Sorry to hear that. I understand if you don’t live in a mega city you’re screwed over. live in Long Beach we have an active group of maybe 100-200 players. Legit I am more annoyed of the turkey currency being brought done made coins back to an expensive price lol no longer cheap coins. Legit do maybe 60 ish raids in a week very easy for me lvl 50 with other lvl 50 players do remotes raids being nerfed is a good thing like get out make friends if not just quit the game it was never meant for you.
My biggest problem is shadow raids. I only have one shadow legendary because it’s like pulling teeth trying to get people together in my area, and I’m not going to drive an hour to a big city just to catch Pokemon.
@dacubanmofo Da fuk you talking about. Some people actually have lives and can't waste time on a phone game. Oh honey, cancel the cookout today bc I have to drive an hour to Atlanta, hope I get lucky and people show up, then actually catch it then drive another hour home. Yea you sound insane
Yep, it gutted my local community and my ability to do in-person raids. Campfire here is inactive and my town's raid group called it quits, I have been unable to do any T5 shadow raids outside of Mewtwo because of the above, and I used to be able to do T5 raids by hosting on PokeGenie but now it takes 30 minutes before the timer starts because there are fewer PokeGenie raiders. So this keeps me from doing pvp because shadows and legendaries (and f'ing XL candy) matter, which means I don't power things up, which means I don't raid. Repeat.
195 is too much 1000 coins used to get you 10 remote passes, it now gets you 5, you notice that kind of loss when you're free to play and there's region exclusive raids on the other side of the world
When remote raid passes were $1/ea, I used to just accept any invite, because whatever, it’s a buck. Just get some more coins and do remote raids. When they nerfed the raids, and then doubled the price, I stopped buying pokecoins, and just use the coins I get from gyms. So now remote raid passes are *very* expensive. So any time I get an invitation, I ask myself, “Do I _really_ want to spend the coins on this?” That’s a completely different approach, and it means that’s very likely hundreds of dollars I haven’t given Niantic just because I now hesitate every time I think about doing a remote raid.
@JasonBoyce Im saving hundreds a month now. They've made it so that remotes arent worth the *value*. Maybe if the game was thriving, the game didnt have any bugs and at a time where we're not all feeling extreme inflation IRL. they've made such a stupid business decision.
@@Polaroxide LMAO. You get a gold star for most ignorant comment I've read today. The economy produces tangible items. The cost is up mostly due to the cost of fuel aka shipping and production. Remote passes are a digital item and don't take labor , and they're not a tangible item. Either get over seeing feedback, or sign out because you're looking real silly.
I agree. When I started playing, the best part about Pokémon GO for me was to see a lot of people playing. It would feel awesome when people join you in the lobby to help defeat the raid boss. Now the excitement to read is gone for me too because no one joins you in the lobby ever since the double price for raids. Depressing game now.
The funniest thing to me is the fact that niantic inadvertently buffed spoofers with this remote raid pass nerf. For example, I live in a suburb about an hour from New York City by train. On raid days I want to grind I go to the city. You see some people playing, however, every gym in Manhattan fills up instantly on repeat as soon as the raid egg cracks. The spoofers get the benefits of in person raiding while getting the gameplay of remote raiding. Niantic won’t do anything about this, but they are ironically playing the exact opposite way niantic wants the game to be played, while reaping the benefits of cheating the system.
Nerfantic should not be negative towards the community. Instead of nerfing remote raids with the price and with the limitation, they should have incentivized in person raids. They could have made it to where when we raid in person which is what they want, we get coin rewards for being the hardest hitter, for example. You can use those coins to buy remote raid passes. And for every in person raid you do, you get to extend your remote raid limitation.
Thanks for speaking out, Count. You’re not negative. You’re simply stating facts supported by logic. Viable businesses adapt to their customers’ will. Niantic’s refusal to do that is just mind boggling. PoGo is a community based game, but what good is it without the community? It is a catastrophic miss on their part thinking they can bend people’s will. There are simply too many competition for people’s time and energy these days.
Niantic putting a a limit on the remote raid passes for me was upsetting but at the end of the day fine since I would still raid remotely with however much they allowed us to have, what bothered me however, was how much they increased the price of the remote raid passes and would still not increase the amount of pokecoins you would get per day to even make it possible for free to play players have a chance to join in with the fun !
The main problem I think with in person raids are there are no incentives. Rare care XL and golden razz are extremely rare to come by. There have been some great raid bosses lately. Some new some old but with in person raiding it is so hard to get everybody together. Due to working or being busy with other things. I totally agree with you on total rework system for remote raids. It’s dead right now, but the old system was way too much. I think there should be limit but maybe do 20 a day and lower price back down to 125. I think this would get more people back in game.
I haven't completed a local in-person raid in years. Its just not an option for my area. I rely on remote raiding to even be able to raid. For this reason I've never completed a big shadow raid. :(
Dope Vid Count, you’re being awfully generous here, let’s call it what it is, Nerfantic is extremely spiteful and inveighing towards the remote raid community , when it was the remote raid community that saved them from going up in the heart of a whole pandemic, only for us to be treated as a disposable commodity , until Nerfantic decides to do right by us, the remote raid communities, Pokémon Go will continue to suffer
For me raiding has become like pvp. I use to raid like crazy, raid hours, multiple times a day, raid till i got each shiny. Now i just use my daily free pass on some random tier 1 or 3 and forget raids exist. I really just don't care about raiding at all anymore. It's gotten so bad that even if prices went back to normal and the limit was removed niantic would have to do something major and crazy to get me raiding to any level of capacity that i was before.
They should significantly make in person raids rewards worth it. Maybe making the Iv floor 11/11/11. Increase shiny rate by 5-10%. Guarantee 1Xl rare candy. Give gyms a schedule to see raids in advance so trainers can schedule doing raids together. A schedule would help trainers do shadow raids on the weekends. To balance remote raids and keep game somewhat fair. Allow unlimited remote raids, but after 5 no more Xl candy or just one 1Xl from raids. In addition reduce the price. Not going make everybody happy, but it’s at least middle of the road and would bring some growth to the game.
The problem is that Niantic is not promoting Campfire. How has there not been a Campfire related event yet. It's amazing how many people don't know about it still.
@@Polaroxide If they raise, raise and raise prices all the time. The game will eventually die and they will make no money. They killed people’s spirits when they gave us remote passes and things were good. Then they nerfed it to oblivion. I have no problem with them making money, I spent quite a lot on my account. But they don’t have to suck dry the player base they have left. Thats no way to get players to return to the game. They are digging their own graves, to many people are unhappy atm. The pvp system is shit, they need to make more PVE stuff
Trainer Club added a remote raid pass shirt to his merch and has encouraged players who bought it to wear it at the go fests to protest the nerf so it'll be interesting to see what comes of that. Also I'll add that for the raids after the comm days it should be lower than a 4*. Majority of players are done with comm days at 5 so anyone who misses out essentially can't do these post comm day raids if they wanna shiny hunt and look for good ivs. The raids are a nice addition to help those that missed out but those who missed out aren't necessarily guaranteed to get help from people who spent 3hrs grinding already. Lowering the comm day raids to a 3* at maximum would be much better for everyone.
they should make a pass where party and friendship gives 10X damage if local and purchasable (and premium rewards) power stones doubling damage for pokemon when in person raid, so rural player (and currently all of us) just need 1 friend to raid and both share a small cost
I got back into Pogo recently after a two year break. It’s so sad to see virtually nobody in person playing the game anymore. A revert to the old remote raid passes, reworking of enrage mechanics, promotion of Campfire, and buffs for friendship and the ability to trade remotely, would all boost Pogo numbers tremendously. However, if I ran the company, I’d completely relaunch the game (keeping current player of course) with new graphics, modern connectivity infrastructure, and a lot more interactivity. It would be such a grandslam, bringing in more money and players, and a more enjoyable game overall.
Oh, we're afraid that remote raid passes will kill raids (even though they are currently huge and lively), so you know let's just kill them ourselves. -facepalm- Also, I would not say I don't care about the raid bosses anymore, it's just I've had to give up. It's too hard to get a party to do 5* raids. Niantic put those raids out of my reach.
I'd be willing to grind hard for shiny shadow legendaries, but I can't do them in person. There's just no one out here to do them. I was at a crowded Beach today. A shadow Raikou raid popped up and no one was doing it.
I dont like raid passes but they are needed unless they change the way raids work/appear. Like imagine you see the next day raid schedule, you mark the raid or raids you will join in game. I know people do this in discord/campfire but imagine you see a raid schedule for a Gym that you know you can make it to, then see a little 3 next to it to show 3 people plan to attend. Maybe even put a 3/10(recommended number of people for that raid)
A schedule would be an awesome addition. Then have an RSVP option for trainers who are interested to see who will go! I guarantee you in person raids will be more lively. The uncertainty of in person raids coupled with their sudden/random appearances doesn’t help.
@slicksalamander72 yes, my friend is level 32 and they tried the 3* shadow sneasel raid and no one joined to help, they did about 50% using a team of 2000cp Machamps. I feel like this is very harsh on them, what motivation is there to raid for them when that's their experience?
Well said Count, from my personal experience, nobody raids is absolutely correct. and remote raid pass was the first ripple effect that's the root cost, people are very aware of what they spend on with the 5 limit per day, not to mention crazy doubled price. In-person raid is absolutely waste of time with jumping around, driving around, so... 5 people of my group quit
I agree, remote raiding was the next step. They failed to bring in person raiding in line with remote. What i mean is, all the inconveniences of in person raiding are still there. They have yet to put in some meaningful Quality of Life improvements to it. They did do the ready button and thats great, but if i cant find people do run the raid then i dont get the reward. Its so incredibly frustrating to watch a raid tick down knowing you cant get support for it on _your_ time. Most players who matter aren't dropping what they're doing to run out an help you.
I also agree with your point on in person raiding and remote advertising. It feels like they don't advertise much for it. Like it's an embarrassing step child
I also agree with 11:04 it's always been about Go Fest past few years now. That, is not sustainable. If the game does die though, it's again because Nintendo and Niantic are not listening.
Devolve is a great term, because its not like Niantic added something like lobby pooling to the game to enable their local vision. Negativity: Your being so measured and specific; don't let people who are cool with egg rates get you down
I am glad you are speaking up. I started playing 7/11/2016. I coordinated a huge group , started FB meet upd etc- all before the pandemic. I've since had health issues and do not get out like I want to. I absolutely loved the remote raiding. I'd tell the family that I went to Ireland, Japan, etc that day... I was into the "fun" of raiding in different countries I can't visit in person. I've spent way too much on this game - was definitely one of the whales... not anymore. I did get in a couple raids from people who shared the go fest raids. Reminded me of how FUN that really is. Thanks for speaking up!
"and then, of course you have to drive out to those raids" Remember when this game first released and they said the theme of Go was to get people outside and walking again? lol Yeah that didn't last long, did it?
I live in a very rural area and this game is completely unplayable without remote raids. I will probably never get a mega Rayquaza or any legendary shadow Pokemon either
I miss remote raids. I don't remote in much because it's too expensive. I don't do as many local raids because so few of my friends will join me with their valuable remote raid passes.
It is 5 remote raid per day limit, but yeah the real issue is the fact that the price doubled last year. That is so scummy and greedy, especially since it take nothing for them to produce the product.
It's true. I try to raid in central London. And it's more often just 1 or 2 than 20 in a in person raid. If it's a new legendary you might find a good few in a central park. But honestly we work we can't just go out and play!
As a working rural player, I don't have a lot of time to spend with a community and there ain't no community around anyways so for me remote raid battles are KEY ! I stopped playing in 2018 because I wasn't able to find anybody to help in raid battles. So starting back playing lately and using the remote raid pass was really good. I'm not sure I would spend a lot of money in the game anyway so for me 5 remote raid per day is probably a good limit. What kills me is that when there is a good offer, or maybe just when I have pokecoins to spend, I can't have more than 5 remote raid passes in my items. What's the point ? Why would they prevent me from spending money on passes that I cannot even use all in one day ?
They should make get a remote raid pass as a reward as a research reward like spin 20 different pokestops, walk 50km for a week, complete a route. Scan a pokemon. That way some exploration is involved but we can raid in the comfort of our homes. Standing in a group of people with phones out in a city like london for example, you will be targeted by people who steel phones . Also weather is a factor, trying to catch with a wet screen is not the one
The majority of my remote raids were long distance friends which was a great time and made alot of awesome long term friends. But since the cap and increase in price I've completely stopped raiding altogether
I would get rid of the CHANCE to get a remote raid pass after collecting your 7th stamp and like you said reduce the price of the remote raid passes and increase the remote raid limit to infinite.
100% agree. In person raiding is dead. I dont do anything during the week but remote raids and the weekends are tedious to raid in person except on raid days. let us see what raids will be at what gyms for the day at each gym. You cannot effectively raid in person when raids are unpredictable and nobody wants to drive all over at these gas prices. Spoofing is more popular than ever with people openingly streaming remotely "walking around". Stop fighting the trend and realize the game originally designed isn't desired anymore. The buzz is gone
people that say your videos are negative probably have been just playing for a couple of months. People that have been playing for years can see this problems from a more accurate point of view
It took me years to find a raid group. Years of driving 15 minutes out only for groups to do the raid without me and act like they didn’t see my message that I was almost arriving. After the pandemic a lot of people moved on for whatever reasons. Remote Raid passes make it easier not to deal with the BS and drama. I would rather do solo-able raid, remote raids or none at all. Now I just hope I get a legendary from GBL. If Niantic takes that away, then I guess I just won’t get it.
@@basillah7650 That why I only do raids that I can do on my own. It’s not worth the headache dealing with the B.S. and drama from the people in my area.
They focused on the wrong aspect of fixing the raiding imbalance that had incorrectly(their opinion) leaned to remotes rather than in person. Instead of nerfing the remotes, they should have cut costs on in person then implement benefits you only get from those. Imagine guaranteed shiny boost or better ivs or such to reward the player going out to the in person raid. The not raiding much is me because of the price increase and keeping it stuck to 5 a day, just not worth it. Really go in every little bit to shiny check or do the 4 6 hour rotating rocket balloons. Will try for raids but t5s legit need remoted friends to be able to do them.
Good video count,couldn’t agree more,we are the paying customer Niantic should see how much the game is deteriorating,no one turns up for raids anymore,I have to host using poke genie and my second account to get the job done
The range of normal raid passes should be a 1km. In person raiding is impossible and I am slowly moving away from this game. My brother has quit. This is so stupid niantic.
10:01 and another thing , originally we got 100 coins per day when the game 1st launched ,if they’re gonna increase the price on Remote raid passes, why not go back to 100 coins per day instead of 50 coins per day?
I used to use Pogo to convince me to be more active and walk around the neighborhood a bit. Now I just go out walking around and not caring if I remember to bring my phone with me. I'm practically just gathering daily coins so I can transfer my shiny legendaries and mythicals. Once I achieve that I'm quitting and never looking back.
I mean the raids also pretty much suck these days. It’s just the same guys rotating through, and I can only remote 5 a day and those passes are *expensive* now, so I’m not really interested in spending to get the same guys I already have. The only ones that are new are in shadow raids, and you can’t remote those, and there’s never people at them, so I just don’t bother.
I bet they limited RRs because it was becoming expensive. I'm kind of ignorant of server/network impacts and whatnot but I bet RRs, at certain times, cause a lot of networking issues. by limiting remote raids they also limit the overall congestion of their network - making it cheaper to sustain over time. It also creates more rarity with raids. Along with them being cycled, you only get 5 RR a day so players are less likely to get hundos/shiny/shundos and thus more likely to do more of that raid when it comes back a year or so later. I could be wrong but having to constantly connect people from one side of the world to the other for remote raids probably isn't cheap so it seems reasonable that they'd limit it to some extent...to keep their costs low.
If they want to persuade people to do in person raiding, give us more raid passes per day instead of decreasing the amount back to 1 raid pass this season. I enjoy doing in person raids and the 2 raid passes per day bonus helped getting people together. As the pace of the game evolves and player retention should be a major consideration, Niantic needs to give more and more bonuses compared to previously. It’s just the way how every game goes to give more incentive for old players to continue and for new players to be able to catch up. Don’t they realize that every single time they take things away from players and revert the pace of the game back to a previous level, there’s a huge backlash?
My thing is they see all this gameplay info n much more than we do. THEY can see how the change has affected gameplay. So what’s the real plan here ? Losing more players daily.
I don’t rad much unless a new shiny Pokémon I used to raid a lot but after they made shiny Shinx (comm day) and Shiny Alolan Marowak (raid day) common, I thought what’s the point. I hate how OG players that have played hard to get shiny rewards have the rarity of that shiny smashed and basically it’s given away. We all love rare Pokemon but that’s becoming harder to achieve so I don’t bother as much. I still play everyday but don’t raid everyday.
For me, before covid, I used to get a lot of my raids done on my walks to/from work and my lunch break.. it was so easy.. most of the time you just showed up at hatch and a group would be there, i bought a lot of green passes back then... during covid i bought a lot of remote passes, but not since the nerf..post pandemic, everyone works from home.. I go for walks on my lunch but most time I just use my free pass on a solo raid because no one wants to spend 2 bucks to remote raid a zapdos
Even more with them giving now only one free in person raid per day. Since I live right next to an Elite Gym I was hosting at least 3 raids a day, now I don't even log in to the game and this will be my 1st skipped Com day since the beggining of the year.
I live in a more rural town. So we don’t have many people out for raids unless it’s a special day. With the nerf to remote passes, I have spent so much oess money on pokemon go. Now have I more money to spend on other things, like fast food and alcohol!
I live in a pretty big suburb, lots of Gyms, lots of potential raid opportunities but no actual raids unless its remote. Nobody stands outside to raid unless its in the city (melbourne) and it's something worth raiding...like Shadow Mewtwo.
With all the different raids we have now niantic could have left remote raids alone and still made raid days, Shadow raids in person and everyone would have been happy. I knew once they took remote away people won't go out in person cause we have already done these raids over and over again but with remote people would still do them
I live in a very rural area and this game is completely unplayable without remote raids. Also I'll never get a mega Rayquaza or any legendary shadow Pokemon.
We have a small raid group that meets up on raid days and events but it's difficult to meet up all the time do to work and obligations. As for shadow raids there literally almost non exisistsnt unless I run into a group of players. I try calling them out on weekends but not many players want to drive and meet up, beyond frustrating. Lots of my Facebook chat groups are dead a few months after the remote nerf. All just sad
I liked doing raids overall...but its just sucked lately...I want a Mega Rayquazza...but I just cannot ever get one, because no one in my area raids enough for me to get the needed amount of people to do it...and remote raids were great for me to be able to do these raids but since this isnt possible for elite raids, Im never doing these. Now they cost too much to get remote passes. My other issue is my own personal problem that I cannot catch the raid bosses after winning the raid has turned me off to raiding....but that my own lack of ability...so now when I get a remote pass...I am a lot more selective of what I use it on....
Remote raids should work like a global group finder. Youn drive to the raid and use the remote pass and it connects to every one else at other gyms. Makes it so you still have to go outside and makes it super strong item for those players that need it.
I'm not sure how much the remote raid nerf has changed me and my community but for the shadow legendary raids have always frustrated me to be thinking if it wasn't for having no remote raiding option I would do quite a few, I have shadow suicune missing still and like collecting shiny legendaries. I said to myself I won't collect shiny shadow legendaries because of that and it is currently hard to get a big enough group to win shadow legendary raids.
Yes I'm an in person raider who knows people just don't turn up most of the place. I'll usually host remote raiders. Ray being elite is such a kick in the guts.
My main problem with in-person raids are Elite Raids. Not only because of the whole Mega Rayquaza situation, but because Elite raids often has good Meta-Pokémon which many rural players won’t be able to get, which I think is unfair.
People just dont have time too keep having too go hiking too gyms! Remotes were amazing! Now its absolutely dead where i live damn shame. They need too learn not everyone is sociable
well, they don't realize that most of their fan base who remote raid, have a lot of issue depending on where you live, weather your medical able to even get out, plus the weather plays a large part. when they force you do it in person sucks, because most of their fan base are people who work and the days, they put things on don't work for everyone. not everyone plays the game the same way, and at the end of the day it a business to make money, people come and go that with everything. fine to have limits but a cost shouldn't have play in it, because your higher ups are dumb. I think most remotes I ever did in a day was around 25 and that not every day either, since most would be on the legendary ones. plus, if person want to do 100 remotes a day who cares it their money and entertainment they get from the game. know they need to create ticket events to make the money they are losing on daily, and most of them sucks or not event worth it for what you are getting. I feel any paid ticket you should receive a shiny or two not a higher rate which never happens when they say it. it funny trying to tell you how to play the game with giving and taking things. plus doing in person there isn't much reward and people to do the raid with. my issue is being kick out of the game or freezing and being able to get back into the game in a timely manner since some raids depend on everyone if there a small group. they need to remove that stupid message are you safe, what are going to do for me! it not like someone going be there for you or help pay your medical bill. I feel if they do a special event, they should open it up remote raid with no limits for that day or weekend at reduce cost. it is nice to have raids bundles on the day of raids and not the day before or after.
Respectfully, I’m not sure I agree on Michael Steranka. While he is still preferable to John Hanke by a mile, I didn’t like much of what I saw when Zoetwodots interviewed him. I felt he gave some non responses and used corporate pr language to regurgitate Niantic talking points. It was hard to tell niantics talking points to his own personal thoughts. Just seems out of touch and aloof. I don’t know if Hanke is handcuffing him or if he really doesn’t care. But you’re right, at least he’s nicer than most others at niantic.
Niantic makes more money selling our data than selling in game purchases like remote raid passes. Thats why there is such a push from Niantic to encourage more in person activities. Every Pokemon Go player is a geo tagger for Niantic collecting so much data wherever they go.
Raids could be done in such a way now like they’ve done in monster Hunter now with hunt a thons. You get put into matchmaking with other hunters if you’re solo. It’s still has some improvements to be made but it’s a good system that could be grafted onto Pokémon go. Remote raid passes would then be a nice-to-have instead of a requirement to keep the game breathing.
The combination of a significant pvp push and a general reorganizing of the game has almost made the new player experience one of the worst in games. There are several raid pokemon that need an elite charged tm to work in their type Rayquaza Mewtwo and shadow Groudon/Kyogre almost to an absurd degree. With great and ultra league iv so hard to get it's very difficult to get tier one counters that need elite tms ready since the boxes are almost always overpriced. It's nearly impossible to find the communities because campfire is so detached from the game that most people don't know it even exists. We need a combination of better boxes that are regularly available, price changes and a significant reduction in artificial limits.
@@furryweeber8711 how many of the common pve pokemon are available in an average season. This year has been pretty stacked already, the fact is that unless seasons like the last two are the new normal and not the current seasons timed single shot of fomo a month the legendary raids are going to be all that will hold this game up. It's lees about the min-max and more that there are so few options for viable move sets and there are so many charged moves that you need to be able to solo and low man in the current game is becoming necessary instead of a nice to have.
That's what raid hour has become in my area. We will complete 2-3 raids using the free passes and split. It's fun meeting up, but there aren't as many people out as there used to be.
I barely ever raid anymore due to extremely repetitive raids , worthless raids the price of remote pass and the lack of people gathering for in person raiding, I barely log on atm , the events are bland the raids are bland and they do not care to listen to the community
Honestly, after 8 years, I just want to sell my account and wipe my hands of this game. I have played since day one...every community day. Tons of laughs. Tons of memories. But I am no longer happy with Niantic or the state of the game or the shattered community.
I get what they are trying to do, but the pandemic killed almost everyones desire to go out and do stuff period. People just dont want to go out in public anymore at all not just for pogo
No, people want to raid... we just dont want to drive all over town to do multiple raids.
remotes
You so right I live in a place that not many raids so if I want one I have to travel 75miles for a local one
In-person raiding is COMPLETELY dead in my town
In every town
Sorry to hear that. I understand if you don’t live in a mega city you’re screwed over. live in Long Beach we have an active group of maybe 100-200 players. Legit I am more annoyed of the turkey currency being brought done made coins back to an expensive price lol no longer cheap coins.
Legit do maybe 60 ish raids in a week very easy for me lvl 50 with other lvl 50 players do remotes raids being nerfed is a good thing like get out make friends if not just quit the game it was never meant for you.
@@STELLARMIGHTY no not at all
@@erickdorazco4469 i spend $100 in turkey money using a jailbroke phone and traveled back and i got 54,000 coins for $100 it is amazing
@@Polaroxide
No your wrong and he's right, it's dead everywhere and I live in Atlanta
Doubling the price was insane they should reduce the price and make a free remote raid pass that only works in your scatterbug region or hemispheres
lame
We need more people like you. Always speaking for the community.
My biggest problem is shadow raids. I only have one shadow legendary because it’s like pulling teeth trying to get people together in my area, and I’m not going to drive an hour to a big city just to catch Pokemon.
Definitely worth that drive for big events such as unova tour, go fest, elite raids, shadow raid weekends etc.
@dacubanmofo
Da fuk you talking about. Some people actually have lives and can't waste time on a phone game.
Oh honey, cancel the cookout today bc I have to drive an hour to Atlanta, hope I get lucky and people show up, then actually catch it then drive another hour home.
Yea you sound insane
@@dacubanmofoyou’re part of the problem
@@Rejii16 for saying I’d drive an hour to a more populated area for big events and my best chance at raiding shadow legendaries? Many would
Yep, it gutted my local community and my ability to do in-person raids. Campfire here is inactive and my town's raid group called it quits, I have been unable to do any T5 shadow raids outside of Mewtwo because of the above, and I used to be able to do T5 raids by hosting on PokeGenie but now it takes 30 minutes before the timer starts because there are fewer PokeGenie raiders.
So this keeps me from doing pvp because shadows and legendaries (and f'ing XL candy) matter, which means I don't power things up, which means I don't raid. Repeat.
It killed the community. I was obsessed and played everyday... I log in like once a month.... People are shocked
thats sad
@@Polaroxide yup
@@crayzmusic no I mean u only log on once a month
@@Polaroxide yeah I'm almost level 50 but have no motivation to play now like I used to. They killed my community so it all sucks now
@@crayzmusic Look at what they did to our community🤕
195 is too much
1000 coins used to get you 10 remote passes, it now gets you 5, you notice that kind of loss when you're free to play and there's region exclusive raids on the other side of the world
When remote raid passes were $1/ea, I used to just accept any invite, because whatever, it’s a buck. Just get some more coins and do remote raids. When they nerfed the raids, and then doubled the price, I stopped buying pokecoins, and just use the coins I get from gyms. So now remote raid passes are *very* expensive. So any time I get an invitation, I ask myself, “Do I _really_ want to spend the coins on this?”
That’s a completely different approach, and it means that’s very likely hundreds of dollars I haven’t given Niantic just because I now hesitate every time I think about doing a remote raid.
@JasonBoyce Im saving hundreds a month now. They've made it so that remotes arent worth the *value*. Maybe if the game was thriving, the game didnt have any bugs and at a time where we're not all feeling extreme inflation IRL. they've made such a stupid business decision.
it was 12, because 3 were for 250, not 10 so even better value
The economy is only getting worse and games are taking to it as well thats wat is i get over it
@@Polaroxide LMAO. You get a gold star for most ignorant comment I've read today.
The economy produces tangible items. The cost is up mostly due to the cost of fuel aka shipping and production.
Remote passes are a digital item and don't take labor , and they're not a tangible item.
Either get over seeing feedback, or sign out because you're looking real silly.
I agree. When I started playing, the best part about Pokémon GO for me was to see a lot of people playing. It would feel awesome when people join you in the lobby to help defeat the raid boss.
Now the excitement to read is gone for me too because no one joins you in the lobby ever since the double price for raids. Depressing game now.
The funniest thing to me is the fact that niantic inadvertently buffed spoofers with this remote raid pass nerf. For example, I live in a suburb about an hour from New York City by train. On raid days I want to grind I go to the city. You see some people playing, however, every gym in Manhattan fills up instantly on repeat as soon as the raid egg cracks. The spoofers get the benefits of in person raiding while getting the gameplay of remote raiding. Niantic won’t do anything about this, but they are ironically playing the exact opposite way niantic wants the game to be played, while reaping the benefits of cheating the system.
Nerfantic should not be negative towards the community. Instead of nerfing remote raids with the price and with the limitation, they should have incentivized in person raids.
They could have made it to where when we raid in person which is what they want, we get coin rewards for being the hardest hitter, for example. You can use those coins to buy remote raid passes.
And for every in person raid you do, you get to extend your remote raid limitation.
Thanks for speaking out, Count. You’re not negative. You’re simply stating facts supported by logic. Viable businesses adapt to their customers’ will. Niantic’s refusal to do that is just mind boggling. PoGo is a community based game, but what good is it without the community? It is a catastrophic miss on their part thinking they can bend people’s will. There are simply too many competition for people’s time and energy these days.
Niantic putting a a limit on the remote raid passes for me was upsetting but at the end of the day fine since I would still raid remotely with however much they allowed us to have, what bothered me however, was how much they increased the price of the remote raid passes and would still not increase the amount of pokecoins you would get per day to even make it possible for free to play players have a chance to join in with the fun !
The main problem I think with in person raids are there are no incentives. Rare care XL and golden razz are extremely rare to come by. There have been some great raid bosses lately. Some new some old but with in person raiding it is so hard to get everybody together. Due to working or being busy with other things. I totally agree with you on total rework system for remote raids. It’s dead right now, but the old system was way too much. I think there should be limit but maybe do 20 a day and lower price back down to 125. I think this would get more people back in game.
I haven't completed a local in-person raid in years. Its just not an option for my area. I rely on remote raiding to even be able to raid. For this reason I've never completed a big shadow raid. :(
Me too, I only have one shadow legendary from almost a year ago because it’s just too hard to get people together in my town
thats sad n patethic
Dope Vid Count, you’re being awfully generous here, let’s call it what it is, Nerfantic is extremely spiteful and inveighing towards the remote raid community , when it was the remote raid community that saved them from going up in the heart of a whole pandemic, only for us to be treated as a disposable commodity , until Nerfantic decides to do right by us, the remote raid communities, Pokémon Go will continue to suffer
For me raiding has become like pvp. I use to raid like crazy, raid hours, multiple times a day, raid till i got each shiny. Now i just use my daily free pass on some random tier 1 or 3 and forget raids exist. I really just don't care about raiding at all anymore. It's gotten so bad that even if prices went back to normal and the limit was removed niantic would have to do something major and crazy to get me raiding to any level of capacity that i was before.
They should significantly make in person raids rewards worth it. Maybe making the Iv floor 11/11/11. Increase shiny rate by 5-10%. Guarantee 1Xl rare candy. Give gyms a schedule to see raids in advance so trainers can schedule doing raids together. A schedule would help trainers do shadow raids on the weekends.
To balance remote raids and keep game somewhat fair. Allow unlimited remote raids, but after 5 no more Xl candy or just one 1Xl from raids. In addition reduce the price. Not going make everybody happy, but it’s at least middle of the road and would bring some growth to the game.
A schedule would be an awesome addition. Then have an RSVP option for trainers who are interested to see who will go!
The problem is that Niantic is not promoting Campfire. How has there not been a Campfire related event yet. It's amazing how many people don't know about it still.
Campfire just doesn’t work for raiding at all, that’s probably why no one pushes is (including Niantic).
We need daily free remote pass instead of the regular one. Or maybe every second one is a free daily remote raid pass
A free all use pass, remote or local, whatever you want.
@@MagnusSetsaas sounds good to me, even better👌
@@MagnusSetsaas yes even better👏
u wanna be spoon fed....spend money
@@Polaroxide If they raise, raise and raise prices all the time. The game will eventually die and they will make no money. They killed people’s spirits when they gave us remote passes and things were good. Then they nerfed it to oblivion. I have no problem with them making money, I spent quite a lot on my account. But they don’t have to suck dry the player base they have left. Thats no way to get players to return to the game. They are digging their own graves, to many people are unhappy atm. The pvp system is shit, they need to make more PVE stuff
Trainer Club added a remote raid pass shirt to his merch and has encouraged players who bought it to wear it at the go fests to protest the nerf so it'll be interesting to see what comes of that. Also I'll add that for the raids after the comm days it should be lower than a 4*. Majority of players are done with comm days at 5 so anyone who misses out essentially can't do these post comm day raids if they wanna shiny hunt and look for good ivs. The raids are a nice addition to help those that missed out but those who missed out aren't necessarily guaranteed to get help from people who spent 3hrs grinding already. Lowering the comm day raids to a 3* at maximum would be much better for everyone.
they should make a pass where party and friendship gives 10X damage if local and purchasable (and premium rewards) power stones doubling damage for pokemon when in person raid, so rural player (and currently all of us) just need 1 friend to raid and both share a small cost
I got back into Pogo recently after a two year break. It’s so sad to see virtually nobody in person playing the game anymore. A revert to the old remote raid passes, reworking of enrage mechanics, promotion of Campfire, and buffs for friendship and the ability to trade remotely, would all boost Pogo numbers tremendously. However, if I ran the company, I’d completely relaunch the game (keeping current player of course) with new graphics, modern connectivity infrastructure, and a lot more interactivity. It would be such a grandslam, bringing in more money and players, and a more enjoyable game overall.
I think we all wish for that. But I doubt it will ever happen because... money...
An AR game is no way easy to re-code
They have a good idea going, with how you get more rewards from doing raids in-person versus remotely. I think they should have expand on that more.
Yeah, 3 more candy xl is not enough to entice people to raid in person
Oh, we're afraid that remote raid passes will kill raids (even though they are currently huge and lively), so you know let's just kill them ourselves. -facepalm- Also, I would not say I don't care about the raid bosses anymore, it's just I've had to give up. It's too hard to get a party to do 5* raids. Niantic put those raids out of my reach.
I'd be willing to grind hard for shiny shadow legendaries, but I can't do them in person. There's just no one out here to do them. I was at a crowded Beach today. A shadow Raikou raid popped up and no one was doing it.
I dont like raid passes but they are needed unless they change the way raids work/appear.
Like imagine you see the next day raid schedule, you mark the raid or raids you will join in game.
I know people do this in discord/campfire but imagine you see a raid schedule for a Gym that you know you can make it to, then see a little 3 next to it to show 3 people plan to attend.
Maybe even put a 3/10(recommended number of people for that raid)
A schedule would be an awesome addition. Then have an RSVP option for trainers who are interested to see who will go! I guarantee you in person raids will be more lively. The uncertainty of in person raids coupled with their sudden/random appearances doesn’t help.
@slicksalamander72 yes, my friend is level 32 and they tried the 3* shadow sneasel raid and no one joined to help, they did about 50% using a team of 2000cp Machamps.
I feel like this is very harsh on them, what motivation is there to raid for them when that's their experience?
Well said Count, from my personal experience, nobody raids is absolutely correct. and remote raid pass was the first ripple effect that's the root cost, people are very aware of what they spend on with the 5 limit per day, not to mention crazy doubled price. In-person raid is absolutely waste of time with jumping around, driving around, so... 5 people of my group quit
I agree, remote raiding was the next step. They failed to bring in person raiding in line with remote.
What i mean is, all the inconveniences of in person raiding are still there. They have yet to put in some meaningful Quality of Life improvements to it. They did do the ready button and thats great, but if i cant find people do run the raid then i dont get the reward.
Its so incredibly frustrating to watch a raid tick down knowing you cant get support for it on _your_ time. Most players who matter aren't dropping what they're doing to run out an help you.
I also agree with your point on in person raiding and remote advertising. It feels like they don't advertise much for it. Like it's an embarrassing step child
I also agree with 11:04 it's always been about Go Fest past few years now. That, is not sustainable.
If the game does die though, it's again because Nintendo and Niantic are not listening.
@@dork_3nergytruth
Niantic keeps on rehashing the same old mons and no one is interested.
During the Sendai event raiding was fun and insane.
Of course, more people were all in one spot, so sendai definitely had action in the raid lobbies. 😅
I still think the nerf to cd from 6 hours to 3 hours is a huge mistake tier 4 raids was a cute idea but unfortunately a failure of a idea
Devolve is a great term, because its not like Niantic added something like lobby pooling to the game to enable their local vision.
Negativity: Your being so measured and specific; don't let people who are cool with egg rates get you down
I am glad you are speaking up. I started playing 7/11/2016. I coordinated a huge group , started FB meet upd etc- all before the pandemic. I've since had health issues and do not get out like I want to. I absolutely loved the remote raiding. I'd tell the family that I went to Ireland, Japan, etc that day... I was into the "fun" of raiding in different countries I can't visit in person. I've spent way too much on this game - was definitely one of the whales... not anymore. I did get in a couple raids from people who shared the go fest raids. Reminded me of how FUN that really is. Thanks for speaking up!
Yapping
I read a bunch of things about how they need us to go outside for location data and thats their real money maker
Count Jinsula, amazing video
"and then, of course you have to drive out to those raids"
Remember when this game first released and they said the theme of Go was to get people outside and walking again? lol Yeah that didn't last long, did it?
8 years
I live in a very rural area and this game is completely unplayable without remote raids. I will probably never get a mega Rayquaza or any legendary shadow Pokemon either
Don't play the game bro it is not for rural players
Bad news: the new 5425 coin bundle has 99 Premium passes in it making it 55 coins a pass. So, really, remote raiding is more than 3x as expensive.
Good point
I miss remote raids. I don't remote in much because it's too expensive. I don't do as many local raids because so few of my friends will join me with their valuable remote raid passes.
I didn’t mind so much the 10 daily remote raid limit but skyrocketing the price was just greedy
It is 5 remote raid per day limit, but yeah the real issue is the fact that the price doubled last year. That is so scummy and greedy, especially since it take nothing for them to produce the product.
It's true. I try to raid in central London. And it's more often just 1 or 2 than 20 in a in person raid. If it's a new legendary you might find a good few in a central park. But honestly we work we can't just go out and play!
As a working rural player, I don't have a lot of time to spend with a community and there ain't no community around anyways so for me remote raid battles are KEY !
I stopped playing in 2018 because I wasn't able to find anybody to help in raid battles. So starting back playing lately and using the remote raid pass was really good.
I'm not sure I would spend a lot of money in the game anyway so for me 5 remote raid per day is probably a good limit.
What kills me is that when there is a good offer, or maybe just when I have pokecoins to spend, I can't have more than 5 remote raid passes in my items. What's the point ? Why would they prevent me from spending money on passes that I cannot even use all in one day ?
They should make get a remote raid pass as a reward as a research reward like spin 20 different pokestops, walk 50km for a week, complete a route. Scan a pokemon. That way some exploration is involved but we can raid in the comfort of our homes. Standing in a group of people with phones out in a city like london for example, you will be targeted by people who steel phones . Also weather is a factor, trying to catch with a wet screen is not the one
Nailed it
The majority of my remote raids were long distance friends which was a great time and made alot of awesome long term friends. But since the cap and increase in price I've completely stopped raiding altogether
I would get rid of the CHANCE to get a remote raid pass after collecting your 7th stamp and like you said reduce the price of the remote raid passes and increase the remote raid limit to infinite.
100% agree. In person raiding is dead. I dont do anything during the week but remote raids and the weekends are tedious to raid in person except on raid days.
let us see what raids will be at what gyms for the day at each gym. You cannot effectively raid in person when raids are unpredictable and nobody wants to drive all over at these gas prices.
Spoofing is more popular than ever with people openingly streaming remotely "walking around". Stop fighting the trend and realize the game originally designed isn't desired anymore. The buzz is gone
Nailed it
I just don't agree with your points.
@oneonone8855 do you have any particular reasons or examples? I'd like to understand your viewpoint
people that say your videos are negative probably have been just playing for a couple of months. People that have been playing for years can see this problems from a more accurate point of view
It took me years to find a raid group. Years of driving 15 minutes out only for groups to do the raid without me and act like they didn’t see my message that I was almost arriving. After the pandemic a lot of people moved on for whatever reasons. Remote Raid passes make it easier not to deal with the BS and drama. I would rather do solo-able raid, remote raids or none at all. Now I just hope I get a legendary from GBL. If Niantic takes that away, then I guess I just won’t get it.
@@basillah7650 That why I only do raids that I can do on my own. It’s not worth the headache dealing with the B.S. and drama from the people in my area.
They focused on the wrong aspect of fixing the raiding imbalance that had incorrectly(their opinion) leaned to remotes rather than in person. Instead of nerfing the remotes, they should have cut costs on in person then implement benefits you only get from those. Imagine guaranteed shiny boost or better ivs or such to reward the player going out to the in person raid.
The not raiding much is me because of the price increase and keeping it stuck to 5 a day, just not worth it. Really go in every little bit to shiny check or do the 4 6 hour rotating rocket balloons. Will try for raids but t5s legit need remoted friends to be able to do them.
Good video count,couldn’t agree more,we are the paying customer Niantic should see how much the game is deteriorating,no one turns up for raids anymore,I have to host using poke genie and my second account to get the job done
The range of normal raid passes should be a 1km. In person raiding is impossible and I am slowly moving away from this game. My brother has quit. This is so stupid niantic.
it worked, niantic broke it, now fix it. you are right count, have hope
10:01 and another thing , originally we got 100 coins per day when the game 1st launched ,if they’re gonna increase the price on Remote raid passes, why not go back to 100 coins per day instead of 50 coins per day?
tickets,tickets......every event, every month......... their intent on making their money and NOT reversinf
I used to use Pogo to convince me to be more active and walk around the neighborhood a bit. Now I just go out walking around and not caring if I remember to bring my phone with me. I'm practically just gathering daily coins so I can transfer my shiny legendaries and mythicals. Once I achieve that I'm quitting and never looking back.
I mean the raids also pretty much suck these days. It’s just the same guys rotating through, and I can only remote 5 a day and those passes are *expensive* now, so I’m not really interested in spending to get the same guys I already have. The only ones that are new are in shadow raids, and you can’t remote those, and there’s never people at them, so I just don’t bother.
I only see a lot of people at big events like elite raids, kyogre groudon etc
I bet they limited RRs because it was becoming expensive.
I'm kind of ignorant of server/network impacts and whatnot but I bet RRs, at certain times, cause a lot of networking issues. by limiting remote raids they also limit the overall congestion of their network - making it cheaper to sustain over time. It also creates more rarity with raids. Along with them being cycled, you only get 5 RR a day so players are less likely to get hundos/shiny/shundos and thus more likely to do more of that raid when it comes back a year or so later.
I could be wrong but having to constantly connect people from one side of the world to the other for remote raids probably isn't cheap so it seems reasonable that they'd limit it to some extent...to keep their costs low.
Just make raids all invitable it sucks doing shadow raids n can't complete them due to no1 showing up and not being able to invite
If you could invite to shadow raids I would absolutely do WAY more, because I often just need one or two other people but can’t do it myself.
In My Opinion You're Fine. Keep up the good work
If they want to persuade people to do in person raiding, give us more raid passes per day instead of decreasing the amount back to 1 raid pass this season. I enjoy doing in person raids and the 2 raid passes per day bonus helped getting people together. As the pace of the game evolves and player retention should be a major consideration, Niantic needs to give more and more bonuses compared to previously. It’s just the way how every game goes to give more incentive for old players to continue and for new players to be able to catch up. Don’t they realize that every single time they take things away from players and revert the pace of the game back to a previous level, there’s a huge backlash?
My thing is they see all this gameplay info n much more than we do.
THEY can see how the change has affected gameplay.
So what’s the real plan here ? Losing more players daily.
And local group in my city died
same here, due to pandemic and the remote raid passes.
I think pokemon go would be better without niantic
and would not exist
I appreciate your honesty and opinion about the game
I don’t rad much unless a new shiny Pokémon I used to raid a lot but after they made shiny Shinx (comm day) and Shiny Alolan Marowak (raid day) common, I thought what’s the point. I hate how OG players that have played hard to get shiny rewards have the rarity of that shiny smashed and basically it’s given away. We all love rare Pokemon but that’s becoming harder to achieve so I don’t bother as much. I still play everyday but don’t raid everyday.
For me, before covid, I used to get a lot of my raids done on my walks to/from work and my lunch break.. it was so easy.. most of the time you just showed up at hatch and a group would be there, i bought a lot of green passes back then... during covid i bought a lot of remote passes, but not since the nerf..post pandemic, everyone works from home.. I go for walks on my lunch but most time I just use my free pass on a solo raid because no one wants to spend 2 bucks to remote raid a zapdos
Even more with them giving now only one free in person raid per day. Since I live right next to an Elite Gym I was hosting at least 3 raids a day, now I don't even log in to the game and this will be my 1st skipped Com day since the beggining of the year.
I live in a more rural town. So we don’t have many people out for raids unless it’s a special day. With the nerf to remote passes, I have spent so much oess money on pokemon go. Now have I more money to spend on other things, like fast food and alcohol!
I live in a pretty big suburb, lots of Gyms, lots of potential raid opportunities but no actual raids unless its remote. Nobody stands outside to raid unless its in the city (melbourne) and it's something worth raiding...like Shadow Mewtwo.
Local people that raid need remote players to join to have fun
With all the different raids we have now niantic could have left remote raids alone and still made raid days, Shadow raids in person and everyone would have been happy. I knew once they took remote away people won't go out in person cause we have already done these raids over and over again but with remote people would still do them
Niantic could've made the community days better, been more innovative with weekly IP events- and left remotes alone.
Nailed it
I live in a very rural area and this game is completely unplayable without remote raids. Also I'll never get a mega Rayquaza or any legendary shadow Pokemon.
We have a small raid group that meets up on raid days and events but it's difficult to meet up all the time do to work and obligations. As for shadow raids there literally almost non exisistsnt unless I run into a group of players. I try calling them out on weekends but not many players want to drive and meet up, beyond frustrating. Lots of my Facebook chat groups are dead a few months after the remote nerf. All just sad
At 200 coins a pop, remote raids just aren’t worth the value anymore.
I got back into it last year, so I still have fun raiding with my poke friends. I’m sorry though :(
I liked doing raids overall...but its just sucked lately...I want a Mega Rayquazza...but I just cannot ever get one, because no one in my area raids enough for me to get the needed amount of people to do it...and remote raids were great for me to be able to do these raids but since this isnt possible for elite raids, Im never doing these. Now they cost too much to get remote passes. My other issue is my own personal problem that I cannot catch the raid bosses after winning the raid has turned me off to raiding....but that my own lack of ability...so now when I get a remote pass...I am a lot more selective of what I use it on....
Remote raids should work like a global group finder. Youn drive to the raid and use the remote pass and it connects to every one else at other gyms. Makes it so you still have to go outside and makes it super strong item for those players that need it.
The only problem was the pricing I have so many invites but can't help them because the price of the pases 😢
I honestly don’t remember the last time I did an in-person 5star raid.. aside from Go Tour or Go Fest events
I'm not sure how much the remote raid nerf has changed me and my community but for the shadow legendary raids have always frustrated me to be thinking if it wasn't for having no remote raiding option I would do quite a few, I have shadow suicune missing still and like collecting shiny legendaries. I said to myself I won't collect shiny shadow legendaries because of that and it is currently hard to get a big enough group to win shadow legendary raids.
Yes I'm an in person raider who knows people just don't turn up most of the place. I'll usually host remote raiders. Ray being elite is such a kick in the guts.
My main problem with in-person raids are Elite Raids. Not only because of the whole Mega Rayquaza situation, but because Elite raids often has good Meta-Pokémon which many rural players won’t be able to get, which I think is unfair.
Even on shadow mewtwo weekend, not a single person from my town was bothered to come out
People just dont have time too keep having too go hiking too gyms! Remotes were amazing! Now its absolutely dead where i live damn shame.
They need too learn not everyone is sociable
well, they don't realize that most of their fan base who remote raid, have a lot of issue depending on where you live, weather your medical able to even get out, plus the weather plays a large part. when they force you do it in person sucks, because most of their fan base are people who work and the days, they put things on don't work for everyone. not everyone plays the game the same way, and at the end of the day it a business to make money, people come and go that with everything. fine to have limits but a cost shouldn't have play in it, because your higher ups are dumb. I think most remotes I ever did in a day was around 25 and that not every day either, since most would be on the legendary ones. plus, if person want to do 100 remotes a day who cares it their money and entertainment they get from the game. know they need to create ticket events to make the money they are losing on daily, and most of them sucks or not event worth it for what you are getting. I feel any paid ticket you should receive a shiny or two not a higher rate which never happens when they say it. it funny trying to tell you how to play the game with giving and taking things. plus doing in person there isn't much reward and people to do the raid with. my issue is being kick out of the game or freezing and being able to get back into the game in a timely manner since some raids depend on everyone if there a small group. they need to remove that stupid message are you safe, what are going to do for me! it not like someone going be there for you or help pay your medical bill. I feel if they do a special event, they should open it up remote raid with no limits for that day or weekend at reduce cost. it is nice to have raids bundles on the day of raids and not the day before or after.
Respectfully, I’m not sure I agree on Michael Steranka. While he is still preferable to John Hanke by a mile, I didn’t like much of what I saw when Zoetwodots interviewed him. I felt he gave some non responses and used corporate pr language to regurgitate Niantic talking points. It was hard to tell niantics talking points to his own personal thoughts. Just seems out of touch and aloof. I don’t know if Hanke is handcuffing him or if he really doesn’t care. But you’re right, at least he’s nicer than most others at niantic.
Nailed it
Niantic makes more money selling our data than selling in game purchases like remote raid passes. Thats why there is such a push from Niantic to encourage more in person activities. Every Pokemon Go player is a geo tagger for Niantic collecting so much data wherever they go.
Raids could be done in such a way now like they’ve done in monster Hunter now with hunt a thons. You get put into matchmaking with other hunters if you’re solo. It’s still has some improvements to be made but it’s a good system that could be grafted onto Pokémon go. Remote raid passes would then be a nice-to-have instead of a requirement to keep the game breathing.
The combination of a significant pvp push and a general reorganizing of the game has almost made the new player experience one of the worst in games. There are several raid pokemon that need an elite charged tm to work in their type Rayquaza Mewtwo and shadow Groudon/Kyogre almost to an absurd degree. With great and ultra league iv so hard to get it's very difficult to get tier one counters that need elite tms ready since the boxes are almost always overpriced. It's nearly impossible to find the communities because campfire is so detached from the game that most people don't know it even exists. We need a combination of better boxes that are regularly available, price changes and a significant reduction in artificial limits.
@@furryweeber8711 how many of the common pve pokemon are available in an average season. This year has been pretty stacked already, the fact is that unless seasons like the last two are the new normal and not the current seasons timed single shot of fomo a month the legendary raids are going to be all that will hold this game up. It's lees about the min-max and more that there are so few options for viable move sets and there are so many charged moves that you need to be able to solo and low man in the current game is becoming necessary instead of a nice to have.
Increase catch rates with in person raids. Nothing worse then making a special trip to do a raid, and walking away empty handed
Be better...I catch 99% of the legendary raids I do.
Some of my friends use only the free raid pass and then they dip.
That's what raid hour has become in my area. We will complete 2-3 raids using the free passes and split. It's fun meeting up, but there aren't as many people out as there used to be.
my community is dead no one want to meet up people play solo with 2-3-4 account in my corner of the city we are maybe 80-100 people playing pokemon go
In person raiding is almost dead. It’s hard to rely on remote raiders.
I barely ever raid anymore due to extremely repetitive raids , worthless raids the price of remote pass and the lack of people gathering for in person raiding, I barely log on atm , the events are bland the raids are bland and they do not care to listen to the community
Keep up the contents, Count!
I'm just looking forward to the next round of staff redundancy's at Niantic due to the continuing decline in revenue.
Honestly, after 8 years, I just want to sell my account and wipe my hands of this game.
I have played since day one...every community day. Tons of laughs. Tons of memories. But I am no longer happy with Niantic or the state of the game or the shattered community.
I get what they are trying to do, but the pandemic killed almost everyones desire to go out and do stuff period. People just dont want to go out in public anymore at all not just for pogo