I always hate making complaints against a free game, but this Christmas definitely felt the least Christmassy that Pokemon Go has ever been. During Part 1, you could find Costume Psyduck and Spheal in the wild, but they were VERY sparse. Glaceon in raids made sense, but everything else honestly belonged in the wild. I feel like Niantic cranked the dial on the Black / White spawns fitting the Dual Destiny theme way too high (hence Murkrow, Absol, Galarian Zigzagoon, etc that all fit a black / white motif) and the spawn table suffered because of it. Christmas 100% should have had a predominant thematic of ice types and costume Pokemon like Eevee, Psyduck, Spheal, etc in the wild. Wooloo was a nice addition, but I agree...locking everything behind Raids, Eggs, and Incense just made it a not fun event to go out and grind for.
Thought costume Psyduck was raid-only. I really wanted that shiny because Psyduck is my favorite Pokemon, and I could BARELY find any raids that were tier 1 let alone Psyduck. Worst event ever, period.
@@buffpowerlifter97 They were still spawning in the wild but at a very rare rate. I also wanted the Psyduck but I wasn't willing to travel around town in the cold to raid for it. Plus, most of the raids near me were either Tier 3 / Tier 5 raids. Even with Dedenne, I literally only saw TWO of those raids spawn near me (I can see 9 gyms from my apartment) in the entire time it was available.
i agree, i was one of the people who commented on the last video. I definitely get what he said about the day to day pokemon go experience becoming more mundane, and I think that his new approach to videos in 2025 will help his pokemon go content feel more refreshing to watch
Bad spawns, lackluster bonuses, uninteresting costumes, bad PvP cups and lag, and the fact that six star mega latios and Latias held raids hostage for a month really dampened my experience
Having black and white spawns for Unova is a fun idea, but not if it ruins one of the best events of the year. This is also not the last event of the year. We still have the Charged Embers hatch day this weekend and the New Year’s Event starting on the 30th.
Tbh I think the black and white spawns would've been better for January or the first month of February before The Unova Tour but they should've left the Holidays Event alone! ❄️
Most depressing Christmas event ever. After a rough year I was looking forward to some fun spawns to cap off the holiday season...and instead we got this. Terrible.
Worse Christmas event until next years. We needed better wild spawns. Even adding more spawns to the incense whilst still so we can play at home at event would have been a nice gift.
Definitely agree with you, the past few events at the end of the year and early next year are pretty unexciting, looking forward to february and go tour though!
Love your honesty bro, Nothing at all wrong with complaining, I love it, will always watch a video where Niantic get called out for being lazy, which I feel you do very well. What I would say is I fully agree with the less often content but at a higher quality, some events where you made a video on them without really knowing anything about the event features or spawns etc etc that I would say could be an area for improvement, just a bit of background knowledge (like where to hunt backgrounds, or how to collect the dynamax battle energy orb things) will always keep us pesky nit pickers off your back, OR like you said, hey if its a crap event, don't even bother with a video, I'm sure most people watching will be absolutely fine with one less video a week if it means the next video that comes out is an epic one. Again, love your hustle bro, you gotta be one of the busiest dudes I've ever come across so the fact you still take time for this game is mint. Keep it up boss, respect to you.
I honestly think the Halloween events were fun, but the Christmas events were really more unova-themed than Christmas themed. Black and White kyurem will be in the go tour
garbage event, not even remotely good. entire christmas event locked behind raids, collection challenges behind raids, eggs had 1 single recycled costume, comm day backgrounds only on research which would be fine if the research was more common (also partially locked behind 5 star/2 raid tasks). had 3 background researches in my entire town.
Me and my whole PoGo crew feel the exact same way about this years events (especially Christmas event) and we’ve been playing since the game came out. We totally feel ya there! I don’t think anything beat the Go Wild Event this year that was the most insane and fun time ever. Had so many friends that quit the game come back for that. It sucks that they have to deal with an event like this Christmas event after experiencing that one.
Feel the exact same way @14:45 everything is walled behind thinly veiled pay walls stuff we got for just opening the game is basically gone for the moment
Christmas is a holiday where people are hanging out with family...we can't be out playing pokemon as much. I've burned through all my resources...no gifts, no poke balls, but hey, Niantic says I can buy more storage. I'm a grandmother and matriarch of my family. I play with my son and grandsons throughout the year. This Christmas event has been more than frustrating and not much to show for it.
i for one do not see why u get so much hate. just recently found u and i find u the most optimistic and entertaining on both here and mystic rips! i feel as if people need to understand that they cannot expect you to be the same person u were 8 years ago like how we have forcefully accepted that this game wont be the same. we all grow and change and we love and support you no matter your opinions!!!
me personally i enjoy just watching vlogs in general and seeing u interacting warmly with ur gf syd and friends like fleece is always something i look forward to! i love your videos and truly genuinely believe u are always happy and trying to find the good in things. constructive criticism is good but when i say your sttitude in recent videos were really optimistic and REAL!
The people who complain about your attitude changing are just whining. I, for one, have 100% agreed with ALL of your frustrations on every event in the way the game has been headed over the past few years. Your takes are always relatable and exactly how I'm feeling about the game at the time. Keep being real!
The Niantic Defenders and 🐕’s keep making excuses for this 🗑 event saying “it’s because of Black Kyuruem” but that’s no excuse, they could’ve done better 😅
My opinion on the whole Christmas events are: The first one was horrible. Cool, they released shiny Sandygast which does look nice, but it was 1/512 for research, raids and in the wild. Then trying to find a Sandygast raid in my area was near impossible bc it would be mainly Psyduck and the other one( not dedenne). Then with cold weather my phone would glitch out or the GPS wouldn't work so I would have to restart my phone a lot. They should have made it more likely to find one. This one is just as bad. I was able to get a shiny 2 star celtoddle first raid but that was it. Raid spawns are still rare for it. Then I have to rely on an incense task with an incense 1/512 for it to spawn in and be shiny is a waste. This whole event I have gotten zigzagoon and absol shiny with celtoddle and that was it. I don't count absol unfortunately bc it's shiny rate is already 1/64 so it's great. The only thing I can think of that they can do( which they won't) is make it so it's 1/64 for the 5 days it's in for shiny debut and then after that it's back to regular odds. I feel like that's fair
@@Resident_G they get flown out for in-person events to hold meet-ups at locations dedicated for them, get info on events ahead of time so they all can release the same video at the same time, some like PokeDaxie will even claim they straight up have connections with Niantic employees 🤷♂🤷♂
@@forbo6466 1000% agree, but the fact that its mostly critiques says a lot to the quality of these events. cant even say anything positive cuz theres nothing to say
Legitimately when have New Years events ever been good. Holidays/Christmas, yeah, but new years is when they expected us to pop off for...Raticate and Fearow
You're definetely not off your rocker for criticizing this event. The Christmas events should be geared toward hunting the costumed shinies because Christmas is one of the most festive times of the year. Having only one costume Pokemon across the board for this part 2 event was just sooo lame. Then you look at the other Pokemon to hunt during this event. You have Yamask, which had a field research day alongside its Galarian counterpart. You had Tynamo, which was featured in one of this year's community days and subsequently, the community day recap. Snorlax felt the weirdest one to be featured, not just on the incense, but ALSO in the raids. It was literally one of the key hunts during the Go Wild event, however, during that event it had, wait for it, a COSTUME. I can get hunting electric types alongside the ice types because everything gets decorated with a slew of Christmas lights, but having all these dark types is just so out of place. I LOVE the generation 5 games, so I'm not against having minor events themed after them, but January is literally the most bland month after New Years. They could've just placed an event like this in the middle of that instead of essentially overwriting what should've been one of the most festive and colorful events of the year.
Putting everything in raids sounds like a sad attempt t. Ash grab for niantic. For the love of God just make a fun event and people will go outside. You don’t need to lock costume Pokémon behind raids.
Here's the thing about you complaining... While your opinion's are valid, you're rich and flaunt you're wealth pretty brazenly. It's hard to not to roll my eyes when you complain about day-to-day and holiday events sucking, when you get to use this game as a tax right off...
Good spawns, great bonuses, interesting costumes, good PvP cups and no lag, and the fact that six stars mega latios and Latias held raids hostage for a month really hyped up my experience To me
I totally agree considering what pokemon go has been, and used to be like. Spawns that would pull you out of your house to go hunt down. Christmas and Halloween events used to be awesome…
I think this is obviously leading up to black and white kyurem. This whole event is themed around black and white, and the updated icon on the phone screen has a black and white background.
Whilst I agree the event is lackluster, it’s pretty clear it aligns with the Dual Destiny/ Black and White theme. It pains me again to remind people it’s summer in the southern hemisphere, it’s ok to not have everything snowy. Lastly, I’m glad it’s not too intense. We’ve had events before over holidays and there was a lot of pressure to choose that over a mobile game
Saw that comment, wondered if you'd respond. It's not easy to keep things fresh on the channel here if the game feels stale to you... I've been playing for 8 months and enjoy it as a casual player who never really got into Pokemon much, it's given me a new interest and having a 7 year old to introduce to Pokemon has been great. It's just a game so we enjoy the moments we get to share about it and get on with the rest of our lives!!! Good on you for branching out and doing what's best for you. Gotta do what you gotta do.
I’ll be honest, this Christmas event and the many events this year outside of Sinnoh Tour, Go Fest, and Wild Area, have just been so demotivating to me as a player and so many have added paid bonuses that used to just be included as part of events. It really feels as if Niantic is trying to make up the revenue they lost by nerfing remote raids by putting together partial events with paid tickets to experience the full event. Truthfully the only reason I log into pogo now is for the friends I’ve made around the globe and the chance to maybe interact with them, but I could see myself personally taking a hiatus from Pokémon Go in 2025 if it continues down this path. Which is sad cause I’ve been playing since day one and I really like Pokémon!
My sentiments exactly, pogo has been boring to play lately unless to pay to do or go to certain events, and you would’ve thought being Christmas they would have more ice type Pokémon in the wild not random Halloween ones.
I agree the events overall the past couple of years have been pretty lackluster to say the least. They have had decent big events like you mentioned Go Fest and the new Wild Area, but overall it is disappointing to see how much Niantic is making the game pay to win.
niantic more concerned about finding ways to make player pay to play (new, costume pokemon behind paywalls) rather than making it a fun game that would naturally make people want to play more and even perhaps pay for "extra". the basic feel I got from the "christmas/winter event" was lazyness. rehashing halloween type pokemon during the winter even was useless. costume wooloo and shiny sandygast and cetoddle were the only good things for the month.
I've heard the fire ice spawns in part 1 were for Resheram presenting, while part 2 electric ice spawns are for representing zekrom resemble duo destiny theme of Kyrume evolution parts
Mystic I hope you relise that there are bots in your comment section and that they are trying to scam kids by making there profile pictures sexual so I hope you see this and do something anout it cause at this point its really annoying
As someone still getting back into PoGo, I appreciated this event for Pokémon I rarely get to see, but I'm sure for long-time, consistent players that it's not that exciting. The theme fits for the Unova Tour, too, but yeah... 😅
@6:08 actually Part 2 Wooloo is the ONLY costume Pokémon thats spawning in the wild. And it kinda sucks how Vanillite is the ONLY ice type thats featured in the wild! (Cetoddle don't count!)
Deng, I mean, the content nowadays I can't blame you for, the events have been meh for Christmas this year. If anything, I watch at this point as an adult to see what you're doing and what you're up to. Like I literally work in Santa Monica myself now and seeing your videos that are in Santa Monica as well just makes me feel accompanied in what I'm going through in life rn, Pokemon Go I'll keep playing regardless, but at this point of your channel, I'm watching you for you.
Totally agree but think niantic will say hoopa is to blame as he is causing issues with weird spawns and raid bosses but agree the grind for the rarer shinys is harder plus raids now they sneakily reduced the viewing distance Went from seeing 6 raids gyms to seeing 1 and didn’t see any announcements Thought the viewing distance would never be changed
I'm one of those players that came back to playing the gane, I downloaded the game when it 1st came out in 2016 but I stopped playing the game like 3 months later....I recently just got the game again like in June 2024 and these past few months I've gotten super lucky with the pokémons that I've encountered, I have encountered galarian moltres 4 times already but only caught one with the master ball because I got tired of them running away....anyways I got off topic lol but I enjoy your content and it's the reason why I subbed. I know the game is not everything you obviously have a normal life like everyone, just keep doing you.....I enjoy the content no matter what
Your best videos always feel more like a conversation than complaining so we like the constructive criticism! Hopefully Niantic will step it up in the new year. Cheers Mystic 👍
Please tell me how you are able to find acquire so many good pokemon like shundos, hundos, and legendaries! Also why do you have so many duplicate Pokémon?
Your additude is fine. It just reflects what I feel like most casual players are feeling. Things in game are kinda meh and live is just getting more hectic. It was funny when you opened your fridge. I thought you was going to pull out your phone for some eggs lol. How's the third kitty doing? He still hanging in there?
Bro, new Dynamax Cryogonal is here. Sure I can understand if you got a Dynamax Lapras, but for us in rural areas that is a hard raid battle to defeat. So it’s worth going after.
Many people celebrating Merry Christmas will singing Christmas song as part of the festival celebration. Pokemon Go players will sing this song to Niantic modified from Money, Money, Money from ABBA when come to Christmas Day. Money, Money, Money, Must be greedy, In the Niantic's games. Ticket, Ticket, Ticket, Must be shiny, In the Niantic plans.
I think we've been seeing the effects of Niantic's layoff wave come about in recent months; those short term gains (for the stockholder happiness!!) are starting to affect the long term health of the game. Talking specifically about the holiday event Pokemon, I can at least justify Part 1's theme having a nod to everyone in the Southern Hemisphere; it's technically summer down there! Part 2 though... it's all black and white colored Pokemon/shinies (except Rayquaza). I get that the idea is to tease Pokemon Black/White for GO Tour Unova, but this theme could have been done in an event in January or February; I can't really justify Part 2's spawns as being a Holiday Event theme. (other than the new Costume Wooloo and Shiny Cetoddle)
December 2024 has been terrible and is easily the worst Holiday Season to date. No need to sugar coat it. Being the holidays, people probably have more money to spend and Niantic got a little trigger happy with pushing event tickets. It's not the first time they've upped their ticket game for the holidays, they did it with the awful Keldeo & Galarian Mime tickets in Decembers past. However, January looks very promising with several new Pokémon debuts, a new Mega Evolution, a good variety of events, great event bonuses (up to 4X EXP/Stardust bonus for the Fidough Event!!), and the return of Deoxys which has been missing for quite a while. February looks equally as promising based on the leaks and limited knowledge we have of Unova Tour so far.
You are just being honest about your opinion, but overall you’re still one of the most positive UA-camrs on pokemon Go so far that’s why I’ve been watching your channel all these years! Can’t wait for next year!
Was I the only one that read “Holiday” event. I noticed in the video he almost said it twice. But changed to Christmas. I am thinking they changed it this year to “Holiday” as not everyone gets snow and winter this time of year. They changed a lot this past year. Like you said you are starting new businesses. So are they. What happens when you branch off to new things. Your baby your first project doesn’t get the enthusiasm it used to.
I don’t mind the way you see things cause at the end of the day it shows you’re real about it, you don’t fake your emotions just for content and that’s what I like 👍 I can agree with your point of view on pogo
Don't listen to people upset at your feelings about the game because you are on point and if everyone just brainlessly praises everything then niantic will never change it
I always hate making complaints against a free game, but this Christmas definitely felt the least Christmassy that Pokemon Go has ever been. During Part 1, you could find Costume Psyduck and Spheal in the wild, but they were VERY sparse. Glaceon in raids made sense, but everything else honestly belonged in the wild. I feel like Niantic cranked the dial on the Black / White spawns fitting the Dual Destiny theme way too high (hence Murkrow, Absol, Galarian Zigzagoon, etc that all fit a black / white motif) and the spawn table suffered because of it. Christmas 100% should have had a predominant thematic of ice types and costume Pokemon like Eevee, Psyduck, Spheal, etc in the wild. Wooloo was a nice addition, but I agree...locking everything behind Raids, Eggs, and Incense just made it a not fun event to go out and grind for.
Cant say it better.
Thought costume Psyduck was raid-only. I really wanted that shiny because Psyduck is my favorite Pokemon, and I could BARELY find any raids that were tier 1 let alone Psyduck. Worst event ever, period.
It not even really a free game. We pay with our data at the minimum and many with micro transactions as well
@@buffpowerlifter97 They were still spawning in the wild but at a very rare rate. I also wanted the Psyduck but I wasn't willing to travel around town in the cold to raid for it. Plus, most of the raids near me were either Tier 3 / Tier 5 raids. Even with Dedenne, I literally only saw TWO of those raids spawn near me (I can see 9 gyms from my apartment) in the entire time it was available.
It's not frr if you've been buying raid passes, especially for the awful Necrozma event which wasn't followed up by Cosmog showing up anywhere.
I’m glad you addressed the comments and explained your side of the story
i agree, i was one of the people who commented on the last video. I definitely get what he said about the day to day pokemon go experience becoming more mundane, and I think that his new approach to videos in 2025 will help his pokemon go content feel more refreshing to watch
Me: I just want Shiny Christmas Wooloo
Niantic: best I can do is endless Ratatta
this is just black and white themed because of the unova event, sure its not christmasish but its the explanation
Yup 😂
Yeah, it makes sense, but it sucks nevertheless
That’s true
All black and white
Even if it doesn’t make sense with the Christmas theme
I guess but it still kinda sucks
That doesn't make it right. Murkrow in December is an L.
Bad spawns, lackluster bonuses, uninteresting costumes, bad PvP cups and lag, and the fact that six star mega latios and Latias held raids hostage for a month really dampened my experience
Having black and white spawns for Unova is a fun idea, but not if it ruins one of the best events of the year.
This is also not the last event of the year. We still have the Charged Embers hatch day this weekend and the New Year’s Event starting on the 30th.
A 3 hour egg hatch is tough to call an event…
@@Guy812zlol, it's so forgettable that he forgot to mention it.
Tbh I think the black and white spawns would've been better for January or the first month of February before The Unova Tour but they should've left the Holidays Event alone! ❄️
Most depressing Christmas event ever. After a rough year I was looking forward to some fun spawns to cap off the holiday season...and instead we got this. Terrible.
Yeah I have to agree, this Christmas event was very underwhelming. But hey, Merry Christmas, hope everyone had a good Christmas!
Worse Christmas event until next years. We needed better wild spawns. Even adding more spawns to the incense whilst still so we can play at home at event would have been a nice gift.
Definitely agree with you, the past few events at the end of the year and early next year are pretty unexciting, looking forward to february and go tour though!
That is if you bought the in person ticket the global one is crap.
necrozma raid and December comm day were pretty good imo
Love your honesty bro, Nothing at all wrong with complaining, I love it, will always watch a video where Niantic get called out for being lazy, which I feel you do very well. What I would say is I fully agree with the less often content but at a higher quality, some events where you made a video on them without really knowing anything about the event features or spawns etc etc that I would say could be an area for improvement, just a bit of background knowledge (like where to hunt backgrounds, or how to collect the dynamax battle energy orb things) will always keep us pesky nit pickers off your back, OR like you said, hey if its a crap event, don't even bother with a video, I'm sure most people watching will be absolutely fine with one less video a week if it means the next video that comes out is an epic one. Again, love your hustle bro, you gotta be one of the busiest dudes I've ever come across so the fact you still take time for this game is mint. Keep it up boss, respect to you.
Your attitude is fine bro! Honesty is always the best policy!
I honestly think the Halloween events were fun, but the Christmas events were really more unova-themed than Christmas themed. Black and White kyurem will be in the go tour
i think it’s important for big pogo influencers to talk about to bad parts of the game
Never saw psyduck at all it was a terrible event, more Halloween than Christmas.
Yeah bloody hell Psyduck became as rare as Axew in the wild.
garbage event, not even remotely good.
entire christmas event locked behind raids, collection challenges behind raids, eggs had 1 single recycled costume, comm day backgrounds only on research which would be fine if the research was more common (also partially locked behind 5 star/2 raid tasks). had 3 background researches in my entire town.
Me and my whole PoGo crew feel the exact same way about this years events (especially Christmas event) and we’ve been playing since the game came out. We totally feel ya there!
I don’t think anything beat the Go Wild Event this year that was the most insane and fun time ever. Had so many friends that quit the game come back for that. It sucks that they have to deal with an event like this Christmas event after experiencing that one.
Feel the exact same way @14:45 everything is walled behind thinly veiled pay walls stuff we got for just opening the game is basically gone for the moment
Christmas is a holiday where people are hanging out with family...we can't be out playing pokemon as much. I've burned through all my resources...no gifts, no poke balls, but hey, Niantic says I can buy more storage. I'm a grandmother and matriarch of my family. I play with my son and grandsons throughout the year. This Christmas event has been more than frustrating and not much to show for it.
i for one do not see why u get so much hate. just recently found u and i find u the most optimistic and entertaining on both here and mystic rips! i feel as if people need to understand that they cannot expect you to be the same person u were 8 years ago like how we have forcefully accepted that this game wont be the same. we all grow and change and we love and support you no matter your opinions!!!
me personally i enjoy just watching vlogs in general and seeing u interacting warmly with ur gf syd and friends like fleece is always something i look forward to! i love your videos and truly genuinely believe u are always happy and trying to find the good in things. constructive criticism is good but when i say your sttitude in recent videos were really optimistic and REAL!
I like ur honesty so that's why I watch u to see ur impression of events
Isn't this season suppose to be about rechiram zekrom and kyurem ? Why was Regice here for so long and now normal giratina ?
Regice is shadow raids only for weekends and it’s not hard to use google
Origine form giratina was used last season. And the next 5 star raids are the altered forms
Niantic's saving those 3 Dragons for the Unova Tour.
I saved a research from 2024 Comm Day weekend to complete on Christmas Day, and it was a 15/15/14 shiny Sewaddle.
I named her Holly.
thats awesome!
i didnt get to play at all until sunday at like 6:00 and the first tynamo i click on was shiny without the boosted odds
The people who complain about your attitude changing are just whining. I, for one, have 100% agreed with ALL of your frustrations on every event in the way the game has been headed over the past few years. Your takes are always relatable and exactly how I'm feeling about the game at the time. Keep being real!
real!
The Niantic Defenders and 🐕’s keep making excuses for this 🗑 event saying “it’s because of Black Kyuruem” but that’s no excuse, they could’ve done better 😅
My opinion on the whole Christmas events are:
The first one was horrible. Cool, they released shiny Sandygast which does look nice, but it was 1/512 for research, raids and in the wild. Then trying to find a Sandygast raid in my area was near impossible bc it would be mainly Psyduck and the other one( not dedenne). Then with cold weather my phone would glitch out or the GPS wouldn't work so I would have to restart my phone a lot. They should have made it more likely to find one.
This one is just as bad. I was able to get a shiny 2 star celtoddle first raid but that was it. Raid spawns are still rare for it. Then I have to rely on an incense task with an incense 1/512 for it to spawn in and be shiny is a waste. This whole event I have gotten zigzagoon and absol shiny with celtoddle and that was it. I don't count absol unfortunately bc it's shiny rate is already 1/64 so it's great.
The only thing I can think of that they can do( which they won't) is make it so it's 1/64 for the 5 days it's in for shiny debut and then after that it's back to regular odds. I feel like that's fair
6:28 well obviously I mean banette hasn’t seen any love recently. Asides from being in raids consistently since early October.
Wdym "bad?" IT SUCKED, except the necrozma raids and the comunity days, they were cool
You know its bad when even the sponsored content creators trash on the event smh
they aren't sponsored by Niantic but ok
@@Resident_G they get flown out for in-person events to hold meet-ups at locations dedicated for them, get info on events ahead of time so they all can release the same video at the same time, some like PokeDaxie will even claim they straight up have connections with Niantic employees
🤷♂🤷♂
@@4roronoazoroDoesn´t mean they have to glaze their events. Critic is good for them
@@forbo6466 1000% agree, but the fact that its mostly critiques says a lot to the quality of these events. cant even say anything positive cuz theres nothing to say
Talking to these people that defend Niantic and it's fellow content creators. Its like screaming at a drywall.
Almost zero ice types for the Christmas event. Brilliant idea.
Legitimately when have New Years events ever been good. Holidays/Christmas, yeah, but new years is when they expected us to pop off for...Raticate and Fearow
You're definetely not off your rocker for criticizing this event. The Christmas events should be geared toward hunting the costumed shinies because Christmas is one of the most festive times of the year. Having only one costume Pokemon across the board for this part 2 event was just sooo lame. Then you look at the other Pokemon to hunt during this event. You have Yamask, which had a field research day alongside its Galarian counterpart. You had Tynamo, which was featured in one of this year's community days and subsequently, the community day recap. Snorlax felt the weirdest one to be featured, not just on the incense, but ALSO in the raids. It was literally one of the key hunts during the Go Wild event, however, during that event it had, wait for it, a COSTUME.
I can get hunting electric types alongside the ice types because everything gets decorated with a slew of Christmas lights, but having all these dark types is just so out of place.
I LOVE the generation 5 games, so I'm not against having minor events themed after them, but January is literally the most bland month after New Years. They could've just placed an event like this in the middle of that instead of essentially overwriting what should've been one of the most festive and colorful events of the year.
Putting everything in raids sounds like a sad attempt t. Ash grab for niantic. For the love of God just make a fun event and people will go outside. You don’t need to lock costume Pokémon behind raids.
I enjoy your takes don’t feel bad to share your honesty instead of being a yes man calling everything about the game good. I enjoy the content.
Who would've thought one of the most difficult field research tasks during Christmas would be taking pics of 3 different ice types...
Here's the thing about you complaining... While your opinion's are valid, you're rich and flaunt you're wealth pretty brazenly. It's hard to not to roll my eyes when you complain about day-to-day and holiday events sucking, when you get to use this game as a tax right off...
Do we ignore he said :best food in the game 2:39
Good spawns, great bonuses, interesting costumes, good PvP cups and no lag, and the fact that six stars mega latios and Latias held raids hostage for a month really hyped up my experience
To me
i’m fuming i got shiny zigzagoon but i did the community day so i have lots already
5:40 100% accurate. As a returning playing it was a real let down that I couldn't manage to get all the costume Pokemon I missed in previous years.
I totally agree considering what pokemon go has been, and used to be like. Spawns that would pull you out of your house to go hunt down. Christmas and Halloween events used to be awesome…
I think being critical is just as important as nodding your head and agreeing with every single decision Niantic makes
This event was in my opinion bad indeed
I think this is obviously leading up to black and white kyurem. This whole event is themed around black and white, and the updated icon on the phone screen has a black and white background.
Whilst I agree the event is lackluster, it’s pretty clear it aligns with the Dual Destiny/ Black and White theme.
It pains me again to remind people it’s summer in the southern hemisphere, it’s ok to not have everything snowy.
Lastly, I’m glad it’s not too intense. We’ve had events before over holidays and there was a lot of pressure to choose that over a mobile game
Saw that comment, wondered if you'd respond.
It's not easy to keep things fresh on the channel here if the game feels stale to you...
I've been playing for 8 months and enjoy it as a casual player who never really got into Pokemon much, it's given me a new interest and having a 7 year old to introduce to Pokemon has been great.
It's just a game so we enjoy the moments we get to share about it and get on with the rest of our lives!!!
Good on you for branching out and doing what's best for you. Gotta do what you gotta do.
I love this video 😂 I’ve been scratching my head on this all week
I’ll be honest, this Christmas event and the many events this year outside of Sinnoh Tour, Go Fest, and Wild Area, have just been so demotivating to me as a player and so many have added paid bonuses that used to just be included as part of events. It really feels as if Niantic is trying to make up the revenue they lost by nerfing remote raids by putting together partial events with paid tickets to experience the full event. Truthfully the only reason I log into pogo now is for the friends I’ve made around the globe and the chance to maybe interact with them, but I could see myself personally taking a hiatus from Pokémon Go in 2025 if it continues down this path. Which is sad cause I’ve been playing since day one and I really like Pokémon!
My sentiments exactly, pogo has been boring to play lately unless to pay to do or go to certain events, and you would’ve thought being Christmas they would have more ice type Pokémon in the wild not random Halloween ones.
Imagine paying for UA-cam premium and still being fulled with sponsored ads by the UA-cam creator
Cry about it kid
@ I am, will you cry with me?
@@barronzemo4659 I’m already done crying for today maybe Tom
I agree the events overall the past couple of years have been pretty lackluster to say the least. They have had decent big events like you mentioned Go Fest and the new Wild Area, but overall it is disappointing to see how much Niantic is making the game pay to win.
niantic more concerned about finding ways to make player pay to play (new, costume pokemon behind paywalls) rather than making it a fun game that would naturally make people want to play more and even perhaps pay for "extra". the basic feel I got from the "christmas/winter event" was lazyness. rehashing halloween type pokemon during the winter even was useless. costume wooloo and shiny sandygast and cetoddle were the only good things for the month.
I've heard the fire ice spawns in part 1 were for Resheram presenting, while part 2 electric ice spawns are for representing zekrom resemble duo destiny theme of Kyrume evolution parts
@9:00 min ] - nah thats count jinsula lately.. haha jp jinsula
Mystic I hope you relise that there are bots in your comment section and that they are trying to scam kids by making there profile pictures sexual so I hope you see this and do something anout it cause at this point its really annoying
Thats not his fault. Report it to youtube
As someone still getting back into PoGo, I appreciated this event for Pokémon I rarely get to see, but I'm sure for long-time, consistent players that it's not that exciting. The theme fits for the Unova Tour, too, but yeah... 😅
@6:08 actually Part 2 Wooloo is the ONLY costume Pokémon thats spawning in the wild.
And it kinda sucks how Vanillite is the ONLY ice type thats featured in the wild! (Cetoddle don't count!)
Deng, I mean, the content nowadays I can't blame you for, the events have been meh for Christmas this year. If anything, I watch at this point as an adult to see what you're doing and what you're up to. Like I literally work in Santa Monica myself now and seeing your videos that are in Santa Monica as well just makes me feel accompanied in what I'm going through in life rn, Pokemon Go I'll keep playing regardless, but at this point of your channel, I'm watching you for you.
Totally agree but think niantic will say hoopa is to blame as he is causing issues with weird spawns and raid bosses but agree the grind for the rarer shinys is harder plus raids now they sneakily reduced the viewing distance Went from seeing 6 raids gyms to seeing 1 and didn’t see any announcements Thought the viewing distance would never be changed
I'm one of those players that came back to playing the gane, I downloaded the game when it 1st came out in 2016 but I stopped playing the game like 3 months later....I recently just got the game again like in June 2024 and these past few months I've gotten super lucky with the pokémons that I've encountered, I have encountered galarian moltres 4 times already but only caught one with the master ball because I got tired of them running away....anyways I got off topic lol but I enjoy your content and it's the reason why I subbed. I know the game is not everything you obviously have a normal life like everyone, just keep doing you.....I enjoy the content no matter what
Yeah getting a Giratina during the Christmas holiday time is crazy lol I absolutely love Giratina but not during Christmas lol
this is mystic7 not mystic yaps
bros speaking STRAIGHT COLD CUT FACTS
Christmas event underwhelming this year for sure, but I did catch my shiny wooloo today so that's nice
Shiny cetodle and wooloo is fine
Should have added more ice types
Yeah lapras for example
I thought you said you wouldn’t be making a video on this, glad to see more content tho!
Your best videos always feel more like a conversation than complaining so we like the constructive criticism! Hopefully Niantic will step it up in the new year. Cheers Mystic 👍
Only having stuff that's actually Holliday all pay walled is garbage.
I just lost a galarian zapdos bc i was catching a kecleon and i saw it for like a second and it flef in the animation dang 😅 also it was my first
Please tell me how you are able to find acquire so many good pokemon like shundos, hundos, and legendaries! Also why do you have so many duplicate Pokémon?
Your additude is fine. It just reflects what I feel like most casual players are feeling. Things in game are kinda meh and live is just getting more hectic. It was funny when you opened your fridge. I thought you was going to pull out your phone for some eggs lol. How's the third kitty doing? He still hanging in there?
Over 130 encounters, no shiny Wooloo… it’s literally the only thing I wanted🥲
Bro, new Dynamax Cryogonal is here. Sure I can understand if you got a Dynamax Lapras, but for us in rural areas that is a hard raid battle to defeat. So it’s worth going after.
Delibird needed to be in wild more no one was gonna play the spotlight hour on Christmas Eve 🤦♂️
PoGo no longer a "free" game. these premium tickets are getting outta hand.. We use to have some good free stuff back then.
i actually looked more forward to delibird raid hour! i got one shiny and got a hundo beldum dynamax that day :)
I don't care about the spawns that much...
But If they were more meta relevant spawns i would've been happier though
Appreciate you being honest. I’d like more events or raid days so I can get to lvl 50 😢
Many people celebrating Merry Christmas will singing Christmas song as part of the festival celebration.
Pokemon Go players will sing this song to Niantic modified from Money, Money, Money from ABBA when come to Christmas Day.
Money, Money, Money,
Must be greedy,
In the Niantic's games.
Ticket, Ticket, Ticket,
Must be shiny,
In the Niantic plans.
I think we've been seeing the effects of Niantic's layoff wave come about in recent months; those short term gains (for the stockholder happiness!!) are starting to affect the long term health of the game.
Talking specifically about the holiday event Pokemon, I can at least justify Part 1's theme having a nod to everyone in the Southern Hemisphere; it's technically summer down there! Part 2 though... it's all black and white colored Pokemon/shinies (except Rayquaza). I get that the idea is to tease Pokemon Black/White for GO Tour Unova, but this theme could have been done in an event in January or February; I can't really justify Part 2's spawns as being a Holiday Event theme. (other than the new Costume Wooloo and Shiny Cetoddle)
What did you get for Christmas
I got a shiny costume deli bird like a hour ago
Giratina altered……. Like ok shouldn’t that be for Halloween? Kyurem would have made much more sense.
Niantic would rather save that for the Unova Tour.
Honestly yeah…. The costumes being in raids and only being able to remote raid 5 a day was not good 😂
Whos gonNa tell him Cetoddile has boosted shiny odds IN RAIDS
Thank you for the support, Brother. As you well know-I always love watching your video.
December 2024 has been terrible and is easily the worst Holiday Season to date. No need to sugar coat it. Being the holidays, people probably have more money to spend and Niantic got a little trigger happy with pushing event tickets. It's not the first time they've upped their ticket game for the holidays, they did it with the awful Keldeo & Galarian Mime tickets in Decembers past.
However, January looks very promising with several new Pokémon debuts, a new Mega Evolution, a good variety of events, great event bonuses (up to 4X EXP/Stardust bonus for the Fidough Event!!), and the return of Deoxys which has been missing for quite a while. February looks equally as promising based on the leaks and limited knowledge we have of Unova Tour so far.
I think that they are saving the really good ice types for the release of black and white kyruem
Itnis kinda Christmas. If it’s a Christmas Carol. .. ghosts of Christmas past 😮😅
It was bad. We smashed it in hours once gym spawns happened. Fucking sad bro
You are just being honest about your opinion, but overall you’re still one of the most positive UA-camrs on pokemon Go so far that’s why I’ve been watching your channel all these years! Can’t wait for next year!
The wild spawns are good cuz Niantic told you so. Just give Niantic your money and everything will be ok…
Would love to see more integration of Mighty Pokemon, not sure what would be better without it being too much... Events vs. Daily incense or both,
Was I the only one that read “Holiday” event. I noticed in the video he almost said it twice. But changed to Christmas. I am thinking they changed it this year to “Holiday” as not everyone gets snow and winter this time of year. They changed a lot this past year. Like you said you are starting new businesses. So are they. What happens when you branch off to new things. Your baby your first project doesn’t get the enthusiasm it used to.
It's too cold to go walking 🥶 they should turn back on covid bonuses for the winter so I don't have to freeze to play the game.
I don’t mind the way you see things cause at the end of the day it shows you’re real about it, you don’t fake your emotions just for content and that’s what I like 👍 I can agree with your point of view on pogo
Don't listen to people upset at your feelings about the game because you are on point and if everyone just brainlessly praises everything then niantic will never change it
I blame Chester the cat.. if he cleaned out his liter box it would free up more time for you to grind out Pokemon go..
NOT THE LAST CUZ EVERY NEW YEAR THERES A EVENT FOR LIMITED COSTUME POKEMON
Nothing is bad, it is just an opportunity to improve