24 Things That DISAPPEARED From Pokémon GO

[@pogotrnr]

It has come to my attention that buddy Pokémon will still bring gifts when you are low on them, it seems it is just the frequency at which they give them to you was reduced after the pandemic. Looks like I don’t send gifts as much as I should 😅

[@basillah7650]

december 2023 for kuruem really being teasing us on those like mega mewtwo that is also in the game but not out yet.

[@Epyxoid]

Also, those daily 20 PokeCoins are back as well, except you have to purchase a ticket for it.

[@jedcauffield1858]

13:00 You misspelled Community too

[@oDeoxys_]

#21 aged like milk lmao

[@Pehmokettu]

I remember when people used to constantly complain that the Research Breakthrough legendaries were bad. So when Niantic removed the legendaries there were much less complaining about the research breakthrough monsters. I personally thought that the free legendaries were nice and I don't know why those were so hated.

[@Calvo_aos15]

They were perfect for small towns players

[@mjm3091]

Oh, the complaining did not go away, they were multiple petitions to bring them back, but they clearly removed them for monetary reasons, it's better for them to re-release them through Shadow Raids and rare regular raids redos.

[@pickles3128]

I mean did they not have the "minimum of 10 IVs in each stat" requirement that other research rewards have? Even so, I'd love to have more lower CP legendaries for PvP... Only got the

[@femalepapyrus]

I gotten a few ho oh and lugia

[@cheehow7483]

it's because some players have limited pokeball and catching one through the research breakthrough consume too much balls. Plus it always the same few legendary. trio bird, trio regi.. I think it would be best if they retain the current research breakthrough pokemon but also include some different legendary every month. There a surprise.

[@jenerdahl1586]

I miss increased trade distance. It was really helpful for kids or people who don’t like driving just for 3 minutes trade. It was one my highlight for winter holidays bonuses. I don’t understand why they got rid this. It gives players more incentive to make friends.is safer, and not to spoof. The only thing I can think of is have more in person interaction which again makes no sense for trade that take 3 min. All the trades I done I usually don’t stick around after unless there is a raid. If to make regional Pokemon more rare then make them untradeble.

[@pogotrnr]

Would be nice to bring it back for some events!

[@ItzMiKeKirbY]

If it’s broke, don’t fix it. Just get rid of it. -Niantic

[@iPhone3GS_68]

Then bring it back just as buggy but with worse rewards

[@97MiloProductions]

if it works, it will break -Also niantic

[@klaus-mikael_son]

@@97MiloProductions If it works, we can break it. -arnold's voice

[@j3ffrmz]

Niantic has made it extremely difficult to play this game solo. I understand it’s not made to play alone but they have to know that there’s a percentage of their players that can only play by themselves.

[@LatiBite]

My poor tyrannitar has been stuck at the gym for over a week now. There are no raiders. This game is completely 'lol you dont live downtown? Get lost loser lmaooooo'

[@moxiemouse24]

​@@LatiBite I made the mistake of leaving a shiny in a gym in a town with a way less active playerbase than my own rural town. We'll be reunited someday, Igor.

[@lamarr963]

@@moxiemouse24 make an account with a different faction and fight it

[@moxiemouse24]

@@lamarr963 that isn't the problem, the problem is that I can't go to that gym

[@FireFang97]

I can't travel because of injuries meaning I can't drive and my family doesn't exactly like driving me for no reason as they call it and I don't have friends who live in my state I've missed out on a lot of things because of it and it saddens me

[@AllofPokemonTCG]

Do not miss the footstep feature at all. It sucked. The Pokestops now are so much more clear on where the pokemon are

[@ImagineChangingYourHandle]

I agree. I remember playing with my friend and whenever a (then) rare pokemon showed up it was basically impossible for us to find it by searching.

[@Sipu97]

I miss it. I think it was a cool feature. I didn't even fully remember it before watching this video but now I understand why I have been looking at the nearby list and waiting to see _something_.

[@io4106]

Would still be nice to have in rural areas with no pokestops since now it doesn't even tell you how close of it you are. Also idk if it's just me but i feel like it's always in these areas that all the crazy spawns are

[@zanegamingtv2252]

I'm not sure what's the point of these footsteps hahahaha

[@ShadyRK9]

I agree. You constantly walking around playing "Hot And Cold: Pokémon GO Edition" was kinda annoying!

[@megancooper1710]

I miss the coin system. I think it’s ridiculous that you can only get 50 free per day from the gyms. Especially when everything requires coins. Thank god I’m not a competitive player. But it’s frustrating from the angle of remote raiding which is the only way some players can get certain Pokémon. Any game that requires constant purchases is never going to be fully enjoyed or played as intended, which is sad.

[@willem9538]

I never get this criticism. How do you think they pay for coders and developers, etc. if there's isn't paid content? It's a game that has to function worldwide, 24/7 on every type of phone. That's costly. I get that people feel like they might've cut corners etc. but expecting the game to be free in its entirety is naive and silly.

[@lerdog]

@@willem9538 yeah poor indie developer Niantic counting cents just to pay the bills :(

[@willem9538]

​@@lerdoggirl... You know that's not what I'm saying. It's a business first, offering a service and that costs money. I get that a lot of people grew up with everything on the internet being free, but it's normal to pay for a service. And you don't even have to pay if you don't want to. But it's their right to limit access. If you want free, go play in the meadow with a stick.

[@XennonNull]

if no one defends the multibillion dollar company who will! /s

[@willem9538]

​@@XennonNull I'm not defending them. I think people are just immature about the situation. They can't make a completely free game period. If you don't want to pay, dont.

[@wesleytucher6332]

Can Niantic just maybe listen to the community and what they want?? Fix the raids? Make stuff more accessible to certain people? Like goddamn Niantic just does not get us and only do what they want or what they THINK we want They don’t get us at all

[@pickles3128]

"I just became lucky friends with another player in Japan/Australia/etc. Yayyy... I'll never use it."

[@madprophet6891]

@@abalister6661 You are mentally-ill.

[@mjm3091]

that doesn't make money though

[@R.O.T.C._SEEM]

It's a game about exploring. Some people will be left out

[@zachyurkus]

I’ll never forget my first EX raid with Mewtwo. There was a foot of snow on the ground, it was winter at like 8pm so it was super dark out, and it was near 0°f and the winds were howling. So many cars were in the lot I had to park like a quarter mile away and trudge through the snow to get close enough. After all that it ended up taking so long that I was like the 9th raid lobby that only had a couple people in there and we lost. I was so upset, lol.

[@sukmawadisulistyo3904]

Missed the meowth balloon so much😢

[@pogotrnr]

Yeah was dope to see!

[@DracoLeafson]

As cool as it was, I'm glad Jessie and James are gone. Their models were very ugly, in my opinion.

[@kylebeattie8594]

Imagine how they'd look now though​@@DracoLeafson

[@DracoLeafson]

@@kylebeattie8594 considering the way Niantic operates I doubt Jessie and James will look any different, let alone better.

[@zachyurkus]

I got 3 shiny shadow Ekans from them when they were out. I was happy to get them but pissed that I couldn’t get one of the other ones. 2 ok, triplets was annoying.

[@mrmoose6619]

The Remote Raid Nerf and the 6 Hour Community Day Nerfs hurt the most. I also miss ExRaids. It felt a lot more special than the Elite Raids.

[@mjm3091]

The community days are kinda ok right now - they are always at the same hours still and they actually last longer than before, due to the raids. And they even made them easy enough to solo for past few CDs, so you can easily play CD for 6 hours, now in time when most people are long after they work. EX Raids model was really perfect, because it secured players that would complete them. On the other hand they were more problematic to get by rural players. Doesn't mean they shouldn't have just do EX Raids mixed with Elites.

[@mark211189]

@@mjm3091 the problem is that there are people like me that have to work weekends and i work from 5am till 7pm so i miss out. they should make the community days, well, DAYS. what is wrong with making them a full 24hrs so that people like me can actually take part in it. i have literally given up on this game as i have missed so many events and pokemon because of being stuck at work and not being able to attend. they should scrap the name "community day" and just call it "community event" since, its just a few hours so its not really a day.

[@mjm3091]

@@mark211189 then you should still be able to do raids around 7PM for additional encounters and you can still get the CD moves and if you miss something - December redos and seasonal events that bring back older CD mons with their moves are a thing. Previous CDs and events were literally worse for you. It's Community Day, because it literally lasts 6 hours and travels around the world, having one full day where whole Community plays.

[@musicsheep9816]

I hate that Niantic post-Covid decided to take away all of the amazing accessibility options for disabled people.

[@zachyurkus]

I still have a 15/14/13 shiny Zapdos that I got from a research breakthrough on 2/21/19 that no longer shows that it was caught via research breakthrough.

[@KarlaO711]

I have a Mew that was caught at the place: UNKNOWN xD

[@bero1408]

I got a shiny latias that just says caught on *blank*

[@MightyCrazy]

Nowadays Niantic’s goal is to frustrate as many people as possible. Whatever is still working guaranteed Niantic will find a way to mess it up. Most recent is the 5 Star raid.

[@beranciak867]

What happend with 5 star raids?

[@BlackMaleLion]

@@beranciak867I’m just as confused as you.

[@mjm3091]

​@@beranciak867 they are kinda shit, not to mention all the "local-only" Shadow Legendary raids and now also Dynamax fights.

[@bimapriyoanugerah363]

Conclusion: Niantic hate you having fun

[@toriko4603]

My buddy still brings me presents everyday.

[@toriko4603]

@@pogotrnr Mine still does about 5 each day.

[@briansteel296]

my buddy also gives me gifts that i could normally only get from spinning gyms or pokestops

[@JPLogiczZ]

Yup, my buddy gave me 5 gifts from nearby stops just today. They still do that.

[@jaustill237]

Yup. Everyday. Usually don't see the notifications, but it is obvious when it happens because I have gifts from stops near me that I had not spun.

[@joni2417]

I had the impression that the buddy also brought more gifts than 5 in the past. I noticed that I had to spin a little bit more stops each day to provide my friends with gifts.

[@iPhone3GS_68]

Everytime anyone asks niantic to fix anything they just remove the feature then bring it back worse…

[@Light-fh5hg]

I am tired to getting furfrou in weekly 7 days reward its sucks

[@caribou3552]

Not if you use Pokémon Home

[@alphaaufa1890]

​@@caribou3552How does Pokemon Home apply to this

[@jasonmetcalfe4695]

mines 50/50 between goomy and galarian weezing

[@morganjary]

​@@caribou3552Why? Actually curious

[@caribou3552]

@@morganjary Because Furfrou hasn’t appeared in a game since Gen 7 people will trade anything and I mean anything for one! Legendarys Mythicals Shinies You name it!

[@Bajram1998]

Still missing the ex raids and Meowth Ballons 😢 was a great time, working together with the community to get an invite. Since the pandemic, the community fell apart.

[@crimsonfury949]

I am 1000% convinced that 2016 PGo didnt flop as a game because it was associated with the Pokemon brand. It was HORRENDOUS.

[@thefonzpart]

No shit lmao The sky is blue

[@LionelRGuy]

... I mean....... f***ing duh?

[@ChronicSmokeTV]

even PokeMMo is a better game on mobile lol

[@mjdxp5688]

I played Pokémon Go as a kid the month it released. Most of the time the servers were down. Back then you actually had to pay for data, and my parents weren't going to get a kid in their early teens a data plan, so I was restricted to only playing at home or wherever there was free wifi, like at a store or a hotel or something. I couldn't really do anything at all other than catch the Weedle and Pidgey that occasionally appeared around my house. I could only get items through leveling up since there were no PokéStops anywhere near my house, so when I eventually ran out of Poké Balls, I was basically softlocked unless I went to a place with free wifi with a PokéStop, which didn't really happen much. Makes me wonder who exactly they were expecting to play the game. Back then, kids didn't have phones with data plans like they do today, and before Pokémon Go became a massive cultural phenomenon, Pokémon was largely only seen as a children's game. I really can't say who I think they were targeting when developing it.

[@mjm3091]

I mean Harry Potter one flopped for a reason.

[@SimaShangde]

#12 It still works until this day. I'm not sure if it's the same as before, but it works. To trigger this function you need to send/remove all of your gifts. Then your buddy will bring 5 gifts from the POI around. It can be done once a day. Sometimes you can even get a gift from a pokestop that has been hidden doe to some edits.

[@jonaykon]

If you have less than 5 gifts you will get enough gifts to get it back to five

[@HypnoticGoon]

Less than 5 gets you up to 5

[@Ericairline]

It works more than once a day.

[@HypnoticGoon]

@Ericairline unless your hacking your buddy can only bring you 5 gifts per day

[@ShadyRK9]

I remembered the old gym system. Blissey and Snorlax EVERYWHERE! *shudders*. Also I miss the Jessie And James Balloons. I actually got lucky and got a Shiny Shadow Ekans on the first encounter. Then Koffing, Pinsir, and Scyther. (REALLY regrets evolving that Shiny Shadow Koffing now!) 💀 Also I absolutely HATED those EX raid passes. For Dexoys I once got a raid invite AT 9:00 AM! AT DOWNTOWN! WHICH WAS A 30 MINUTE DRIVE!! (and sometimes people didn't even show up at all which was a waste of time!) Also I remember after the Chikorita and Dratini Community Day Events they accidentally released Keckleon, and Meltan. Also lastly no mention of how Breakthrough Research Boxes use to give us Legendaries? I remember getting a Shiny Groudon from it once! (My only Shiny Legendary from those boxes!)

[@bebeg604]

I had a pokomon in a gym for 3 months but because another pokomon was returned that same day I got nothing extra! 🙄

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

I love Pokömon

[@KyleVieira-o8z]

The black kyurem and white kyurem could come back during the Pokémon GO Unova tour, but it will take some time because you have to create fusion energy for them same thing with the last event that we had and instead of catching the fused Pokémon from defeating those fusion raids you’ll get the previously fused Pokémon like Pokémon that was previously fused with it like necrozma so we have to wait a little longer for them to come back as fusion Pokémon

[@KyleVieira-o8z]

But it makes sense!

[@idyosincrassy]

Jessie and James appearing with the Meowth balloon was an event. They were a special event, not really removed, per se. Just only available for a limited time.

[@bestoflui]

I got my first ever legendary from a breakthrough box (December 2019, Moltres) sad

[@pogotrnr]

The good days

[@PkMkPresto487]

Same! Mine was Entei

[@TheRealSlowbroski]

A shiny latias

[@HypnoticGoon]

I think mine was the same honestly

[@sigisoltau6073]

Got my first shiny legendary from it, Lugia. Not only was that my first shiny legendary in Pokémon Go, but also the first in any game.

[@joshking2241]

A cool thing that I remember was when they made the pokemon on radar look like their old 8 bit forms. It wasn’t for long, but it was cool to see the original 8 bit look for each pokemon

[@KarlaO711]

That was an April fools day. That was cool my game ran smooth that day :)

[@mom2artists]

They also have not had the 40km longer distance trades since pandemic. That was helpful.

[@KarlaO711]

I miss that too.

[@treaco89]

#12 is wrong, it's still in the game, your buddy will bring you up to 5 gifts when you have room for them (under 5 in inventory ) at least once per day.

[@MissinDaSylveon]

I’m still mad about the price increase of remote raid passes. Just made life for rurals/disabled players have a much harder time playing raids.

[@Paintballpro18]

12:22 yeah no, this feature wasn't taken out. It dropped from every 6 hours to every 8 hours your buddy will bring those gifts if you're under 5 gifts, but it is very much still a feature today. Like stated, just have less than 5 gifts in your inventory, and your buddy will bring some. Once tapped on there is a cooldown of 8 hours before it'll bring more.

[@Zekrohm]

Great video. I wish people would watch the Hoopa film so they d understand why the raids used to bring legendary spawns after completion. Legendary Pokemon used to spawn after the elite raid only because that is Hoopa’s ability (it summons them through the hoops) and the other elite raid bosses had different ways to differentiate. If we are to get Hoopa again in the elite raids then it is very likely we will get the spawns again. 😉

[@chugachugachewy]

EX were so fun. It rewarded you to battle raids at certain gyms. Then a special invitation, which then you could invite one other.

[@mjm3091]

0:30 Let's be honest - they always tried to escape actually humane ways of describing anything. This specifically was pushed out by constant complaining from the players. But they still decided to reuse this nonsensical nomenclature for the loot boxes (which I feel like we should once again sue them over in EU, cause the egg icons do not disclose the real rates for the lootbox, which is required thing here).

[@awesometastic-1017]

One of my fondest memories from early PoGo was an EX Raid during the first or second year. I lived in a smaller village surrounded by multiple larger towns, but we had a nice park with a one mile loop with lots of stops. The park shared parking with the library/town hall/police/fire house (again, small town). The first EX raid was for a small plaque in front of the police station at probably 7pm. I was home for the summer from college. I remember going thinking “I hope there are enough people there.” When I arrived, it looked like everyone in the village was there. A lot of players were from nearby towns who loved to play in our park as well as probably every player in town. We were splitting off by teams (Instinct, Mystic, etc) and then making sure that there were enough players to beat Mewtwo. It was insane. Later that week, my mom was taking about how the staff at the building were so confused and a little scared with the number of people there. It was town gossip by then. When she asked if I could believe how many people came out for a game, I was like “mom I was there. OFC I know what happened.”

[@valentinesapphire805]

I miss the footprints, in areas without pokestops it was really fun to try and find it... lazy of them to never add it back

[@pogotrnr]

Yeah I enjoyed it too!

[@jonaykon]

Now its just "its somwhere" thats not helpful at all!

[@valentinesapphire805]

@@jonaykon Exactly. "There's a snorlax somewhere" oh cool! Where? "Idk it exists tho"

[@pickles3128]

@@valentinesapphire805 Now it only highlights ones by Pokestops. I wish I could select certain species to appear over others as well.

[@JoKer_Thulock]

People who used XL-Candys or Rainbow XL-Candy didnt get a refund of them, which is typical shit for Niantic

[@Irrelevance256]

I still remember getting a shadow shiny Koffing from one of those Meowth balloons. I regret ever purifying it.

[@mjm3091]

To be fair it was back in raids (which actually have relatively high shiny rates for the shadows) and it had ability to evolve to Galarian Weezing for that whole week or two. It did unfortunately compete for attention with Shiny Zacian though.

[@Octobris]

Oml I got two and purified both. Bad move in hindsight lol

[@absolutemaniac7368]

I think the most devestating thing to me was taking out being able to take pictures of pokemon with your friends. Genuinely I mostly played pokemon go to take pictures of pokemon

[@roxik1073]

Footsteps can still occur if you are far away from pokestops. Got it like 2 weeks ago when hiking in forest with 0 stops nearby

[@DracoLeafson]

17:34 I think having global trading be similar to Wonder Trade found in the mainstream games would be a great idea, even if its usage is capped at a certain number.

[@DracoLeafson]

Alternatively, I think they could add the global trades between long distance friends with a cap like 5 trades per day.

[@pogotrnr]

Wonder trade would be great! And it would be fun if you could global trade with lucky friends at least

[@DracoLeafson]

@@pogotrnr I think if it was only possible at a certain friendship level, it should be Ultra or at least Best/Lucky.

[@jasonmetcalfe4695]

be cool if they invented another version of matteo that we could trade a local regional pokemon to and get another from another country back, eg me being in new zealand could drop a relicanth off and get say a hawlucha or something else, or a flabebe trade where I could potentially get a yellow or red in exchange for blue ones

[@mjm3091]

To be fair at that point they could just link us to GTS. But I think that would totally break their monetisation model and make their Safari Zone revenue non-existent. I think they just need to release more global Pokémon around. The only way I see global trades being possible is if it were Lucky Trades of Pokémon that both trainers already caught / have in Pokedex.

[@scoots291]

I remember when ex raids gave you the option for +1s. I received one and 3d printed a pokemon go gift box. On the inside printed a raid pass with the address, date, time on it. I was going to invite one of my friends but waited until abunch of the friend group were together. During the middle of the outing I got done one one knee and asked if he would be my plus 1. Some of the group was I'm shock, most of the group was confused. Like 3 of the group were laughing historically and he was just super angry and embarrassed 😂 but he said yes so I sent him the in game invite

[@dorte1929]

Deletion of ex raids was the issue which hurt me the most... In this film I miss 1 thing - initial form of pvp. You had to tap the screen as fast as possible to make your charge attack as strong as possible. Today there are stripes to draw.

[@NintendoTugs]

Honestly I miss the old gym system. It was ACTUALLY a challenge, and let you flex your CP. It absolutely DISGUSTS me that you put a pokemon in and it's cp gradually goes down...LITERALLY WHY?!?! THERE'S NO POINT!?! You can take down a gym at like level 25 which takes less than a day to get to.

[@mjm3091]

Yeah, I remember that time vividly, no thank you - with how bad Niantic was about catching cheaters, you literally could not get any gyms after your area got raided by the people who made accounts for profit. Both fly and bot behaviour was obnoxious and then you also had to compete with other hundreds of angry people, who also couldn't get enough coins. It was just not fun.

[@chan4est]

Didn't the take the 20 coins from tasks and revamp it into the season pass they now sell?

[@mjm3091]

The tasks were hated either way, because they counted into the 50 coin limit. Which probably would be good with old gym system, cause you literally couldn't get coins from there with all the bots and hardcore a-holes. But modern system is just so much damn better, it's not as stressful or painful. The only issue is the limit of coins we can get daily.

[@Boss92047]

Almost everyone has forgotten the time when your Buddy gave you about 50 pokeballs every hour That was very nice for Community days

[@mjm3091]

It still kinda does, especially during big events like Go Fest.

[@AuroraOwlQueen]

My first research breakthrough encounter was a shiny moltres I truly miss it

[@therain7218]

what about the feature, that showed the exact location the pokemon was caught and showed on a little map. and all the memes about cheaters getting caught by where their pokemon was caught lol

[@mjm3091]

It's still technically present in the bottom of the Pokémon data. No map, but they actually added additional info like the method or even, if you caught something during Party with specific players (who are named).

[@TheRealMrAndrew]

One thing I really liked that wasn’t so much a feature as just something special for the event, Diwali I think, was Morelul would glow while appearing in the over world. It was really neat.

[@KarlaO711]

yeah and a lot of fire Pokémon too :D

[@ryolucanread7082]

I miss the footstep feature, gave the game a sense of adventure and you had to explore to find the pokemon you wanted to catch from the nearby pokemon. I took a year break from the game when they changed it cos there weren't many features in the game back then and that feeling of adventure waned for me.

[@pogotrnr]

Yeah I enjoyed it for short amount of time it was available

[@mjm3091]

nah F that - they directly removed it, because it was totally crap and people spammed them to change it, the amount of wasted time for useless Pokémon that still despawned was horrendous

[@LoveBrii]

playing Pokémon go in 2016 was honestly so fun and when people was actually playing, I could be taking a walk and meet other trainers with my parents. Everyone was so chill it was refreshing

[@mark211189]

love how community day is more like community hours. they really need to consider people that actually have to work on weekends and miss out. so the community day should run for a full 24hrs so that people like myself that have to work from 6am till 6pm on weekends can actually enjoy it. this is one of the reasons why i have stopped playing as much because i miss out on community days since they only run for a few hours.

[@VessIGuess]

12:39 IIRC this feature isn't totally removed, as I remember my Buddy Pokemon bringing me gifts from nearby Pokestops on at least one occasion I think during this year. Maybe the frequency of this happening was reduced substantially or something, but I don't think the feature is entirely gone.

[@pogotrnr]

Yeah you could be right!

[@breakfast3621]

@@pogotrnr Can confirm. Mine just gave me gifts! Think it only actions if you feed them and are low in the amount of gifts you have left to send.

[@pumpkinpony]

gifts from buddies are most definitely still a thing, but you have to feed your buddy

[@berndschmid8211]

no need to feed but you need to be low or out of gifts

[@VicInCommentSection]

Thanks for this video! I played briefly upon the game's release in 2016, and returned to become a daily player in April 2021. I have no idea what occurred between late 2016 and early 2021, so this is cool to learn about that half a decade.

[@GladYouMissed]

As someone who played in 2016 then came back in 2024 what a decline...

[@nathanwongchinrenntps2403]

5:38 they can still be encountered replacing professor willow in a special research(I forgot the name) where you get shiny celebi

[@LINKDAWG]

The research is called, distracted by something shiny

[@patricgmuer2988]

The gifts for #12 didn’t get taken out, if you have less than 5 gifts left then your buddy Pokémon will give you some gifts to up it to 5, but only once per day. It still does that.

[@unoreverse6548]

Fun fact for #2: It still says you can collect 50 Pokécoins daily through the Shop area even though you can't

[@GilbertSoto-p1b]

2 things missing from this list; when the game was first released, there was a map toward the bottom of the info screen for the Pokémon you caught showing the area that you caught the Pokémon. Also, when Shadow Pokémon first came out, you were able to trade them for a short period of time.

[@seathief3357]

Back in 2017 you could get Legendaries in the weekly Field Research encounter

[@Hendricus56]

As someone who was able to use the coin research feature back then, I'm pretty sure they saw a sudden drop in coin sales in the regions with it, resulting in the scrapping of the idea. I mean, I basically speed runned my way to a max bag and bigger Pokebox back then. Even if there is way more space possible now

[@Chocney]

Wow what a blast from the past! I remember the early days with the tracking system and the gyms. I don't remember doing much with the Prestige System in the early gym days, but I do remember how the gyms used to look. Still have the odd old screenshot. I have a recording of the Team Rocket Jesse and James battle too. I do not know why I recorded it (probably from my poor little blue bird days), but I am glad I did, I miss them in the game. Little Cakes loves them from the TV show and when she asked me if they were in the game, I got to show her the recording. She was so excited!🥰 Once they nerfed the incense to one Pokémon every 5 mins whilst stationary, I pretty much stopped playing the Spotlight Hours. I know it sounds strange but a lot of my Pokécoins I earned went towards those incenses. Spotlight Hour became a weekly event in the household. Order take-out, sit with the family to eat pizza, and play Pokémon Spotlight Hour together. (I know these were pandemic measures, but it was the one feature that I would have liked for them to have kept for the incense). It was annoying for prices of the Remote Raid Passes to increase. I wonder if they did this because of the Remote Raid cap limit (which I was in favour of) being set to 5 Remote Raids per day. This would generate less income from that side of the game so raising the price of the Remote Raid passes would compensate a little. Seeing other people spending so much money chasing after their digital dream was immense! It was great when they got the Pokémon as I too enjoy the Remote Raids, but do not have the means to keep constantly raiding. Would I raid a lot more if I had those opportunities? Probably Yes! I do love a good raid, especially with an awesome squad. I do like how the Remote Raid cap is increased across special events and then I do try to max out on those occasions, chasing my digital dream! Caught some pretty great Pokémon for my collection this way🙂 Ex-Raids were amazing! I loved them. I like how they have tried to implement a different form of them now. Having a longer time span to do the raid in, no more selective invitations (though it felt pretty cool when I got one), and the requirement to no longer battle at the Ex-Raid gym beforehand (I think it was a 24-hour window? Or a couple of days? I cannot remember). More open for everyone to try their hand at. Seems like I had a lot to say😅 This video just brought back a lot of memories and feelings and now I will have to sort through all my old screenshots and recordings for the nostalgia of it all! Thank you for making this video☺💜💖

[@pikachuyip1478]

For the Wolf legendary for the Galar Tour. I think their Crowned form would used to Boosted Attacks and Defences in regular, mega, Dynamax and Legendary Raids maybe!?

[@mjm3091]

They don't boost stats (of all Pokémon) in actual games. They just will be stronger and their signature move(s) may have some extra bonus for the Pokémon itself. Like they totally should allow them in Dynamax Battles with Behemoth Blade still causing double the damage.

[@lukesgamingworld9672]

Reality: Jessie and James got fired from Team Go Rocket (my guess anyway)

[@tomasramirez2914]

Seems more likely as there’s no ash in Pokémon GO 😅

[@Lylizabeth]

Jessie might not be coming back as her voice actor very sadly died a month ago

[@mjm3091]

​@@Lylizabeththey had recasted people many times already, so that's not an issue. Especially Oak has been recasted many times, when you consider all the dubs.

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

​@@mjm3091also, the English voice actors are not something that they think about in Japan. The original language that is spoken in Pokémon has always been Japanese, so if any voice actor dying was in any way a factor in a decision to retire a character from the anime, then it'd be the Japanese one.

[@eburpees]

Also in the gbl you used to be able to encounter legendaries at any rank, i remember getting darkrai and giratina while at a very low rank from gbl rewards

[@DarthRubberDuck]

Community days were 10-1 or 11-2 at one point and not 2-5

[@mom2artists]

Yes they moved the time around AND they used to post the time in not “your time zone” so there were several CD that I missed due to not figuring out the time correctly 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@KarlaO711]

I miss the covid time 11-5 :( 6 hours were just fine and a chill time. Not beeing forced to play at a specific time frame. I hated the 3 hour limit before and after covid

[@mjm3091]

They are 14:00-22:00. Just do the damn raids, they aren't even hard to solo anymore. This is the best time-slot we ever had. With 8 hours of actual event.

[@Bendy-Boris07]

buddy's still collect gifts, they never removed it. Or if they did they have recently brought it back My buddy got me 3 gifts yesterday

[@thaolvue]

The footprint was one of the best thing ever, it make it like you are in a real pokemon world but go is not for fan but casual player lol

[@LeamonPuppy]

I got my 4 star groudon and kyorgre from the research breakthrough back when they did legendaries. I found that they gave them low cp, but on the other end, their stats could be very good.

[@ALbmo-xt6py]

Nothing made me want to stop playing the game like the avatar changes 😢

[@mjm3091]

you can literally play as your old avatar, the original body types and faces are still there

[@penguinmaster7]

the old gym system was hilariously unbalanced. a single attacking trainer could only be cancelled out by two defending trainers, two attackers required 3 defenders, and it just kept going up from there. it wasn't uncommon to see gyms (mostly valor, go figure) doing stacks of Blissey and/or Snorlax to effectively stall a trainer indefinitely, especially for lower level players. there was also the problem of newer pokemon being the first ones fought, so if you placed your pokemon in the 10th slot, you were the first pokemon on the chopping block. there was a LOT of fighting over placing the first pokemon in a gym deep into team territory, because the first pokemon on a 10-stack gym was a guaranteed long-term coin payout. the new system is infinitely better and allows for players on their own to actually do something, whereass you needed to be a top player in your community to even have a chance before.

[@InDevMasta]

13:40 I caught the first Mewtwo in my first EX Raid Group that i rode my bike 7 miles and took the day off work to get to it. It was a a starbucks and i caught it with ease while everyone was struggling. The feeling i had in my chest of excitement and overwhelming completetion has yet to be matched. I Miss EX Raids

[@NosferatuWildcard]

In my area the footsteps feature never worked properly, it was a relief when it got changed over

[@jeff_uchiha]

If you ask me , I think Niantic needs to be REMOVED from Pokémon go , it’s time another development team take over

[@treaco89]

This!

[@yosuhiro3434]

Damn I remember downloading APK pokemon go in the UK and catching pokemon before it was released. Spent hours catching pokemon during june and july heat no sunscreen. Afternoon and evenings would have server always down

[@pogotrnr]

Good times! The 2016 release was so fun despite all of the issues it had

[@yosuhiro3434]

@@pogotrnr yes it was. Minus the pokemon spawn map getting banned and 1 or 2 out of 4 players always struggling to log in because of server issues. Thanks for reminder

[@TreFKennedy]

Sure do miss getting 100 coins per day, that would have been way more reasonable if they wanted to up the price on remote raid passes, dope vid too

[@mjm3091]

not missing getting 0 coins because of abusive players and bots, sure the 50 coin cap is ridiculous, but the gyms are finally playable

[@danieldelta2464]

I think they'll bring Black Kyurem and White Kyurem back for GO Tour Unova; it'll be the same fusion mechanic like Necrozma, but using Kyurem, Reshiram, and Zekrom

[@roboticdreamer]

I remember my first ex raid. I didn't want to admit to my parents because I wanted to participate in an ex raid that I was invited to (I didn't think they'd understand, and despite being an adult at the time, I still was staying at home while in university and cared about what they thought) but luckily, they were going for dinner with friends conveniently at the time, and it was close to my house, so I could go to the raid and get back before they got back.

[@neitron90]

#12 is not removed. once or twice a day you will get 5 gifts if you have 0. 4 if 1 3 if 2 etc... until 5

[@suyogkadam1058]

There was 1 more feature tested but never implemented. You can spin pokestop to get research task even if your bag is full. It was there for a month or two in some countries like Australia but then it was removed.

[@exiaR2x78]

The foot print tracking mechanic was so much more fun. The current tracking system is kind of boring just walk to the stop, compared to the exploring a bit to find the pokemon

[@suyogkadam1058]

Please bring EX raids back. It was fascinating to see a raid invite every monday morning when you open your game.

[@BlackMaleLion]

I know of another removal: You used to get a reward for these two things: Catching a Pokémon 7 days in a row. Spinning a PokeStop 7 days in a row. Yes, you could actually get rewards for doing those things. And you didn’t have to do both of them to get a reward. Both of those things had their own individual reward pools. These days, there is no incentive to chaining those things.

[@vVincent.]

that's still here...

[@tremorlok6659]

Jesse and James appeared for me like last week. I didn’t know they weren’t around anymore since I had just started playing again after a long time.

[@ericgarcia4282]

There was a one finger fast catch which involved rotating a pokemon where you take a picture of a pokemon. but didn't last long and was removed/patched

[@junkyard3349]

I don't have any friends that play, so 4 and 5 star raids are crazy difficult if not impossible for a solo player. They have to address this, I've missed out on so many Pokémon because I can't get the raid Pokémon

[@CrescentStorm]

Research Breakthrough Legendries being removed was the time i stopped caring about the game due to little to no gyms in my area, remote raids helped but them being f'ed after covid i just stopped playing.

[@LeopoldsburgsJong]

Tbh the e step system felt the most like hunting a pokemon and made it feel more real than simply walking to a stop

[@thatdovick29]

The old layout of gyms was really cool, wish they brought it back

[@himark]

I forgot about the weekly legendary encounter rewards. I was looking at my Pokédex the other day and was wondering how I managed to get the legendary birds because I definitely didn’t do raids back then 😂

[@TydraEsuke]

I had the footsteps tracker for a pokemon from the thumbnail earlier today, wasn't nearly enough time to walk back home to my car and drive over there though,

[@SKB-and-PlasticFred]

The footsteps will still appear if you’re in an isolated area with zero Pokéstops

[@MannyG93]

I dont miss the original gym system at all. Battling 10 blisseys was a nightmare

[@lilharm]

seeing a lot of these makes me realize just how… unnecessarily restrictive Niantic is being recently… limited Coins from gyms, limited raid passes outside of events yet somehow the Max Energy being capped at 1000, with a limit on how much you can collect per day, is just a kick in the face for any player that wants to play the game…

[@kolonarulez5222]

Dude my first EX Gym raid pass was for a town 2 hours away from me I was devastated!

[@venetianjack1348]

Gym sniping pissed me off. You beat the gym and then someone comes in from that team you beat and puts a new Pokémon in quickly.

[@R.O.T.C._SEEM]

Remember when people could drive and catch pokémon. So many car accidents and then they changed it so you get a warning and pokémon flee

[@MrGodsChaos]

pokestops dont even give out healing potions anymore or revives. I remember when they used to give them out due to gym battles but not anymore

[@kosmaukaszczyk8401]

thats not true they give but its more rare and mostly the bad ones

[@sethrod13]

I dont remember there being a limit on how many coins you could have earned in gyms per day before the current system. My mons would give 50 coins each day they remain in the gym, and I dont remember it capping at 100coins

[@Crixus654]

I started when it was released! But I’ve played off and on throughout the years, wish I had switched it on more often!

[@DominicMGeehan]

Are you sure they removed the Buddy gift feature? I'm almost certain I still get that benefit when I run low on gifts

[@pogotrnr]

I think they just reduced the frequency at which they give them to you