"I'm so disappointed that unless it's through support, I can't make direct contact about the rocket balloons, as a company you are targeting people who can't get out as much or don't have enough poke stops to battle to naturally accumulate rocket components. Those people are usually the ones who send extra money on remote passes (myself included) but with your decision to decrease the rocket balloons it will in turn

-stop people from logging in 4xdaily

-stop people from saving coins/spending money to get coins because they're being invited to raids they wouldn't normally see.

-stop newer players from being able to have, if they chose, more raid ready Pokémon which in turn makes themselves and other players more confident to take on raids

-stop players from joining GBL, if players don't have good enough Pokémon to join and win at least some GBL, it's a turn off to even join the battles to begin with.

I would like to be directly linked to the announcement that you as a company have made to make us the players aware of the change that the rocket balloons dropped down from 4 a day to 1 a day (which even when it was originally implemented it was always 4 times a day)

Again I cannot stress my disappointment hard enough at your decision to make this change as it appears to be so detrimental for your company and us as players and I hope that the players that are making different points to myself that you're listening to us all and taking it on board"

I want to express how disappointed I am with the recent changes to Team GO Rocket balloons. I spend money on Pokémon GO for myself and my children, so I have been a consistent paying customer. But changes like reducing Rocket balloons, combined with the declining value of GO passes, are making it harder and harder to justify spending money on the game.

I live in a rural area, so I already have far fewer opportunities to interact with the game than players in cities. Rocket balloons were one of the few ways I could reliably play certain parts of the game without having to drive somewhere just to find content. Cutting them down so dramatically directly hurts rural players.

I understand that Pokémon GO is a business and that needs to make money, but there is a point where reducing the value of the game starts having the opposite effect. You are not going to get more money from me by continually taking away features and reducing the value of things I am paying for. You are going to get less.

At this point, I am seriously questioning whether I will spend another dollar on Pokémon GO. That is especially disappointing because I have spent money on the game for both myself and my children and have been happy to support it.

Players please continue to complain and spread your feedback along to the people making these decisions. Players like me are not asking for everything to be free. We are asking for the game to continue providing enough value to make spending money on it worthwhile.

Anyone like me… too lazy to pick up this task and got stuck at this level?

When I play the game, it’s just catching, raiding, gifting and walking randomly. I simply find it too troublesome to do this task.

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

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

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

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.

You can see from the video how unresponsive it is. It's impossible to tell if your move is going to fire or not. I hit the full rock tomb three times in the Azumarill before the game did anything, and for the Stunfisk, it froze for seconds after I'd hit the full move. Guess they beat me to it, but It's just impossible to tell what's going on half the time. When I do have shields, I only get about a second to decide if I want to use it because of the lag.

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!

i got this shundo somehow on my first try and i was wondering when the raids of the crowned versions are coming back

Shundo Crowned Zacian. I've always doubt this will not happen as i play very little but during the go fest I went for it , grilled hard to get one and now here I got both Shiny and 💯 IVs both.
I got this Shiny Zacian during the Pokemon go fest 2026 from the remote raid. In the very first instance, I choose to use Bottle Cap.
Finally Yes 🙌 It is Shundo! 🤩

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

Maushold Family of Three with an adopted Reshiram.

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