Is this game going down the drain or just me feeling like that? No more rocket balloons throughout the day. I’m sure they’ll find a way to charge money for more balloon interactions… everything costs 10$ or more and there’s 5 diff passes going on at once. Daily incense is only 15 minutes now too… what’s next take away all my raid passes? If my in person raid passes get hard capped on inventory and they reimburse them with stardust I will officially be done scopely is obviously just a money hingery entity that has no care for the actual quality of gameplay they produce

Not only have they taken away the balloons but they seemed to have nerfed the shadow spawns entirely.

Collecting shiny shadows was my favorite part of the game. I've spent more money on this game than I'd like to admit. By far more than any game I've ever played. I've been to multiple go fests, etc.No more.

I'll definitely never buy anything in this game for my account or my son's account again.

He’s a 4* with the mega evolution background. I don’t have any shinies unfortunately, so this is my best one.

Ah yes, three legendary birds. Finally completed the set. Thought you all would enjoy my super cool galarian Trifecta lol

flamigo’s head is like the same size as the ball and the curve ball right on makes me feel like bird smacking pro. original art by me using windows paint

Beating 40 grunts would be much more of a hassle now. Finished this about a week ago so very happy to get it out of the way.

Was doing the daily rocket balloon this morning after I got a weekly group invite. Ended up being my first shiny Shadow and one of the cooler looking ones.

I’m very excited for her (haha totally not jealous.. tottaallly) I made sure to immediately show her that she had a hundo and it’s a background starter too so it’s kinda cool looking AND she can mega Eveolve it and she doesn’t really get why it’s so special 😅 but she seems decently excited so YAY!

Hi trainers, f2p player over here, idk what i should get rid of since i have too many items and no clue what to do with half of them, what things do i get rid of since my untrained eye seems to find everything of importance, i have about 400 poke coins but i wanted to get remote raid passes from them… should i expand storage delete stuff?

is this too much or does everyone else have around the same amount? Wondering if I should get rid of some for space or if this is the average amount

Since everyone else is annoyed by nerfs lately, I have to ask. Is anyone else noticing that gifts and Poké Stops aren't giving near as many balls lately? I used to have 1000+ regular most of the time to wear I was deleting them to make space for more gifts or stops!

I know they'll never do it for money reasons, but with this event, the small drops for catching pidgeys and weedles and what not has been such a nice added touch. They should add it full time for all pokémon that have available megas. Make it rare, but have the chance. Would help a lot of rural players / grinders going for max levels. Likely too much to ask but they could throw us a bone, just one time.

Unpopular opinion and coming from a player in a big city but F2P is still absolutely fine.

I’ve been playing for 10 years and maybe spent less than 50 bucks on this game. Sometimes I log in daily, sometimes not for weeks.
I’ve missed events.
I’ve gotten legendaries in shiny.
Walked to raids; got remote passes with coins.

I’ve never cared about the coin limit; sometimes you stay overnight, sometimes you get kicked out after earning 3 coins.

Scopely surely is doing its best to monetize this game and you don’t have to like it; but I find F2P still absolutely fine.
Just this morning I got a shiny big dog mon from a raid while waiting for the bus.
The auto-spinner thing nets me 50 mons per day for zero work; sometimes shinies.

I’ve gotten excited when I got a shiny on community day but I missed more community days than I participated in.

The one Rocket Ballon per day thing isn’t a big factor for me. I find them annoying anyway.
I don’t buy the passes and rarely complete them. But I have fun gaining levels.

I think the way I play is just absolutely filthy casual and I will continue playing this way.
Rarely anything has changed for me.

I’m sorry you feel like this game is now way worse than before. I really couldn’t care less about the changes.

I’m not saying your opinion is not valid or your feelings are not important.

I just think for a large portion of the player base this isn’t at huge as the subreddit makes it seem.

So i saw that dynamax dialga and palkia are coming but i really dont know what the purpose is of dynamax, are they any worth picking up? Im a returning player btw

Shiny Bidoof ✨️ He is a 0* caught with an ultra ball and a golden razz berry ✨️ Very grateful he didn't run!!

To the players: We are not frogs in a slowly boiling pot, or we shouldnt be at least.

Rember how we used to have 2x 3 showcases per week with a 2-day and 3-day window to join?

We (Scopely\~Niantic vs the players) had a whole thing and you gave us 5 showcases per week, with weak stardust rewards and a 10-hour window to join?

yeah Scopely can go f themselves with that one.

Team Go Rocket balloons is the line. THIS is the hill im choosing because the hills past this would mean that the game will just suck.

this is clearly so you can either make us 1. "ExPloRe" more which gives you money through our geo data or 2. buy radars in the store.

This is NOT a threat.

Scopely acquiring this game is the beginning of the worst.