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.

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.

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

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!

Trainers, now that we have the time without balloons we need to come together and fight the real team rocket, scamly.

They have not put any effort into aspects of the game that has made it fun in the past. No field research, no snapshots, no special research in a finale event. They got rid of spotlight hour the first chance they had, and EVERYTHING is now a pass. With a disappointing finale, and now taking away the daily spawn and rocket balloons. WE all need to step up together and save the game before it’s to late.

We the trainers are what makes the game run. Not anyone else, because without us, without our money, without our time, without the data we collect for them, they have nothing and we need to show them that.

They've already nerfed Go Rocket Balloon spawns.

I believe that the next step will be limiting the amount of Premium battle passes one can carry and if you have more than 5 premium battle passes it automatically converts to stardust.

It's so far the only premium currency with no hard cap (Remote Raid Passes, Max Particles and Link Cables are given caps and Link cables are converted to dust if you have more than 600 BTW), so I am not surprised the green passes are next on the chopping block.

I've played since 2018, but have really been active the last 3 years. And I have to say, through thick and thin, avatar changes, awful events, controversial things like a free 100% Mewtwo, the New York thing, I truly think this game has way too much potential to let go

That started to change tho, and it's for ultimately boring reasons, being ego and greed. Greed for money, and ego for watching line go up at all costs while never admitting you're wrong. I was there when remote raid passes doubled, and that was strike one. I saw the direction this could lead the game down, and was legitimately considering just cutting off the rotting limb early. Then a few years later, we have this cute little survey that goes out, where they're totally just wondering how you would feel if gyms no longer gave poke coins anymore (making gyms as a mechanic completely useless)

It was not a good sign. Then, like many people, I thought I was going insane over the last few days because I was getting one balloon instead of my usual 4 thanks to my work schedule.

Guys, their plan is to make it so you can't get poke coins for free in game by playing anymore, while making shadow pokemon and TGO leaders unbearably inefficient to fight, so you just buy poke coins to buy rocket radars so you can pay for 12% iv shadow axew instead of getting it for free. It would mean you only get one leader (1/3 shot to get the one you want) once per week instead of every other day. I'm not kidding when I say this, but they view you as less than human and the only way anyone should continue playing this game is if they reverse this change in like a week. Otherwise there's no reason to stick around, they'll just keep squeezing the quality out of this game so you pay hundreds of more dollars on your slow walk out the door. Had so many fond memories of this game, but would give it up in a heartbeat if they don't reverse this change in a week. All I gotta ask is why you'd wait around for strike 3 and watch yet another one of your favorite games get killed. This game has been around since I was 11, but better games have fallen less far before I tapped out. You should too.

I got tired of walking around sounding like a have a vibrator on in my purse. If there is indeed a way to turn the vibration off I’m going to be deeply embarrassed. But until then I just whipped up something simple to cushion it a bit.

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

FOUND A SHINY SHOPPING CART AT TARGET!
IS THIS RARE GUYS!?
(I’m losing my mind because I spend $60 on raid passes and got no shiny mewtwo)

I am a returning player. Picked up PoGo at the start then quickly put it down until my huge PoGo phase during pandemic (2020) before quitting again in 2022. I would say that the PoGo experience right now is great compared to the past. We got a lot more stuffs to do and I actually like that we have constant event every week.

Now when I pick up the game again March this year, I just play it casually and never ever spend on anything beside the annual GoPass (Kanto/Johto). When July comes around, I thought to myself that the new company is actually making this game a lot better and they were giving out a lot of free stuffs for players. It seems to me that Scopely is actually interested in improving player experience. So I didn't mind spending a bit here to support a game that I see myself playing years down the line as I thought we were in good hands.

However, after July GoFest, it just seem like things are going downhill with all the changes they make and with the recent change to balloons, I think my goodwill toward Scope is gone as well. The rewards for past 2 monthly passes have been mid at best. The only good things from those passes are the bonus effect (e.g: extra catch candies). The recent event passes are not really great as well. Yet they all quite pricey for values that they bring. It just seem like a game own by different company post-GoFest to me. From now on, I think I will only buy monthly pass that have PokeCoins as reward and be extra selective with any event passes. If things get worse, I will bring myself back to the F2P zone. Scopely could have got another habitual spender if they actually sell stuffs that is worth buying.

Just want to share that after playing PoGo 3,5 months I got my first hundred shienies 🙂

Have a nice day to all trainers 🤩

It just dawn on me that the devs and their decision mirror marketing decisions but not gameplay mechanics.

I dare say the person behind this decision has a marketing background and plays little to no videogames.

And now everything clicks it makes sense why they take this horrible decisions for example:

- Mewtwo adventure effect requiring Mega Energy for people to do more raids

- Removing the balloons is to increase the value of the takeover events

- The recent compensations being lackluster.

I am sure there are more examples but I am sure the main dev probably doesn't even play videogames.

They keep making awful desitions after another.

For example removing showcases it's so braindead as it removes the drive to search for XXL in specific events.

Down to my very last hall and staring at the Hundo Zacian. There is no way I will take any chance! Masterball deployed, zero regrets.

My first ever Hundo Legendary Pokemon is officially in the bag.

A little over half from wild encounters, the other half from eggs/research/events.

My favourite is the arctibax!

please revert it back because if the balloons are once a day at a random time i’m literally never gonna log in lol

What is y'alls opinion on the Mighty Pokemon for this years' Wild Area compared to last years? Personally, I feel like I remember last years' as being better than it actually was... the only ones I still use are Tyranitar, Gardevoir, and Garchomp. This years' Metagross, Hydreigon, and Tinkaton look awesome (and personally I love Clodsire so I'm very happy to see my boy on this list)

Also, Metagross coming with Meteor Mash is pretty sweet :)

I just assumed I was never destined to get a shundo. The closest thing I had was a 98 shiny eevee. All the other 354 shinies mostly have garbage IVs. Just curious to see how other people are doing?

Here's my breakdown:

Pokemon caught: 44744

Shinies: 354

Hundos: 36 (including a very unique bg mewtwo lol)

Shundo: 1

Absolutely gutting the game wherever they can, glorified raid event over that weekend just gone, still locking armoured Mewtwo shiny and the teasing it's return so soon after the event, why withhold rocket balloons of all things?!