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Niantic flat-out gaslighting now



Niantic flat-out gaslighting now

by BobathonMcBobface

30 Comments

  1. HedgieTwiggles

    I’m guessing they didn’t respond to your screen cap of their in-app notification?

  2. Quixoticry9

    It’s copy and paste. They didn’t read your previous response beyond keywords and have a pre-written “catch-all” for the topic.

    I’ve had a similar situation in the past.

    They act as if their in-game notifications are to be taken as gospel, while also secretly amending them, or even posting changes and corrections on other platforms with no in-game notification at all.

    It’s super frustrating because I do a physical pokemon calendar every month, and highlighter and ink pen are not the easiest to make corrections to.

  3. External_Sea_8308

    I was wondering about this because in the research page, it clearly states the bonuses currently in place with the event, 1/2 distance to earn hearts with your buddy is in there.

  4. PumpkinPieIsGreat

    It’s a shitty response, but can we please stop throwing the word gaslighting around?

    Has anyone actually researched it? In the book, the guy is deliberately trying to make his wife think she’s crazy by hiding things, turning lights on and then being angry at her for losing papers and turning lights on. It’s a long term form of emotional abuse, not just regular lying, or in this case they didn’t read the complaint properly.

  5. btrosCuPoJoE

    Why is anyone even playing this anymore? Niantic doesn’t deserve one ounce of data from anyone. Fuck them.

  6. They called this off on another platform (Twitter probably?), but no in game update, like every player has to follow them on multiple platforms

  7. Skanderani

    I usually get a souvenir once a day from my best buddy but I haven’t gotten one since the event started and now I need one for the timed research

  8. hollow_bagatelle

    It amazes me that people still think they give a shit, lol.

  9. Clown_fish87

    What an incompetent support from an incompetent company. Wonder what’s their response after you send them that screenshot.

  10. Dndfanaticgirl

    Point one is bullshit. Period. I’ve gotten 1 souvenir the whole week and it was before I was on that task for open a souvenir from your buddy and now I’m screwed

  11. PanzyDan

    Maybe if you just stopped playing the damn game and joined the boycott…

  12. Puzzleheaded-Bad1571

    Please do not rely on third party apps like Pokémon Go for Pokémon Go information

  13. Brokenbalorbaybay

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it till the day I die. This… fucking… company……

  14. Ciller93

    Niantic has always gas lit, but it’s an unfortunate byproduct of their piss poor communication with the player base. They’ve always done this, when there’s a mistake in official comms, they edit it, with no evidence of edit history or what was there before. Admittedly I’d rather they edit and fixed it than leave the wrong information up, however I’ve gone through dozens of situations where I say “x”, someone counters with no it’s “y”, and then when I go check, x is now y with no evidence of x ever existing

    Dunno what the answer is, also don’t get paid to figure it out, just another example of them being God awful at their jobs

  15. raptorrealized

    I feel like they were trying to specify that it doesn’t apply to mega energy more than saying it doesn’t apply to any but that’s just stupid wording.

  16. umursamagenc51

    How fucked up is Niantic? The answer is very very fucked up that they dont even try to hide it at this point

  17. CMDR_omnicognate

    *There is no half distance candy in ba sing se*

  18. UncleGG808

    Can’t be gas lighted uf you don’t play

  19. hisfirefly

    What did they say back to you after the screen shot?

  20. Arandomweed4

    Bro u have to update us on this it’s way too funny

  21. Renolber

    We should all flood support with the screenshot.

    At this point I’m genuinely becoming spiteful at this company. I want them feel any and all inconvenience in response to their sheer incompetence.

    Relegating the game’s economy and the remote raid controversy is a different sphere of issues relating to approach, but continuous content failure and blatant false advertising is irrefutably unacceptable.

    They seriously need to do better.

  22. NoAlternative2913

    They really niantic’d the pooch on this one.

  23. Hansonguy

    It was half buddy distance at the beginning. But mine reverted back to full now. So dumb.

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