Good God, this interview is so out of touch, living in a fantasy world, it’s laughable. So just have to gather 20 people who know to do one raid and then all walk together to the next location. And then…a Singaporean grandma playing PoGo at the senior center?? Hilarious! 🤣
by JaimanV2
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“we love our incredible diverse community, but not the disabled or rural players!! :)”
literal morons
Also love how they say that remote raid passes apparently hurt players like old Singaporean grandma over here who barely plays anyway.
Unless Singaporean grandma is playing GBL like hardcore every day, remote raid passes aren’t going to affect her or the “median core” of players which are, apparently to Niantic, the elderly who can walk around.
I mean they will lost people on this. Not everyone can gather 5 friends at the same time. Most people are older generation that work and have few hours daily to walk around and especially in remote places where there really isn’t much people playing.
rate pokémon go 1 star on the app store!!
Can someone link the interview
Ed Wu is a clown
I am literally the only person I know who still plays PoGo other than my friend who lives on the other side of the US. I barely raided for the first few years I played because it was a pain to track down groups at raids and coordinate with strangers through Discord. Once remote raid passes came about and I found r/PokemonGoFriends I started raiding all the time, with players from Reddit from all over the world.
This is a win-win for me and Niatic. They get a ton of money from me because I buy remote raid passes all the time, and I get to enjoy raiding in an easy, reliable way. And yet they’re choosing to completely screw it up?? It makes no sense. Limiting remote raids to 5 a day? I’ll remote raid 10+ times some days because I’m just in the mood for battling and getting new Pokémon. Why are they stopping me from giving them money? Again, it makes no sense. Lose-lose.
Which brain dead idiot said this? Where do I find the whole interview?
That they still have the gall to pretend they care about the diversity of the playerbase after what is now a year of constantly gutting casual play and features that provided vital accessibility for a lot of players is quite frankly disgusting.
That’s some boomer shit man that company is going to die, as it should. Pokémon as a Game theme was the only thing keeping that hellhole alive, and it’s time to move on. Sadly.
10-20 of your friends 😭
Me and my bf have hosted several raids from like the end of November when we started being more active with the game, cause we don’t know anyone who still plays and the Facebook or discord communities for the city we live in aren’t that active, so the only 2-3 times we got REALLY lucky when we went onto the raid and there were already locals there, however one time it was in a mall where there were wayyy too many people to distinguish who are the players, the other time it was on a park with little people but multi apartment buildings so again, no idea who were the people playing and the other time it was a bunch of kids which dont feel quite right, as adults, to befriend them just for that. So every other time we wanted to do raids, we had to count on the remote raids to gather enough people for the 4-5 star raids. So the new system is reeeaaally gonna mes things up, specially when we have severely different work schedules so again, even if there would be an active community, it would be quite hard to actually schedule to gather for it.
When i started to play, i didn’t do 5 star raids, later megas neither. Since remote pass i do both. Soon it will be did though
When did pogo have an economy in the first place
the trading limitations pretty much destroy that
Also in that interview – “We don’t want to create a transactional relationship with collecting and finding incredible legendary Pokémon”. Except they’ve chosen to make legendary pokemon transactional by hiding them behind raids in the first place, and having raids be a limited thing that you pay for. They removed them from the research rewards and the gbl rate for them is terrible. And pokemon like shaymin and keldeo are literally transactional in that I think they still only exist for people who paid for them!!
I’m a day one player, and I love the game. I remember when raids came out, and because I lived in the suburbs, I basically just ignored them because it wasn’t possible for me to round up the players to get anything. Then remote passes came out, and they actually got me into raiding. I’m not sure if I ever won a raid before remote raids; certainly, I never won a legendary raid. I still haven’t won a legendary raid with only in person raiders, other than the elite raid that took two hours of my Saturday, considering the coordination, drive time (yep, I drove, not walked), and waiting for other to show up.
Raids were not a thing for me until remote passes happened,and now I raid several times a week, because I have friends who want to remote raid. Removing remote raiding as the primary way to raid just removes raiding as a possibility for me. They could have leaned in to remote raids by getting us to generate extra data in exchange for them, like by meeting walking goals for remote passes, that way everyone wins. But nope. This will kill raiding for me and everyone I know.
TIL the average player of Pokemon Go is a grandma from Singapore.
Niantic has made it miserable to play
These changes only hurts honest players, another win for the cheaters.
Niantic is stuck in 2016, you could throw a stone in any direction and probably hit someone playing Pokémon go. Nowadays you have to hunt people down who still play the game, put a gun to their head and force them to go out and raid with you
Back in the day I was lucky to encounter a group that could do it with five or less. But back then I travelled a lot in my city. With home office and the new reality, this gets harder and harder to do. What is said here os just bonkers.
Singaporean grandma hahhahahhaha
If the goal is to get people to actually go out and play, maybe start with buffing the daily incense. Increase the duration, increase the galarian bird spawns, increase the spawn pools. Add more mons like kecleon and meltan that don’t require outside purchases. There’s so much they could do instead of bending over their player base.
The dumbest part of this is that five-star raid eggs pop up with at most an hour’s notice. As if 20 people are going to drop everything with a moment’s notice at any given time to go join a five-star raid.
Those damn singaporean grandmas ruining everything for us
Not just that, no one walks to raids most of the time in rural areas. People meet up in a car, and forget about getting family members because if they do play, they’re most likely low level (for me). They have this way too optimistic mindset of the average player, they need to re-evaluate their business model.
Oh, my dearest Singaporean “grandma” friend who’s been inviting me to remote raid with her all the way from the US on the regular, I fear this means an end to a long and triumphant friendship. Alas, all we have now are those idiotic postcards which both of us only collects for the mousy scatterbugs, hoping to one day have all of them evolve into beautiful butterflies.
Farewell, my best friend! 😭
I don’t even *know* 10 people in my area. Fuck that.
So they think their core playerbase is old biddies going on power walks? Are they that dense?
The thought of routinely getting 10-20 people together for raids sounds like a nightmare.
Niantic’s insistence on forcing players into playing the way we did prior to Covid is ridiculous. The PoGo community is evolved since then and remote raids gave all players equal access to raids. Clearly this is an monitory issue because remote raid passes definitely brought in a ton of money! This is old man Niantic wanting things to go back to the good ole days and refusing to adapt with the times!
Well, it has a tinge of reality. Around here when legendary raids first started in summer of 2017 we’d need large numbers of people to gather because generally speaking we needed that many to beat the boss. The “walking to the next raid as a group” only happened some of the time if there happened to be one within walking distance. By the time 2019 was around, walking to raids basically didn’t really exist, everyone drove from one to the next. How is that better than remoting?
I’m a grandma who has played Pokemon Go from the start. The majority of people I play with are also grandparents. In the early days, this is exactly what we did. We had to gather a group of people together to do a raid, and then we would either walk or drive from raid to raid.
Once they added remote raid.passes, the amount of people rating increased greatly, as did their profits. So now, to raise the price of raid passes 70 percent and limit the amount of remote raids per day is going to greatly decrease their profits.
Blizzard 2
Trust me, if I could get my family to play, I would. My brother moved away to college and my parents refuse to help me with anything pogo related because they despise the game and how much I play it 😂😂 And they’re right… also, I have to drive 30 minutes to get to where my local community plays. So yeah sucks for me I guess 😂
this interview sounds so much like satire i really hope
this is the april fools prank this year
if not the niantic PR team has a future in comedy writing when everyone deletes their game
What this tells me is that they won’t revert the changes. They are too out of touch
I am a divorced father of four. My exwife moved the kids two states away during the pandemic. Sending them raid invites on Wednesdays and playing PoGo with them from a distance has been one of the most important parts of our week for going on a year now and suddenly it will basicaybe removed next week.
Ed Wu is either out of touch or a complete idiot.
I can’t even get anyone to spend time with me as a person, what makes them think we’ll get together to do a raid?
What i really don’t get: they want us to do more in person raids but implement no feature into the game to communicate with local players to organize that.
Yeah so theres a lot of pokemon players here but anytime I pull up to a raid, everyone is in their car. No social interaction or anything, which is fine by me being the introvert that I am. But it totally busts the rose right off those rose colored glasses these kind of people are wearing who think that random pokemon players frequently group up and kum-bay-ah through the concrete jungle from one poke gym to another.
I have precisely 0 friends who play pogo, and barely 10 friends in total. This also completely ignores the reality of people who live in rural areas who don’t have gyms nearby. Who try to play a game and hope they reach level 37 eventually so maybe they can nominate a gym nearby, and even then will need to remote raid because of lack of other players. (That was me until I recently moved, and it’s a really crappy disappointing way to play the game and have basically no legendaries)