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12-12-16 my quick attempt at taking a shot at niantic! thanks for the update.

00:00 - 00:03 I was working in Niantic's Pokemon Divsion

00:03 - 00:05 and John Hanke came in

00:05 - 00:07 and he was pissed

00:07 - 00:09 He said "You guys need to step it up!"

00:09 - 00:11 "Our users are dropping like flies"

00:11 - 00:13 the employees threw out some ideas

00:13 - 00:17 generation 2, decreased walking requirements, shinny mon

00:17 - 00:19 until some smartass said:

00:19 - 00:24 "make new mon only available from eggs and put a hat on pikachu"

00:24 - 00:27 "a santa hat"

00:31 - 00:32 "a hat"

00:32 - 00:36 and John loved the idea!!!!

00:36 - 00:41 new pokemon only available from eggs in winter and a new hat!

00:41 - 00:46 So all of these people who were waiting for legendaries,

00:46 - 00:54 or waiting for trading and PvP battles

00:54 - 01:01 now have to hatch all old eggs before they can hatch anything new

01:03 - 01:08 good thing its the middle of winter!

01:08 - 01:12 people will need to walk in the freezing cold to make room for new mon!

01:12 - 01:16 and incubators are still 150 coins each

01:16 - 01:22 that's over $2.00 per incubator

01:24 - 01:28 You can't even discard old eggs if you wanted to take advantage right now

01:34 - 01:38 We had tell the Niantic customer service employees

01:39 - 01:44 to just start responding to emails with "r."

01:42 - 01:47 One guy asked if they are getting increased pokemon storage

01:47 - 01:50 so i told him

01:50 - 01:53 here you can upgrade your pokemon storage

01:53 - 01:56 It's only "$2.78"

01:57 - 01:59 get used to it, fanboy.

02:01 - 02:02 You want mew/mewtwo?

02:02 - 02:04 nope not yet

02:07 - 02:11 a santa hat and new mon only in eggs.

02:13 - 02:15 maybe..

02:15 - 02:22 maybe we should get rid of wild pokemon and just start selling them

02:24 - 02:28 we have more people complaining about the game than we do playing.

02:28 - 02:30 John Hanke has lost his mind

02:30 - 02:31 - he's crazy

02:31 - 02:33 - money crazy

02:36 - 02:39 he doesnt have a clue

02:40 - 02:42 he's crazy for santa hats.

02:50 - 02:55 that man loves his santa hats.

02:56 - 02:58 do you plan to keep working for Niantic?

02:58 - 03:04 - no im going to start a new company

03:04 - 03:09 we're going to make santa hats for pokemon go

03:09 - 03:11 looks like a good business.

03:16 - 03:20 You want a pikachu with a hat?

03:23 - 03:26 maybe someone in the audience?