playing since 2016........aint shit been new in 3 years.........they just keep subtracting things.
Yeah and the fact that I'm any event it's just kantos spawning and it's getting irritating.i hate when new videos games give new players god treatment and give ogs garbage treatment when the ogs were here first.@@ashtonoak4370
@@ashtonoak4370y’all to catch up? I’m done with all of the Kanto candy even though I started a few months ago lol./s Also There IS new stuff? Tons of original players complain about new stuff like dynamax. Gigantamax oh do I have to do it all over again… How can you say there isn’t new stuff? It just sounds like you’re not having a good time. It’s just a game just stop playing if you don’t like it.
For what it is worth, I think the idea for a lot of the Alola pokemon being out is "Christmas in Hawaii". I don't want to give too much credit, but it does make a little sense.
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 created a second account, i'm level 22 and i can't unlock the rating button to obtain IV's, how can i fix this or what level do i have to reach to unlock it?? help me please
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
Question How do I log in with my android phone with a apple ID? Bc rn I don't have access to no iPhone and I just have a android. I don't want to loose my progress
I do agree that the spawns are bad at the moment but Pokemon Go is always worse in the winter months (especially in the northern hemisphere) I feel like Niantic and The Pokemon company are stuck between a rock and a hard place as there are not an infinite number of Pokemon and the quicker they release them all the quicker the game looses relevance. So I get the slow release and repeat repeat etc. The money grabbing is getting annoying though, I played as a free player last month for the first time to see what it was like and its tough! P.s. Please give us an option to hide max spots as they often make it impossible to click on anything!
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.
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
Pokemon go was originally designed to be a geolocator, paying people to use it. Instead, you guys pay them to play Pokemon. They know exactly what your entire house looks like. But ohhhh shiny.
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 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.
The fact that the video has no music, it match perfectly with the game and the subject of the video being the game feels empty. Great job from the editor
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
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.
Where are my random dragonite spawns?! Where? I played this game in 2017-18 because of the epic spawns that got me running out the door. Now they’re just overloading the game with new features so they can make $$$. They don’t care about playability, they want your money and they’ll add gigantamax raids and others stuff because they’re money hungry! How about improving the fundamentals of the game?! 1) why can’t I trade my max potion or hyper potion for super potion and regular potions? 2) eggs! Why can’t I discard eggs? 3) stop making it blatantly obvious that you nerf my pokeballs at pokestops when I’m low on either.
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!
I haven't played since halloween. My main reason is becaue I can't get through the masterwork research because of the 20 spins for 20 days task, and the 10 kecleon task. That shit just made me want to back off. Spawns are horrible, raids are dead, cheaters in pvp. list goes on. Something that MAY fix this for me is just start putting legendary pokemon in the wild, but at a MUCH higher spawn rate with a low catch rate
The game is ever-evolving into a massive money grab. You can't expect to progress in your lifetime without spending some serious money. After the recent addition of max raids, I could not figure out why and what is this for. I feel the encounters in the max raids are dull and pointless. Everything that is die to have, is accompanied with a ticket, fee, event charge, etc. I am just sick of buying raid passes, sick of being nickel dimed for storage. I just can't take it anymore. The fun factor is so dead to me, so I am "nearly" certain I will not be returning Pokemon paywall from hell.
Honestly this game has gone so downhill my health has gotten worse so can’t go out and walk now but locking costumes behind raids is another way of pay to win kinda sad im having a blast with Pokemon pocket to the point iv barely been on Pokemon go but merry Xmas to everyone here
Catch screens are nice, but that’s it. U hoped it would be better than last year with a more Christmassy feel, like the pokestops or gyms being candy canes - and green when unspun, red when spun - chimneys smoking, Christmas lights at night l, etc. Halloween is way better
1:55 I found the costume dudenne on my daily adventure incense. It was only on the first day of the event and it Instantly ran away so it may have been a bug
All the good stuff gets introduced at higher rates then when Niantic realizes we like it it gets nerfed significantly.. can't trade unless you're in distance, high prices for raids and no one to raid with lol
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
They will always at some time get us bored with the repeating of the game, then we suddenly they put all the good thing into a big event like tour, fest and wild area to get us back. That's how they have been doing for years to keep us in the game.
Honestly shiny sandygast was probably supposed to be released at Halloween but Niantic was to lazy to get it done on time, so they put it out at Christmas. Idiots
even though theres like 2 special encounter backgrounds (4 if u count the og ones or more idk), this years christmas event is BY FAR the best, *ESPECIALLY* at night
Honestly I stopped playing. Not interested in spending money on GMax raids. Not interested in spending money on the events or raids. just not interested in spending money to play the game, which seems to be the theme lately.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. 😅
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!
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
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
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
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
Weird I"m not in a snowy area and the whole map is covered in snow...just walking around, NOT just in encounters.
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 😂
@@rydermedina2444
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...
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
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.
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
@@Revsterfacts😂
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
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
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!!
The reason there are summertime stuff is because it is summer in some places
I am envious of your shiny Sandygast. They are one of my fav Pokemon & I’ve been grinding for it
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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
they seriously need to revert that remote raid nerf, i didnt even play when it wasnt nerfed but raiding is just so expensive that i feel bad about just playing the game sometimes, especially during raid days/hours
fuck that, it's pokemon go not pokemon farm legendaries from the couch. That was an amazing change. If you're feeling bad for spending money... don't, I'm lvl 50 free to play, you absolutely don't need to spend money. You just need to control your fomo, everything becomes accessible down the line.
@orion6742 you don't seem to realize that not everyone is you, they have different lifestyles and struggles so good for you but don't assume everyone's the same
@@connorstawicki8467 yeah in rural areas its basically impossible to do in person raids
@connorstawicki8467 struggles? wtf you talking about. it's a struggle to resist spending money on the game?
or do you mean disabled people? because again, it's pokemon go... there are mainstream games for those people.
@Hakaimono ok so? You don't have to do raids. If you're in a rural area and you care that much about legendaries why play? the 95% of players in cites don't want their game ruined by 5% of rural players, I say this as someone who spent half their time playing in a town of 2000 people.
@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.
Deddenne is also a daily incense encounter idk about normal
I remember when we got double gift opens for free...
ive stopped playing PokeGo for like a few months and just got back, great seeing you Brandon :)
1:31 sandygast spawning in this event is a reference to the fact that in the southern hemisphere christmas happens during summer.
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
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.
The fact that they held a fused Necrozma day without giving new and returning players a cosmog is criminal. So we just wait months and "watch out on social media" for when they give people one is just cruel. They expect kids to look on social media? If Niantic wanted the cash from a fusion day close to christmas, giving out a cosmog is part of the deal. Now we've got half the holiday pokemon locked in raids as well. Just getting worse and worse :( Next year it'll be holiday part 1 ticket A, B, C, D, E etc the way we're heading. Just testing their playbase every new event with how much more expensive and how many tickets they can fit into each event.
That’s been really annoying to me too.
For anyone who has the option, it may be worthwhile to try to obtain one via trading. (E.g. if you’re attending a comm day event this weekend )
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.
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
@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 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.
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.
I remember walking to a Starbucks in the snow to get that winter coat Glaceon when it first came out. 😅
This is am actually helpful and good video I found on RUclips for the last 2 month tbh...
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.
They need to stop making pointless events and help out the lower players.
Yea I’m thankful for getting anything but this ain’t it.
ngl they cated to the new and causals too much........then they said f it and went straight to pvp since they can now host tournaments that make them money, but the OG players the ones who been here, we get NOTHING because they want yall to catch up.........ive been playing since 2016........aint shit been new in 3 years.........they just keep subtracting things.
Yeah and the fact that I'm any event it's just kantos spawning and it's getting irritating.i hate when new videos games give new players god treatment and give ogs garbage treatment when the ogs were here first.@@ashtonoak4370
@@ashtonoak4370y’all to catch up? I’m done with all of the Kanto candy even though I started a few months ago lol./s Also There IS new stuff? Tons of original players complain about new stuff like dynamax. Gigantamax oh do I have to do it all over again… How can you say there isn’t new stuff? It just sounds like you’re not having a good time. It’s just a game just stop playing if you don’t like it.
For what it is worth, I think the idea for a lot of the Alola pokemon being out is "Christmas in Hawaii". I don't want to give too much credit, but it does make a little sense.
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 created a second account, i'm level 22 and i can't unlock the rating button to obtain IV's, how can i fix this or what level do i have to reach to unlock it?? help me please
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
@@demeo-thesaucemonarch8652yeah
Niantic call it holidays instead of Christmas. That tells you everything you need to know about them as a company.
1:47 I got one from my daily incense
Also the shiny rate on Sandyghast is disgusting. NONE in ALL THE RESEARCH, and none out of dozens or more clicked.
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
Question
How do I log in with my android phone with a apple ID? Bc rn I don't have access to no iPhone and I just have a android. I don't want to loose my progress
21:24 well Nightmare Before Christmas is both a Halloween and Christmas movie. So maybe reference to that
I do agree that the spawns are bad at the moment but Pokemon Go is always worse in the winter months (especially in the northern hemisphere) I feel like Niantic and The Pokemon company are stuck between a rock and a hard place as there are not an infinite number of Pokemon and the quicker they release them all the quicker the game looses relevance. So I get the slow release and repeat repeat etc. The money grabbing is getting annoying though, I played as a free player last month for the first time to see what it was like and its tough! P.s. Please give us an option to hide max spots as they often make it impossible to click on anything!
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.
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
Pokemon go was originally designed to be a geolocator, paying people to use it. Instead, you guys pay them to play Pokemon. They know exactly what your entire house looks like. But ohhhh shiny.
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 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 actually really liked this year for PoGo. Started genuinely playing for fun and only chasing Groudon and Latios raids
The fact that the video has no music, it match perfectly with the game and the subject of the video being the game feels empty. Great job from the editor
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
Bro what ghoul is in the dog park 😂💀(6:20)
I agree before Halloween I have a glitch in my game where I can’t feed my Pokemon at gyms anymore 😢
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
It's a long shot, but you could get a Dedenne in the research "Earn 2 candies walking with your buddy"
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.
Fire type pokemon make sense for us in the southern hemispheres were christmas isn't actually cold or snowy or white... Very hot christmas here
I mean, I think it makes sense here, too, as I have a lot of memories of sitting next to a fire at Christmas.
Around My house, i have a
1 Poké stop and 1 dynamax stop. A whole 4 hours on Pokémon go and a total 6 Spawned
Where are my random dragonite spawns?! Where? I played this game in 2017-18 because of the epic spawns that got me running out the door. Now they’re just overloading the game with new features so they can make $$$. They don’t care about playability, they want your money and they’ll add gigantamax raids and others stuff because they’re money hungry!
How about improving the fundamentals of the game?! 1) why can’t I trade my max potion or hyper potion for super potion and regular potions? 2) eggs! Why can’t I discard eggs? 3) stop making it blatantly obvious that you nerf my pokeballs at pokestops when I’m low on either.
This new Christmas update kinda sucks ngl
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!
I haven't played since halloween. My main reason is becaue I can't get through the masterwork research because of the 20 spins for 20 days task, and the 10 kecleon task. That shit just made me want to back off. Spawns are horrible, raids are dead, cheaters in pvp. list goes on. Something that MAY fix this for me is just start putting legendary pokemon in the wild, but at a MUCH higher spawn rate with a low catch rate
The game is ever-evolving into a massive money grab. You can't expect to progress in your lifetime without spending some serious money. After the recent addition of max raids, I could not figure out why and what is this for. I feel the encounters in the max raids are dull and pointless. Everything that is die to have, is accompanied with a ticket, fee, event charge, etc. I am just sick of buying raid passes, sick of being nickel dimed for storage. I just can't take it anymore. The fun factor is so dead to me, so I am "nearly" certain I will not be returning Pokemon paywall from hell.
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
Honestly this game has gone so downhill my health has gotten worse so can’t go out and walk now but locking costumes behind raids is another way of pay to win kinda sad im having a blast with Pokemon pocket to the point iv barely been on Pokemon go but merry Xmas to everyone here
Catch screens are nice, but that’s it. U hoped it would be better than last year with a more Christmassy feel, like the pokestops or gyms being candy canes - and green when unspun, red when spun - chimneys smoking, Christmas lights at night l, etc. Halloween is way better
I hated Halloween I keep getting pumpkaboo but they should make it more Christmassy
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!
Playing winter content in Australia gives me a good chuckle 😂
1:55 I found the costume dudenne on my daily adventure incense. It was only on the first day of the event and it Instantly ran away so it may have been a bug
All the good stuff gets introduced at higher rates then when Niantic realizes we like it it gets nerfed significantly.. can't trade unless you're in distance, high prices for raids and no one to raid with lol
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
They will always at some time get us bored with the repeating of the game, then we suddenly they put all the good thing into a big event like tour, fest and wild area to get us back. That's how they have been doing for years to keep us in the game.
Honestly shiny sandygast was probably supposed to be released at Halloween but Niantic was to lazy to get it done on time, so they put it out at Christmas. Idiots
@0:20 bro it's still 2024, not 2025 :P
The event is called the 2025 holiday event
even though theres like 2 special encounter backgrounds (4 if u count the og ones or more idk), this years christmas event is BY FAR the best, *ESPECIALLY* at night
The spawns for these christmas events are so random and unrelated that I feel like they were chosen by AI tbh
The POV of Niantic is want more money from player, they are already doesn’t care about the game play..
1:14 in true New York fashion: gunshots
Honestly I stopped playing. Not interested in spending money on GMax raids. Not interested in spending money on the events or raids. just not interested in spending money to play the game, which seems to be the theme lately.