The Rise and Fall of Pokémon GO

[@M3RKMUS1C]

This is such a great breakdown of the highs and lows of PoGo. I first started playing in 2016 and quit by early 2017. Decided to pick it up again in 2023 and was amazed by how much had changed and improved, but the remote raid pass nerf has left a nasty stain on the game...

[@autumnrain3884]

Bro your amazing

[@coolkid4156]

I love you daddy

[@colinmoore1680]

You’re awesome bro!

[@shyshon9]

yo m3rkmus1c plays pogo wth

[@PhD_in_Undecided]

Couldn’t it be said that it was the remote raid introduction that left the stain?

[@KnightJRL]

Brandon, this is by far the realest, most open and honest reivew of the game and company I have ever seen from anyone. Not only does it serve as an incredibly perfect recap, but also as a letter to the developers. I appreciate you continuing to be honest about the highs and lows of the game - despite Niantic's not so subtle disapproval of your honesty.

[@thisoneguy64]

Remote raids going away has made it very hard to find excitement about playing, I live in an extremely rural area, and remote raids were the only way I could play a raid. Sad to see that many others are in my same situation

[@jackpez]

they are still here though?

[@chrishansen5784]

Same here

[@Rochrikqv]

@@jackpezThey are harder to get now though

[@CheesyShits]

Didn’t get rid of anything goofball

[@Zach-rn7vv]

bruh only 40 Coins more plus they have realesed campfire

[@hazelmarieb9934]

Those first few weeks created some fun memories. Parks were full of life again, and everyone was so excited to catch pokemon you wouldnt normally get so hyped over in the main games. Hundreds would show up to a pokemon go meet up at a park, people would bring waters and sports drinks, and snacks, and share, we would all share info on what we are seeing, have friendly three way rivalrys between team instinct, valor, and mystic. On more than one occasion youd hear someone call out something like "Hey there's a gastly over here!" Then that would relay across the park, and someone would sprint toward the spot screaming "Gaaaaasstlyyyyy!!!!!" and everyone would go running to that spot to catch a gastly, which was really hard to find when pogo first launched. If nothing else, we had a fun few weeks that summer, when pokemon felt real, even if it didnt last.

[@jordanhoward2793]

Which i somethin i missed out on and whish ive join in on

[@BritishEcho]

God I remember when a Lapras spawned on the other side of town, there were literal hordes of people running to go get it. It was quite a sight. That and when Legendaries were released.... The sheer amount of people who showed up to the first Articuno raid in the area was mind boggling.

[@shanerisk1293]

No lie. It truly was a phenomenon for a few weeks in the summer of '16. We'd be driving around to different areas just trying to catch rare pokemon and so was everyone else. I'm almost nostalgic for it haha

[@millhouse313]

I’ll never forget that first summer. Me and my gf and small kids at the time, thought we were thinking outside the box and went out later in the evening to a local park. We walked across the street, walked up this hill, and seen probably 75 people all down in this one area, all playing Pokémon go. It really felt like something huge was happening. Amazing.

[@Miko_of_the_North]

This didn't happen in the small town I lived in. In my area walking 15-25 min there was only 2 shops and not much else

[@BritishEcho]

That first month or so was amazing.... Literally everyone was playing the game and everyone was down for hanging out and catching together. Never have I ever seen a more harmonised society than when PoGo released. Those times were the best. Sadly I don't play the game now... It just can't hold my interest, no one I know still plays either. I will remember those times fondly, along with the cool people I met.

[@paradoxzee6834]

I don't agree with you, I been there and most Pokemon Go fans did not even like Pokemon. The community was very toxic I remerber it was so bad that Pokemon fans and Pokemon Go fans were separate communites, because if you are talking to Go fans back in 2016 you could talk to them only about Go and nothing else about Pokemon, even if you started to talk about other Pokemon games they get angry very easy and call you a hater

[@MtpMuzik]

@@paradoxzee6834 exactly bro, its better now too, and a whole lot of people play now, i just went to global go fest in my local park and was over 100 people and it was dope asf

[@wrg_101]

​@@paradoxzee6834That made me unlock a hidden memory of people reacting with 'you mean Pokemon Go?' at any pokemon mention and call any pokemon that wasn't in Pokemon Go fake

[@hightops77]

Everything was much better with Trump as president.

[@silentassassin423]

​@@paradoxzee6834 Who cares

[@nsowen01]

Thank you for saying what were all feeling right now. This game has been a part of my life for nearly 7 years now, leading me to fun and exciting placed I might not have ever seen otherwise. I'm truly sad to see the direction it's going but I'm glad someone is voicing the community's feelings.

[@andremedeiros4275]

Bro I was like, 7 years?! It hasn't been that long. Then I realized it has been going since 2016, which is crazy

[@alvaroquintero620]

I might sound bias because i hate remote raids because i saw my local communities completely die in favor of remote raiding but i applaud Niantic for sticking to they’re morals. Any other company would’ve just dive head first into the money pit that remote raiding was and not care at all. Like they could’ve triple the prices on them and people would still buy them just to raid 100 times in a day from their damn couch. Instead Niantic look at the state of their game and realize that’s not what they want for their creation and literally said no to potencial MILLIONS of dollars. Name ANY other gaming company that would’ve dona the same. Now let’s just hope remote raids get completely removed so we can move forward and make this game even better.

[@MisterManGav]

​@@alvaroquintero620wow thank you for supporting making the game worse

[@PokeVentureGame]

​@@MisterManGav Let him have his opinion, he's not supporting the game dying, he's stating what a normal, sane person would think.

[@joshsmada]

@@alvaroquintero620 you could not be more wrong, you really are dumb enough to think they care about getting us outside and together? its complete bullshit, all they care about is AR and AR scans. The are being offered MILLIONS by companies for the data collected by the AR scans, which need to happen in person. They ARE being GREEDY and on top of that destroying the game and ignoring the community.

[@monkeyock4575]

A lot of people are commenting about how remote raids were supposed to be temporary and all…but before remote raids I couldn’t do legendary raids even in a pretty large area (Raleigh NC) because there simply wasn’t a group that I had the time and availability outside of work to meet up with. This weekend I went to a couple of parks to see if anyone was around to try and work on some shadow mewtwo…nothing. I used to buy a few remote raid passes a week and spend a little bit of real money each month and I could jump on invites I had coming from around the world from people in my friends list. Or I could use a service like pokegenie to do a couple of legendary raids and try for shiny or hundo or whatever. I can’t afford to do any of that now. I started playing on the third day after launch in 2016 and now I’m just losing steam and thinking of quitting. I’m not even really a “rural” player, and I don’t have any disabilities that preclude getting out and about so I can only imagine how badly the game has felt limited to those players lately.

[@brianfox340]

I've played since beta. Like 95% of my raids have been in-person, but with friends I don't live near anymore joining me remotely. I was playing a lot (more I should probably) up until the nerf, but I now basically use it to kill 5 minutes and do some rocket balloons, and that's really it. Maybe an hour a week, because the endgame (raids) are dead to me, so what's the point?

[@asseyez-vous6492]

Same here but I am actually rural (really out in the sticks, halfway up a mountain rural) and the remote raid passes really opened up the game for me. Previously, I used to sit and watch a legendary on top of a gym wishing I had someone to help me battle it. I had no one. I am pog’s ideal player. I go out and walk miles every single day but I don’t live in a city, which is what N want. Remote raiding was incredible and I often raided between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am when raids aren’t available in person anyway. I often would also lie in bed around 1.00 in the morning and pop an incense when there was a spawn a minute. Those were good times. Now, I barely have the incentive to even open the game anymore, much less play it, especially when the spawns are frankly a snooze fest. The daily incense is really crappy as well and I don’t feel like going out to catch a bunch of pidoves on it and wasting my pokeballs. Thanks, Nerfantic, for giving us something epic then taking it away again. Thanks for nothing.

[@austin2745]

Same I couldn’t find anyone to do raids in person either so remote raids really helped and the issue is still the same it is hard to find people playing pogo to do the elite raids and shadow raids

[@chancecarlson2023]

Weird im in Raleigh as well🤣 I never see people playing it only rarely around nc state or downtown

[@monkeyock4575]

@@chancecarlson2023 I’m on the garner side of town and usually play at lake benson/white deer parks. There are usually a few folks out for things like community day but never enough for a solid raid group. And I’m an older player so I’m not super comfy rolling up to a group of teenagers like “hey let’s raid guys!” 😂

[@MasonOfLife]

Man that first week of Pokémon GO was a truly magical time, and I didn’t even play it that much, but I’d be outside seeing people playing it and it was amazing I ran into friends I hadn’t seen for years who were just walking outside looking for Pokémon And it gave everyone something fun to do

[@tflanagan3511]

Right? I remember when the first snorlax I saw popped up near my buddies house and we went running down the road to catch it

[@ithinkihaveebola5238]

L

[@KariIzumi1]

A whole lotta places were able to clear out their animal shelters because people were looking to walk dogs while playing lol

[@mspirits9911]

I had my ups and downs with this game, returning every couple of years. One thing that made me excited this year was the remote raid as most of my friends had already stopped playing. Now, I can play with many people wherever they are and it was awesome. Unfortunately, with the pricy item, Niantic actually should not be limiting people to 5 times.

[@wubbied4575]

I stopped playing when the remote raid passes went up in price. Won’t be back unless they go down.

[@MajesticSkywalker]

Having a hard limit is fine and should have been the "nerf" from the beginning. Not the 100% price hike...

[@albin8166]

Never played PokémonGo, I just remembered the news and people going crazy in 2016, it was fun looking all the people running around catching Pokémon, I didn't know how much the game changed on those years and sad to see that the community is no longer what it was. Really nice video, thanks for uploading it.

[@nickmusser8173]

It's really sad to see where this game has gone. I love playing this game. It's so much fun to get out and grind trying to find shinies, but raiding was a great time for so long. It brought a community together better than I've ever seen. Since the remote raid nerf, all the groups I participated in are like a ghost town now. Most of my friends have quit and the ones that haven't, aren't excited about the game anymore. I went out for a few hours each day this weekend and couldn't find anyone to help with mewtwo raids. I wasn't able to do one raid in playing for a few hours. While I don't see Niantic changing their mind about this I hope they see these comments and adjust the current rules. I'm fine with only 5 a day, but did they really need to increase the price? I don't buy them anymore but it hasn't pushed me to do in person raids because no one is out playing. I would've been more than happy to get a couple mewtwos this weekend with the help of remote raids. Thanks to anyone who does read this and considers making a change. I don't want to see this game die out. I love playing and plan to continue. I just don't see a way for me to battle legendaries anymore unless I get lucky.

[@kristenburkett4274]

I definitely feel the same way. If they hadn't raised the price I could've been happy with just doing 5. I usually never did that many regularly anyway. But I think I've only bought like two maybe three passes total since the change. It's just not that fun anymore. So much so that even my husband who never played at all had even asked me if I still played or not.

[@Liminal-Lagomorph]

Remote raids didn’t “bring the community together” though. Most of the community would play from home and just get invited by the two people still actually going out and doing raid a this was the whole problem.

[@tigertempertantrum6573]

@@Liminal-Lagomorph May I ask why it was a problem? Niantic was making a killing money wise, the community were working together and having fun, people who were rural and previously were left out of this could also be included... what's so bad about that? :P

[@jordanalexander615]

I gotta say around here there are tons of players. A lot of malls and big stores. And I love building OP teams to climb the rankings.

[@VenomVenomVenom95]

@@tigertempertantrum6573 laughing so hard in my rural areal with only 3 pokestop ..back then it got 0 pokestop 🤣🤣 .. its too late to make me go out now , pgsharp is 🤘🤘

[@DotJayYT]

This video is extremely well made. Thank you mystic for all these amazing years of Pokemon Go while it lasted.

[@anycoolgamer]

agreed

[@SirCusty22]

Everyone is making it sound like it’s over, it’s not so many people still play it and the remote raid changes didn’t kill it for everyone

[@trainfamly1311]

@@SirCusty22 I AGREE. People are acting like its the end of the world. I still play daily. Just keep playing and dont spend money.

[@charlesw7397]

​@@trainfamly1311 yeah it's a little absurd how entitled people are being lol they told everyone off the bat that the pandemic bonuses and cheap remote raid passes were temporary to keep the game afloat during the pandemic I live in a medium sized town where you pretty much have to go to our Main St to do in person raids with people. I went down there for a few hours yesterday and today and frequently our lobbies for shadow Mewtwo were between 12 and 20. With a little bit of effort (that people apparently had no problem putting in before the pandemic), everyone was able to get some shadow Mewtwos and some got the shinies. I still believe more needs to be done to help out rural players (I used to be in a rural town and pretty much couldn't raid for legendaries) but the people who are mad aren't are rural. It's a bunch of people who got used to buying cheap remote raid passes and now can't be bothered to make a trip out to a raid. I miss being able to do tons of cheap remote raids as well but it's not the end of the world.

[@TuFF_GamingYT]

@@charlesw7397 i live in a small town where like 3 people (not exaggerating) play the game so without remote raids i can’t even get one normal shadow mewtwo let alone a shiny

[@Norpthalomus]

You crushed this video, thanks for making this! Perfectly summed up my feelings: past, present, and future. Something has gotta change because I’m so checked out and this was one of my favorite communities/hobbies

[@CreekCZ]

I hate the fact that sitting in city centre rewards you more then a walk in forest and touching grass. They couldn't make it worse ..

[@kacper3545]

real

[@MrJibbajabbawocky]

I don't think they want people dying in the woods because of their game. It's an App, not a LARP.

[@nobo7764]

That's why spoofing better

[@jakelynch7389]

The fundamental issue with the game is that it isn’t accessible to the casual player. I get shiny rates need to be hard, but for most people it makes them pretty much unattainable. Raids are impossible unless you are in major cities because there just isn’t the player base. IMO Niantic would be better off making everything more accessible to the casual player so that they increase the player base and then can have bigger profits themselves

[@99PercentOffFreeHugs]

:( I've only been playing three days and haven't left my house yet except to the mailbox and caught a shiny abra =-= Was it a rare fluke?

[@jakelynch7389]

@@99PercentOffFreeHugs 1:500 Pokémon that have a shiny will be shiny (except for some exceptions) so you got very lucky

[@Zach-rn7vv]

Use niantic campfire

[@Kcpvvy15]

@@Zach-rn7vvdog shit app with poor UI and it’s ugly. shouldn’t force the consumer to use a separate app to play a game. you adapt to your consumer base or you fail as a company it’s not on us to comply with extra unnecessary features

[@Zach-rn7vv]

@@Kcpvvy15 nah its pretty good

[@NotAdriana03]

I still get the feeling that, despite everything, there's some semblance of heart behind Pokémon Go, even now. However, if it were to be bought out by a different company, it might be what the game needs.

[@MrZorx75]

I think people forget how bad mobile game developers are. Chances are that another company would be just as bad if not worse than Niantic. It is very rare that I find a mobile game that doesn’t have extremely unfair or pay-to-win mechanics. The Pokémon Company tends to be the same way, so I doubt that they would even want to take time to search for a better developer.

[@lky7540]

They nerfed pay to win by limiting remote passes

[@itzmatos]

I share the same opinion. I don't even mind that they're pushing a prerogative to extend the game's longevity. If Niantic really dedicated themselves they could make this game 10x better for it has HUGE potential, the number one thing pushing them back is not listening to feedback and not accepting that times have changed.

[@axel8912]

There was a great point made a while ago saying that if the goal is to get us back out again make the rewards better like guaranteed XLs via in-person raids don't remove remote raids to try and force us out

[@x_pure]

@@itzmatos How does this extend the games longevity? The only people in raids in major cities are spoofers not to mention the main contributors to Niantics bottom line when it comes to that 2 billon in revenue. Going out and having to drive around isn't really going out into the community lol that's just wasting my gas, putting miles on my car and still no one plays this shit anymore.

[@Praliners]

Wow i dont even play pogo anymore but i still decided to watch the video and i absolutely loved it! Great energy, music etc

[@jflartner117]

Played a bunch in 2016 like a lot of people and have come back to the game thanks to our little one discovering and falling in love with the show. Been really loving the game - kind of glad I didn't come back before the remote raid nerf. Hoping for the best going forward.

[@TheGauravkumarrathore]

It's so unbelievable the way this game made thousands of people come out of their house and play with full of joy ❤

[@xmannythakidx]

It still does. This guy is tripping on numbers.

[@NathanDavis508]

​@@xmannythakidxyour source: trust me bro

[@cosmicthunder25]

And then they got lazy and don't want to have to go outside anymore

[@asvegas777]

And now they complain that they cannot play from home and car the way they were during the pandemic. There are other games you can play at home.

[@drandel23]

This hit the spot, like most I started when it came out and played through for a year. I came back in 2022 and fell in love, started walking 40km a week spending $50-$100 a month and exploring places I generally never went. I have spent a total of 10 hours playing and spent $1 since the raid pass increase. I haven’t been as active(which is really the most depressing thing) and I haven’t been exploring as much either. I used to meet up with 10-30 people every week for raid hour and meet up with pogo buddies once a month for spotlight hour, I haven’t seen any of them for weeks. I also used to watch tons of videos for pogo for pvp, raid counters, prep for future events and now I have watched maybe 3-4 videos this being one of them. At this point I’m not sure what I want. To become a free to play player, quit the game completely, or fight for change. Thank you for the history lesson it really help to show a returning player the severity of Niantics actions, the depth of their betrayal per their own words.

[@dylannuggetsfan]

One thing about recent events that’s gotten really upset is the clicking the Pokémon and it running away still happens, spawns aren’t as common in unpopulated areas where before there was a decent amount of spawns. I’ve left game myself and I was one of the biggest defenders and been on the game since 2016 but I’ve been like many and really upset about how it’s going and how it’s going downhill. Much love mystic for this video and I hope you have still get enjoyment front the game!

[@austinthesavage745]

Are you driving on the road when you click on pokemon because if you are going fast enough they just run away

[@dylannuggetsfan]

@@austinthesavage745 no actually I’m not

[@jamesgentry13]

Im okneithbthem.rjjning

[@suban2163]

No emotions can describe my rage towards niantic with the way the shadow raids for mewtwo was handled. I don't think they understand how it feels to know, that the strongest pokemon in the game is finally available for two whole days and you can get as many as you want in that time frame, but only a select few can get them, because you need an in-person team to defeat it. I don't think they know how it feels to see everyone else show off their shiny shadow mewtwo or even their shadow hundo mewtwo or the 26 shadow mewtwos they caught during those two days. Meanwhile YOU have literally none, because you have NOBODY to play with, and you can't use remote raidpasses. I do not care about the horrendous nerf to the remote raid pass, but the freaking fact that you removed it from the the event that can give you dozens of the best pokemon in the game, and only a select few get to have it, is beyond infuriating. What makes this so more infuriating is the fact that this is probably never coming back in YEARS. So, tHanK yoU sO mUch NiAntIc, I had so much fun soloing shadow mewtwo and getting an astounding zero shadow mewtwos for 2 whole days.

[@jamisonhyder6159]

irk I live in a rural area were no one raids and every time one popped up I would just stare at it then I see hundreds of videos of people getting shundo shaddows hundo shaddow etc and I couldnt even beat one

[@mrs_kwan1]

And even if you completed the raid, you would probably have a high chance of it being a 0 star Mewtwo anyways.

[@kristenburkett4274]

I didn't even try for it. Cause I only got two shards. And when you work 12 hour nights you end up sleeping most of your raids away. And there isn't Amy at night except the other side of the world. Which you can't even do then cause you can't remote it.

[@LdangerB]

Just start spoofing. Seriously though. It's been obvious that Niantic doesn't care about the players and their experience only their location data. No need for fomo anymore 🏃‍♀️🌎

[@kismeroon]

@@LdangerBonly cunts spoof

[@speedcreatureYT]

John Hanke would foam at the mouth watching this lol But seriously, thank you for sparking back interest in Pokémon GO. You showed how passionate you clearly are about this game, and you reminded Niantic what it's like to rise and fall. I hope they adapt faster than they die!

[@tekanpintu]

My fear that this would be, like Zynga, a total downfall to the bottomless pit

[@xBlitzerx]

Didn't touch on the fact that Niantic is likely making double the money by selling our data. Hence the push to get back outside.

[@GRTrueno]

No trading, no friends and no battling against one another in 2016 is what killed this game

[@Bengt-Hanz]

I am not done watching this video but wth, my man, this is so insanely well made u could probably start making videos for large companies. Very much well done! Edit; This production quality is amazing!

[@HaikesXO]

Believe he has an editor

[@whylde]

Thank you 💙 Glad you enjoyed the video

[@Omaha555]

he has someone edit his videos lol

[@willliang1912]

One is the best franchise just to be ruined by horrible companies

[@charlesschwartz7284]

That's what they get for being so greedy and relying on KZbinrs and people who have mommy and daddy's money and nothing else better to do with there lives that's what they get they deserve every bit of back lash they get

[@PhD_in_Undecided]

And I know people forget that Niantic is the most ambitious and the best at what they do, and people now have their expectations incredibly high and would like their hand to be held through it all. People say it is the remote raid nerf that is killing the game, but couldn’t it be said that the remote raid INTRODUCTION, the thing which Niantic put off its vision for to help the community FOR THE MOMENT, had caused this? People say that Niantic is out of touch… but what if the community has been out of touch with Niantic’s vision ever since the things which are being taken now were introduced? And keep in mind, besides for these things, the game has improved dramatically in many ways. This is something many do not realize or would like to admit.

[@nope_nope_nono]

​@@PhD_in_Undecided dude... people grow, their priorities change, life gets harder as an adult. The game should learn to grow with their players, or at least manage to attract new ones. Remote passes were the only reason I still played this game. I have no time to go running down the street at random hours to go raid battling anymore. Also, with remote nerf, I can't even find people to help with raid battles. If I go for PGSharp, I'll get banned. I'm not alone in this situation. But whatever, Niantic is not getting my money anymore

[@brianfox340]

​@@PhD_in_UndecidedI hope that they feel good about so many players quitting their game and them making way less money so they can hold on to the outdated concept of their game they had at the start.

[@billybobbobson3797]

​@Rioluwu this is some next level shilling. "Their vision for the game" dude the entire point is to make money and entertain and audience. Stop shilling for a company who wouldn't care if you died tomorrow

[@andrewthomasestrada]

Thank you for this man! Decided recently that I will no longer be spending any of my own money on the game. Niantic needs to makes some major changes to get things back on track, first in the area of communication and receptivity.

[@Polaroxide]

$4k and going

[@neonmangoz]

​@@PolaroxideI used to support them, but can't, they need to add new stuff already, new map stuff, new features.

[@billybobbobson3797]

​@@Polaroxide imagine bragging about this

[@Polaroxide]

@@billybobbobson3797 nah aint got the time

[@henrytalley3739]

@@Polaroxide $4k on a game? You need help. That, right there, is addiction.

[@WenSon84]

to be honest, when the remote raid passes got nerfed, i started to see more people outside playing pokemon go and doing raids. so i kind of understood and acknowledged that decision by niantic. after all it is pokemon "GO" and not pokemon "sit at home"

[@puddingmaster444]

Least obvious niantic psyop

[@ninlaw9810]

and that makes it impossible for people who live in rural areas in the middle of nowhere with no pokestops gyms and routes to play the game

[@Dragnmastralex]

to me Niantic killed the game with 3 things. 1. requiring travel to big cities and expensive locations. small towns and non existant local events made rural play impossible. 2. putting remote play behind a pay wall. 3. big events falling flat on its face with lackluster results. people spent money expecting to get great things only to be disappointed with little or nothing to show for it. Niantic lost the trust of its player base and eventually began milking people for no reason at all.

[@Swyrvl3]

The edit quality of the vidoes this man and his team produce is amazing. Love it!!

[@azaznogalesaz]

I’m a truck driver and I drive across the USA and I remember I started playing when the game came out. U couldn’t believe there was promotions in gas stations if u were level 20 u would get a free candy bar stuff like that! Everyone was into it! It was something else

[@awesomewater300]

It was crazy how many people used to play it

[@flimpjekijken]

Excellent video. I still play daily, but with a lot of mixed feelings. Things like the shiny shadow Mewtwo raids should bring a hype, but I just couldn't find a group of players in my area, and remote raids are not working even if I would pay. The only thing I can still do reliably, is grinding but the spawns are too mediocre to stay interesting. If this continues and more events are unplayable for many trainers, I don't see the point in continuing, after 7 years...

[@bethdurham5601]

Exactly. Like I wanna feel excited for the new updates and whatnot but having to base your whole experience on how trendy where you live is with the lack of interesting spawns just doesn’t work. It’s so hard to feel like you’re having fun when you see people who live in nicer areas soar above the rest while you’re stuck doing the same things over and over with no change. It makes it genuinely more fun for cheaters and people grinding 24/7 when the whole point was the have fun outside and bring people together. I could go on but it’s so heartbreaking because nothing captures the feeling of finding and catching a good or rare Pokémon. But once you’re level 30 in a more rural area the game is basically over for you until you leave town and remember “hey i remember this game” and the disappointing loop starts again

[@PlutoniumSlums]

In San Francisco theres a ton of players here and it brings a tear to my eye

[@igordzinka7881]

It's not even the community thing (don't get me wrong, if you don't have one - many features of this game will be unreachable for you) it's the fact that I want to have freedom to chose how and when to play my game. Having to plan your day around an in-game event is just not gonna cut it for 99% of people, who work, have families, commitments and other things to do in general. Remote raids gave you that kind of freedom to chose, so if you have 10 minutes before sleep or during the lunch to do a couple of raids, you could do that. Now you have to "explore" a.k.a. going way out of your way to be able to access a feature that you previously could have accessed from anywhere. And the reward for this effort just doesn't feel worth it for me anymore. So now, after 7 years and hundreds of dollars spent I just think it's better to cut my losses and move on. There are plenty of better games to entertain myself with and in a way where I chose how to enjoy them.

[@brettmiller2365]

Feel this got back in to the game a year ago. Can only viable play with raids. Stopped bc of raid changes came back for the weekend to try and get some mewtwos. But didn't even matter being fb groups and such, still couldn't make anything happen so I'm just done

[@michaelfiorino1220]

I think the game needs to realize that trying to force *community" and in person local raids is great and should be encouraged but should not be a requirement. I'm a hard working adult with real jobs and problems. I play Pokemon go with my 2 sons trying to let them experience what it was like for me as a kid playing Pokemon red and each game after that. We love walking around looking for shinies and raiding. Watching them enjoy the game and spending time with them doing so make me feel like the cool dad I want to be. With that being said we don't have a raging community and enjoy the game together where we are. With the shadow mewtwo event this weekend I got to see how disappointing this game can be when defeating shadow mewtwo with 3 people is just out of reach. It made obtaining their favorite Pokemon only possible through defeating Giovanni whenever niantic brings him back. We were hoping to get at least each and we were unable to get any. This added with killing the remote raid passes may very well be the end of my kids and I playing this game. It feels to them and I that it is a punishment to not be apart of some large community. And if their main goal is money then why limit the remote raid pass to 5 a day. At times for specific shinies we were doing 20-25 raids a day in an effort to catch one. I understand that was not the vision for the game initially but as the "community" changes the game should too. I hope niantic reverts the game back and realizes their changes are punishing it's players. They are making it easier to just want not play and that is going to kill the game. You have one of the biggest franchises in history with Pokemon. You have the fans. Now let them play.

[@Fickleberry]

The frustrating thing is as a low income person who doesn't have a car, even in a nice city it just began feeling like PoGo was an exclusive club. It just ended up being really frustrating instead of fun.

[@ManFaceFromRobolox]

As a 2016 PoGo grinder, I'm level 47 atm. I no longer play PoGo like I used to, I basically quit 2021, but there is still something PoGo in me, I feel like coming back soon.

[@hityoutwo]

Great video! There were a lot of new players that joined during the pandemic, so the bonuses were all they knew. When Niantic nerfed them, it was a straight nerf to their entire experience of the game. I think a lot of botched/ rip off events deserved to be mentioned. Egg events with terrible odds, then changing shiny odds mid event, and Niantic even forgetting to turn on the shiny at least one time.

[@phoenixjen8986]

I haven’t really seen this angle discussed much, but I know I’m not the only one that actually did MORE in-person raids before the nerf. It gave me a chance to successfully reciprocate for the remote invitations I’d get (and I was doing A LOT of remote raids). Now it feels like the community *can’t* be as helpful as it used to be, because everyone will prioritize their own raids/catches over using a pass on another copy of something you’ve already caught 5+ times. This video was really well made, thank you

[@jec3676]

This was a great video. It was fun looking back at the game.

[@nyxxose]

It was one of the worlds first geo locational games that used a big hit franchise that already had a universally acclaimed reputation. So it’s no surprise that it went as far as it did, and fell from grace just as hard and fast!

[@kakaboo]

the location gimmick was fun at the start but as the playerbase shrinks they should revert to a mix such that people who dont want to move out as much can still enjoy the game but just not as much as those who put in the effort to move. which was why they were so successful during the pandemic period but once they changed it back you can see a % of the playerbase who got tired of moving around quit the game. which was also maybe why these people started the game or came back to the game during that period also.

[@Jasmadae]

I started playing Pokémon Go with my son the end of 2019. I remember receiving my first raid ticket for Regigigas. I met up with raiders in person and it was awesome. I got invited to the local Facebook group for raids and that was how I know my local community. When the pandemic hit, remote raids changed the game. I used to raid a ton, it was a chance to finally get that hundo legendary. I took a break in mid 2022. When I came back about a little over a month ago, the momentum for raiding has never been the same. The price of remote raiding is crazy, and now the limits put on it mean that the chance of catching that hundo legendary are slim to none. Niantic shot themselves in the greedy foot with that. With inflation hitting hard, they should have kept the prices the same. I still love Pokémon go, but it’s just not the same.

[@Charcoal_83]

I saw someone say this and it's very accurate: if it wasn't POKEMON Go, this game would have died years ago. The only reason it's still around is because people love pokemon. Maybe if Niantic's new game fails, they'll understand that their company isn't that great after all

[@BobrLovr]

most people love MHN way more than pokemon go, so your argument is invalid.

[@SimsFreeplayDesignHeaven]

This is such a great overview of what went down. Really measured and pretty unbiassed. Niantic would make a good case study on the long term effects when a business works against their community and customer base.

[@Tac0maAr0ma]

So much nostalgia seeing all those clips from over the years 🥲

[@PlutoniumSlums]

Same ugh 😩

[@kermbydoesart]

Forgot to mention that when shiny Heracross was debuted , a regional to Florida, they removed all wild spawns and locked them behind raids for players that natively had Heracross spawns. You covered a lot of mess ups but there are so many little things like that that have worn down players like me. Honestly if they just give us back normal remote raids with no cap, and give us back our 30 sec-1min spawn incense id be happy, as i cant leave the house often. When they got rid of incense effectiveness and the backlash came, they band aid it with 1 hour incense (instead of the normal 30 min incense) with crappy effectiveness. like great.... i get what, 3 more spawns maybe? I've been so annoyed and disgusted with Niantic ever since 2021. 2018-2020 were def the highlights and i miss it so much honestly.

[@care-m7k]

This game really likes me to touch grass outside to catch a Pokemon

[@QandEri]

My husband and I have played since 2016 and our son is finally old enough to play with us, it’s such a great thing to get to do together as a family, but the timing is heart breaking. I hope Niantic feels the heat enough this year to actually respect the players again, and work with us instead of against us..although as of right now that feels unlikely /:

[@PhD_in_Undecided]

(Copypaste of mine) And I know people forget that Niantic is the most ambitious and the best at what they do, and people now have their expectations incredibly high and would like their hand to be held through it all. People say it is the remote raid nerf that is killing the game, but couldn’t it be said that the remote raid INTRODUCTION, the thing which Niantic put off its vision for to help the community FOR THE MOMENT, had caused this? People say that Niantic is out of touch… but what if the community has been out of touch with Niantic’s vision ever since the things which are being taken now were introduced? And keep in mind, besides for these things, the game has improved dramatically in many ways. This is something many do not realize or would like to admit.

[@Duffls]

​@@PhD_in_Undecided 3 years is a moment apparently

[@Silphwave]

​@Rioluwu completely agree. It's been bizarre watching the tantrums and meltdown of the community to the rollback of temporary pandemic bonuses. People became dependent on them and are having serious withdrawal symptoms. I miss 2016 and 2017, I was one of the best players in my area because I love to walk and get outside. Then pay to win features were introduced like remote raids, boring gift grinding; sitting on the sofa became a more efficient way of levelling up than actually going outside. The radius bonus has benefitted drivers by enabling them to reach gyms that they previously had to walk to. The in person irl community drifted apart and died. I want the game to reward effort, to reward socialising and to be immersive.

[@DutchDesires]

Even if they feel the heat, and revert the changes for me at least, it would be to late. As Mystic discussed, this is like the 100th time they screwed the community over, they will apologize in a couple of months, lie some more, promise better communication only to screw the community over again. Its a shame my hundo mewtwo or my shundo Celebi will never see the light of day again, but I refuse to play a game ran by people who keep on lying.

[@atlgameslayergaming]

Pokemon Go, Overwatch, Grand Theft Auto... All games that I love and that are deaf to thier communities. It's saddening. The exceptions to that are Fortnite and Snowrunner which are thriving because they listen to the players.

[@stinkybhole]

Yup fortnite is the best example of what game developers listening to the community

[@alexhughes2754]

What happened with gta?

[@atlgameslayergaming]

@@alexhughes2754 No updates. Paid subscription for top content. No major map expansion for free roam for a 10 year old game. Price raises on in game content that's been in the game for years.

[@mrs_kwan1]

Nah Epic Games doesn't listen to their Fortnite community either.

[@chariiteee]

this was very well done. great breakdown of its history, the highs and lows, and the choices that led the game there

[@SkaiXmask]

The only video game ever to make people touch grass

[@demontamerbf18]

I've played a little of the game but it always gets old for me at some point, the most I played was I think 1 year after the pandemic. It was very interesting to learn about the entire history of the game since launch, it's so weird that they seem to be ignoring the players now after they were listening to them at some point.

[@bellegraves]

Can we just appreciate how much work he put into this video? I see you my guy🌟

[@simoncollier5977]

Loved this video, thank you for being so honest and informative about the history! Really enjoyed reliving the journey in good detail!

[@1Akai1]

The game is now an afterthought for most of us. I am still holding on in hopes that things will change. I'm really heading to uninstalling it and taking a vacation from it. Don't want to delete it in-game because it might get better, I can hope.

[@abear7199]

And nowadays, half the players just spoof their locations, abuse 3rd party software, and use multiple accounts to monopolize gyms...

[@Ash-Ketchup2]

At the end of the day they got greedy, the same way streaming services got greedy. There was no point to increasing the price on remote passes besides them wanting more money.

[@tve1216]

I can feel a career switch coming here

[@Wolfietjuh]

Thank you for this concise video. The whole situation just makes me so tremendously sad. I've been with the game since the very beginning, have had annoyances with it at times, however it always generally remained fun enough for me not to give up on it completely. But more and more I too get the feeling that the game may well shut down for good as more and more players leave, too frustrated with the decisions being made. And it really is frutrating; With most other games, one gets tremendously frustrated over any blatant cash grabs. However with Pokémon Go, players are implicitly encouraging and asking for such cash grabs, so long as it provides an enjoyable experience; this through incenses being useful as they were before, remote raids being properly available and so on. It could be easy money on Niantic's behalf, and one that players encourage, too, yet here we are. And even if they wish to stubbornly cling to this whole "make people go outside and play", I feel like they should have kept up all the current perks that keep the game viable, while introducing updates that makes real-life play viable, enjoyable and worthwhile, to the point the alternative "stay at home" methods are not too relevant anymore. For instance, many people may not care about remote raids per se in a sense of "I'm too lazy to leave my house", but because it simply was the only opportunity to do raids at all. As a person living in a rural area myself, my only options at clearing legendary raids were to join raids remotely, or to "go out and explore" by hosting a local raid for others to join remotely. But now with these "in-person only" raids, I find myself missing out entirely on very elusive, major events like Hoopa, Regidrago and shadow Mewtwo. If anything, the only possibility I'd have to actually partake would be to intentionally break the game's rules (account sharing to a friend in a large city, multi-accounting to solo a raid with some 8 accounts, or spoofing outright). These new changes are doing the opposite of "encouraging me to go outside and exploring"; they are taking away any incentive to do so, as I know walking to the nearby gym for that shadow Mewtwo is a futile waste of time. Meanwhile stuff like this could be easily resolved by making more gyms/raids available anywhere, and making sure people can do them solo one way or another. If they wish to encourage social play, they could throw in additional bonuses for clearing raids with multiple people. It's not impossible, and a great deal of players would likely be satisfied with stuff like that, then would have no qualms to see remote raids largely fade out (which may unfortunately not be the case for these with accessibility issues however). But no, instead they simply take away the positive changes that actually allowed everyone to enjoy the game at their own pace, whilst giving little to nothing in return to actually make playing in-person feasible for a large deal of players. And on top of that, there is not even the mention of how adventure sync has been malfunctioning for several months now, while to boot many recent events revolve around egg hatching. On one hand I generally can no longer participate in the raid events, on the other hand I cannot passively hatch eggs by logging in every so often during breaks, as I go about my day in which I have walked around quite a bit, making me also miss outo n the hatching events. Consistently missing out on a great deal of otherwise fun content can rapidly turn the game from "fun though mildly frustrating" to a downright miserable, unenjoyable experience. I truly hope they will change course for the better. I truly believe that people love this game, want to keep on loving this game, or get back into loving this game, and people are trying real hard to be patient about all of this in hopes of seeing it all get better instead of having the game die out entirely. But months upon months of poor decisions that lead down a rabbithole of frustrations is making it very hard for the playerbase to remain patient.

[@igordzinka7881]

After the remote raids nerf I tried to adapt to the new play style, started to do lots of in-person raids with the green passes that I've got and never used before (While heavily relying on remote invites), and less than two months later I have lost all of the interest I once had in this game. It's been at least a week since I last did a raid and now I even forget to open the app for the daily catch and spin streak. Even shadow Mewtwo didn't ignite that spark back. It's a matter of days before I uninstall this game and move on with my life entirely. What a shame that Niantic is so determined to fly this plane into the ground.

[@xsevenwolfx2395]

Facts. I haven’t done a raid in about 3 weeks. And I used to spend so much money on this game.

[@TheRealSlimsagey7]

​@xsevenwolfx2395 I have not spent a penny since the remote raids died. Even on egg incubators, I just refuse to do so while the company stomps all over the good will it had built up. I log in on community days, get the shiny and then do not open the app until next community day.

[@dragonballinvestments115]

It was the closest summer to the 90s I can remember. Pokémon Go was everywhere, we had a decent economy, Blink-182 had a song in the top of the charts, and a Clinton was running for president. It was an amazing summer.

[@Gavolak]

If Niantic ever fully bans spoofing, that will mark the death of the game.

[@peter90sh]

Yeah really awsome watching all youtubers catch 100 shadow mewtwo from this weekend event and there I was in my local city hoping someone will show up at a gym.... The game is totally dissbalanced right know, I agree there should be a limit to remote raids, but releasing content like shadow raids and leaving out a huuuge part of your player base out just cause they dont have a local community is trash. They could have at least given everyone the possibility to complete 3 remote raids for the whole weekend so that everyone can participate...but nooo

[@shyllostulken6902]

The remote raids didn't effect people going outside and playing if anything it made more people go outside and want to play more it brought more communities together more people could play and have fun and now they destroyed

[@taki7546]

They think they could go back to 2016 when the whole world played this game, but that will never happen again. Nobody in my area plays pogo actively. The pokemon in a nearby gym have been there for months without having a single fight. Guess I‘ll never get a Shadow mewto, or even a normal legendary

[@ZacheryVernon]

For someone that lives in a rural area the nerf to remote passes has stopped me and my group from doing multiple raids in a day and when doing a raid in person everyone sits in their car does the raid and leaves so basically went back to what it was like before remote passes.

[@kaos2405]

@@taki7546 They bragged about how cool those special gems were that calmed down the enraged shadow pokemon, but I kept encountering a glitch where the pokemon weren't "enraged". So I couldn't use them. Until Mewtwo day I couldn't find anything but 1 star raids, so when Mewtwo launched I thought I would see if it was a glitch or if I just couldn't use the gems on 1 star raids, but I couldn't even use them on Mewtwo.

[@poncholiinares]

Pokemon Go is over. Thanks Niantic, you ruined one of the best games in history.

[@AfterAllWeAreHuman]

Yeah i feel like they want it to die intentionally

[@andregustavo1130]

how is it over if this was the best weekend in the last years? felt like the beggining😍

[@MrLix83]

Thank you Brandon. I think I started watching your video around 2017, and I had great time with Pokemon Go. I can't remember how many Sunday mornings I have spent in Santa Monica Pier. I actually had seen you there one time. I stopped playing the game around 2020 while there was huge change came to my life. The world we living in today is completely different than the world prior to COVID. I sometimes wish I can travel back to the good old days. Thank you Brandon. 06/18/2023

[@umbreon651]

The addition of frequent events was definitely crucial into keeping people playing, especially myself

[@Facelessman276]

I honestly feel like they want me to lose interest and I am

[@Grr8jon]

Lots of people still playing.

[@asvegas777]

Yes in fact I only play this game because it’s not playable from home. People can still remote raid. They just have to work harder for it and they can’t stay at home all day.

[@leungjamie1586]

Pokémon Go should hear the community and make the game better

[@deviousj5868]

That ship has sailed....then sunk.

[@ladytionne1]

It’s time to let it go geez

[@PlutoniumSlums]

But no they wont lol

[@PhD_in_Undecided]

And I know people forget that Niantic is the most ambitious and the best at what they do, and people now have their expectations incredibly high and would like their hand to be held through it all. People say it is the remote raid nerf that is killing the game, but couldn’t it be said that the remote raid INTRODUCTION, the thing which Niantic put off its vision for to help the community FOR THE MOMENT, had caused this? People say that Niantic is out of touch… but what if the community has been out of touch with Niantic’s vision ever since the things which are being taken now were introduced? And keep in mind, besides for these things, the game has improved dramatically in many ways. This is something many do not realize or would like to admit.

[@awesomewater300]

@@PhD_in_Undecided I get what your saying, but with Niantic making good Pokémon hard to get for people who live in rural areas or places with no Pokémon go players, it is much easier to get those Pokémon from a remote raid from a place where there IS many players. And making new Pokémon locked by a paywall has nothing to do with making people go outside. What they SHOULD do is buff the in-person events so players are more likely to be motivated to walk and go outside instead of nerf the global features.

[@lisat9707]

In person raiding was my absolute favorite part of the game. Remote raid passes KILLED it😢.

[@dannybarrettfitness]

Hope they keep it as an outside game. Helps me achieve 10k steps everyday. People just want everything to be easy these days. Well done Niantic for not bending over backwards and accommodating the moaners.

[@BobrLovr]

well its killing their playerbase, so is it really well done? lmao

[@niconico1013]

It hurts because no one plays around my city anymore and i can't do any of the raids without online players anymore. So i couldn't even participate in the shadow event since it was local only

[@jorgealpizar6185]

Same

[@daveboycott374]

Terrible planning for rural players, I get out and play but still bend me over

[@niconico1013]

@@daveboycott374 yeah. I still try to give the game a chance but they keep on making it worse

[@dartrixs]

Personally what makes it worse is the fact that shadow mewtwo was only some stops so those of us who walk, bike, or are disabled struggled to get around from just how far they were spawning from each other at times. Like a bunch would spawn in an area and then once they finished they would spawn on the complete opposite end of the city. It really shouldve been just every gym. Also kinda silly that we cant remove frustration considering its a rocket shadow event...

[@niconico1013]

@DigiPidgy that's very true, I didn't have a single one spawn for the longest time and whenever one did, it'd be all the across town or somewhere annoying to get to as well

[@saintjohnalabama]

This is probably the greatest video i have ever seen about Pokemon GO current state. To me, this video has 2 things. 1st: It shows that Niantic has the potential to (re)build the game at a point for everyone to play 2nd: A message to them that if they won't take the community seriously they'll lose more and more people. Thank you MYSTIC7 for this upload. We needed it, *they needed it.*

[@gregwalsh2045]

Basically stopped playing after the remote raid price increase. I have no passion for the game now. To be honest though, it’s nice, I forgot what the world actually looked like as I’ve been walking around for years with my head in a screen

[@noodles.dumplings.kimchi2878]

Honestly I wonder why niantic didn’t make the Apple Watch integration better? Like auto catch; auto poke spin at stops; even syncing during workouts to help walking buddy get an extra friendship boost during activity.

[@theofficialgreenkane]

In the beginning, all you could do was catch Pokémon. They should’ve released the game so you could battle other trainers like you can now. It was very limited, but still fun while it lasted.

[@Silvery1313]

Beyond frustrated today. Spent all weekend using Campfire and Discord trying to find groups to do Mewtwo raids with. Only was able to get a group for 1 raid. One. For the entire weekend. I live in the suburbs of the capital city of my state, so it is not a small town. But at the places with the most gyms, where players were most likely to go, there was only one raid every 2 to 3 hrs. They should have cluster scheduled raids to encourage people to go to these places. Nobody went to our park that is recommended by PoGo as the best place to play in the city. We are going out. We are trying. And that's still not good enough for Niantic.

[@lizardguts73]

I stopped playing because there was quite literally nothing to do around where I lived. I have 2 pokestops that were right next to each other that would only occasionally drop pokeballs and one gym. The only other pokestops anywhere close to me were miles away. I couldn't drive there since I was only 15 and didnt have a license not to mention it would be a waste of gas if I asked my parents and I sure as hell wasn't walking miles away from my house alone. Eventually after a week of not being able to catch that many pokemon due to not having pokeballs I just stopped playing and went back to playing pokemon on my DS.

[@twcgoat4761]

Playing just feels too much like a chore now, I don’t always have the time or ability to link up with people for in person events. If they wanted us to get out and actually do more they should incentivize it by giving out more free daily raid passes or by expanding the distance you can join raids.

[@SPS0501US]

i'm a female honduran married to a taiwanese and still remember the craziness in daan park when game was released, on 2016, but the way level up in game has made lot of people away and stop playing the game.

[@madelinecooper3674]

I am disabled, and I bloody love Pokemon, including Pokémon go. So the remote raid removal struck me hard. Some days I can’t leave the house and I still want to play. :/

[@MagiciansVengeance23]

Honestly, based off their response to the entire communities backlash at remote raids, stating how they want the game to bring people out and about, I'm fairly certain the future of the game will be "it was a great game I used to play".

[@jamisonhyder6159]

thats the response currentley

[@matheuscortez5205]

So basically, if you wanna play Pokémon Go, you gotta be a KZbinr, rich, or just have a lot of free time. Its impossible to have good pokemons withount grinding it

[@sebastianheckmann8429]

Agree with the other guy, this video is very well made and its clear there have been a lot of hours behind making it. Keep it up! - as you always have. (Hope Niantic soon is making some good decisions - This shadow raid event have been very nice tbh.)

[@TuFF_GamingYT]

I cant do any of the shadow mewtwo raids without remote raid passes

[@PhD_in_Undecided]

Then use campfire to coordinate raids with the local community which you probably don’t realize exists

[@eternorii]

i can speak for everyone that niantic seemingly only caters to people who only live in cities, that's the main reason why remote raid passes were amazing. another thing that isnt talked about much that kills the special research tasks, is the fact that mythical pokemon IV are purely RNG and you will only ever get 1 whereas you can get an unlimited amount of legendary pokemon and have actual chances at trying to get a 4* hundo.

[@elderscrollslad3062]

This is a great video Mystic! This is so nostalgic for me, I miss playing pokemon go and when it was a huge trend..

[@pineapplepotato6985]

I play Pokemon Go every day

[@iamarohax]

Aw man . I’ve just started grinding again more frequently after being super casual over the past 7 years lol . Hope it doesn’t fall off completely I’m loving shiny hunting lol

[@landonantee4170]

I agree Pokemon go has beginning to come to a end with me because today me my mom and dad whent to do some shadow Mewtwo raids but then I realized they are local raids wich means I can't invite any people on my friends list to help and this is sad for me because I really wanted a shiny shadow Mewtwo 😢

[@FBK23-11]

Pokémon go in 2016: calm waters after 2017: !alert! !alert! Sinking sinking! Captain: keep it to getter gentleman!

[@ToxDuris]

I returned to Go in 2021, really played a lot, but the remote raid nerf made me completely stop playing again.

[@Chimeratech8]

Great video. I only played it for a few months in the infamous 2016 summer rush, only to quit after feeling like the progression was too slow and unrewarding. Very interesting to see how it's progressed since I left it, though I still have very little appetite to try it out again.

[@teckin139]

To me it is absolutely insane that they continue to push the narrative of wanting people outside. WHO CARES????? Games are for the user to enjoy and the developer to provide. How we play it should be up to us. If I choose to sit at home and play it then it should be my decision. Has everyone forgotten that there are no leaderboards or prizes??? What I have in my dex is of little importance to anyone but myself. To put all these restrictions and limitations doesn't make any sense until you remember the fact that Niantic gets sponsorship from local business when they drive foot traffic to that business and then it all makes sense. This is why they force all this stupid stuff onto the game. Fact of the matter is they say its about getting out just to hide the real reason and where they make a big if not the biggest chunk of their cash.

[@PARlS23]

They want you to walk around so they can sell your location data to advertisers

[@mbitenas87]

Data, my boy, data. That's where the top dollar is hiding.

[@pokeguy9504]

I bet they have a secret partnership with data companies to get you to use data when you go out and they profit more from that

[@laszlomatyasovszky7696]

I have to be honest, I think they are not wrong. They made a gamr called Pokemon GO. They inventwd the game and its core feature is outside exploration, which also makes it unique to any other game. If you want to play a game at home then play any other game. I still cant grasp why people are upset about going outside to play Pokemon GO. Its in the name goddamit.

[@snorkku4939]

Start spoofing bro

[@theoppwhoshallnotbenamed3550]

The game in entirely held together by community bonds. Niantic is only pulling in the other direction as much as they think their doing the opposite

[@roosterNooster]

I have recently got back into it but what killed it for me was that weekend long ddos attack it had near the start, met up with mates and got lots of food for a long day out playing it in a new area and that totally killed it for me

[@bhammy131]

I stopped playing it years ago. It was clear that, as a rural player, they didn't care a single bit about my experience in the game. It's nonexistent outside of heavily populated cities. Which is absolutely stupid.

[@Mexgooder]

I love you mystic keep up the good work

[@dogmd7]

Great overview and completely spot on. My playing has tempered off immensely thanks to the revert from the pandemic changes (I really got into it then) and the lack of any major changes to the way the game plays. It just hasn't evolved enough to remain interesting and they have increasingly locked new features behind paywalls or players and needing to party up with friends to do anything. I am a solo player and don't have a group to play because nobody else I know wants to play the game anymore. I still play it every so often mostly just a catch a day to keep my streak going or shiny check but I don't really want to bother with the events because they aren't even worth it anymore to spend the time doing it, which they made shorter recently too. Just a lot of bad parts of the game (revert of pandemic changes, lackluster events, having to rely on having a group to be able to do 5 star raids because there's hardly any people there doing them like they used to, bad spawns, shiny rates, the same 7km egg pool, remote raid nerfing, etc.) and a lack of game growth has made the game treading water. I'd love to get back into it, but I can't see it happening with the game as constructed. The novelty may have finally worn off for me and I spent hours every day on it for years. It actually felt nice to go out to a new city and not be worried about regionals or getting Pokestops or gyms. I love the game and appreciate what all they put into it, but the excitement isn't really there for me anymore. Surprised it took 7 years for it to start to feel this way, pretty impressive honestly. I thought it would have come and go after a year or two at most.

[@kiranrajsuvarna7393]

Thank you for this, We need our loudest voices to bring back the raid engagement levels, and force them sack Cruella from the board. Thank you for not being scared like the other "poke-influencers" who "chose" to remain neutral in this battle.

[@JLowe1340]

Problem is he was a scared influencer the last year. Now he is just doing a history. The game died this year. My community when I quit playing - the gyms hadn’t changed colors in 61 days. During COVID they changed every 4-8 hours. I have 4 gyms in my neighborhood- 61 days. No changes. The only person who used to stand up for community was BranTan now the rest of them are seeing a dying game and probably their funds dropping from less views on KZbin

[@stevdaughtr6098]

Mark Zuckerberg .. what is he doing here

[@dg4720]

The gym at the end of my block changes every few hours lol. This game isn’t even close to dead

[@JLowe1340]

@@dg4720 disagree - the game is dying/dead. You’re area maybe active or it maybe pokebots playing for IVs/Raids. When I can do a raid day and not find 2 other people and see former community day places empty it’s a good tell its dead

[@rock2946]

​@dg4720 I live in the city, and I've seen a huge decrease in activity except for like the same 5 players taking over the local gyms. In the city.

[@z50king29]

I saw that you and Daxi both made a video about this but after watching both, they are very different. I like that you showed all your friends in this one so often. Thanks for the great work

[@eastbeast1379]

I do remember playing Pokémon Go as I do remember enjoying it. I wasn't always on Pokémon Go but I did enjoy it. I think maybe I started playing it around 2017 on the Samsung Galaxy on one of the A series. It wasn't bad and I do remember picking Charmander out of the three, and I didn't attempted to do the Pikachu Easter Egg to get him as the starter either. It was something that I did enjoy a lot, but I didn't always play it everyday. What I found was great when I was going on long walks was that Pokémon Go did lead me to find great places that I didn't know existed locally, it was great to discover new places that I might of not explored without Pokémon Go as I don't think I would of found those on Google Maps myself. I was well impressed with that. I did get the odd legendary Pokémon and mostly got quite a lot of Pokémon. It was fun taking control and taking over the GYMs for the Red Team. During the Pandemic, I was still using Pokémon Go as I lived close to a couple of GYMs as well as going out at midnight when it was quiet outside with less people out. It gave me a reason to go outside as well as to walk out and about. The pandemic thought did make me think that it was coming to the end of the world. After the pandemic, I just stopped playing Pokémon Go as I just got busy to focus with my college work to understand what I wanted to do in creative media and discovered that animation was that for me, to study it and to learn how to animate, which took me 1 year and a half to understand it. The pandemic was the worst how most of those year was made. Though now that the pandemic has now gone by middle 2022, I stopped playing Pokémon Go. The only time I've used it recently was to transfer the generation 1 to generation 4 Pokémon onto Brilliant Diamond, that's exclusive to Shining Pearl, as well as the rest that was possible to transfer onto Pokémon Sword. I did also transfer my own shiny few Pokémon onto Pokémon Home too as I don't see myself really returning to Pokémon Go again as I had my fun with it.