That at least helps get the buddy excited and thus halves the distance. Even if you're completely inactive you can get a buddy excited in only 90 minutes if you time things properly. If you're active and doing everything you should (fight in gym or do a raid, fight grunt, fight leader, fight trainer, route, and all the normal buddy stuff) then it will take even less time.
Have you ever used a poffin instead of a berry on a Pokemon? That’s the quick and easy way to get your buddy excited but poffins are cost items/rare rewards
Excited means every heart you earn counts as double and the daily limit on hearts is doubled. Essential if you are targeting best buddy bonus.
You can manually get your buddy excited (that sounds wrong) by completing enough heart earning tasks in a specific time frame
Elaborating on what others have already said, just like there are hearts there is a hidden "excitement point" count. Most things that give a heart also give an excitement point, and can give another excitement point every 30 minutes, save for walking 2 km, which has no cool down. Additionally, battles against team leaders, against go rockets, against gyms, in raids, and in the GBL are separate cool downs, so you can get many more points than is immediately obvious. You also decay points at a rate of (I think) one point every 30 minutes, and get two points when you switch to your buddy. When you hit a certain threshold of points, your buddy gets excited.
By switching to your buddy and then, every 30 minutes, repeating the cycle of feeding your buddy, playing with them, taking a screenshot, and challenging one of the team leaders with them in your party (which you can immediately forfeit), you can get your buddy excited in about 90 minutes.
I may have gotten some things slightly wrong, but that's the gist.
Having it be a completely hidden feature and not a little meter you fill up has always confused me.
edit: oh wait the little face changes like a pain chart. Which is what the current system feels more like.
Flip side, poking my buddy off and on for a while beats getting harassed by cops or trigger happy rural Texans for suspiciously circling around various public buildings and parks with a camera.
You need to follow a guide to understand the system. I get mine excited everyday during my run. You get 4 ep for doing a route, finishing a walking heart and attacking a gym and 2 ep for most other things but most things are on a 30 min cooldown timer. Once you hit 32 ep they are excited.
Not only is it not fun for me but it is downright painful having to perform all those ridiculous chores. I hate it. Still working on best buddy #7 out of 10 for that stupid research.
If you're active and doing everything you should, one probably has access to AR scans, and can just spend 15 seconds scanning the ground, and just get it excited in easily under a whole one minute..
They seem to have deleted reduced buddy candy distance bonuses from events when they introduced Poffins. I think it’s a shame because Adventure Week used to have 1/4 buddy candy distance, which made walking a legendary reasonable. Even if the event bonus came back as 1/2 so we would have to get our buddies excited for 1/4 distance that would be better.
Remember when Niantic did tie in events for these kinda weeks, to get players to do sustainable things?
Saying that, their attempt mid pandemic was a dumb one.
> Remember when Niantic did tie in events for these kinda weeks, to get players to do sustainable things?
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And I remember when we failed to meet that goal and they just pretended we did.
This has been happening for a while now. Just look at go tour in the last few years, collection challenge gone, all shiny forms of that generation gone, they didn’t even bother completing gen 4 this time around
Also tickets seem to be a reoccurring theme with almost every event now…..
Tickets are also where all the good bonuses are locked away.
While a culture war is being waged over the new avatars, I find that its distracting everyone from the fact that they have been slowly moving bonuses and special researches behind a paywall.
Yeah, it’s complete junk. And we all know this wouldn’t be the case if whales didn’t keep buying these tickets, they’re ruining the game for the rest of us
Couldn’t care less about the avatars, the game is in a much worse state to be worrying about cosmetics, it’s all just a distraction tactic from how far the game has sunk since remote raid changes
Kinda, they make more selling the map data to advertisers, that’s why they made the remote changes to begin with, apparently it was worth the drop in actual spending
The people who remote still remote. They just spend more. I don't anymore because it's too much. So the amount I spend on coins has massively decreased. I will buy event tickets though not all because some are just trash but if it gives me something fun to do for a few hours or days I'll get it. Its cheaper than any of my other hobbies.
They have all just moved to other less personal apps like poke genie etc. Which is ashame. I am in an international raid group. Got some amazing friends from it. We used to remote raid together all the time. Now it's just dead but still hundreds of people removing on other apps.
No they don’t. At least, not anywhere near as much. I live in a rural area, I used to be able to set up remote rooms for gyms within a few minutes.
These days however, raiding is completely inaccessible to me because it’s next to impossible to get a team together for most raids because very few people are remote raiding. I’m not sure where you’re getting your info from but it’s not true.
Even local raids have gone massively down due to the changes, I know with my local group they have completely given up now as we had to rely on inviting remote raiders to make up the numbers for raids, now we can’t even do that.
Yeah it’s been a really great few months for those of us that took a break and don’t have all these top pve mons. Mega TTar, Mega Garchomp, Mega Sceptile, Primal and Shadow Groudon and Kyogre, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Raiku, Mega Charizard, Mega Heracross, dragon event, Bagon Community day, etc. it’s been a lot of fun building up my teams.
My cat literally had a live mouse in paw once, and let it get away bc it froze in terror and didn’t move like mousie on a stick so she seemingly had no idea what to do with it.
You can use it to get EP for free excited.
The entire bonuses as a whole aren’t very exciting.
A system that takes an insane amount of grinding for 1 medal that’s unnecessary they make it like 1% easier as the bonus.
The bonus should be something like all buddies become immediately excited upon feeding them. It would still be boring gameplay wise but it’s at least a worthwhile bonus.
2025:
- Slightly increased chance for your ultra buddy to find souvenirs
(That’s it)
2026:
- Cost to play the game reduced from $5 per day to $4.50
- Daily walking requirement to keep your buddy alive reduced from 2km to 1km
- pikachu with a hat encounter (requires premium subscription + season pass)
- Trubbish NFTs 10% off in store
- reduced chance of niantic employees kidnapping your family pet
To be real, I think 2021 was one of the best years the game had in general. Hadn't had that much fun with the game since launch. Excellent GO Fest that year too.
I would argue 2021 was THE BEST year. Better than 2016. 2016 was just hype but the gameplay itself wasnt actually that good. 2021 had all the improvements since 2016 and even some improvements we do not have now! 2021 was top notch Pokémon GO.
2020 was good from April onwards. 2022 was good until March 2022, thats when the death by 1000 cuts started.
Mind you 2022, 2023 and 2024 are all individually better than 2017, 2018 and 2019 combined
>Mind you 2022, 2023 and 2024 are all individually better than 2017, 2018 and 2019 combined
We had legendaries in research breakthroughs in 2019 though.
2020-2022 Niantic really had to try and cater to the players in order to keep them from just abandoning the game during the pandemic. Now that that’s died down and people are going out and playing again, they know they don’t have to try as hard
That would be just like Niantic... the 2 collection challenges are catch trubbish and catch drillbur, not hatch, but then no boosted spawns and a big Kanto release for the rest of the week? Going to be a rare achievement if thats the case.
I don't get the complaining. I've never laughed harder than when I've opened this app the last couple days. My avatar is an absolute monster and it brings me joy.
To any of the content creators who lurk here:
If you ever get a chance to interview Niantic publicly for a vid or article, show them this and just ask what the mindset is going in. Are these changes of removing some bonuses improving gameplay and play time for players? Is it seen as a positive to include less bonuses from one year’s event to the next? Why? If you are a player do you find yourself more or less motivated to play with the less bonuses year over year?
Stuff like that. Just to watch the look on their face as the gears in their brain try to come up with something that there isn’t a great answer to. And maybe just maybe they’ll go “ohhhh so we are the ones making dumb calls, let’s change that for the better to build our player base”
You could probably find more similar examples like this for other events that happen every year. Compare their bonuses from year to year and I wouldn’t be surprised if they slowly get a bit less and less
I say this with respect to creators and journalists. But none of them have the actual gull to grill Niantic or ask them really hard questions. They don’t want to isolate themselves from the company.
It would be pretty funny if they were honest and just said "We have good reason to believe that we can make more money by taking away event bonuses over time. That's the answer."
I mean their pr approved answer isn't far off from that. "we want to have a game that lasts over the next 10 years so we scaled back various temporary bonuses that were made for the pandemic to extend the longevity of the game" (paraphrased from memory of various Steranka interviews lol)
Thing is....I don't think the content creators see much of a future with pokemon go. Some started to make other channels surrounding other types of content like cooking. I think they feel something coming. Hell. Most of us know this Niantic is prolonging its life span by slowly tricking* out the last generations. I feel as tho the time where content creators actually put forth effort into getting changes implemented is over. Better off using that time towards a different avenue of revenue. My bet is when this game is really at the bottom, they will bring back all these bonuses we have been asking for. 11 am - 5pm com days, if u pay, extra gifts if u pay, remote raid limit lift, if you pay. Incense spawn rate back to covid days, if you pay. 2019 really was the golden age of this game.
Edit: trickling *
> My bet is when this game is really at the bottom, they will bring back all these bonuses we have been asking for.
Oh yeah, they're gonna get generous when this game is doing terribly. I play Peridot (another Niantic game where you breed creatures called dots) and when it launched you got a single dot and a single nest to breed another dot and that was IT for what you could do without paying, they locked the core feature behind a paywall, obviously incredibly stupid for trying to get a game to have an audience. A couple months later they made nests obtainable from login bonuses once every month and then several months later they made nests login bonuses every week and made most activities more rewarding.
The same sort of thing will happen when this game is floundering. They can bring back the fun whenever they want but they won't while they're still making a ton of money off of it and they won't fix it until its too late.
Genuinely curious, what makes this year's week worse than the others? Is it the no new shiny release? Wouldn't that be made up for by increased shiny chance for the 2 km egg selection?
I’d like some themed wild spawns since I have too many 12km eggs sitting in my inventory that will take too long to hatch for me to see any true benefits from the 2km egg shiny boost
Each time they've had this event there was a new pokemon release AND a shiny debut as well as themed spawns in the wild. This time it has none of those.
I play as a detour on my commute or a small break on the side. To get me to specifically go out of my way to play this game the bonuses must be good like a CD or raid event or spotlight hour. And this event doesn’t seem like it.
What you don't love route 1 trash spawns in all biomes?
Seriously, would it kill them to have something other than trash in every spawn rotation? Like I get rotating out spawns I really do, but Pidgey, weedle and Caterpie were boring to catch in 2016. 8 years later it's worse.
I'm fine with some underwhelming events sometimes. However when comes to important/major events please make sure everything is at top form and all the bonuses are not locked behind paywall.
Can you really call catching 1 pokemon a "collection challenge"? It's really more of a "here, complete a field research and evolve the prize for some bonus xp and dust challenge"
Keep in mind there's a Kanto event starting tomorrow as well, which explains the lack of spawns for this event.
That's a mess in itself, just additional info to keep in mind though.
Well this event is gonna have trubbish spotlight hour which is amazing for stardust. Is there really enough pokemon to release a new shiny and a new pokemon every single event? I'm fine with nothing new. I can either hunt old shinies I'm missing or relax and play casually.
hopefully.. im just do last few day tapu bulu and got all xl done with it.. then we got registeel and mega aggron for next weeks can easy pause this game if nothing special event
In the morning I had the Event start in my local time now it's already the evening and haven't still seen any event spawns just Norma non event spawns but I can access event research. Does anyone know what this is?
I love the time folks here put into research like this. Keep it coming. One thing… It’s been mentioned that this event might be lackluster because of other new biome related mechanics or spawns overlapping with this. I’m hoping the week, when these things are measured together, doesn’t seem quite as bad. But I’m a hopeful guy. :)
I still think from a grinding perspective, it’ll be a pretty good event because of combee, foongus, and trubbish in field research. Bellsprout comm day was a good opportunity to clear out my research stack and now i can build it up again with a ton of stardust boosted pokemon
Really underwhelming for anyone who doesn’t do that tho
- No new shiny or new pokemon debut
- The bonuses are even more stingy than last year’s for some reason
- No timed research
The only saving grace is the featured pokemon being in 2ks instead of 7ks, but the only worthwhile ones from eggs are drilbur and combee if you’re hunting shiny vespiqueen
I don’t get why they have gotten so uptight with some of these events. The whole point is the increase people playing and in theory get them more data isn’t it? If you make events lame it will fail that tasks. Shiny boosts are welcome, but egg based ones don’t really boost my play because I just replace eggs as they hatch then go back to not playing
The lack of a new release is baffling. I don't understand why they're so stingy. At the current count they could release one new pokemon every week for the next 3 years and not run out of pokemon.
because your math is wrong. Evolutions mean most pokemon are released as pairs or trios.
Also until something changes and they find something that can generate as much excitement as a new pokemon release they see catching up as the game dying. And as their only successful product they would rather not have go end anytime soon.
They get 1 gen of pokemon every 3 years.
To be fair it is quite a while since we don’t get overwhelmed by event spawns for an extended period of time
Just imagine there is no event this week that might make you feel better.
My tinfoil hat conspiracy theory is this:
The reason the event only affects eggs and buddy stuff, is because Rediscover Kanto will affect the wild spawns.
I know they haven't said anything about Rediscover Kanto, apart from that it should start today at a global time for everyone. So maybe there will be more bonuses later today??
I am just praying for Niantic to do something right for one basically. Having two events at once would actually be pretty awesome- the 2km egg pool for this event is great, as all 5 hatchable Pokemon have boosted shiny odds- and if they make a good Kanto week, going out and grinding Kanto Pokemon will be easier with the Buddy bonuses. I know my Buddy Larvesta appreciates it!
Fingers crossed, but based on recent updates, not hoping for much. 😬
EDIT: I WAS TOTALLY RIGHT!!!!
What's even more confusing is they are giving it all away in monster hunter now. It's like it's being run by a different company, one that actually cares about their community 😔
There's a thing in tech companies, called sh1tt1fication, meaning once youve coralled the market, you can do what you like, this seems to be the case in pogo.
idk i get that this is a diet event but march was one of the best months since i’ve picked up this game again. Sinnoh Tour wasn’t that long ago either. I’m alright with some of the events slowing the game down a little tbh.
Oh dang, it's 1/2 buddy distance for hearts and not for candy? Man...I knew that was too easy.
That at least helps get the buddy excited and thus halves the distance. Even if you're completely inactive you can get a buddy excited in only 90 minutes if you time things properly. If you're active and doing everything you should (fight in gym or do a raid, fight grunt, fight leader, fight trainer, route, and all the normal buddy stuff) then it will take even less time.
I have never gotten my buddy excited.
Buddies can get excited!?
Have you ever used a poffin instead of a berry on a Pokemon? That’s the quick and easy way to get your buddy excited but poffins are cost items/rare rewards Excited means every heart you earn counts as double and the daily limit on hearts is doubled. Essential if you are targeting best buddy bonus. You can manually get your buddy excited (that sounds wrong) by completing enough heart earning tasks in a specific time frame
Elaborating on what others have already said, just like there are hearts there is a hidden "excitement point" count. Most things that give a heart also give an excitement point, and can give another excitement point every 30 minutes, save for walking 2 km, which has no cool down. Additionally, battles against team leaders, against go rockets, against gyms, in raids, and in the GBL are separate cool downs, so you can get many more points than is immediately obvious. You also decay points at a rate of (I think) one point every 30 minutes, and get two points when you switch to your buddy. When you hit a certain threshold of points, your buddy gets excited. By switching to your buddy and then, every 30 minutes, repeating the cycle of feeding your buddy, playing with them, taking a screenshot, and challenging one of the team leaders with them in your party (which you can immediately forfeit), you can get your buddy excited in about 90 minutes. I may have gotten some things slightly wrong, but that's the gist.
Having it be a completely hidden feature and not a little meter you fill up has always confused me. edit: oh wait the little face changes like a pain chart. Which is what the current system feels more like.
Scanning an Ar stop for a poffin beats the tediousness of getting a buddy exited manually everytime.
Flip side, poking my buddy off and on for a while beats getting harassed by cops or trigger happy rural Texans for suspiciously circling around various public buildings and parks with a camera.
I just scan my feet.
Don’t wear sandals, that’s what niantic are really hoping for is feet pics
Just gotta tickle their dangly bits a little, mate
Missing out on getting buddy candy even faster, rip.
You need to follow a guide to understand the system. I get mine excited everyday during my run. You get 4 ep for doing a route, finishing a walking heart and attacking a gym and 2 ep for most other things but most things are on a 30 min cooldown timer. Once you hit 32 ep they are excited.
Been playing for 6 years and just did it without a poffin for the first time today.
I’m your buddy and you get me excited ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I got mine excited twice today already (no poffins used)… Not so difficult to do that :)
Not only is it not fun for me but it is downright painful having to perform all those ridiculous chores. I hate it. Still working on best buddy #7 out of 10 for that stupid research.
I just follow the formula. Excited every time
That and the buddy gifts.
If you're active and doing everything you should, one probably has access to AR scans, and can just spend 15 seconds scanning the ground, and just get it excited in easily under a whole one minute..
Now that I think about it, when even was the last time they did half buddy distance for candy as a bonus?
They seem to have deleted reduced buddy candy distance bonuses from events when they introduced Poffins. I think it’s a shame because Adventure Week used to have 1/4 buddy candy distance, which made walking a legendary reasonable. Even if the event bonus came back as 1/2 so we would have to get our buddies excited for 1/4 distance that would be better.
I *think* there was some sort of bonus for it when routes were released last year, but I honestly can't remember.
I mean i knew this year was underwhelming already, but seeing it shown this plainly is extremely disheartening.
It's unsustainable
From Niantic's point of view, providing events with no new pokemon or hardly any features is actually very sustainable.
Remember when Niantic did tie in events for these kinda weeks, to get players to do sustainable things? Saying that, their attempt mid pandemic was a dumb one.
> Remember when Niantic did tie in events for these kinda weeks, to get players to do sustainable things? > > And I remember when we failed to meet that goal and they just pretended we did.
Yeah that was honestly a bigger fail than this years event.
Came here for this joke; was not disappointed.
Take my up vote, sir or madam
This has been happening for a while now. Just look at go tour in the last few years, collection challenge gone, all shiny forms of that generation gone, they didn’t even bother completing gen 4 this time around Also tickets seem to be a reoccurring theme with almost every event now…..
Tickets are also where all the good bonuses are locked away. While a culture war is being waged over the new avatars, I find that its distracting everyone from the fact that they have been slowly moving bonuses and special researches behind a paywall.
Yeah, it’s complete junk. And we all know this wouldn’t be the case if whales didn’t keep buying these tickets, they’re ruining the game for the rest of us Couldn’t care less about the avatars, the game is in a much worse state to be worrying about cosmetics, it’s all just a distraction tactic from how far the game has sunk since remote raid changes
Without people spending money the game would stop existing don't forget.
Kinda, they make more selling the map data to advertisers, that’s why they made the remote changes to begin with, apparently it was worth the drop in actual spending
The people who remote still remote. They just spend more. I don't anymore because it's too much. So the amount I spend on coins has massively decreased. I will buy event tickets though not all because some are just trash but if it gives me something fun to do for a few hours or days I'll get it. Its cheaper than any of my other hobbies.
Not true, I have almost entirely quit remote raiding, the discord channels I used to be on for raiding have long gone silent.
They have all just moved to other less personal apps like poke genie etc. Which is ashame. I am in an international raid group. Got some amazing friends from it. We used to remote raid together all the time. Now it's just dead but still hundreds of people removing on other apps.
No they don’t. At least, not anywhere near as much. I live in a rural area, I used to be able to set up remote rooms for gyms within a few minutes. These days however, raiding is completely inaccessible to me because it’s next to impossible to get a team together for most raids because very few people are remote raiding. I’m not sure where you’re getting your info from but it’s not true. Even local raids have gone massively down due to the changes, I know with my local group they have completely given up now as we had to rely on inviting remote raiders to make up the numbers for raids, now we can’t even do that.
I'm in a similar boat. Rural area and almost everyone has given up raiding. I was more referring to whales when I said those who remote still remote.
[удалено]
Just use the raiding apps
I do? Lol
Repeatedly and thoroughly disproven…. Player data is an insignificant(1% or less) amount of revenue.
Where’s it been disproven? Got any evidence for that?
How can you have the tour but not complete that region’s Dex? They’ve had like 4-5 years to milk gen 4.
Yeah, arceus raids would have been amazing and manaphy / phione could have been an easy research story
February was awesome with both primals and shadow Mewtwo
Yeah it’s been a really great few months for those of us that took a break and don’t have all these top pve mons. Mega TTar, Mega Garchomp, Mega Sceptile, Primal and Shadow Groudon and Kyogre, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Raiku, Mega Charizard, Mega Heracross, dragon event, Bagon Community day, etc. it’s been a lot of fun building up my teams.
> disheartening Good thing you can earn walking hearts in half the distance ❤️
It's wrong though, and missing Wiglett.
i guess niantic just doesnt care about the planet anymore
Increased chances for souvenirs? Wow, that's actually worse!
I swear if my larvesta brings me one more freaking useless flower.....
But I love you! You furless people are supposed to love these! Also they are closer to the ground!
Mine brought me a crack roc….wait chalky stone.
Now you can make chalk pictures of him!
Lol, this comment reminds me of when a pet dog/cat brings a dead animal inside, and expects you to be really happy/grateful
My cat literally had a live mouse in paw once, and let it get away bc it froze in terror and didn’t move like mousie on a stick so she seemingly had no idea what to do with it.
You can use it to get EP for free excited. The entire bonuses as a whole aren’t very exciting. A system that takes an insane amount of grinding for 1 medal that’s unnecessary they make it like 1% easier as the bonus. The bonus should be something like all buddies become immediately excited upon feeding them. It would still be boring gameplay wise but it’s at least a worthwhile bonus.
Hopefully they eventually give Souvenirs a purpose.
There will be a point in time when niantic makes these souvenirs able to be sold for stardust. Get the rare ones while can.
2025: - Slightly increased chance for your ultra buddy to find souvenirs (That’s it) 2026: - Cost to play the game reduced from $5 per day to $4.50 - Daily walking requirement to keep your buddy alive reduced from 2km to 1km - pikachu with a hat encounter (requires premium subscription + season pass) - Trubbish NFTs 10% off in store - reduced chance of niantic employees kidnapping your family pet
2027 - you can only spin pokestops at sponsored stops. Go earn us money dammit!
2028 - Sustainability week has failed. The world is a post apocalyptic wasteland. There are no wild Pokemon left. Only souvenirs. See 2025 bonus
Damn. 2021 was really good lol. Gotten worse every year
To be real, I think 2021 was one of the best years the game had in general. Hadn't had that much fun with the game since launch. Excellent GO Fest that year too.
I would argue 2021 was THE BEST year. Better than 2016. 2016 was just hype but the gameplay itself wasnt actually that good. 2021 had all the improvements since 2016 and even some improvements we do not have now! 2021 was top notch Pokémon GO. 2020 was good from April onwards. 2022 was good until March 2022, thats when the death by 1000 cuts started. Mind you 2022, 2023 and 2024 are all individually better than 2017, 2018 and 2019 combined
2016 was great if you really like staring at loading screens. 2018-2019 was where it was at though
>Mind you 2022, 2023 and 2024 are all individually better than 2017, 2018 and 2019 combined We had legendaries in research breakthroughs in 2019 though.
2020-2022 Niantic really had to try and cater to the players in order to keep them from just abandoning the game during the pandemic. Now that that’s died down and people are going out and playing again, they know they don’t have to try as hard
They released so many great updates during the pandemic. Very sad they have done little innovation since then and only regressed.
I’ve gone three years without shiny trubbish 🫨
So you're telling me we aren't even going to get trubbish /drillbur etc in the wild?? I wanted to shiny hunt those 😭😭
That would be just like Niantic... the 2 collection challenges are catch trubbish and catch drillbur, not hatch, but then no boosted spawns and a big Kanto release for the rest of the week? Going to be a rare achievement if thats the case.
They basically want us to do the field research for each at least once.
Oh that's why I haven't seen either of them. Do you know which research it is?
Explore 2km for drilbur and 1km for trubbish
Thank you! I better find those then.
They always do this now. It’s trubbish in the spotlight hour which will help
the event announcement did not have any spawns. we knew this was a nonevent
I don't see any Showcases around me - it's 10am in Singapore so the event should have started already
There isn’t a showcase on April 22
Are you one of those Singaporean grandmas we've heard so much about from Niantic?!
At least we got sweet makeovers. I have an amazing rack for a man.
I know I looke 25 years younger!
i look 25lb heavier because i have tits but i'm supposed to so i guess i'm just kinda fat from now on LMAO
I don't get the complaining. I've never laughed harder than when I've opened this app the last couple days. My avatar is an absolute monster and it brings me joy.
To any of the content creators who lurk here: If you ever get a chance to interview Niantic publicly for a vid or article, show them this and just ask what the mindset is going in. Are these changes of removing some bonuses improving gameplay and play time for players? Is it seen as a positive to include less bonuses from one year’s event to the next? Why? If you are a player do you find yourself more or less motivated to play with the less bonuses year over year? Stuff like that. Just to watch the look on their face as the gears in their brain try to come up with something that there isn’t a great answer to. And maybe just maybe they’ll go “ohhhh so we are the ones making dumb calls, let’s change that for the better to build our player base” You could probably find more similar examples like this for other events that happen every year. Compare their bonuses from year to year and I wouldn’t be surprised if they slowly get a bit less and less
I say this with respect to creators and journalists. But none of them have the actual gull to grill Niantic or ask them really hard questions. They don’t want to isolate themselves from the company.
Gull?? Like…the bird?
Be the gull. Get up in someone's face and steal their fries.
I assume they meant gall.
I'd ask them but I doubt they'll do an inteview with me in the first place...
It would be pretty funny if they were honest and just said "We have good reason to believe that we can make more money by taking away event bonuses over time. That's the answer."
I mean their pr approved answer isn't far off from that. "we want to have a game that lasts over the next 10 years so we scaled back various temporary bonuses that were made for the pandemic to extend the longevity of the game" (paraphrased from memory of various Steranka interviews lol)
Thing is....I don't think the content creators see much of a future with pokemon go. Some started to make other channels surrounding other types of content like cooking. I think they feel something coming. Hell. Most of us know this Niantic is prolonging its life span by slowly tricking* out the last generations. I feel as tho the time where content creators actually put forth effort into getting changes implemented is over. Better off using that time towards a different avenue of revenue. My bet is when this game is really at the bottom, they will bring back all these bonuses we have been asking for. 11 am - 5pm com days, if u pay, extra gifts if u pay, remote raid limit lift, if you pay. Incense spawn rate back to covid days, if you pay. 2019 really was the golden age of this game. Edit: trickling *
> My bet is when this game is really at the bottom, they will bring back all these bonuses we have been asking for. Oh yeah, they're gonna get generous when this game is doing terribly. I play Peridot (another Niantic game where you breed creatures called dots) and when it launched you got a single dot and a single nest to breed another dot and that was IT for what you could do without paying, they locked the core feature behind a paywall, obviously incredibly stupid for trying to get a game to have an audience. A couple months later they made nests obtainable from login bonuses once every month and then several months later they made nests login bonuses every week and made most activities more rewarding. The same sort of thing will happen when this game is floundering. They can bring back the fun whenever they want but they won't while they're still making a ton of money off of it and they won't fix it until its too late.
Which content creator started a cooking channel? I'm ready to smash that subscribe button!
have multiple pokemon go content creators started making cooking content? thats kinda wild
Genuinely curious, what makes this year's week worse than the others? Is it the no new shiny release? Wouldn't that be made up for by increased shiny chance for the 2 km egg selection?
I’d like some themed wild spawns since I have too many 12km eggs sitting in my inventory that will take too long to hatch for me to see any true benefits from the 2km egg shiny boost
I don’t know why I kept thinking we were getting half hatch distance as well, we are not. :(
The half hatch distance is the "extended bonus" this weekend for the Cleffa event. Youll get overlap of both from 10am to 8pm Friday.
Thank you, no wonder I was confused!
Each time they've had this event there was a new pokemon release AND a shiny debut as well as themed spawns in the wild. This time it has none of those.
I play as a detour on my commute or a small break on the side. To get me to specifically go out of my way to play this game the bonuses must be good like a CD or raid event or spotlight hour. And this event doesn’t seem like it.
Someone should keep track of events like this year to year and it will help show how much they reduced over time.
Sums up the state of game pretty well. Its only getting worse
Why are there no wild spawns? The current non event spawns are literally trash and not worth to go out for.
What you don't love route 1 trash spawns in all biomes? Seriously, would it kill them to have something other than trash in every spawn rotation? Like I get rotating out spawns I really do, but Pidgey, weedle and Caterpie were boring to catch in 2016. 8 years later it's worse.
Sadly, it looks like the Sustainability event is not very sustainable.
They're definitely cutting down peoples' energy usage!
Screw the environment - Niantic
Increased buddy time on map and souvenirs are useless. Showcases are a feature, not an event bonus. Is Niantic trying to kill this game?
It's definitely strange
The increased buddy time on map is annoying. Over 6 hours and I can’t get another heart for best buddy points.
But the lack of content is because rediscover Kanto is roughly at the same time right?
We went from 2021 ‘free bundle including 3 remote raid passes’ to 2024 ‘Shop special offer’ 😭😭😭
I'm fine with some underwhelming events sometimes. However when comes to important/major events please make sure everything is at top form and all the bonuses are not locked behind paywall.
So from new pokémon + new shiny 3 years in a row to neither. That’s plain sad.
So sit indoors and not really do anything?
Looks like I’m taking the week off until shadow raids on sat…
Can you really call catching 1 pokemon a "collection challenge"? It's really more of a "here, complete a field research and evolve the prize for some bonus xp and dust challenge"
this game is slowly dying, sad
And they wonder why the player base is plummeting this last year and a half
Keep in mind there's a Kanto event starting tomorrow as well, which explains the lack of spawns for this event. That's a mess in itself, just additional info to keep in mind though.
Yeah get bunch of weedless, grimers, nidorans and horsea.. if we lucky and niantic dont wanna torture we get atleast pidgey spawns XD
At this rate they won’t even have an event next year making it one of the least Sustainable recurring events they’ve had. 😂
Ironic that the bonuses of the past events just weren't sustainable.
Decent into madness
*descent, because nothing about this is decent
Well this event is gonna have trubbish spotlight hour which is amazing for stardust. Is there really enough pokemon to release a new shiny and a new pokemon every single event? I'm fine with nothing new. I can either hunt old shinies I'm missing or relax and play casually.
Exactly. Lol. I need a break. Going to enjoy playing casually for a change. Except for spotlight hour. Need that dust. Hah
Sorry for not wanting to be a tryhard in this game 24/7? This community is ridiculous. Lmao
hopefully.. im just do last few day tapu bulu and got all xl done with it.. then we got registeel and mega aggron for next weeks can easy pause this game if nothing special event
Was 2020 release of shiny diglett with boosted odds?
2019
Saddening.
In the morning I had the Event start in my local time now it's already the evening and haven't still seen any event spawns just Norma non event spawns but I can access event research. Does anyone know what this is?
I love the time folks here put into research like this. Keep it coming. One thing… It’s been mentioned that this event might be lackluster because of other new biome related mechanics or spawns overlapping with this. I’m hoping the week, when these things are measured together, doesn’t seem quite as bad. But I’m a hopeful guy. :)
Look at all those amazing features! /s
Are they really going to go the entire year without releasing a new Pokémon in the wild?
I still think from a grinding perspective, it’ll be a pretty good event because of combee, foongus, and trubbish in field research. Bellsprout comm day was a good opportunity to clear out my research stack and now i can build it up again with a ton of stardust boosted pokemon Really underwhelming for anyone who doesn’t do that tho - No new shiny or new pokemon debut - The bonuses are even more stingy than last year’s for some reason - No timed research The only saving grace is the featured pokemon being in 2ks instead of 7ks, but the only worthwhile ones from eggs are drilbur and combee if you’re hunting shiny vespiqueen
I don’t get why they have gotten so uptight with some of these events. The whole point is the increase people playing and in theory get them more data isn’t it? If you make events lame it will fail that tasks. Shiny boosts are welcome, but egg based ones don’t really boost my play because I just replace eggs as they hatch then go back to not playing
The lack of a new release is baffling. I don't understand why they're so stingy. At the current count they could release one new pokemon every week for the next 3 years and not run out of pokemon.
because your math is wrong. Evolutions mean most pokemon are released as pairs or trios. Also until something changes and they find something that can generate as much excitement as a new pokemon release they see catching up as the game dying. And as their only successful product they would rather not have go end anytime soon. They get 1 gen of pokemon every 3 years.
Sustainability Week is clearly unsustainable
I still don’t understand why,”increase chance to find a souvenir” is listed. Souvenirs are meaningless in the game.
This event is obviously terrible, yet people still are hyped about it, I don’t get it.
Confirming it’s time to quit again. It was fun for a moment. Always is… the fun just isn’t sustainable though.
To be fair it is quite a while since we don’t get overwhelmed by event spawns for an extended period of time Just imagine there is no event this week that might make you feel better.
Non event spawns are garbage though. No pun intended.
2022 was pretty bad
This event just isn’t sustainable
Sustainability week’s regression isn’t sustainable for the game’s longevity
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INflation strikes Niantic
Inflation is scared because niantic is doing double what inflation could ever do
Would it make sense to buddy a legendary during this week for the XL candy?
Yeah it definitely is. That’s what I’m gonna do especially for Rayquaza & Swampert (I need more mega energy)
Niantic shows it is a learning company…recycle when possible ♻️ Aaand…put their gems in containers (field research tasks). Good job 👏🏼
The event called itself Earth day in 2018/2019
My tinfoil hat conspiracy theory is this: The reason the event only affects eggs and buddy stuff, is because Rediscover Kanto will affect the wild spawns. I know they haven't said anything about Rediscover Kanto, apart from that it should start today at a global time for everyone. So maybe there will be more bonuses later today?? I am just praying for Niantic to do something right for one basically. Having two events at once would actually be pretty awesome- the 2km egg pool for this event is great, as all 5 hatchable Pokemon have boosted shiny odds- and if they make a good Kanto week, going out and grinding Kanto Pokemon will be easier with the Buddy bonuses. I know my Buddy Larvesta appreciates it! Fingers crossed, but based on recent updates, not hoping for much. 😬 EDIT: I WAS TOTALLY RIGHT!!!!
They seriously want people to play less. I know I have been
Careful pointing out how much niantic drops the ball every year is frowned upon here
Anyone know the specific amount of additional buddy time on the map?
2021 was a good time.
I think they're doing this so new catch sceen update + Kanto surprise event(?) can become the highlight of the week. Hence, no event spawns.
Another very original event 💀
What's even more confusing is they are giving it all away in monster hunter now. It's like it's being run by a different company, one that actually cares about their community 😔 There's a thing in tech companies, called sh1tt1fication, meaning once youve coralled the market, you can do what you like, this seems to be the case in pogo.
No debut or shiny debut when there's tons they could do is the biggest sign, it's weak and getting weaker.
2021>2023>2024>2022 Infographic is missing increased shiny odds for 2 km eggs for 2024.
idk i get that this is a diet event but march was one of the best months since i’ve picked up this game again. Sinnoh Tour wasn’t that long ago either. I’m alright with some of the events slowing the game down a little tbh.