Pokémon GO Trainers Aren't Happy About Next Month's 'Remote Raids' Update

Ok the titanic one is good

Worst trade deal in the history of trade deals

I don’t remember when I uninstalled this, but this is wild… discouraging remote raids, few people are still playing irl. How is this still operating while Harry Potter was dumped?

@Eel I could actually hear that image. XD

Shame this'll affect remote raids so heavily though.

@Wilforce It's revenue has dropped YOY but it nets over $700M a year as of 2022.

I read this like now the pandemic is over and they want people out and about again so they can track and sell their habits and whereabouts.

Here we go again

Eh. They need to realize that people like to be lazy.

Also reading up on it. They're not taking away remote raids at. While the price increase sucks. They are trying to get folks back to walking around world getting active.

But it's not like they're taking it away completely. People just like to complain just to complain

Pokémon go is always slowly making anti-consumer decisions it’s shocking to me that people are only getting this upset now. They only do things for the customer when they have no other choice (the COVID additions) but since the pandemic has calmed down they’ve slowly crept to make the game worse for the player. Pokémon go is a really fun game, but it’s just sad to see how little Niantic cares about their players

Me to Pokémon: can you function with your fanbase,
FOR FIVE MINUTES?

Lol I'm glad I don't play this anymore honestly. It was either way too tedious or way too costly depending on how you'd play and now it's even moreso.

Yeah I'll just stick to classic pokémon games if I really want to get my pokémon fix. Pokémon go was cool when it first came out but the novelty has long since worn off for me.

Sucks for the people who still enjoyed the game though.

I think they have a wholly unrealistic and idealistic vision of how the game is played, especially with raids. I'll walk and play the game when I can, but high-level raiding isn't feasible as there simply aren't that many people in my area gathering/playing. It's a shame because it isn't something that is broken so why try and fix it?! Typical Niantic.

This crowd have no idea what their community wants at all or doesn't care. These changes seem particularly dumb.

Remember when Pokemon Go was praised for encouraging people to go outside? The fanbase sure doesn't.

Yeah, I'm really pissed about this. I have a life, I can't go wherever at any time to do a raid, nor do the people around where I live. Most players are adults, remote play is the only way to get to do some raids every week.

@Rooty going outside to catch some monsters is fine. Going to specific places at specific times with at least 3 other people, sometimes more, to do a raid... well, that is not ideal...

@liljmoore sure let’s call people that complain lazy instead of looking into the actual issue.

sigh

@Cashews The problem with that is so few people are playing that there are rarely enough people to do raids unless you organize a raid group to specifically play the game. Any information gathered that way though is irrelevant because it’s not an accurate portrayal of daily or weekly movements.

I feel like this controversy is the Pokémon community’s “sorry folks, we have to return to the office” lol

Its been clear for years that Niantic just don't care

@Rayquaza2510 and the issue is?

@liljmoore your first comment didn't encourage me to comment more on it.

But technically by the logic of that comment, people that live in remote areas, without the possiblity to go to a raid or people with physical disability.

Are "lazy" by that logic.

Also thanks to the remote raids being possible, a lot of people from afar started to play together, I know people that live more than 1 hour driving by car from me, but I could invite them to a raid near me because of this system.

I walk a lot, and I know people that walk even more than I do.

But just because some people can not, for various reasons doesn't make them lazy if they complain about Niantic butchering this.

That's all I have to say, making this comment any longer wouldn't change much I am afraid, at least based on that first comment you made it gives off that feeling.

@Rayquaza2510 all that to say to nothing. They aren't taking away remote raids completely. Just increasing the price which I said sucks.

And limiting to five a day. And let's be honest who's doing 5 remote raids a day? Unless it's a special event or maybe on Wednesdays during the raid hour.

Also a lot of people complaining are the who complaining they don't want to leave the house. I do hope they find a compromise for the disabled folks. But the mast majority of people complaining are the ones who are lazy as heck

Forgot this was a thing until now... Don't think I've used remote raids since the days of the lockdown