Some Implications

Two weeks ago I was willing to raid 20 Regice a week in spite of it being a boring battle for a useless Pokémon. Yesterday I caught a Registeel in my first raid, and it will be the last one I do.

We raided Latias, Ho-oh, Lugia, and Regice almost entirely for rewards. Today you devalued those rewards. TMs aren’t worth much if we can’t get the moves we want. In addition, I don’t feel like I need Rare Candy. Why would I invest in additional Groudon or Kyogre now when I know a new/better version is coming.

Since March I’ve spent $100 or $200 a month. That doesn’t make me a massive whale, but it’s a fair amount of money. Primary that money was spent to get rare candy from raids so I could power up Legendaries and chase raid records. In addition, I’ve been one of the more vocal people in the PoGo community when it comes to Powering up Pokémon. I’ve been a huge proponent of community created raid competitions, and I’ve consistently told my readers and viewers to power up Pokémon to maximize rewards.

And now today rewards are worthless. So now I don’t care about maximizing rewards, which means I don’t need to power up Pokémon to get rewards, which means I need the rewards even less. What an awful spiral you have created.

I’m not quitting, nor am I going to be free to play. But I just bought $200 in gift cards on Prime Day, and it will be a while before I have a need to throw any of that into PoGo.

And it goes beyond me. As community leaders like me raid less, there are fewer raids being done in total. I’m not implying that my locals can’t beat Registeel without me, but raids happen with much fewer people and much more easily when I am around. In addition, leaders like me are the ones actively searching for raids and calling them out on social media. I’m looking forward to the gas I will save from no longer raid scouting trash Tier 5s.

This is a problem. You took a community leader & moderate whale and destroyed his motivation to raid for reward. That’s not a good business practice.

The irony is this FOMO isn’t even needed. My car raided 39 Articuno (I personally did 37 of them). I couldn’t care less about most shinies, there was no special move, and Articuno is borderline useless in the game currently. But we did it for rewards and fun. You didn’t need to set this precedent. Thank you for reading. I hope that you will reconsider your decision.

DownWithTTP (Kev)

GamePress & Trust the Cones

@TrustTheKev