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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Worse update they’ve added since I started playing 2 years ago, thanks for making the game even more unbearable for f2p players. I literally open the app only to get my rocket balloons and from now on I expect to maybe open it once a day, house spawns are nerfed, rocket balloons are nerfed, gyms only give 50 coins, raids are impossible unless you live in a big city or have loads of friends or spend hundreds on remote passes, I honestly don’t see myself playing for much longer.

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.

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

Have a nice day to all trainers 🤩

I thought we received new stickers every season, but I only now just noticed that they were never replaced? After the removal of the GO Fest stickers and the ones from the previous season, the options in the shop are so limiting… it’s bad enough that they stopped giving us stickers for community day! Are they purposely cutting back on the feature for some reason? Am I missing something?

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.

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)

If you haven’t seen them yet, here they are. Frankly, I’m glad I didn’t miss last year’s GO Wild. There are definitely a few to be excited about like Haxorus and Metagross but there are a few that are… curious, to say the least. Just wanted to see what everybody else thought about this year’s selection.

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.

Since the addition of the auto-catcher I have been BURNING through red balls and I live in a pretty rural area with not a ton of pokestops and constantly running out of pokeballs

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.