I’m honestly getting sick of Niantic toying with my feelings. We finally think they do something right, just for them to strip it away from us.
WHHHYYYYY
by Surfing_Arrokuda
38 Comments
Envyforme
This company doesn’t know what the fuck change management and proper testing actually is.
You think for the inconvenience they’d keep it for a couple of weeks at least until end of July. Nope.
Literally the main game is their testing playground. The player base are the Quality Assurance testers lol.
thathighclassbitch
And here I thought my new phone just worked better (started using it right as this happened)..damn
opal-snake
Imagine making the game more accessible to people…. Nah “iT dOeSnT fIt oUR mIsSiOn”
VanQuackers
They legitimately have to be the absolute worst company of any game I’ve played in terms of communication, decision making, and implementation. As someone who plays Old School RuneScape and League of Legends, the difference in communication and quality is unfathomable. It’s like Niantic is run by literal children in comparison.
Wonderful-Sir5946
yeah this is probably one of the worst companies I’ve seen. I was literally considering coming back because of this change. WHYYYYYYYY
iplanckperiodically
God damnit this company is allergic to W’s I swear, this was the easiest slam dunk ever
Seeing how widely praised it was, all they had to do was claim it was on purpose.
“Hey trainers, we’re currently experimenting with an increased Pokemon spawn distance!”
That way even if they tone it down later, it looks like they were really listening to the community’s wants.
Idfk maybe they’re worried it will cut down on incense sales or something, ugh
starserval
Dear Niantic:
Giving something to players and then taking it away from them feels shitty to the players. Your players lose faith in you each and every time you do this.
How would your CEO like it if you took away his bonus after giving it to him because it didn’t fit your mission?
rnarkus
Lmao, I was ready to praise niantic…. but glad I held off.
Scummy company
Spooky-God
Didnt they say its gonna stay for good?
Tnemmokon
Ninatic notes your feedback…
With what? Invisible ink?
PokemonPedigree
Pokémon go is dying. I hear less and less people talking about it ever since Niantic made stupid business decisions.
BakiBagel
Niantic really wants to over take EA as the worst video game company
Left_Fist
Jesus Christ if they are actively attempting to piss off their players and kill the game as fast as possible then I have no notes for them. Just absolutely perfect decision making.
Ill-Gas-232
A Tipp for Niantic: FIX THE ADVENTURE SYNC!!!!
cpgxrcia
There’s just no way y’all expected Niantic to do something good 🤷🏼♂️
Mewacy
Fuck Niantic
CrazyCat010
“Feedback is being considered” yeah right
Coconut_the_Budgie
OH COME ON, I GOT MY FIRST SHINY MAGIKARP BECAUSE OF IT
RhythmMcToast
WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!!!
People are enjoying something. Better fix it fast!
joey0live
BuT iTs PeRmaNeNT.
ProudnotLoud
Pokemon Go for the last few years has been Lucy, Charlie, and the football. It’s predictable at this point.
yukissu
Does ‘improve encounters during GPS drift’ also mean ‘get less encounters when you don’t actually move’?
N2Ngamer
and yet people are still coming back to it
andrew0703
i recently quit this game. and it wasn’t a flat out “i quit” moment. it was actions like this done week after week causing me to play less and less. and now i haven’t played for over a week and i never even noticed. it’s straight up disrespectful at this point
yoyo5113
I have an autoimmune disease that has caused spinal and SI joint arthritis in me and other issues at only 25 years old. I finally was able to be diagnosed and medicated recently, but I am having to rehab from 2 1/2 years of near bedrest and push through daily, constant pain from my muscles having atrophied and having joint inflammation.
I re-downloaded Pokémon Go around a month and a half ago, after only playing for a couple of weeks in 2016, in order to help ease my process of physical therapy. It’s been very painful, but this game has helped a ton. I don’t feel all the issues that this player base has had with Niantic as keenly as y’all do, as I have just now started to actually play the game. I have read a lot and really have been surprised at the decisions Niantic has made and felt angry for those disabled or in rural areas, especially with the remote raiding pass.
I cannot state the excitement I felt earlier today when it was “confirmed” that this change to the spawn range was intended. I go on short straight walks, and am intending to get a bike, so I can’t really go walking all around the place to cover the possible areas there could be Pokemon. I get exhausted quickly, so I can’t really just keep looking for them.
I really was looking forward to biking around my college campus and the bike path with this increased spawn area, as it just made things simpler and easier for me to do. All I feel is disappointment and sadness that what I thought was the best change that could or happened to the game for someone like me, turns out to be a bug. I really, really wish it was not announced as a feature first. This game holds a lot of emotional value to me as it is one of the things helping me through physical therapy.
I know they are almost sure not to, but I still can’t help but hope that this “bug” stays in some form moving forwards. I really don’t think it will bc it seems they don’t listen to any of the players.
I think I am gonna just take a break from the level I was playing. Maybe go buy one of those auto-catchers etc. idk. The current rate of spawning, even with incense, daily or regular, with a very fast walking speed straight in a line through a heavily populated campus with like 8 gyms and 50 pokestops within a mile of each other, the spawns have felt very underwhelming.
Sorry if this sounds melodramatic. I just needed to type this out.
gabes1919
I don’t see it as a top comment but content creators were told that the range was intentional but that mons not disappearing when out of range was the bug. Niantic then came out later today and announced that the whole thing was a bug and would be reverted
SuperDuperEazy
Best change/addition since remote raiding and it’s not even on purpose. Niantic is a joke
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TeamYourNoobs
They are not the clown. They are the entire circus
Tectre_96
I always used to put the Sims team down as the worst game dev company I’ve ever seen, but honestly, at least they add features players want and don’t call them bugs and remove them. Niantic take everything the Sims team do badly, and somehow make it even fucking worse. It’s futile I know, but it just makes me wanna rally everyone in California to storm the Niantic HQ in protest and refuse to leave until they do something, but as I said, it’d be a futile waste of time. Fucking assholes…
Burger_slayer
Fuck u niantic
dennyyooo
I knew it was too good to be true.
I thought playing Pokemon Go would’ve been fun again, but na ja..
skullbop
scum company. Scumpany
zomgitsduke
BS
They’re going to offer range boosting products after giving everyone a taste of it.
hollow_bagatelle
Something good happens in the game:
Niantic: “Oh shit we accidentally did something right, quick fuck it up!”
DangleWho
I just hate how every good bug gets immediately patched but the bad bugs stay around for a long time
ConnorOhOne
“Feedback will be considered” no it won’t.
Glum_Damage_7880
Quit the game. Don’t invest your time and resources into this crap company, which doesn’t give a shit about its community.
38 Comments
This company doesn’t know what the fuck change management and proper testing actually is.
You think for the inconvenience they’d keep it for a couple of weeks at least until end of July. Nope.
Literally the main game is their testing playground. The player base are the Quality Assurance testers lol.
And here I thought my new phone just worked better (started using it right as this happened)..damn
Imagine making the game more accessible to people…. Nah “iT dOeSnT fIt oUR mIsSiOn”
They legitimately have to be the absolute worst company of any game I’ve played in terms of communication, decision making, and implementation. As someone who plays Old School RuneScape and League of Legends, the difference in communication and quality is unfathomable. It’s like Niantic is run by literal children in comparison.
yeah this is probably one of the worst companies I’ve seen. I was literally considering coming back because of this change. WHYYYYYYYY
God damnit this company is allergic to W’s I swear, this was the easiest slam dunk ever
Seeing how widely praised it was, all they had to do was claim it was on purpose.
“Hey trainers, we’re currently experimenting with an increased Pokemon spawn distance!”
That way even if they tone it down later, it looks like they were really listening to the community’s wants.
Idfk maybe they’re worried it will cut down on incense sales or something, ugh
Dear Niantic:
Giving something to players and then taking it away from them feels shitty to the players. Your players lose faith in you each and every time you do this.
How would your CEO like it if you took away his bonus after giving it to him because it didn’t fit your mission?
Lmao, I was ready to praise niantic…. but glad I held off.
Scummy company
Didnt they say its gonna stay for good?
Ninatic notes your feedback…
With what? Invisible ink?
Pokémon go is dying. I hear less and less people talking about it ever since Niantic made stupid business decisions.
Niantic really wants to over take EA as the worst video game company
Jesus Christ if they are actively attempting to piss off their players and kill the game as fast as possible then I have no notes for them. Just absolutely perfect decision making.
A Tipp for Niantic: FIX THE ADVENTURE SYNC!!!!
There’s just no way y’all expected Niantic to do something good 🤷🏼♂️
Fuck Niantic
“Feedback is being considered” yeah right
OH COME ON, I GOT MY FIRST SHINY MAGIKARP BECAUSE OF IT
WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!!!
People are enjoying something. Better fix it fast!
BuT iTs PeRmaNeNT.
Pokemon Go for the last few years has been Lucy, Charlie, and the football. It’s predictable at this point.
Does ‘improve encounters during GPS drift’ also mean ‘get less encounters when you don’t actually move’?
and yet people are still coming back to it
i recently quit this game. and it wasn’t a flat out “i quit” moment. it was actions like this done week after week causing me to play less and less. and now i haven’t played for over a week and i never even noticed. it’s straight up disrespectful at this point
I have an autoimmune disease that has caused spinal and SI joint arthritis in me and other issues at only 25 years old. I finally was able to be diagnosed and medicated recently, but I am having to rehab from 2 1/2 years of near bedrest and push through daily, constant pain from my muscles having atrophied and having joint inflammation.
I re-downloaded Pokémon Go around a month and a half ago, after only playing for a couple of weeks in 2016, in order to help ease my process of physical therapy. It’s been very painful, but this game has helped a ton. I don’t feel all the issues that this player base has had with Niantic as keenly as y’all do, as I have just now started to actually play the game. I have read a lot and really have been surprised at the decisions Niantic has made and felt angry for those disabled or in rural areas, especially with the remote raiding pass.
I cannot state the excitement I felt earlier today when it was “confirmed” that this change to the spawn range was intended. I go on short straight walks, and am intending to get a bike, so I can’t really go walking all around the place to cover the possible areas there could be Pokemon. I get exhausted quickly, so I can’t really just keep looking for them.
I really was looking forward to biking around my college campus and the bike path with this increased spawn area, as it just made things simpler and easier for me to do. All I feel is disappointment and sadness that what I thought was the best change that could or happened to the game for someone like me, turns out to be a bug. I really, really wish it was not announced as a feature first. This game holds a lot of emotional value to me as it is one of the things helping me through physical therapy.
I know they are almost sure not to, but I still can’t help but hope that this “bug” stays in some form moving forwards. I really don’t think it will bc it seems they don’t listen to any of the players.
I think I am gonna just take a break from the level I was playing. Maybe go buy one of those auto-catchers etc. idk. The current rate of spawning, even with incense, daily or regular, with a very fast walking speed straight in a line through a heavily populated campus with like 8 gyms and 50 pokestops within a mile of each other, the spawns have felt very underwhelming.
Sorry if this sounds melodramatic. I just needed to type this out.
I don’t see it as a top comment but content creators were told that the range was intentional but that mons not disappearing when out of range was the bug. Niantic then came out later today and announced that the whole thing was a bug and would be reverted
Best change/addition since remote raiding and it’s not even on purpose. Niantic is a joke
[deleted]
They are not the clown. They are the entire circus
I always used to put the Sims team down as the worst game dev company I’ve ever seen, but honestly, at least they add features players want and don’t call them bugs and remove them. Niantic take everything the Sims team do badly, and somehow make it even fucking worse. It’s futile I know, but it just makes me wanna rally everyone in California to storm the Niantic HQ in protest and refuse to leave until they do something, but as I said, it’d be a futile waste of time. Fucking assholes…
Fuck u niantic
I knew it was too good to be true.
I thought playing Pokemon Go would’ve been fun again, but na ja..
scum company. Scumpany
BS
They’re going to offer range boosting products after giving everyone a taste of it.
Something good happens in the game:
Niantic: “Oh shit we accidentally did something right, quick fuck it up!”
I just hate how every good bug gets immediately patched but the bad bugs stay around for a long time
“Feedback will be considered” no it won’t.
Quit the game. Don’t invest your time and resources into this crap company, which doesn’t give a shit about its community.