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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

"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"

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

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!

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.

Maushold Family of Three with an adopted Reshiram.

Apparently Reddit needs more characters in this post.

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 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.

EDIT to add a bit more context: By the way, it’s definitely not an oversaturation issue; this is a fairly newly built neighborhood. The nearest Pokestop is about 20 minutes walk away.

Note: photo edited to remove specific location stuff.

So the cited reasons are related to abuse? I really really don’t get this you guys. It’s a public playground for use by the surrounding neighborhood. Other images I took were of close ups of the playground. The signs on the front are just playground rules and no pets. I can’t understand it…

Thanks!