Mystic7 Just posted a very similar video yesterday - I can promise you I did not copy him I have been working on this video past 2-3 weeks - I have footage with timestamps for anyone who doesn't believe me. None the less I hope you all enjoy as alot of work & research went into this video Also it was just confirmed by niantic *THEY DO NOT SELL LOCATION DATA* - my mistake
I've watched both. I legitimately get the impression you both decided to make these shortly after the raid changes. And yours has your own unique flair to it my man. No worries at all
Here's the problem a lot of Game Devs make.... When they want to change something significantly they often nerf a particular core element. They always think in terms of nerfing. Instead, just buff the other thing. For example leave remote raids the way they were, but add on specials perks or bonuses for in person events if your entire goal is just to try motivate people to meet up again in the real world. That way those that it doesn't suit can remain playing the way that meets their needs.
As someone who has hundreds of friends who remote raided 50+ legendaries daily.. I’m not sure incentives would work. It wasn’t a case of “Oh let’s do better here and everyone will follow.” They knew it wasn’t going to work. You could half shiny odds, guaranteed XL rare candy, +3 XL candy, IV ceiling of 12/12/12, etc. People still wouldn’t choose to raid in person over remote raid. Local communities would just say “Someone go out there and invite us all”. It sucks to not be able to raid unlimitedly, but no amount of incentives would’ve gotten as many people outside as a hard limit of 5 and a price increase. Both passes were 100 coins, why would you ever choose to raid in person over remote raids?
@@JorgeMorales-xv6qx Means you can raid anywhere from the comfort of your home, people got too used to it since covid started. I'm kind of sad that I can't remote raid as much, but I still think the extreme price increase was too much. I understand that they needed to add a limit to it, but it would have been better to increase the incentives to go out more
I remember back in 2016, a retirement community nearby a pond had to call the police because there were so many people congregating to look for a dratini sighting.
To bring some more nuance to the 2017 GO Fest Disaster, Niantic did contact company's like Verizon with the question if they could add temporary cell towers near the event area because they were scared the network couldn't handle it otherwise, but the companies said no because "It had never been an issue before with any other events at this location". Thus completely ignoring the fact that other event's don't have everyone using the network intensly by playing a mobile game..... And then the one thing happened that they said wouldn't happen.
I remember that Trainer Tips talk about… but the thing is that if you go to a concert am you am most of everyone’s loses their internet they don’t mind bc they are looking am lessening to the music am artists
But it wasn’t only network issues. Niantic servers weren’t handling the high flux well enough. People couldn’t log in to the game not because of internet but because the servers were overwhelmed
And yet, at this year's Vegas event, the park was saturated with additional cells, but the network infrastructure between the cells and the servers, as well as the servers themselves were completely overloaded leading to a nearly unplayable experience. Making mistakes is one thing. Not learning from those mistakes six years later is a whole other thing.
2016 was magical, there was just something awesome about running out of the house and wandering around for awhile, seeing people doing exactly the same thing as you were, even joining up with random strangers after seeing a rare spawn on the nearby list. My favourite memory was wandering around and looking down an alley and seeing a group of people hunched over, they notice me and we both were just looking at each other not really saying anything and then we both sort of hold up our phones and say “Pokemon?”. Damn that was a good time hahah
During the past month i have suffered, because i live in a small town with no local community (at least that I am aware of). For example the shadow raids : I couldn't take part as i had no help in beating shadow mewtwo. Remote raid passes helped me do the one thing i couldn't, and now they are nerfed into the ground.
Honestly, I think these changes Niantic made have been fantastic. Since I stopped playing Pokemon Go, I've improved my life in so many different ways, I've spent more time with my loved ones, and I've saved a ton of money. Better yet, I've seen just how disastrous it can be to be addicted to a video game. I don't think there's anything Niantic can do to get me to come back and be a hardcore player that drops cash in this game, and I'm truly happy for this. Thank you, Niantic. 🎉
Same, I love not having to dedicate like 2 hours a day to do little to no progress in this game. No shiny shadow legendary in the entire National Dex will make me come back.
Damn how much time was you spending on this ? Love can be confused as obsession . I've been playing since 2015/16 whenever it came out Not once did I spend any kind of money on it I'm 26 So I'm financial stable Just never once thought to spend money on a phone game On my playstation that's a different story I've literally bought every dlc for XenoVerse 2 dragon ball 🤣😭 They still come out with dlcs But I never spent money on GTA online which I've been playing since 2015
@@midwestrebel2 Years ago before COVID a friend of mine spend over $850 in Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle on his Android phone. I convinced him to stop throwing money away. Then he started spending money last year in Pokemon Go instead. Now after the nerf he has stopped spending money but we play the game every day taking over gyms and catching any meta relevant wild spawns.
I didn’t spend on Pokémon until I discovered what all the craze for the card TCG was all about. Once I pulled my first shiny cardboard alt art charizard, the high I got was way more intense than catching a snorlax in pogo. Plus, having the physical collectible is a fun hobby.
This is, BY FAR, your best vid Daxi. Very well edited. The music in the background is not intrusive, but well sorted. We can see all the info screens, not only you commenting on stuff. Well done, my friend. I won't say anything about Niantic, but your editing skills are SHUNDO! ;)
Both your and Mystic’s videos are very well done and spot on with the story of the game. Great job. I think the game will still thrive as long as new features make it exciting and I believe in-person communities will come back this summer. Looks like the remote pass change isn’t going to be reverted, and everyone will have to make their own decision on playing and how to play.
Man thanks for your work on these issues. The change’s destroyed the game for me and my kids. We played daily and I spent money daily. But due to the changes we had all but stopped playing. We get out and play but rural play, lack of time and inability to beat most raids. I haven’t caught a legendary since the beginning of the changes. I have almost 400 friends and use to get 30-40 invites a day, I refuse to be punished financially for a game so I don’t remote anymore. And to top it off I have received less than 3-5 invites a week. I know they are feeling the changes but you are right in your analysis they may not recover from this self inflicted injury. Keep up the great content.
Thanks for the solid effort in this one @Pokedaxi. For the first time in around 2 years I didn't spin a pokestop or catch a pokemon. It was really hard to do, but 3 weeks later, I feel really good about my decision to stop. I didn't have an unhealthy habit with the game, I just don't want to have to spend much money to enjoy it, and with Niantic putting prices up unnecessarily high, I knew it was time to put it down. Don't worry, I'm sure they will say sorry soon, revert the changes and give us all a couple of silver pineaps for the inconvenience.😂😂
@@MichaelInsightful No, they have seen better. And just because they want the game the signed up for and have put money into it (I have put thousands) we are disappointed that what we have invested time and money into is not delivering the same thing we got when we started and what we signed up for. You might want to rethink your definition of toxic.
@@atlgameslayergamingwhat do you mean it's not delivering? Did you even play back in 2016? There were no such thing as raids, berries, etc. The game has come a long way. Players are just toxic because they just want to whine about everything. For example, you put Gible in eggs, players complain it's too hard to get one. You give Gible a Comm Day, players complain it's too easy to get one. Niantic can't please everyone.
Will never forget the excitement of finding a Machop 2 steps away, and all the friends franticly fanning out over a soccer field to find it. Bad system, good times.
I made so many friends this weekend!! I knew no one in this city since i moved here 2 years ago and i drive 1 hour to visit my friends but now i have a whole community to hang out with! With no remote raiding everyone came out this weekend and i even drove around a random guy i met for 2 days and exchanged numbers and walked around with dozens more. I know this change was tough for people in really rural areas but tbh i consider the new city i moved to totally rural and somehow people were scattered but were brought together by the end of the weekend. Niantic Campfire app was also a huge help in this so download that if yall havent!!
Bro! This video was a great view on how things started and brought us full circle to now. Its really inspiring to see how a content creator as yourself, dedicated time and effort to make this timeline type of video for all of us to understand the current situation and therefore hold our opinions accountable. We all have our opinions but also we gotta give it with a sense of research first. This video can definitely put things into perspective on how we individually view PoGo but at the end of the day, either you play it or you don’t. Thanks for this reminder and flashback moment of this game. Keep at it with the vids man! Glad I subscribed to your channel.
ngl, this made me want to play pokemon go. had countless memories of me biking to friends houses unannounced, telling them to grab their stuff and head somewhere because there was a blaziken on the nearby. *true story*
Yeah, it was a pretty quick transition from the incredible Twinkling Fantasy event, or whatever it was called, that we got in January to the pretty meh events we've been getting this season
@@earthbloodelf5289 no dude. It wasn’t just meh. When the new season was announced, people were like “oh, that sounds like a bad season” but they weren’t expecting these horrible changes and overall, the huge decline of the game
@Roger Taylor’s car 🚗 I mean aside from the bad changes made, I haven't felt too strongly about any of the events, which is why I said they were just meh, but that's probably a personal thing
Let me add salt to the comment. Its so much worse on rural player like me, especially since you had no idea when the Raid come especially when your location is more than one km from nearest location...
I believe Niantic could have compromised. Instead of 195, dropping down the price of remote raids to 150 (meaning 3 days worth of free pokecoins). And instead of limiting the remote raid limit to 5 increase it to 10/15. Most people won't be doing more than 10 raids a day anyways. If Niantic does bring these changes I believe most of the players who have stopped playing the game would come back.
This was a well communicated video about the needs of the ENTIRE COMMUNITY. Thank you for remaining dedicated to ensuring that Niantic hears us! Bravo, sir.
It really does take a great community (and weather lol). Since I’m back in my suburban hometown, rather than walking around a city as normal, I drove out to a few local parks. I met 8 new friends to raid shadow mewtwo with and ended up exchanging phone numbers for future events. Got my shiny shadow mewtwo, and came together with people of similar interests just like the game intends. This has been the most interaction I’ve had at random since the last global GO fest, and I think the perfect mix of interesting events/content, location, and community can really make for a positive experience - even 7 years later. I look forward to doing more just like this! Hoping Pokemon GO is here as long as the franchise is.
That's great and something worth trying to make happen for more people, but Niantic has to also understand that " most " people are some combination of very young, very old, disabled, anti-social, or have too rigid of a daily schedule to consistently do things under such strict times/rules. Giving the " majority " of the players enough flexibility and quality of life options are what keep the game successful enough to keep around and fund those larger events that people like you or me can enjoy. Them sticking to these rigid, weird ideology is going to diminish the game to a point that I fear will kill it off if they don't adapt.
Remember when there would be hundreds of people in the park and the stampede that happened when there was a wild lapras spawn. I still pkay and will continue for the time been but theres no denying that theres been a lot of bad changes and not enough/too far between good ones
People need to remember we are NOT IN 2016, and this game has grown so much. On Sat, I went out into my community to do sum mewtwo raid. NO one was out i sat in my car and cried this is the 1st time I felt I was ready to quit playing 💔 there can always be Compromise on both ends if we're gonna make shadow raids in person only why take away the Remote raids? Niantic could have left remote raids and still made raids in person both side wins but Niantic doesn't see that why can't we work together to make this game work for everyone ❤
@@anthonyvrooman1804 The fact still stands. If you're going to cry over a game, especially sitting in your car, because you missed out on 1 pokemon that will be back then you should take a break and sort out your priorities.
What a video man, so well researched but also edited and told in such a palatable way.. amazing daxi! Regardless of where pokomon go goes, I'm really looking forward to see what you create ♥️
I want to thank you for taking the time to speak about this. I feel the same way as you, my community has suffered a lot and we still have not been heard. I appreciate you by standing by the community unlike some creators like Mystic7 who constantly (all the time) stands with Niantic. It feels like most creators are starting to side with Niantic which is very sad because we need to stick together. Thank you Daxi for being there with us.
I’m not too affected by the changes. The only time I did more than 5 remote raids a day was during the hoenn tour to get the primals, but the price increase is really bad.
Personnaly I love this game so much, it encourages me to go out for a walk and I try to do the 50 km walk distance each week for the rewards. My only deception is about raids, I live in a rural place and there is no community around me, I really would appreciate an alternative so I can enjoy legendary raids also (other than discord groups).
@@justincadieux1535 Yeah there are many options available for Niantic to improve raid system, either for small communities or for rural players, like for example grouping with raid players from other raids. Like I go to my gym to do a raid, I enter in the raid and I'm automatically grouped with other players in other cities etc... But that will clearly break the remote raid functionality, so why not allow this feature only for the free raid we get each day or once a week via a special raid pass that reloads each monday, by doing so, every players will have the chance to do legendary raids, we'll still have to go outside to do them. Well, let's see what Niantic is planning for us :D
@@mr.flupsurf2860 Yeah totally agree ! I was thinking about with this the adding of Purified gems ! Maybe by walking we could have an item that would lower the power of legendary Pokemon and so we could do it alone
I joined in 2020 during the pandemic. PG gave my family a way to stay connected and play - no matter where we were. We all live in different states, so this game was central. We were connected. When we physically saw each other, we traded. We compared. We had fun. I made friends all over the world and I never turned down a remote raid invitation. I loved trading gifts and logging into the game every morning to see what my friends were doing and the gifts. Then the Remote Raid nerf. Niantic doubled the cost - so now my gaming costs me twice as much and if that was not bad enough, my raiding is limited to 5 times a day. This would end any remote raids from friends as I would need all of them for my family. That is - if my family raided that day. So - I deleted the game from my phone. The family events broke up. No more remote raids. Niantic didn't have to bust the game for me in order to promote in person raids. Incentivize in person raids better. Give extra bling. Whatever. It is always better to give than take away. Given that Niantic does not want to talk about it, but move forward - this tells me all I need to know about their business practices. All I can do is warn you: if they did it to me, they will do it to you in the blink of an eye. If the game is fun and playable for you - congrats. You must be their target customer. Enjoy. Just be warned that your gameplay can change quickly as well.
I feel like I have a pretty positive impression of the game so far! I only joined the game in March, so I didn’t have much time to remote raid before it got nerfed. Since then I’ve met quite a few people in my local community and it’s been a blast doing raids and other events with them. This is the only game experience that has really connected me with others in the real world. Granted I live in a big city, so there’s lots of stops and people to meet. 😅
Got my girlfriend into it during her third trimester before our daughter was born. We've been having a blast. Pokemon in any medium will never die lol.
great video, dax! i dropped the game after winter 2016 and picked it up again at the end of last year. it's really fascinating to see how the game has developed over the years. thanks for all this research, i learned a lot!
When this game came out, it was so magical. At the time every single friend I knew was playing and it was all the buzz. We'd go to this park that had an insane cluster of stops and such. And massive amounts of people would show up to this place and chill till late night. Everyone was so nice, it was chill, the events were epic. I recently picked it up again myself because I sort of yearned for those times again. But heck, adulting. Hopefully it continues to pick back up. Ive been itching to play pokemon mobile like in some fashion. So opted out for GO (for now). We'll see.
Great summary of the game! We even got features no one asked for, sizes and their animations. Huh???? Great job, hope the Pokémon company or who owns the rights can take it from Niantic and Listen and progress the game. Still playing since 2016 but not really excited, haven't seen a unique raid boss in such a LONG time. Yes we have variants but Nothing new and a lot of rehashed. Uggh. Love your hard work will look forward to seeing what you post/do next!
My friends all put the game down in 2017 and recently in order to engage in a more active lifestyle I picked it up again and I’m having a ton of fun playing while getting ample time outdoors. I’m incredibly thankful that Pokémon Go is still around.
Amazingly well done video! 💙 I didn’t really have a booming Pokémon scene near me, but I’d still love to drive around during events, and park at different areas and send out invites. I’d also really like joining others to help out, but when Niantic decided to ignore us because of some stubborn point-of-view it upset me to the point I thought to myself, why give this company my money, more importantly my time if they would just ignore me as a player? I spent a fair amount of money and time in the game, was close to level 42 but just quit cold turkey. I’ve not played any events no matter how enticing because it felt like it was for show, rather than for the fans. But hey, if they revert I’ll come back, until then guess I’ll just move on. Keep up the awesome vids Daxi! 👍🏽
The future is.... Niantic used the Pokémon IP to gather tons of information on the player base. They used them to gather information for their other failed/failing games. As well as to sell the information to the highest bidder. They never cared about the Pokémon IP or community. Still do not. They will sell that data to the highest bidder.
I've only been playing for a few weeks now but here's what I'd do 1. 1 raid pass - 150, 3 passes for 300. Easier for everyone to get 2. Level 1 - 10, 3 raids per day. 20 - 25, 5 raids per day. From Level 30 to 50 get 10 raids per day. It gives people another reason to level up 3. Add a chat fuction to the game to make it easier to organize raids and create communities :)
Idk fr the players they gained during Covid 19 are definitely gonna leave and honestly remote raiding was the only thing that leveled the playing field for rural/ disabled players. Not only that but people were used to the way it was during Covid and despite the community being very vocal about the changes, niantic has basically said “we hear you but we don’t care” 🙄🙄
@pokidaxi, i know most of your videos are made for laughs and entertainment. However this one hit a lot closer to home. You've said what so many of us couldn't. I just wanted to say, on my behalf, and all those that love your content....Thank you!
I do remember first playing Pokemon Go back in 2016. There was something fun and charming about finding Pokemon just in my neighborhood or in my backyard. I completely forgot about the disaster of the first Pokemon Go Fest. With that in mind, it's surprising that they managed to become a yearly tradition. As I've often said, I think it was a huge mistake on Niantic's part to see these changes at the start of the pandemic as temporary bonuses. I understand why to a point given their mission statement, but these were all much needed quality of life updates that made the game more fun and accessible. It wasn't like you could play the game without walking around either. You still needed to get to Pokestops for research and to hatch eggs. The most you could do before was catch some Pokemon with the improved incense and do some raids remotely if you were willing to spend more money for them. Being able to play the game how I wanted made it much more flexible. I liked being able to stay comfortably at home while having the incense going during Community Days. While I do miss the proper six hour Community Days, I don't think that they worked without the improved incense. Honestly, I'd be perfectly fine with the three hour Community Days if they just made them from 11am-2pm instead of 2pm-5pm, especially for the upcoming summer months where it's going to be hot for a lot of places. A better solution would be to encourage more in person play with better rewards. Actual guaranteed Rare XL candies or more premium items being available for doing in-person raids would really attract a lot of attention. Nerfing remote raids doesn't make me want to join a local community. If I wasn't comfortable doing that before the pandemic, I'm not comfortable with doing it now, with or without the nerf. The only good, or perhaps helpful would be more accurate, thing about this recent change is that I am spending less money on Pokemon Go. I haven't gone full free to play yet for a few reasons, but I am at least trying to spend less money on the game. As much as I love remote raids, I was definitely spending too much money on them, even if I think it was worth it. I don't think that Niantic needed to put a limit and increase the price for me to do that. It really should be on me to limit my spending habits, but this is my attempt at finding something positive in the mist of this decision. I may be too optimistic, but I'd like to hope that the game could improve. There should be a balance between Niantic listening to player feedback and following their mission statement. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
Man this was oddly nostalgic... I been playing since 2016 my daughter was born in 2016 ... she is 7 now ... i have spent a lot of time on this game I hate to see it end this way ...
It honestly feels like a waste of time since a better company could have made this game so much better and keep it going for another decade. It almost seems like they are doing everything they can to kill this game, which is a shame because there are millions of pokemon fans that would have loved this game if it was managed properly.
Maybe it wasn't as active as before (I only started playing last year, so not sure), but it's certainly not anywhere near dead in my area, I didn't have the time to raid on Saturday, but yesterday (Sunday) there were quite a few people out there raiding for Shadow Mewtwo! Did a couple raids with about 20 other people, meeting at different gyms in the area.
I really miss seeing everyone outside playing this game and how engaging it was. Seeing people showing their love for Pokémon was awesome and it made me get into it that much more. I recently got back into it after a couple of years so I missed out on a lot. Now with how the game is going, it makes me sad. I hope Niantic changes for the better of its fanbase in the future because the way it’s going it’s not looking good.
Hey Daxi, love the video. If I am going to be completely honest, I found the Shadow Raids a disappointment. They did not follow the regular IV floors of regular raids (essentially making the passes spent, wasted, for the most part). As for Niantic reverting the COVID changes this year, I'm not happy about the reversion at all. It's a spit in the face to anyone that has disabilities that still want to play the game, but cannot go out, either because of EDS, Lupus flares and/or so much more. I am a free to play player, and at this point, with how everything is going, I am seriously considering either A: quitting the game fully, or B: leaving my main account to die and making a different one, but not choosing a team, basically locking myself out of the feature that Niantic has chosen to limit, and just not participate at all in raiding. I had such high hopes and saw so much potential in Pokemon GO during the time where the COVID changes were implemented, but it all went downhill from there. I can no longer find any good reasons to recommend Pokemon GO to anyone, aside from using it to obtain Pokemon that are otherwise unobtainable through the other games (which is the only reason my current main account is still running). Sorry for being so negative, but it's just my honest thoughts and feelings surrounding the game. I hope all is well with you and your community and everything continues to prosper for everyone!
I just started getting serious on Pokémon go about a year ago (I’ve had my account since 2018) and I have so many good accomplishments and the game is just now dying. Timing is bad.
After failing to complete shadow mewtwo raids due to either the gems not working and losing them anyway (and support only giving me one back) or due to winning the raid but somehow being kicked out of the raid and upon re entering being placed in another lobby that was empty (for which again support only offered me one gem) I decided to call it quits. Too many bugs on top of all the bad changes lately and it's enough for me.
We had a group of 70 or so out yesterday running around Downtown Calgary for shadow Mewtwos. It was the first big group event I've done with the game, and it was great. But I feel the changes and trend of the game lately, those events will be very few and far between. They can't release shadow Mewtwos every month, after all.
Exactly this. It was the Pokemon in the raids that did it, not the in person factor. Rayquaza raids during lockdown were the same. People wanted to do them, and I saw a lot in person. How they misunderstand their own game so badly beggars belief.
They should be few and far between. I don’t want to feel like I have to drive 30+ minutes to the city center every weekend just for these events to be playable, and I can’t imagine how it feels for players who have to drive more than an hour or two. Sad that Niantic has to force players together these days rather than let it happen organically. This weekend was kind of fun but the second day I just drove around because the raids were way too far apart and walking so much in 40+ degrees is just hell. They should at least give players options. And don’t you think if most players wanted to raid in groups in person more, then they would do it? Especially given the bonuses for in person raids. Says a lot about what people like and don’t like about the game, if you ask me.
I opened a PoGo account on 7/6/2016 the first day it was available in the U.S. but life got in the way of me enjoying it the way I wanted to. I went on hiatus until about 4yrs ago when I actually found a group of people who played it regularly, and so I downloaded the game and reapplied myself to it. Eventually, that group slowly started disappearing, and now they are all inactive altogether. I missed out on those early years when the hype for the game was almost around at every turn of a street corner. Now all my "friends" list is full of random people I befriended from apps where you post your # on and hope somebody decides to copy and paste it in PoGo. I can't do any raids in person because I very rarely have anybody to help with the higher tiers. It's to the point now that this game is a more chore than it is fun. With the price hikes and now remote raid pass limits and the cherry on the top of this 💩 Sundae is I can't get a shadow Mewtwo because I need to be at gym physically for them. I feel like what time and money I have put into this game was a total waste. I can't imagine what the people who have played this game constantly from 2016 til now feel like. I'll probably play til end of this month and just hang it up and find something else to put effort into.
While I love the game I've been getting a bit burned out recently. With the remote raid pass nerf it's been harder to find people to raid being in a more rural area. I still play but I raid much less and it's a bit more casual.
The limiting of the remote raid pass was really a bust. If niantic would of put a fair limit of Maybe 10 remote raids a day and left the price the same, players would of been received the news a lot better but to almost double the price just demoralized the a big part of the pokemon go community
2016 was the best year in my life. I made so many friends and learned so much. I never knew anything about Pokemon. Pogo is one of the few games that changed my life. Love it so much ❤
@@lottafandoms thanx, that's like a medal to me, coz it means i'm not a delussional brainwashed groomer who is pushing their disgusting ideology on innocent kids 👍
Maybe dead to burnt out players, as a fresh player Im enjoying it a lot. Just 3 things, shadow raids should be done remotely, pvp lag is annoying and 50 gold per day is really predatory. Other than that I dont see any problems
Its not going to die, people will continue to play it i saw more old players coming back to raiding in groups in this mewtwo event, ill continue to play this no matter what im a true pokemon player who dedicated so much time and memories to this
My whole motivation for why I still play Pokemon go is just to complete the Pokedex. Since its integrated with Pokemon Home, which in turn connects to my other games, it makes it easier to catch the mons [especially the legendary ones] and I can send them over into the game. I know the game isn't popping like it was back in 2016..but lets face it most of those who played were mostly going for nostalgia and only played up until Gen 1. Those who stuck around not only play PoGo but they are also playing the current games. So you can kinda see where it died off a bit. I will say my spending for PoGo did drop since Im not buying remote raid passes as frequently as I use to. But I do enjoy going out and participating in community days.
When reading the nerf of tour and go fest i was like: so you want us to go out of our homes to pay 400 dollars of plane ticket to then drive to a paid event???
Regardless how you feel, if you haven't already scale down or completely stop with the the in-app purchases. There's a reason we've been getting alot of egg events for example
I have sadly not that many people near me that play so raids are somtime hard to beat. But to be fair. I am fine whit the limit of 5 remote per day. The only thing that hurted me was that they made it almost 200 coins. Because i did 1 or 2 remote a day somtime to get the raid boss. Stil i have 0 plans to quit (yet) because i still like to go outside during weekends. But i am a little afraid of the winter, because it can get super cold where i live. But now during summer i gonna enjoy the game.
Niantic were happy to go against their moto during Covid for the survival of the game (when it suits them). They were happy to take everyone’s money, let everyone build up their teams, then take it away, ignore their player base in favour of their sponsors. I have a local community, but I have an OS community as well, and a large part of that community is hurting. The game has evolved in a great way, it was all inclusive. Players are their happiest when they are not excluded from playing and can chose where, when, for how long and who they want to play with. I managed to raid about as many Shadow Mewtwo over the entire weekend, I would normally do in a raid hour pre nerf. I played with old and new players, it was fun, but I missed my group, most of which were unable to raid Mewtwo. I lost most of my weekend. Did it for M2, but wouldn’t have done it for many others. Great podcast. Appreciate your support. I am tiring watching influencers who don’t have restrictions on raids, originally saying it’s sad times for pogo and then doing an about face saying it was the right decision.
All they need to do is increase the odds of a hundo for in person raids and more people will come out tbh i mean we pay realy money for a virtual item with 1-216 odds lmao
Great video (always) There are few things Niantic can do: Increase remote raids 10 - 15 a day The price of remote pass sure be 125 or 150 and 350 for 3 Bring back Legendary on Field Research or have Regional Pokémon Global Trade
Yea man the game is definitely dieing. I’ve got 10 lucky friends right now and they are all telling me they haven’t opened the game since the remote raid increase. I’m about to jump ship too
No one was against making game reward you for in person raids or going out to play. But even to that the remote raid passes were of great help. 6 hour community days were just convenient, you still did better if you went out to play, but you could do that with more east
I didn't bother with these mewtwo raids don't have people around just have no interest anymore I still open it every day and play but it's deffo lost the spark. I actually think it was at its best with remote raids .
Just started playing due to kids, got my husband playing. Now we spend time together and interact with our kids on a regular basis doing remote raids from different states. I've been sharing your videos with them. Yours are my favorite!
crazy how it took shadow mewtwo to actually meet players in my local community, I think they should do weekly elite raids so people have more opportunities to get the pokemon but also to meet up
Yep, I started in 2020. Wasn't able to play before that because I lived out of town. It was nice to use incense at home, if I couldn't get to town, on spotlight and com days. And it allowed me to raid. Flexability and accessibility - you'd think any company would be happy with these improvements. Even with accessiblity at home, PoGo got me out seeing parts of town and places I'd never been before. The idea that letting a person play from home makes them want to stay there is a crock! People who play PoGo WANT to go out, they just can't always.
Good video. Your closing comments are spot on. Pokémon Go can't be both for everyone and also a unique AR exercise game. They have to choose, and that choice might hurt the game one way or another.
In 2020, with the 80M update, i could suddenly reach an gym out of house, and there where some local gyms on places with very low activity in general so i could do some solo stuff in Pokémon, but 5* raids where no longer an option until the remote update. The 80m change also fixed trouble with drifting on my old phone, used to have trouble getting into some raids with the 40m because my character kept running away and refused to get into the 40m range
That is sad... but its very true i remeber those all summer day in 2017 while i was hanging out with friends and Playing and catching those wonderfull creatures...
Mystic7 Just posted a very similar video yesterday - I can promise you I did not copy him I have been working on this video past 2-3 weeks - I have footage with timestamps for anyone who doesn't believe me.
None the less I hope you all enjoy as alot of work & research went into this video
Also it was just confirmed by niantic *THEY DO NOT SELL LOCATION DATA* - my mistake
Na we trust ypu
You do a great work for the community thank you so much
Don't worry of course we trust you😂🙃 no need to show proof
Haha I was just wondering if you guys planned this. Regardless I love the in depth history. Thanks for the information Daxi!
I've watched both. I legitimately get the impression you both decided to make these shortly after the raid changes. And yours has your own unique flair to it my man. No worries at all
Here's the problem a lot of Game Devs make.... When they want to change something significantly they often nerf a particular core element.
They always think in terms of nerfing.
Instead, just buff the other thing. For example leave remote raids the way they were, but add on specials perks or bonuses for in person events if your entire goal is just to try motivate people to meet up again in the real world.
That way those that it doesn't suit can remain playing the way that meets their needs.
They thought they did that by giving 3 guaranteed XL candy in legendary raids
@@Panikdemet3 xl candies is so worthless since there are hardly any stardust events
As someone who has hundreds of friends who remote raided 50+ legendaries daily.. I’m not sure incentives would work. It wasn’t a case of “Oh let’s do better here and everyone will follow.” They knew it wasn’t going to work. You could half shiny odds, guaranteed XL rare candy, +3 XL candy, IV ceiling of 12/12/12, etc. People still wouldn’t choose to raid in person over remote raid. Local communities would just say “Someone go out there and invite us all”. It sucks to not be able to raid unlimitedly, but no amount of incentives would’ve gotten as many people outside as a hard limit of 5 and a price increase. Both passes were 100 coins, why would you ever choose to raid in person over remote raids?
Why are remote passses so important to the game ? Back in 2016-2019 nooooooooo one cared
@@JorgeMorales-xv6qx Means you can raid anywhere from the comfort of your home, people got too used to it since covid started. I'm kind of sad that I can't remote raid as much, but I still think the extreme price increase was too much. I understand that they needed to add a limit to it, but it would have been better to increase the incentives to go out more
Man, I miss the good ol’ days of people running to find a wild snorlax. 2016 was an awesome year.
The best year
I remember back in 2016, a retirement community nearby a pond had to call the police because there were so many people congregating to look for a dratini sighting.
@@wenam87 Oh man, that’s another good Pokémon that everyone would go for. Dragonite hunting was awesome too.
Or a dragonite.
"GUYS A DRAGONITE AT x" will live in my head rent free
To bring some more nuance to the 2017 GO Fest Disaster, Niantic did contact company's like Verizon with the question if they could add temporary cell towers near the event area because they were scared the network couldn't handle it otherwise, but the companies said no because "It had never been an issue before with any other events at this location". Thus completely ignoring the fact that other event's don't have everyone using the network intensly by playing a mobile game..... And then the one thing happened that they said wouldn't happen.
I remember that Trainer Tips talk about… but the thing is that if you go to a concert am you am most of everyone’s loses their internet they don’t mind bc they are looking am lessening to the music am artists
But it wasn’t only network issues. Niantic servers weren’t handling the high flux well enough. People couldn’t log in to the game not because of internet but because the servers were overwhelmed
And yet, at this year's Vegas event, the park was saturated with additional cells, but the network infrastructure between the cells and the servers, as well as the servers themselves were completely overloaded leading to a nearly unplayable experience. Making mistakes is one thing. Not learning from those mistakes six years later is a whole other thing.
"Relax. It's unsinkable"....
I would love to see this game prosper again but the rural community needs way more support then it’s getting right now.
The rural community never got support in the first place. There was no way to even participate in master league until remote raids.
this game will prosper without the rural community.
@@MrSinister718 it always has but the decision to exclude large parts of your customer base will catch up sooner than later.
@@MrSinister718 prosper?
It is dying....
@@mrfreeman2911 Yeah, I'll bet. Sure no one spent money to get shiny shadow mewtwos.
2016 was magical, there was just something awesome about running out of the house and wandering around for awhile, seeing people doing exactly the same thing as you were, even joining up with random strangers after seeing a rare spawn on the nearby list.
My favourite memory was wandering around and looking down an alley and seeing a group of people hunched over, they notice me and we both were just looking at each other not really saying anything and then we both sort of hold up our phones and say “Pokemon?”. Damn that was a good time hahah
This is such a well made video. Great work as always Daxi 🤙
During the past month i have suffered, because i live in a small town with no local community (at least that I am aware of). For example the shadow raids : I couldn't take part as i had no help in beating shadow mewtwo. Remote raid passes helped me do the one thing i couldn't, and now they are nerfed into the ground.
We just have to accept us rural / small market players are not niantic's target market
Same here. If I want to beat anything past 3 star raids I have to pay to remote or host remotely on poke genie.
Honestly, I think these changes Niantic made have been fantastic. Since I stopped playing Pokemon Go, I've improved my life in so many different ways, I've spent more time with my loved ones, and I've saved a ton of money. Better yet, I've seen just how disastrous it can be to be addicted to a video game. I don't think there's anything Niantic can do to get me to come back and be a hardcore player that drops cash in this game, and I'm truly happy for this. Thank you, Niantic. 🎉
Same, I love not having to dedicate like 2 hours a day to do little to no progress in this game.
No shiny shadow legendary in the entire National Dex will make me come back.
Damn how much time was you spending on this ? Love can be confused as obsession .
I've been playing since 2015/16 whenever it came out
Not once did I spend any kind of money on it
I'm 26
So I'm financial stable
Just never once thought to spend money on a phone game
On my playstation that's a different story
I've literally bought every dlc for XenoVerse 2 dragon ball 🤣😭
They still come out with dlcs
But I never spent money on GTA online which I've been playing since 2015
@@midwestrebel2 Years ago before COVID a friend of mine spend over $850 in Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle on his Android phone.
I convinced him to stop throwing money away.
Then he started spending money last year in Pokemon Go instead.
Now after the nerf he has stopped spending money but we play the game every day taking over gyms and catching any meta relevant wild spawns.
I didn’t spend on Pokémon until I discovered what all the craze for the card TCG was all about. Once I pulled my first shiny cardboard alt art charizard, the high I got was way more intense than catching a snorlax in pogo. Plus, having the physical collectible is a fun hobby.
This is, BY FAR, your best vid Daxi. Very well edited. The music in the background is not intrusive, but well sorted. We can see all the info screens, not only you commenting on stuff. Well done, my friend. I won't say anything about Niantic, but your editing skills are SHUNDO! ;)
Both your and Mystic’s videos are very well done and spot on with the story of the game. Great job. I think the game will still thrive as long as new features make it exciting and I believe in-person communities will come back this summer. Looks like the remote pass change isn’t going to be reverted, and everyone will have to make their own decision on playing and how to play.
Man thanks for your work on these issues. The change’s destroyed the game for me and my kids. We played daily and I spent money daily. But due to the changes we had all but stopped playing. We get out and play but rural play, lack of time and inability to beat most raids. I haven’t caught a legendary since the beginning of the changes. I have almost 400 friends and use to get 30-40 invites a day, I refuse to be punished financially for a game so I don’t remote anymore. And to top it off I have received less than 3-5 invites a week. I know they are feeling the changes but you are right in your analysis they may not recover from this self inflicted injury. Keep up the great content.
Thanks for the solid effort in this one @Pokedaxi. For the first time in around 2 years I didn't spin a pokestop or catch a pokemon. It was really hard to do, but 3 weeks later, I feel really good about my decision to stop. I didn't have an unhealthy habit with the game, I just don't want to have to spend much money to enjoy it, and with Niantic putting prices up unnecessarily high, I knew it was time to put it down. Don't worry, I'm sure they will say sorry soon, revert the changes and give us all a couple of silver pineaps for the inconvenience.😂😂
Love that you are the only one really covering it like this tbh
Mystic7 did today too
@@skibumb16 But this one is much more complex
@@BloodRain23 not really. Mystic7s was a lot more in depth
People often tend to forget that it's just a game. If you are not enjoying it anymore, you don't have to play.
The most important point
Most people who play it now are complaining about the game and toxic, and not enjoying it imo
@@MichaelInsightful No, they have seen better. And just because they want the game the signed up for and have put money into it (I have put thousands) we are disappointed that what we have invested time and money into is not delivering the same thing we got when we started and what we signed up for.
You might want to rethink your definition of toxic.
@@atlgameslayergamingwhat do you mean it's not delivering? Did you even play back in 2016? There were no such thing as raids, berries, etc. The game has come a long way. Players are just toxic because they just want to whine about everything. For example, you put Gible in eggs, players complain it's too hard to get one. You give Gible a Comm Day, players complain it's too easy to get one. Niantic can't please everyone.
And people want the game to be as the other video games… sitting and winning everything like if it’s the only Pokémon video game xd
Will never forget the excitement of finding a Machop 2 steps away, and all the friends franticly fanning out over a soccer field to find it. Bad system, good times.
Its funny how your titles are so Dramatic😂 love your videos☺️
Drama tik🤔
@@ayeeffkay idk i cant spell😂
Well done video Daxi! Love the approach and direction ❤
I made so many friends this weekend!! I knew no one in this city since i moved here 2 years ago and i drive 1 hour to visit my friends but now i have a whole community to hang out with! With no remote raiding everyone came out this weekend and i even drove around a random guy i met for 2 days and exchanged numbers and walked around with dozens more. I know this change was tough for people in really rural areas but tbh i consider the new city i moved to totally rural and somehow people were scattered but were brought together by the end of the weekend. Niantic Campfire app was also a huge help in this so download that if yall havent!!
Great video man. The cuts, the music, the narrative 👏 great stuff
Bro! This video was a great view on how things started and brought us full circle to now. Its really inspiring to see how a content creator as yourself, dedicated time and effort to make this timeline type of video for all of us to understand the current situation and therefore hold our opinions accountable. We all have our opinions but also we gotta give it with a sense of research first. This video can definitely put things into perspective on how we individually view PoGo but at the end of the day, either you play it or you don’t. Thanks for this reminder and flashback moment of this game. Keep at it with the vids man! Glad I subscribed to your channel.
ngl, this made me want to play pokemon go. had countless memories of me biking to friends houses unannounced, telling them to grab their stuff and head somewhere because there was a blaziken on the nearby. *true story*
Honestly, it wasn't a slow death. Everything was going well after the Hoenn tour, but after the remote raid pass changes, it would never be the same..
Yeah, it was a pretty quick transition from the incredible Twinkling Fantasy event, or whatever it was called, that we got in January to the pretty meh events we've been getting this season
@@earthbloodelf5289 no dude. It wasn’t just meh. When the new season was announced, people were like “oh, that sounds like a bad season” but they weren’t expecting these horrible changes and overall, the huge decline of the game
@Roger Taylor’s car 🚗 I mean aside from the bad changes made, I haven't felt too strongly about any of the events, which is why I said they were just meh, but that's probably a personal thing
@@earthbloodelf5289 I agree, but it’s the remote raid changes that created this negative atmosphere.
Let me add salt to the comment. Its so much worse on rural player like me, especially since you had no idea when the Raid come especially when your location is more than one km from nearest location...
I believe Niantic could have compromised. Instead of 195, dropping down the price of remote raids to 150 (meaning 3 days worth of free pokecoins). And instead of limiting the remote raid limit to 5 increase it to 10/15. Most people won't be doing more than 10 raids a day anyways. If Niantic does bring these changes I believe most of the players who have stopped playing the game would come back.
Well said.
I was thinking they could also go back to the unlimited remotes and old prices, but make shiny pokemon only appear in local raids.
Limits feel logical. Double the price is bad. Not letting us use them at all is disrespectful
@@stefanoot3665 it has a major flaw. If they do lower the price people who have still been buying passes will be angry cause they lost money.
This was a well communicated video about the needs of the ENTIRE COMMUNITY. Thank you for remaining dedicated to ensuring that Niantic hears us! Bravo, sir.
It really does take a great community (and weather lol). Since I’m back in my suburban hometown, rather than walking around a city as normal, I drove out to a few local parks. I met 8 new friends to raid shadow mewtwo with and ended up exchanging phone numbers for future events. Got my shiny shadow mewtwo, and came together with people of similar interests just like the game intends. This has been the most interaction I’ve had at random since the last global GO fest, and I think the perfect mix of interesting events/content, location, and community can really make for a positive experience - even 7 years later. I look forward to doing more just like this! Hoping Pokemon GO is here as long as the franchise is.
That's great and something worth trying to make happen for more people, but Niantic has to also understand that " most " people are some combination of very young, very old, disabled, anti-social, or have too rigid of a daily schedule to consistently do things under such strict times/rules. Giving the " majority " of the players enough flexibility and quality of life options are what keep the game successful enough to keep around and fund those larger events that people like you or me can enjoy. Them sticking to these rigid, weird ideology is going to diminish the game to a point that I fear will kill it off if they don't adapt.
Remember when there would be hundreds of people in the park and the stampede that happened when there was a wild lapras spawn. I still pkay and will continue for the time been but theres no denying that theres been a lot of bad changes and not enough/too far between good ones
People need to remember we are NOT IN 2016, and this game has grown so much. On Sat, I went out into my community to do sum mewtwo raid. NO one was out i sat in my car and cried this is the 1st time I felt I was ready to quit playing 💔 there can always be Compromise on both ends if we're gonna make shadow raids in person only why take away the Remote raids? Niantic could have left remote raids and still made raids in person both side wins but Niantic doesn't see that why can't we work together to make this game work for everyone ❤
if you are going to cry over the game cause you missed out on a mewtwo raid then maybe a break is needed lol.
@@Pxnda999 the point went right over your head.
😭😭😂😂 imagine crying over a game stop it
@@anthonyvrooman1804 on god 😂 tf wrong wit dude
@@anthonyvrooman1804 The fact still stands. If you're going to cry over a game, especially sitting in your car, because you missed out on 1 pokemon that will be back then you should take a break and sort out your priorities.
What a video man, so well researched but also edited and told in such a palatable way.. amazing daxi! Regardless of where pokomon go goes, I'm really looking forward to see what you create ♥️
I want to thank you for taking the time to speak about this. I feel the same way as you, my community has suffered a lot and we still have not been heard. I appreciate you by standing by the community unlike some creators like Mystic7 who constantly (all the time) stands with Niantic. It feels like most creators are starting to side with Niantic which is very sad because we need to stick together. Thank you Daxi for being there with us.
I’m not too affected by the changes. The only time I did more than 5 remote raids a day was during the hoenn tour to get the primals, but the price increase is really bad.
So you very much are affected then
@@duncanmeatbreak1724 I said that I’m not TOO affected by them and I still do remote raids but I don’t do more than five every day
Last weekend was the most fun I ever had in Pokémon go. running around the town with friends and meeting people in local raids.
Personnaly I love this game so much, it encourages me to go out for a walk and I try to do the 50 km walk distance each week for the rewards. My only deception is about raids, I live in a rural place and there is no community around me, I really would appreciate an alternative so I can enjoy legendary raids also (other than discord groups).
Decreasing the raid boss healthpool to make Solo raids possible given you have the best possible counters is literally all I want from the game
@@justincadieux1535 Yeah there are many options available for Niantic to improve raid system, either for small communities or for rural players, like for example grouping with raid players from other raids. Like I go to my gym to do a raid, I enter in the raid and I'm automatically grouped with other players in other cities etc... But that will clearly break the remote raid functionality, so why not allow this feature only for the free raid we get each day or once a week via a special raid pass that reloads each monday, by doing so, every players will have the chance to do legendary raids, we'll still have to go outside to do them. Well, let's see what Niantic is planning for us :D
@@remypoirier92 or make a system that u can legendary raids do alone or with more, but with more people is a stronger pokemon, more candy etc.
@@mr.flupsurf2860 Yeah totally agree ! I was thinking about with this the adding of Purified gems ! Maybe by walking we could have an item that would lower the power of legendary Pokemon and so we could do it alone
@@remypoirier92 haha yes. And easy to forget that back in the days u could get legendary from the weekly research 😅😅
I joined in 2020 during the pandemic. PG gave my family a way to stay connected and play - no matter where we were. We all live in different states, so this game was central. We were connected. When we physically saw each other, we traded. We compared. We had fun. I made friends all over the world and I never turned down a remote raid invitation. I loved trading gifts and logging into the game every morning to see what my friends were doing and the gifts.
Then the Remote Raid nerf. Niantic doubled the cost - so now my gaming costs me twice as much and if that was not bad enough, my raiding is limited to 5 times a day. This would end any remote raids from friends as I would need all of them for my family. That is - if my family raided that day. So - I deleted the game from my phone. The family events broke up. No more remote raids. Niantic didn't have to bust the game for me in order to promote in person raids. Incentivize in person raids better. Give extra bling. Whatever. It is always better to give than take away.
Given that Niantic does not want to talk about it, but move forward - this tells me all I need to know about their business practices. All I can do is warn you: if they did it to me, they will do it to you in the blink of an eye. If the game is fun and playable for you - congrats. You must be their target customer. Enjoy. Just be warned that your gameplay can change quickly as well.
I feel like I have a pretty positive impression of the game so far! I only joined the game in March, so I didn’t have much time to remote raid before it got nerfed. Since then I’ve met quite a few people in my local community and it’s been a blast doing raids and other events with them. This is the only game experience that has really connected me with others in the real world. Granted I live in a big city, so there’s lots of stops and people to meet. 😅
Got my girlfriend into it during her third trimester before our daughter was born. We've been having a blast. Pokemon in any medium will never die lol.
great video, dax! i dropped the game after winter 2016 and picked it up again at the end of last year. it's really fascinating to see how the game has developed over the years. thanks for all this research, i learned a lot!
Thanks for the great content Dax! Always find your vids helpful, entertaining, and holding Niantic accountable!
When this game came out, it was so magical. At the time every single friend I knew was playing and it was all the buzz. We'd go to this park that had an insane cluster of stops and such. And massive amounts of people would show up to this place and chill till late night. Everyone was so nice, it was chill, the events were epic.
I recently picked it up again myself because I sort of yearned for those times again. But heck, adulting. Hopefully it continues to pick back up. Ive been itching to play pokemon mobile like in some fashion. So opted out for GO (for now). We'll see.
This has nothing to do with adulting, the game flat out died
Great summary of the game! We even got features no one asked for, sizes and their animations. Huh???? Great job, hope the Pokémon company or who owns the rights can take it from Niantic and Listen and progress the game. Still playing since 2016 but not really excited, haven't seen a unique raid boss in such a LONG time. Yes we have variants but Nothing new and a lot of rehashed. Uggh. Love your hard work will look forward to seeing what you post/do next!
My friends all put the game down in 2017 and recently in order to engage in a more active lifestyle I picked it up again and I’m having a ton of fun playing while getting ample time outdoors. I’m incredibly thankful that Pokémon Go is still around.
Amazingly well done video! 💙 I didn’t really have a booming Pokémon scene near me, but I’d still love to drive around during events, and park at different areas and send out invites. I’d also really like joining others to help out, but when Niantic decided to ignore us because of some stubborn point-of-view it upset me to the point I thought to myself, why give this company my money, more importantly my time if they would just ignore me as a player? I spent a fair amount of money and time in the game, was close to level 42 but just quit cold turkey. I’ve not played any events no matter how enticing because it felt like it was for show, rather than for the fans. But hey, if they revert I’ll come back, until then guess I’ll just move on. Keep up the awesome vids Daxi! 👍🏽
Awesome job, this is a great video with deep analysis of all the history. good job!
The future is.... Niantic used the Pokémon IP to gather tons of information on the player base. They used them to gather information for their other failed/failing games. As well as to sell the information to the highest bidder. They never cared about the Pokémon IP or community. Still do not. They will sell that data to the highest bidder.
I've only been playing for a few weeks now but here's what I'd do
1. 1 raid pass - 150, 3 passes for 300. Easier for everyone to get
2. Level 1 - 10, 3 raids per day. 20 - 25, 5 raids per day. From Level 30 to 50 get 10 raids per day. It gives people another reason to level up
3. Add a chat fuction to the game to make it easier to organize raids and create communities :)
Idk fr the players they gained during Covid 19 are definitely gonna leave and honestly remote raiding was the only thing that leveled the playing field for rural/ disabled players. Not only that but people were used to the way it was during Covid and despite the community being very vocal about the changes, niantic has basically said “we hear you but we don’t care” 🙄🙄
@pokidaxi, i know most of your videos are made for laughs and entertainment. However this one hit a lot closer to home. You've said what so many of us couldn't. I just wanted to say, on my behalf, and all those that love your content....Thank you!
I dont really play anymore either because everything worth it is local raids and there isn’t enough people left in my town to play during the summer.
Same
I do remember first playing Pokemon Go back in 2016. There was something fun and charming about finding Pokemon just in my neighborhood or in my backyard. I completely forgot about the disaster of the first Pokemon Go Fest. With that in mind, it's surprising that they managed to become a yearly tradition.
As I've often said, I think it was a huge mistake on Niantic's part to see these changes at the start of the pandemic as temporary bonuses. I understand why to a point given their mission statement, but these were all much needed quality of life updates that made the game more fun and accessible. It wasn't like you could play the game without walking around either. You still needed to get to Pokestops for research and to hatch eggs. The most you could do before was catch some Pokemon with the improved incense and do some raids remotely if you were willing to spend more money for them. Being able to play the game how I wanted made it much more flexible. I liked being able to stay comfortably at home while having the incense going during Community Days. While I do miss the proper six hour Community Days, I don't think that they worked without the improved incense. Honestly, I'd be perfectly fine with the three hour Community Days if they just made them from 11am-2pm instead of 2pm-5pm, especially for the upcoming summer months where it's going to be hot for a lot of places.
A better solution would be to encourage more in person play with better rewards. Actual guaranteed Rare XL candies or more premium items being available for doing in-person raids would really attract a lot of attention. Nerfing remote raids doesn't make me want to join a local community. If I wasn't comfortable doing that before the pandemic, I'm not comfortable with doing it now, with or without the nerf. The only good, or perhaps helpful would be more accurate, thing about this recent change is that I am spending less money on Pokemon Go. I haven't gone full free to play yet for a few reasons, but I am at least trying to spend less money on the game. As much as I love remote raids, I was definitely spending too much money on them, even if I think it was worth it. I don't think that Niantic needed to put a limit and increase the price for me to do that. It really should be on me to limit my spending habits, but this is my attempt at finding something positive in the mist of this decision. I may be too optimistic, but I'd like to hope that the game could improve. There should be a balance between Niantic listening to player feedback and following their mission statement. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
Your content is clean!
Remote raid passes are vital to trainers in rural areas. I’ve purchased far less than before the increase and have all but given up on raids.
I feel the same, they have pretty much killed the amount of raids done with such huge numbers it's pretty ridiculous
Man this was oddly nostalgic... I been playing since 2016 my daughter was born in 2016 ... she is 7 now ... i have spent a lot of time on this game I hate to see it end this way ...
It honestly feels like a waste of time since a better company could have made this game so much better and keep it going for another decade. It almost seems like they are doing everything they can to kill this game, which is a shame because there are millions of pokemon fans that would have loved this game if it was managed properly.
I really appreciate your perspective. Your last chapter really summed everything up very well.
Maybe it wasn't as active as before (I only started playing last year, so not sure), but it's certainly not anywhere near dead in my area,
I didn't have the time to raid on Saturday, but yesterday (Sunday) there were quite a few people out there raiding for Shadow Mewtwo! Did a couple raids with about 20 other people, meeting at different gyms in the area.
I really miss seeing everyone outside playing this game and how engaging it was. Seeing people showing their love for Pokémon was awesome and it made me get into it that much more. I recently got back into it after a couple of years so I missed out on a lot. Now with how the game is going, it makes me sad. I hope Niantic changes for the better of its fanbase in the future because the way it’s going it’s not looking good.
Hey Daxi, love the video. If I am going to be completely honest, I found the Shadow Raids a disappointment. They did not follow the regular IV floors of regular raids (essentially making the passes spent, wasted, for the most part). As for Niantic reverting the COVID changes this year, I'm not happy about the reversion at all. It's a spit in the face to anyone that has disabilities that still want to play the game, but cannot go out, either because of EDS, Lupus flares and/or so much more. I am a free to play player, and at this point, with how everything is going, I am seriously considering either A: quitting the game fully, or B: leaving my main account to die and making a different one, but not choosing a team, basically locking myself out of the feature that Niantic has chosen to limit, and just not participate at all in raiding. I had such high hopes and saw so much potential in Pokemon GO during the time where the COVID changes were implemented, but it all went downhill from there. I can no longer find any good reasons to recommend Pokemon GO to anyone, aside from using it to obtain Pokemon that are otherwise unobtainable through the other games (which is the only reason my current main account is still running). Sorry for being so negative, but it's just my honest thoughts and feelings surrounding the game. I hope all is well with you and your community and everything continues to prosper for everyone!
This video is as baller as Mystic's. I appreciate you both for making them.
I just started getting serious on Pokémon go about a year ago (I’ve had my account since 2018) and I have so many good accomplishments and the game is just now dying. Timing is bad.
After failing to complete shadow mewtwo raids due to either the gems not working and losing them anyway (and support only giving me one back) or due to winning the raid but somehow being kicked out of the raid and upon re entering being placed in another lobby that was empty (for which again support only offered me one gem) I decided to call it quits.
Too many bugs on top of all the bad changes lately and it's enough for me.
We had a group of 70 or so out yesterday running around Downtown Calgary for shadow Mewtwos. It was the first big group event I've done with the game, and it was great. But I feel the changes and trend of the game lately, those events will be very few and far between. They can't release shadow Mewtwos every month, after all.
Exactly this. It was the Pokemon in the raids that did it, not the in person factor. Rayquaza raids during lockdown were the same. People wanted to do them, and I saw a lot in person. How they misunderstand their own game so badly beggars belief.
They should be few and far between. I don’t want to feel like I have to drive 30+ minutes to the city center every weekend just for these events to be playable, and I can’t imagine how it feels for players who have to drive more than an hour or two. Sad that Niantic has to force players together these days rather than let it happen organically.
This weekend was kind of fun but the second day I just drove around because the raids were way too far apart and walking so much in 40+ degrees is just hell. They should at least give players options.
And don’t you think if most players wanted to raid in groups in person more, then they would do it? Especially given the bonuses for in person raids. Says a lot about what people like and don’t like about the game, if you ask me.
I opened a PoGo account on 7/6/2016 the first day it was available in the U.S. but life got in the way of me enjoying it the way I wanted to. I went on hiatus until about 4yrs ago when I actually found a group of people who played it regularly, and so I downloaded the game and reapplied myself to it. Eventually, that group slowly started disappearing, and now they are all inactive altogether. I missed out on those early years when the hype for the game was almost around at every turn of a street corner. Now all my "friends" list is full of random people I befriended from apps where you post your # on and hope somebody decides to copy and paste it in PoGo. I can't do any raids in person because I very rarely have anybody to help with the higher tiers. It's to the point now that this game is a more chore than it is fun. With the price hikes and now remote raid pass limits and the cherry on the top of this 💩 Sundae is I can't get a shadow Mewtwo because I need to be at gym physically for them. I feel like what time and money I have put into this game was a total waste. I can't imagine what the people who have played this game constantly from 2016 til now feel like. I'll probably play til end of this month and just hang it up and find something else to put effort into.
While I love the game I've been getting a bit burned out recently. With the remote raid pass nerf it's been harder to find people to raid being in a more rural area. I still play but I raid much less and it's a bit more casual.
Great videos man from Australia and your videos are really educational and helps me understand a lot of things about the game, keep it up man
The limiting of the remote raid pass was really a bust. If niantic would of put a fair limit of Maybe 10 remote raids a day and left the price the same, players would of been received the news a lot better but to almost double the price just demoralized the a big part of the pokemon go community
Keep the limits but return the price. For f2p players, the price hike is awful.
Would've or would have.
NOT would of.
Haven't watched a video of yours in a while, you really took it to another level. Congratulations
2016 was the best year in my life. I made so many friends and learned so much. I never knew anything about Pokemon. Pogo is one of the few games that changed my life. Love it so much ❤
ironic coming from someone with a homophobic icon talking about love.
Your userpic is gold 👍
@@lottafandoms thanx, that's like a medal to me, coz it means i'm not a delussional brainwashed groomer who is pushing their disgusting ideology on innocent kids 👍
👏 This was a well-made video It's more like a mini documentary
Maybe dead to burnt out players, as a fresh player Im enjoying it a lot. Just 3 things, shadow raids should be done remotely, pvp lag is annoying and 50 gold per day is really predatory. Other than that I dont see any problems
This was very entertaining to watch man thanks!
Its not going to die, people will continue to play it i saw more old players coming back to raiding in groups in this mewtwo event, ill continue to play this no matter what im a true pokemon player who dedicated so much time and memories to this
My whole motivation for why I still play Pokemon go is just to complete the Pokedex. Since its integrated with Pokemon Home, which in turn connects to my other games, it makes it easier to catch the mons [especially the legendary ones] and I can send them over into the game. I know the game isn't popping like it was back in 2016..but lets face it most of those who played were mostly going for nostalgia and only played up until Gen 1. Those who stuck around not only play PoGo but they are also playing the current games. So you can kinda see where it died off a bit. I will say my spending for PoGo did drop since Im not buying remote raid passes as frequently as I use to. But I do enjoy going out and participating in community days.
When reading the nerf of tour and go fest i was like: so you want us to go out of our homes to pay 400 dollars of plane ticket to then drive to a paid event???
Ah I’m in this video! Shoutout to my local community of Pokémon Go players! All Hail Stockbot 15:20
Mystic dropped a vid just like this😂
I know worked on this for like 3 weeks then we end up with like the same thing 🤣
@@pokedaxi dont worry most of us will still watch the ENTIRE thing :)
Great minds think alike 👑
Regardless how you feel, if you haven't already scale down or completely stop with the the in-app purchases. There's a reason we've been getting alot of egg events for example
I have sadly not that many people near me that play so raids are somtime hard to beat. But to be fair. I am fine whit the limit of 5 remote per day. The only thing that hurted me was that they made it almost 200 coins. Because i did 1 or 2 remote a day somtime to get the raid boss. Stil i have 0 plans to quit (yet) because i still like to go outside during weekends.
But i am a little afraid of the winter, because it can get super cold where i live. But now during summer i gonna enjoy the game.
Niantic were happy to go against their moto during Covid for the survival of the game (when it suits them). They were happy to take everyone’s money, let everyone build up their teams, then take it away, ignore their player base in favour of their sponsors. I have a local community, but I have an OS community as well, and a large part of that community is hurting. The game has evolved in a great way, it was all inclusive. Players are their happiest when they are not excluded from playing and can chose where, when, for how long and who they want to play with. I managed to raid about as many Shadow Mewtwo over the entire weekend, I would normally do in a raid hour pre nerf. I played with old and new players, it was fun, but I missed my group, most of which were unable to raid Mewtwo. I lost most of my weekend. Did it for M2, but wouldn’t have done it for many others. Great podcast. Appreciate your support. I am tiring watching influencers who don’t have restrictions on raids, originally saying it’s sad times for pogo and then doing an about face saying it was the right decision.
All they need to do is increase the odds of a hundo for in person raids and more people will come out tbh i mean we pay realy money for a virtual item with 1-216 odds lmao
Great video (always)
There are few things Niantic can do:
Increase remote raids 10 - 15 a day
The price of remote pass sure be 125 or 150 and 350 for 3
Bring back Legendary on Field Research or have Regional Pokémon
Global Trade
Yea man the game is definitely dieing. I’ve got 10 lucky friends right now and they are all telling me they haven’t opened the game since the remote raid increase. I’m about to jump ship too
Really well put together video - your production skills are shining through.
No one was against making game reward you for in person raids or going out to play. But even to that the remote raid passes were of great help. 6 hour community days were just convenient, you still did better if you went out to play, but you could do that with more east
I think Niantic can keep the five remote raid passes a day, but just decrease the price of remote raid passes
Totally agree. It's a good way to keep balance
10 per day but yeah $1 each still.
People think its okay to get 40 Lugias in a week.
Dont you think there are other pkm games where you can have such unrealistic features?
@maracuya2 you could get way more than 40 a week in the raid dens in pokemon sword and shield
@@ramirezferrari1you can soft reset in those...
"That sounds stupid, people are gonna walk off cliffs"
-Mom, 2016
I didn't bother with these mewtwo raids don't have people around just have no interest anymore I still open it every day and play but it's deffo lost the spark. I actually think it was at its best with remote raids .
Just started playing due to kids, got my husband playing. Now we spend time together and interact with our kids on a regular basis doing remote raids from different states. I've been sharing your videos with them. Yours are my favorite!
That’s why I’m transferring my Pokémon to home 😭all abandon ship
The biggest issue I had with them was when they lowered the shiny chances on community events - such an own goal imo
crazy how it took shadow mewtwo to actually meet players in my local community, I think they should do weekly elite raids so people have more opportunities to get the pokemon but also to meet up
Great video. Much love from 🇬🇭
It's not pokemon Go's fault. It's the toxicity of the community.
Yep, I started in 2020. Wasn't able to play before that because I lived out of town. It was nice to use incense at home, if I couldn't get to town, on spotlight and com days. And it allowed me to raid. Flexability and accessibility - you'd think any company would be happy with these improvements. Even with accessiblity at home, PoGo got me out seeing parts of town and places I'd never been before. The idea that letting a person play from home makes them want to stay there is a crock! People who play PoGo WANT to go out, they just can't always.
Good video. Your closing comments are spot on. Pokémon Go can't be both for everyone and also a unique AR exercise game. They have to choose, and that choice might hurt the game one way or another.
I just started playing Pokémon go a year ago so it’s not a end to me but a beginning.
In 2020, with the 80M update, i could suddenly reach an gym out of house, and there where some local gyms on places with very low activity in general so i could do some solo stuff in Pokémon, but 5* raids where no longer an option until the remote update. The 80m change also fixed trouble with drifting on my old phone, used to have trouble getting into some raids with the 40m because my character kept running away and refused to get into the 40m range
This is an awesome video, good work!
Really good quality video props to you
Your best video yet. I love these recaps
That is sad... but its very true i remeber those all summer day in 2017 while i was hanging out with friends and Playing and catching those wonderfull creatures...
Great video. Well done, thanks!
Great piece, well put together. I wish there had been a reference to Ingress, the game Pokemon was built on. It’s still going strong.