How can Niantic FIX Pokémon GO!
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Ploy twist Imagine youtube bringing back dislike button 😅
@@courraffe just get a bring back dislike button extension for your browser haha
@courraffe I actually did....I was testing to see if dislikes show up....they don't 😂 forgot to click like after 😐
There’s a place they can shove their dislikes…
@@silverback7675 oh okay didnt know
Niantic is a joke. I'm not giving them another cent. 1 dollar for ANY raid pass is already expensive as hell considering the cost to max a single pokemon.
They don't care about any form of criticism. They put out the avatar update and despite overwhelming negative feedback they refuse to change back. Why? Because they spent money and want to show they won't back down to the community.
the avatar change just happened - im pretty sure they are working on a fix - things like these don't get resolved in two seconds
But they could just simply, remove it for now, fix it, then rerelease it if they actually cared
He’s got a great point here. The issues you discuss in the video like game balance are something you do when you care. Niantic is so far gone from caring, they are just focused on money farming and probably international audiences.Bad upper management.
I think you and any other fan watching this video would do a better job handling the IP than Niantic. I’ve heard so many good ideas from the community, like your video, and it all gets ignored.
Hope they bring back remote raids to unlimited and bring them back to 100 coins
even if they make it 100 coins ill be happy
Nah 50
So people can play from their couches again? No, this isn't a switch game.
The only fix that makes sense is all gyms work as portals where you can lobby with other groups.
That would defo be great.
I don't see them bringing it back to 100 coins though, which for me personally is fine.
@@CS97660I agree, i am tired of seing this suggested as the ultimate solution to fix the game while it clearly killed the communities the first time it was around (and they came back just after the remote raids were nerved). I think the issue right now is that Niantic is diluting what is left of their assests / they are slowing down the game, because they surely want to extend its life duration. If you bring back the remote raids, not only you’ll kill all the interest of going out, but also you’ll speed the games and people would get tired of it in no time.
I think the biggest problem for me personally is a rural area where there are not many pokestops/gyms. It makes the game less playable and having to be level 37 to create pokestops is a little high. I think it should be around the low 30s to create them.
Agree
hmmm good shout - agreed it should be lower
Unfortunately for some of my friends because we are on the younger side he lives around an hour and a half from any gym so he can’t raid or have an incentive to play. He also doesn’t have a bike or any other equipment to go faster than walking so he has to rely on his parents which can’t always be reliable.
Hey, rural semi-new player here. I've been playing for 9 months now, and I really like the game. The few players in the region, including me, play the game a bit different than those from the cities. We don't have many Pokeballs, so we simply don't catch everything. We focus more on walking, e.g. for eggs, our buddy pokemon, or walking an hour to claim another gym. And it is pretty fun, it motivates to do more sports, and there's still some progression.
But I agree that buffing remote raids would be cool, since it's very difficult to get enough people for a T5 raid. Generally, more remote gameplay activities would be nice, like trading. And they could improve their pvp system.
The only thing is how dull the raids are and Pokémon spawns i just want more of a variety of Pokémon instead of just one spawn of a certain regional its boring
for REAL like i barely wanna go play cuz i know im j gonna get what i got yesterday (nothing interesting) i don’t see why they can’t just have everything in the wild at once
@@bradygoldblatt560 it'll be awesome just having other spawns from Gen 1 an so on
The point when something “trends because it trends” is what Malcom Gladwell calls “the tipping point”
cool I learned a new work today
Firing the entire current team and replacing them with employees who don't dislike their customers.
Lol get a life
@@monkeybrainsthey have one, clearly you're brain can't think further
They already laid off most the team before the holidays. Games has been on a downhill since then.
@samfling5907 I think it was well on its way downhill wayyy before the holidays. Remote raid limit, responding by mocking the community on Twitter, raising prices, etc
@@monkeybrains your mom and I have a wonderful life together
Funnily enough, the community they alienate the most is the community that kept Niantic afloat. Yet through the smoke came a great concept that helps others when people are busy irl. Remote raids were that. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to waste $20 of gas to go raid 1 pokemon
Nailed it
Fix the avatars
He can't fix the avatars dummy he's just a player like you....u fix the avatars since he has as much power as u do
8:46 paralyzed level 50 player here, if you want it go get it use it as a way to benefit you. I use this app as a reason to go outside and get some exercise pushing around and what not. I always find it funny in some of the groups where somebody will ask for advice and getting around some thing that might be difficult for someone with a disability and it’s immediately met with comments such as “it’s called Pokemon GO for a reason,” or “find another game,“ and it’s even funnier when it’s from someone whose stats are lower than mine. Like how are you saying something in that manner when you’re getting out play by someone with a disability😂
So true man I’m starting to get tired of Daxi man
Yeah i had an injury which rendered me hospitalised for months so i can sympathise with you to some extent. I believe that instead of niantic giving inclusivity to the lgbt community ( which idk if they have done that properly or not), they should have prioritised people who have a hard time playing pokemon go due to physical limitations like disabilities or in a remote location. The more i think about them revamping avatars in the name of "inclusivity", the more stupid it is😥
@@Ca-RushilPandhare Saying that neckless avatars are "more inclusive" was always a lie, like most of that sort of thing. When you compare things before and after the "more inclusive" changes, it's quite easy to see that no one was left out before the changes. The changes were standard customization options. Calling it "inclusive" is pure marketing strategy.
@@swanmusicvideos then stop watching him it aint that deep
@@vlo4829 Sadly yeah ik that they did all that to get attention from more people to their game but even their marketing strategy sucks and i feel like even they were displeased with the update and released it anyway so it would not feel like it wasnt a waste of their money and time. I only login once or twice nowadays unless there is an actually good event like raid days for motivation to walk around my neighbourhood
I think the biggest things I’d wanna see improved is go is a full gym rework, pvp improvements, and more general QOL updates.
For gyms they need a whole overhaul, I think if you revisit a gym you should be able to yank your Pokemon out or swap it to get your 50 coins. I also think rather than have a 6 Pokemon limit you should be able to have values associated with Pokemon so you could put mega or legendary Pokemon in but it might take up 3 space instead of one. I’d also like to see a change where spinning gyms only drop heal items and stops only drop balls, berries and items; I have a few friends who don’t do many raids but they never have healing items bc you get the majority of revives and potions from 5* raids. I think doing this would allow people to get what they need easier.
The other thing I’d wanna see is a full overhaul to master league. Whenever master league is out I’d want to see the option to play full open master league (all origin forms, megas, primals, zygarde, dusk/wing necrozma, crowned forms, b/w kyerum, giganticamax, etc) then also have the option to play ML Premier/Remix. The issue is ML is just impossible to play without spending money, and that’s fine but there should be an alternative option because I want legendaries to be strong but with the power creep lately it’s impossible to keep up. Like there’s 4 if even viable non legendary/mythical in open ML rn something has to change. The other thing in pvp I wanna see is a toggle to switch fast moves in game so you could use 2 fast moves, I’d also like to see them play around with the switch clock like you said.
Finally for QOL improvements, more special trades a day just like too many useless legendaries/com day shinies even if it’s only 2 a day. The ability to store special trades like up to 5 or something, so if there is a meetup I can do more than one lucky trade after maybe only seeing friends once a month, wouldn’t necessarily be more trades just moving them around. General framerate stability and less crashing. The ability to trade raid mythicals (darkrai, deoxys, genesect, hoopa etc). Better egg pools, eggs just feel so useless lately. Changes to raids, make one star raids in person free but don’t put anything too good behind them, move your rockruffs and gibles to 3* raids. 2 free in person passes, 2 special trades, and guaranteed xl candy from trade should all be permanent bonuses imo, I’d like to see them be more creative with seasonal bonuses but these should be staples imo. Please fix the avatar update ik people love their characters and hate them now, especially when bought cosmetics don’t look right anymore, please fix it or refund their coins. Tms need an overhaul. Plenty more obviously as an outsider looking in but hopefully some get addressed.
I agree, the gym system does not offer a ton of incentive for interaction. Other than getting gym badges to platinum (which has no benefit in game - maybe a few extra items each spin? - other than bragging rights as far as I can tell, so it's really only an incentive to a small niche group who find working to earn the medals fun), there's not really a tangible reward for interacting with specific gyms. And the coin system is miserable. Why go out and take over multiple gyms when you have a gym you can go to where you typically stay in long enough to get the 50 coins? Why bother battling and taking over gyms in a really busy area when your pokemon will just get taken out again in less than 10 minutes, so no coins for your time spent? And if you put a few pokemon in gyms yesterday or a couple of days ago, there's no point in taking any other gyms because if everything is kicked out on the same day you still only get 50 coins.
It would be far better with your suggestion, which is closer to the original gym structure - we could choose when to retrieve them and cash out the coins.
I also like the idea of setting the max amount of coins per day higher, or restructuring how the coins are earned per pokemon in a gym. Give us some extra incentive for keeping pokemon in a gym a long time, that will benefit rural players if they can get a big payout every now and then. And if suburban/urban players can still earn the same amount over the same amount of time, just through more active play & battling in gyms, even better. Maybe if a pokemon spends 24 hours defending, they get a small (maybe randomized?) bonus - say like 5-10 coins per 24 hour period on top of the initial earn rate for a gym. Then for each additional 24 hour period they can earn that bonus again. I think the most important thing is that either the max coins earned per day is set at a more reasonable cap, or that for each pokemon in a gym, they are guaranteed to get whatever coins that pokemon earns regardless of how many return on the same day. Some communities are lucky enough to have a spoken (or unspoken) agreement on certain areas/gyms switching control at certain times, but I'm sure this is not the case for most communities.
It's so funny the way spawns work. My GF lives on top of 2 Pokestops but has 3 spawn nodes. I live near none, and have a decent cluster spawn at my house that I've gotten at least 3 hundos from.
Regarding remote raid passes:
Cap should be left at 5 daily if the price is dropped, but raid hours should be unlimited, so they are more highly incentivised for those with access to them in person, to go & do them.
RRPs should have unlimited stack ability the same as in person passes, as the current method of having to get down to 2passes before you can purchase 3 more for the maximum of 5 stacked passes is ridiculous IMO, the same with having 3 passes in our bags resulting in not getting any rrp rewards.
I also agree the price is way too high for what RRPs are- RRP doesn't guarantee the Pokémon being raided gets caught & they don't have increased shiny rates or anything either, so being almost double the price of in person passes is Niantic greed. ie if they wanted to stop whales- the cap alone did that, if the value of the passes was the sole motivating factor, then the price would have increased without the need for the cap, doing both is Niantic wanting their cake & to eat it too. IMO, they need to either drop the price of passes down to 125 coins (if they insist we must pay extra for not doing raids in person), or at least make the 3 pass bundle much more affordable than single passes ie. 400 coins.
Regarding rural players:
I think rural stops, gyms & spawns should be boosted ie. the fewer stops & gyms per certain area/largest cell size, the higher the item drop rate & spawn rate should be in order to better balance out rural play. It doesn't need to be in line with what city players have available to them, it should just be enough that if a rural area has 5-10 stops & say 1-5 gyms in a cluster or spread out with no other POI around them, then those stops & gyms should allow players to obtain 50% to 100% more items from spun stops & gyms & 50%-100% increased spawn rate compared to what a single city stop or gym would yield per spin.
Regarding PvP:
Honestly- I just wish they'd fix the system as it stands atm. The blasted lag kills any enjoyment when charge attacks don't start until 5 to 20 seconds after you've tapped the attack in which time the opponent is still able to attack at will, charge attack bubbles lagging so the best you can hope for is great or nice attacks, the game crashing or auto exiting the battle randomly- the list of bugs goes on & on... IMO there is no point making a simple system more complex until the simple version runs bug free the majority of the time for the majority of players.
I do think every 10 levels players should rewarded with an elite TM, as playing long enough to reach level 10 atm should be rewarded well beyond what it is lol.
Regarding raid bosses:
I think a week is long enough- after a week hardly anyone wants to remotely join raids, so anyone without a super active local community & living outside of a city can't do many if any raids anyway.
I also think dropping the new raid pokemon the day after raid hour is an asinine decision by Niantic, as doing so heavily impacts in person attendance during raid hours IME. ie. Raid hours on the same day or the day after a new roster drops results in most the local community coming out to raid provided the roster is meta relevant or new, having the raid hour for them days or a week after they've arrived in game results in very few players bothering to attend raid hours at all.
I don't mind older raid bosses coming back in, as newer/lower level players need the dex entries or ability to gather candy for them, I only mind when we get nothing but old raid bosses, with little to no meta relevance for weeks on end. At least if we have 1 raid boss & mega per week (or even if they changed megas every second week for 2 per month), Niantic could rotate through the old bosses quickly enough for newer or lower level players to collect, while still including some of the newer or more meta relevant bosses frequently enough to keep older or higher level players more interested.
Gyms:
I think these need to be revamped- Niantic have almost doubled 100 coin prices in some countries, while at the same time as decreasing the value of bundled & boxed items. Yet we are still limited to 50 max pokecoins daily from gym defending... IMO, even increasing this modestly to 75 coins would be seen as a positive move the majority of the player base & motivate more people to go & place pokemon in gyms daily.
Tasks:
As above- the lack of ability to earn "free" coins in game is becoming a growing issue with the increasing lack of overall value of in game purchases IMO (could be a good topic for you maybe?). Adding coin reward tasks into the game (provided they are fair & reasonable ie. make 3 excellent throws for 5 coins or catch 10 different species of pokemon for 5 coins etc.) would also been seen a positive move IMO.
Possible topic:
As per above, does the current in game value of items warrant Niantic increasing the number of coins players can earn in game? Or do you think we are not there yet?
You say it set the expectations 'too high', but I think peoples standards have just lowered so far. See how loads of gaming studio heads reacted by saying 'they set the standards too high' when Baldur's Gate 3 dared to release a bug free, feature rich, feature complete, passionate game, without microtransactions, like the good olde days. How have we come so far that a finished polished product being released at the point of sale is now seen as 'setting the standards too high'?! Its just companies wanting all the money for none of the work. All the reward for none of the risk. We're also talking about something that is completely virtual and arbitrary, if tomorrow they wanted to make these changes, they could. They're just greedy and stubborn.
It's true because it's easy to say we expect to much then to fix something and to make something better 😂
Nailed it.
The current set of "big" content creators on YT are in Niantics pocket. Very few give valid criticism.
it is difficult to please everyone funny how the ones unpleased are the ones that have a CZcams account or like to cry on social media!
This is true, but many get upset with pointing it out. Goodwill is worth way more than shody practices and people will go out of their way to support something they believe supports them.
@ssj2trunks103 what's really funny is how many people can't hit their knees fast enough to Bootlick Niantic.
Funny/sad/pathetic....one of those. Or all 3.
The main problem is spending money repeatedly. Give us a hard task like 500 catches a day for a free
I’d love to see what you’re using to film these, they look great! I’d love some minor tweaks, like 10 coins per hour in a gym up to 100/day, ability to hold more than 3 remotes (and changing limits like you mention), more spawns overall (I live in a downtown area and get maybe 5 an hour :|, while going to houses I get 10+), ability to trade remotely with best friends (to get regionals) or more frequent region swaps, ability to buy more egg storage, bring back the increased gift giving/opening, random golden stops, and maybe having a raid hour at some point every weekend in addition to Wednesday night. I’d also say it can be frustrating during special events when you can’t make an easy raid walking route even in a downtown area; I’m sure this isn’t an issue everywhere, but I live in a state capital where we have hundreds of players weekly (and more in adjacent areas) and there’s so few stops and gyms. I know the rural thing stinks but at least really pack cities to make it worth going there!
He put all his camera equipment in the description
More of a comment but related to your therapy mention.
I use Pokemon Go as a means of therapy. I use it to get out in my wheelchair everyday but also as mental therapy as well.
I am bipolar 2 and i find when i am out exploring my local city and catching, its very soothing. Its a way for me to connect to my inner thoughts and balance what i’m doing.
I am also Indigenous (Ojibwe) and i have found PoGo has lead me to explore some of my spirituality and expression. My spirit animal is the fox or Wagoosh in Ojibwe and i recently got a tattoo of a vulpix & Ninetails in Indigenous style.
This game is my therapy in many ways and a supplement to my own professionally counselor and other active mental health journeys.
Love this - relates to another comment someone made about using pokemon go how it helps you!
Good topic, good video, love this series that you are doing. ^^
I really only started playing PoGo in late november 2023, but I am feeling the game is starting to frustrate me, which is sad as it really is/was/could be a really great game. In my opinion Niantic doesn't seem to really care about it's costumers. Ever since I started playing I have seen so many videos, discussions and articles about how and why PoGo is declining and how to fix/improve it. So the first thing that comes to mind is just how Nianctic doesn't really do ANYTHING that the community asks for. Seems to me they are just giving out updates and changes just as they see fit, as long as they get money or whatever, they are happy. It's a harsh statement but that is really how it is starting to feel to me at least.
I also think that they have loads of improving and bug/glitch fixing to do before they should expand the contents of the game.
Like PvP is so laggy it's madness. Honestly, I have beast PvP-mons, but I lose, time and time again to lagg. I live in a city in Norway so phone coverage and internet aren't exactly a problem here.
Another thing is raids, which are honestly way more buggy than PvP. There are countless glitches and bugs that occur within the raiding mechanic. If you are doing remote, you can get randomly kicked out of the raid as it starts, during, or even after the boss is defeated. If you are unlucky and can't see the gym you raided, you just lost a pass and get no pokemon and maybe no rewards at all. Most of the time it won't appear in your journal that you did do a raid when this bug happens, resulting in no proff to send to Nianctic and therefore no compensations. Money and time lost. This happened A LOT to a friend of mine. I have also been hearing increasly how people can't use their charge attacks in raids, thus loosing the raid, and perhaps spending the pass without receiving anything due to the time going out. Another glitch that has been occuring way too frequently ever since I started playing is the non-registering gems used in shadow raids.
I experienced very early on how you can actually take down pretty much every single legendary shadow with just two trainers as long as you have party power and decent enough pokemon.
However, being just two players in a 5-star shadow raid you need to spend more gems to subdue it that you would normaly. To subdue a 5 star shadow you really only need 8 gems, period.
Many times it takes 9, sometimes 10, and sometimes even more. If it just so happens to glitch so that you gotta use 11+ gems cus of your gems not registering when used, it is utterly imposible to beat the raid boss as you won't be able to subdue it, and it has to be subdued to win with two players, no matter how strong pokes you have. This could lead to some hell of annyoing, time consuming outcomes. If you spend your gems and lose the raid due of bugs, you are very likely to lose the pass, and as you lose gems, you gotta farm new ones first before trying again. This happened to a friend and I on the first Suicune weekend, and we ended up losing up to 4 suciunes cus we both had to grind grunts and leaders to get new gems. Not to mention how I reached out to Niantic Support about what happened, in want of some compensation, but don't you think it took them 5 hours to respond to me. By that time had passed the whole situation was just rotten.
In the end I recieved one regualer raid pass as compensation, when in truth I lost 4 suicunes, 50+ candy due to mega lvl 3 and double catch candy that weekend, probably some 25-30 XLs and not to mention all of the pokemons themselves. This whole series of events will murder your shadow raiding capabilites if you want to grind them with 2-3 players.
I feel a little pissed at Niantic lately. Sorry for the long comment, but I believe stuff like this needs to be shared, also so people can be aware of the risks when raiding, especially shadow raids.
Keep it up Dax! You are awesome! :D
My man, I LOVE how you're approaching this: "I dislike (blank) and here's how it can be fixed."
Giving that constructive criticism is crucial.
As someone who leaves angry comments online A LOT, I gotta say this is a gem
Trust me the anger gets to me too! But gotta try your best to improve it
Thank you for your absolutely splendid vibey TedTalk I know it’s hard to Monologue but you smash out the park every single time. Thank you for real, and yes I wish I could argue opposition to your stance but agree whole heartedly with everything you nailed. 🙌👍
Thank you glad you enjoyed it - gonna try to keep it more positive next week
Great video Dax. I wanted to mention how stale the gyms feel. A gym is somewhere you go to test your skills and try to come up with a strategy to take it down. Right now it feels like it just feels like a chore to try and get coins. I don't live in a city so it's even harder to do often. One idea I thought of was if you beat all the trainers in a gym you got to challenge a leader of some sort with potential for getting items or coins if you win. Then if you beat them your team could switch control. Just an idea.
Great points on ware torn areas & disabilities. Thats funny you said 5 gyms lol thats what our downtown has, but we cruise around a 1 to 2 miles vicinity & conquer raid days well. DEF agree on flat spawn rate ever since I hear Bradon found a hilltop with like 50 haha. Much love brotha have a great weekend 🙏🏼
Really good idea uploading it as a podcast on Spotify and others. It was nice to hear you yap about pokemon go while working outside. I also got quite excited when you started talking about my comment. Big thanks for that. It made my day❤
All the spots you hit look so beautiful. What a nice place to be. I love my area of West Texas but it is a Baron land.
I stopped doing raids and as of now PVP catch cup is god awful. So much for completing my PVP pass
Fun to listen to you while I clear up my storage for the community day.
I love this series! So free flow. Almost wish the podcast was called Let’s Go: At the End of the Day. 😂 Keep up the awesome work.
3:40 "I'm not a smart man." Daxi says as he's sitting on a park bench. Tell me that was not an intentional reference to Forrest Gump 😆
Upgraded Daily raid pass where it can do remote raids.
Adding a second fast move for the Pokémon.
Ability discard unwanted eggs.
Ability to gift items in your bag to friends.
Actually replace the footprint tracking system so we won’t be dependent on pokestops.
Fix the avatars
Make the avatar jackets and shirts two different selections
Communicate with the players.
Gift items to friends - 100% this!! This would absolutely be a huge help to folks in rural areas (if the gifting can be remote), have the bonus of players living in populous areas getting to make some more bags space. Or rural players within a single community, maybe one person is always getting pinap berries and a local friend is swimming in great balls (for example) great opportunity for gifting to each other in support.
Absolutely agree with this!
I have a few ideas starting with remote passes mainly reducing the price while keeping the limit like 125 coins to do 50 remote raids a day while yes it’s a lot but it would guarantee at least one shiny, maybe a hundo, and a few XL candies especially if it’s region locked like the new ultra beasts.
Next would be options for players to actually be able turn on or off different features such as biomes or avatars mainly to enhance pvp
Then like you’ve mentioned in the video, more ways to earn items like Pokèballs but maybe coins as well they have the daily coin research but it was only 300 over 2 weeks while it would only take 6 days from gyms. Give coins in the rewards of pvp or maybe even some from raids and the harder the raid, the more you receive-
For me, the fact that Pogo had such a wide player base (from 5 year old Jimmy to 80 year olds and more) is its strength. I’m not sure what that means for PvP (I’m on the tap tap team), but it makes it such a great game 💕
Love this series! ✨ You kinda indirectly addressed this question but I was wondering what you think the state of the game will be in 5 years considering Niantic is just going to Niantic
I just posted this to coun jinsulas video as well, the new player retention needs to considered. We need more catch up events outside go fest/tours. There are enough trios that once a season or so you could push a legendary trio into a raid weekend or a shadow trio during a rocket takeover. Not evey community day is going to improve a pokemon so having a set of bonus that help new players work towards something. A lot of legendary pokemon are missing signature moves that could be useful in the same way the tapu got a decent side grade from theirs. The remote raids are useful for very specific cases such as early access to go fest legendary pokemon. They should drop the bundle to 300-350 coins and make the current shiny lock for non in person pass holders permanent. A release of restrictions on number of remotes on a per season basis needs to be considered as well
1 fun thing to add to PvP that wouldn't overcomplicate is that when game starts there is random weather in arena and it affects pokemon the same way as it does in raids.
This way you might get lucky that some move is boosted or other way around. There would be wider variety of meta pokemon, not the same again and again.
Wish that a charge and fast TM can select a specific move instead of being a lottery...and just keep the elite TMs for legacy moves. Its such a big feelbad wasting 10 charge TMs and still not get the move you need. Some pokemon have very big movepools...
I love that you called the podcast the Yap Sessions 😂 I’m a constant yapper so I vibe with it
yapping proffesional here
Niantic should add choices by way of "Raid portals" you can choose which of the raid pokemon you'd like to fight at the same gym. They can use the existing ultra beast portal graphic, but instead allow you to pick a raid boss to encounter. Veterans whom want a different selection can choose. Those that need a longer time with an existing boss can choose that instead. PVP battles should be re-worked to allow for skill based timed heal one per battle or allow for a combo move. Gym battles should be completely overhauled to allow for a max CP of pokemon to be placed rather than a hard limit of # of pokemon. If you defeat 2500 CP of pokemon you get one tier of reward (20 coins, 1 revive, 1 pinap berry), 5000CP being a middle tier, with the top tier being 7500 CP (1 max revive, 60 poke coins, 2 pinap berries, 2 ultra balls). You can withdraw Pokemon from gyms and friendship bonuses can apply to stored pokemon (which encourages friends going outside together to visit gyms). A 12 hour bonus and another 24 hour bonus for holding a gym (trigger an egg hatch or encounter).
Love the approach of constructive criticism, good angle to something like this. Also digging the fit man, deserves to be mentioned!
Hahah thank you!!!
2 free raid passes a day that can be used either remote or in person… that would save the game for
Me
Would it though? Playing from your couch isn’t helping this game.
@@MrWhitmen1981 it’s helping my friends on my friends list when they are at a Raid by themselves. It helps when I’m out with my friends and one of them says “I can’t join because I’ve already used my one daily pass”
@@MrWhitmen1981 Um, you'd have to GO get the passes.
@@MrWhitmen1981 I used to go out and host raids so others could join remotely, then join some remotely myself. Now I don't join any remote raids, and less people join the ones I host because the passes are way too expensive. You think that's helping the game?
I live in a small town in switzerland and compared to zurich (big city in switzerland) its crazy how rare pokemon spawns are. And its also so difficult to do in person raids without raid apps. And that also sucks cause sometime i wait for 40 minutes till someone joins and the raid is already ober sometimes. Remote raids being buffed would help alot. Also more spawns in general would help to get the community play again.
Please, selfishly, never stop this series
PVP: I would like a hard (floor) lock at the levels. I've only been playing PVP for only 3 or 4 seasons and I've gone from being terrible to being solidly less terrible. When I hit ACE (my highest achievement to date) I'm like WooHoo...but then it sucks to see my status sink below the floor of the rank (ended last season w/ 1,945) when I hit a losing streak. I like to experiment with new mons and/or powers but if it's going to put me in a hole that I can't crawl back out of it makes me not want to play anymore just to maintain a slight positive gain
Crazier than playing a game on a device as small as a phone is the fact that the Gen 1 red and blue games were on a file smaller than a jpg of an Arboc
Having a way to trade long distance with other players or a way to boost the IVs of the pokémon you have would be immensely beneficial. People like me don't have friends who play the game anymore and it's hard for us to hit those raids and successfully get the meta relevant pokémon. I myself currently don't have any.
They make apps for that. Download one so that you can add friends and get into lobby’s with at least 5 people to take down raids.
One thing I would like to see for PvP sake is not necessarily adding items but utilizing berries that are already in the game. For example: hold a razz berry for increased hp, pinap for increased attack, and nanab for increased defense. Also possibly an item for a random reroll for IVs
interesting idea!
I don't think it'd "save the game", but introducing the Gym leaders (Erika, Brock, etc.) and their badges could be cool. I think they could make them appear rarely and that each encounter could be progressively harder so that our badges could be powered up like other badges. For example, first Erika encounter, she might have 2 Oddish and a Tangela but with more battling, when you get to the point of the "Platinum Rainbow Badge", she'd have all stage 3 Pokemon and exhibit more expert-level gameplay against you (including dual-types that can counter our grass counters) so that it's not so easy.
I think this would give battle purpose to players who don't want to battle other players (PVP) and is the top aspect of the main games that's still missing from Pokemon Go.
I want routes to be revamped, maybe eggs hatch fast while on them, or you get exclusive rocket grunt fights, and maybe even different rewards at the end instead if mateo, like free team heals or one really good encounter
I live in a rural area. Our home spawns 10-15 at a time. Our rural poke stops spawn around 15-18. And in random spots along walking spawn5-9. Our downtown area does not spawn as much as the more rural areas. My daughter lives in NYC in area with lots of stops and I feel like it is harder there because the same spawns spawn over and over vs a variety and in smaller amounts of 3-5. And the subway is impossible to play on, which is the main transportation and the easiest way to play to and from a daily commute.
So stoked that this is actually a podcast now HAHA (still gonna watch the video version since thats the og but!)
GOTCHU BRO! more yapping coming
1:53 hey Daxi, my grandma passed away recently and that’s been real rough. So to keep it light I appreciate your comment on this, unintentional or not. Thanks for making reliable and positive PoGo content 🙏
I think there should be some way to send messages to players your friends with. It would help coordinate trades & raids. I think it's crazy there's no in game feature or even separate Niantic app that would allow communities to build or friends to interact.
Up in Canada there’s a decent amont of people that play but I’m relying on remote raiders to find players at least 95% of the time. The prices have made it very tricky to find a raid group at times when people are at work.
agreed its not great
They can keep the limit for remote raids, price needs reverted, limit makes it easier to get a lobby after the first day of a raid boss but Imo they should straight up scrap remote raids & rework in persons, make it so if your at a raid in person like a registeel & your friend on the other side of the world is also at a registeel raid in person you both can join a lobby together, like a in person remote raid.
That's the best fix. Keeps the incentive to Go out and explore, and eliminates the couch players.
Sanest privileged non suburb pogo player opinion.
No thanks.
Great idea man
So you want me to drive to a raid, and then do it remotely with someone else. Um, no thank you.
I think for PvP they could implement items through the souvenirs in the best buddy system then there would be a larger reason to best buddy Pokemon besides just a ribbon. You could make it so specific items are given as a souvenir by a specific Pokemon. They could also make it so items are unlocked at rank 10 or 20 in gbl so newer players have a chance to get better before the game gets more complex for them.
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You’ve made so many good points throughout the video and I wish Niantic would take it into consideration.
Away from the PoGo stuff I hope ya feelin a lot better, cause that cough sounds like it hurts
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I LOVE THIS SERIES SOOOO MUCH
You might like Pokken Tournament, it's a pikemon fighting game made by the people that make the Tekken ganes, it gets a bit more complicated mechanically than most fighting games
To address the challenges for remote players - the spawns and the pokestops/ gyms need to increase. You can't have one without the other. It feels frustrating and that there is a double standard between rural vs city as features qualify for a stop in a heavily dense area in the city, but doesn't qualify in a remote area where it is desperately needed. Maybe a remote/ regional option needs to be factored in wayward submissions.
Poke Daxi you made quite a lot of good points in this video.
The whole making things more accessible to all players including rural and disabled players who can’t get out is high on that list. Which also leads into remote raid passes. I still think there shouldn’t be a limit or increase it to 50 a day, so if someone wants to do up to 50 let them. However upon saying that, I personally would likely not spend as much money on remote raid passes because of the way they changed the dollar value of the coins. Coins are now based off USD currency but lots of countries including where I’m from: Australia our country is weaker against it by quite a bit and has been for a long time now. I wish they reverted it back to the way it was originally. Buying anything is just too expensive since that change. I would likely still remote raid more than the current 5 (and if they were to increase to say 50 as a limit) but I wouldn’t be remote raiding as much as I would like. Revert the coin system to not be USD currency!!!
I saw somewhere that they should just make a Raid Pass that can be used on either a local or remote raid. Instead of trying to make the two kinds of raids distinct from each other, it'd be more beneficial to be able to look at your passes you have and think "I can do X raids". Besides, you don't really get any special benefit from doing a remote raid over an in-person raid, with the exception of maybe regional raids (but even then that's not that big of a deal). By spending more money on the remote raid pass you get nothing extra; no guaranteed catch for the extra money, no shiny boost... So make the passes one in the same.
Perhaps have an advanced PvP option for the more complex dynamic to allow players who want those features. It would be run as a separate bracket to classic (current PvP), but this would require an overhaul on Niantic's part, and they would have to justify the costs on their end to implement such a change.
i want a button to open all gift and being able to select multi ppl to send gift,move z 4 pvp,being able to trade or give items,keep the untouched set of daily battle in the ligue fort the next day (like the daily raids pass),being able to throw eggs,select between 3 to 5 items to ban from ur bag like regular potion, an option to enable/block the evolution/purification(a friend of mine almost evolved my Lickitung for pvp and another friend got his shadow shynie raikou purify by his lil bro) and maybe a list of mega where u put an order of pkm to mega evolve into a list and the game make them mega when ur offline at work or in school.
letme dream
Also Pogo is a game based on where you're living in.
If you live in rural town of a not-quite-popular country, you just can't play Pogo. Like there're no Pokestop nearby, no gym nearby, no route to grind Zygarde, you literally miss 2 raids/day. It's very hard to find pokemon to catch, not mention rare one.
You can build your own stop and gym, but if there're no one play nearby, it's impossible. It's also impossible if you're new.
Next is cities. If you live in a city of a not-quite-popular country, there're might be bunch of stop and gym nearby. But prob is if you can't find a community to play with, you can't take down boss >= 5*, which is a big loss. Like in my country, we do have community, but we only meet up in some raid day, and if i wanna go with them, i have to travel over a half of city. And oc, i can't do that every raid days. I have work to do T.T
Maybe that's why people choose "dark road" to play, cause everyone have right to enjoy the game, right?
Also, quoting Mystic7 here, he mentioned that in order to incentivise in-person raiding, Niantic jacked up the price of the remote raid pass bundle and lowered the price of the premium battle pass bundle. But the price hike of the remote raid pass bundle was nearly 2 times the regular price and the price of the in-person three-pack bundle was only reduced by like 25%.
The worst thing Pokémon did was put the stupid speed limit and repeating warnings. I used to play every day on my way to work on the metro, but they destroyed it, now I can spin and play every stop, but I can't do anything that takes more than the 30 seconds the bus is stopped because once it starts moving again, I get too far from the stop or gym. I can't ride my bike it's too fast also. It is amazing that a game developer makes a game then they add a nerf so incredibly stupid that it basically makes it so you can't play the game. It's like shooting yourself in the foot whoever at Niantic that thought this was a good idea should be fired I'm sure that person or persons have cost the company millions of dollars in lost revenue and probably millions of players dropped the game because of it.
It's a liability issue. If they allowed catching pokemon and spinning stops while moving fast, people would have more incentive to play the game while driving, which niantic could get in legal trouble for
If they want to put limit on remote raid then i say 10or more remote day per day and the big change make the price of remote pass to be 100 again.
What I really want from Pokemon is more Masterwork Research for guaranteed shiny Mythical Pokemon. There are so many Mythical Pokemon that have never ever been released shiny in any Pokemon game, main series or otherwise, and some that can only be shiny hunted in games that are decades old, like Jirachi and Mew. So paying $5 each to get each one guaranteed shiny is something I would gladly pay for every time. And they should release faster than one per year. At least 3 per year.
I'd suggest a couple things like you mentioned:
*return remote passes to 100, keep a daily limit and add a better benefit to in person raids
*a daily portable pokestop that lasts 30-60 minutes, has better odds of items to help rural players
*put legendary back in the weekly breakthrough box and/or make it 2 boxes. 1 weekly of non-legendary and 1 either monthly or weekly/biweekly to reward legendary
*bring in more evil teams that introduce new game play: teams aqua/magma can implement weather moves/effects, etc
*dmax/gmax and terrestrial can help balance mega evolution like rock/paper/scissors
*technically Niantic could try to help GameFreak/pokemon create new Pokémon or forms. One conceot I've kinda wanted to see happen Shadow/Evil Mega's like Shadow Mewtwo X in Tekken. They've created shadow pokemon so opportune time to exploit it with new mechanics or forms for specific pokemon.
*pvp update where you have 3-6 pokemon to pick 3 and final aren't confirmed at start of being matched. Would help with how pvp can be hacked and see the opponents lineup/moves like how PokeAK showed.
Honestly im hoping they would add some sort of pokemon centre where you could heal your pokemon, similar to the team go rocket pokestops cuz as a F2P, it becomes extremely hard sometimes to get any revives and potions
Pokemon Go should add a system where users can initiate raid battles. This would let players set up group meets and play when it is beneficial to them. These raids would be invite only (by the raid leader) and last until it is defeated by the raid leader. Invited players would still have to use Raid passes or remote raid passes.
My idea for this would be, when you complete a raid you have a chance to get a raid egg of equal or lesser value to the raid complete. 3* raid might reward 3* or 1* raid eggs. I would also add this for shadow raids with the inclusion of beating the leaders you might get 3* shadow raid egg. Also a chance to get a 5* shadow Raid egg from defeating Giovanni.
You could also make it similar to the purification gem where you get so many (item) to craft a raid lure (instead of a chance at a raid egg).
An example of this might be:
Defeating a Grunt - 1 (item)
Defeating a Leader - 4 (item)
Defeating Giovanni - 6 (item)
(items) to craft the raid lure:
1* - 5 (item)
3* - 10 (item)
5* - 20 (item)
I feel as though this would get people interacting with the raids and team rocket encounters move frequently because there is a guarantee for a group to meet up later.
I think if they aren't going to change the price of remote raid passes they should allow you to do more remote raids a day like you said and allow you to hold more than 3/5, preferably the same amount as you can do in a day,
i.e. 20 remote raids a day = hold 20 remote raid passes.
Additionally add one as a permanent reward for completing 7 day breakthrough research, 7 day Pokéstop spins and 7 day Pokémon caught. That way you could at least bank 3 a week in preparation for a Pokémon you want or a particular Pokémon raid day etc.
I like that the seasonal spawns are restricted to certain mons and that they switch them up every season but it can also get very dry. I believe Niantic should adopt the approach of having it possible to find any currently released mon, so every single mon is on the list of seasonal spawns. However it should be balanced in that they have a high chance that the usual seasonal spawns appear and a very low chance that the rest of the mons spawn.
if it is possible to make spawns with a requirement (route spawns) make it so that the person cn choose the spawn
like comm day classic, let the player choose out of a few mons
the only pandemic bonus I'd like them to restore is the incense one, 1 pokemon every 5 minutes stationary is nowhere near enough when you're trapped somewhere and can't go outside due to bad weather or mobility issues, one every 3 at least gives you a chance to play an event like a comm day that you may otherwise miss
My thought on making in-person passes more valuable is to truly make the benefits better. More XL candy is obviously good, but so few players max Pokémon to level 50. More XP, stardust, make the catch level 22 instead of 22 (27 weather boosted), or higher shiny chance.
1)Raid bosses have %health and do %dmg the more ppl are in raid (max dmg and hp at 5 ppl). Raid eggs will emerge faster if there are not alot of gyms in some distance)
2) Gyms can host tournaments (the way we have showcases for pokestops) it will be either show 6 pick 3 like how pvp is now. You apply for the tournament 24hrs before and you have to be in person to battle
3)Map monotisation: you can buy different map styles (like winter theme or the halloween we some times get) with money or pokecoins. Same for icons for pokemon and items (maybe old school or maybe newer styles) . They did this once for aprils fools
4) Make more use of the routes they created, more special spawns. And make the party system have a good reason to be available, better research
5)Events are gona get stale no matter what, there is a limited number of mons and you can release, so they should make events themed around different topics of the game, maybe add some plot, or something funny. Maybe the special research we get and the events we get are themed around the seasonal theme (wonders, lights etc) and be updated with every event and tie it together
Thats about it, i got more for pvp and how to fix it, but this is getting too long
I have taken a break a couple time from the game of like a couple months to 1.5 years but log in now and then just to pick up the new researches. Then when I have a bunch of stuff to do again I start playing again. Granted I missed out on some Megas but they will come around again. I'm about 2 million xp from level 50. But not in a hurry.
I dig the longer form content
It’s not unrealistic expectations if they were actually realized and met
I’d like to see an animation for nundos, like they have for hundos. For example, where the star disc goes pink for full iv’s, it goes blue for no iv’s. Would it be an earth shattering change? No. Would it be fun? Yup!
oh true!
Really like this series and the discourse!
when it came to remote raid they gave us the stick and no honey. I think what could be improved for pvp is maybe depowering pokemon up to a point or maybe rerolling stats for a lot of candies. I also dont care for the catch cup
Honestly for the raid issue id say a good thing would be maybe, just a thought, but multiple raids in 1 gym 1* > legendaries or elite. I also think maybe a good addition would be abother fast move. It could work like maybe the moves are done through swiping. Swipe up for 1 and down for the other
To the last point i will say, i been playing since the beginning. Then i had a friend who is a mainline game fan like me and he got a new phone and he wanted to start and i jumped back in. For me once i have friends playing this game ill always be into it. So if they could maybe fix the accessibility issues then people like me would definitely continue pkaying.
I live semi rural. It's a struggle to get Pokestops.... people always vote it down saying "unsafe access" or "private residence." We have dirt/gravel sidewalks, and little libraries are the only new things that could be stops, but they get rejected. It's frustrating. Bad enough that cell service is garbage in a lot of places.
The most important update in the entire game was forgotten because of how essential it was to the game. The addition of field research and eventually special research gave SO many more reasons to play the game. Its first introduction was the “golden age” getting a moltres for playing the game for 7 days was the best feeling ever. A whole month of play for 4 moltres count me in.
Bring back remote raids for all regular raids up through T5. Keep shadow and other special raids to local only. T5 shadow raids r on weekends when people can actually coordinate, or drive to a city. Now people can still raid remotely and still need to go to their community.
word! thought in the same terms myself! if niantic wnt ppl to continue to use their legs well, make an in game rare tracker device that points you to the rare spawn and the rare will only spawn in "remote" hiking trails environments where you only are allowed to go by foot or bike, wheelchair etc..
I think people just need to learn how to be patient when it comes to raid rotations. Although i do think once they've released the signature move they could keep it. If they release groudon back in raids now im less likely to want to raid it without precipes blades. The same with mewtwo. If it doesn't have psystrike/shadow ball i don't like constantly spending on elite tms
Good point - once it gets a move keep it
You should do a collab with WolfeyVCG. Going against him on PVP, and battling him in the main series games too. Should be fun to watch.
I get a kick out of nominating and getting new pokestops approved in my area. What I don't like is the risk of having my account banned though :/ What can they do to make the game better, you touched on some of the best points. Reduce the cost of remote raid passes, introduce a long distance lucky trading system, update the avatars. Thanks for the great discussion, also you're not negative of pokemon go. Shows you want better from the game and that's healthy :)
I agree that with 5 a day at a cheaper price would make me click on those orange remote invites again. It keeps the amount of legendaries at a limit (remotely), but gets the global community back into the fray. I feel bad for all those pogo friends I'm avoiding by only using remote passes when I get the free coins.
i think they should introduce the shiny charm like a daily incense works for a limited time each day or even each week
i think with pvp it might be a little better for people if they possibly add a 4th slot. I think the 3v3 is too RPS... 4v4 can open up the skill gap instead of it being RPS. IT would make the matches longer obviously, usually i can get through the GBL games within 1 1/2 hours. but I think it would remove alot of frustration.
CZcamsrs are always put in a difficult situation during low points in the game. Complain along with everyone else? "You're too negative". Ignore the bad and only try and see the good points of a bad update? "You must be a Niantic shill". I don't envy you all for that. I do think you and Nick in particular have a good instinct for knowing where the line is most of the time and doing your best not to fall too hard into either of those camps. Being honest, offering constructive feedback. Not to say that any others are bad at it of course, it's just that I've noticed the two of you seem to be good examples in most cases. No one is perfect or on a pedestal either to me, I'm not going to agree with every single video or idea from a YT just because I follow them and generally enjoy their content.
That being said I am enjoying this series and I like how you are talking through each of these points. Niantic would be wise to follow some of these ideas.
I look at the raid nerf as a form of marketing adjustment. Having videos title “100 (this Pokémon) raids” definitely makes the game seem pay to play to the public and not a good look. This forces the content creators to advertise a more appealing lifestyle associated to their game. The price increase is to compensate for the limit. I do think the limit should stay but the price should be returned to normal as it hurt the majority of players. As a F2P I am a lot less likely to do remote raids as it takes me 4 days instead of 2 if I gain 50 coins each day. Also give more incentives for people who play local like premium items. Having a matchmaking for people who play local would help those who live in less populated areas. This is in the main series game raids and it does help people beat stronger pokemon.
I really want the old AR mode to come back. I used to grind catches everyday for hours and now you can’t do that anymore. I no longer have anything to do and I don’t play anymore. They can’t just remove fundamental core features like this
I think there could just be more unique stuff. Like, things we will probably never see in a console pkmn game. Baby Legendaries or just breedable legendaries for more candy. More costume pokemon, a purple charizard just for the meme. Just stuff that surprises.
Adding more events would be fun
We have a new event every 1-2 week 😂😂
We have enough events already. The issue is that the events we get are disappointing
@@darkrai7597100% correct.
Already too many events. Even overlapping. How about a break to just play the game.
@@whiterabbit6341 I agree. We need at least 2 weeks a month with no event so we can just play normally with the usual wild spawns.