Pokemon Go Players Won’t Allow Niantic to Continue Short-Changing the Players With Recent Raids
While Pokemon Go players have found ways to get great rewards from Elite Raids, Niantic must consider its own position quite carefully in order to keep them happy.
Niantic’s Pokemon Go has been in the news a lot lately. While the game’s excellent use of Pokemon’s premise has allowed it to be the definitive Pokemon experience for many fans of the popular anime around the world, it hasn’t been smooth sailing for Niantic on account of its decisions to make rare Pokemon difficult to collect in-game.
With several Pokemon Go players criticizing Niantic for the way its Adventure Week and Elite Raid events are implemented, the studio has been given a lot of reasons to rethink the way in which its future events could be handled in-house.
Pokemon Go’s Problems Find Unlikely Solutions
Many Pokemon Go players are taking to platforms like Reddit to discuss just how difficult recent Elite Raid events have made things for players looking to get their hands on the rare Pokemon that each event offers.
However, many of them are choosing to take matters into their own hands, coming up with creative solutions that maximize their chances of gaining the best rewards from each event. Golden raspberries seem to find a lot of use in such strategies, unlike another player who used them to teach a fellow Pokemon Go player an important lesson.
Niantic Needs to Switch Things up in Future Events
While its players collecting and using rare Pokemon could be great for Niantic’s long-term plans for Pokemon Go, the company’s arguably short-sighted focus on monetizing in-game items has led to a lot of dissatisfaction among its community of players.
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With the recent conclusion of an Adventure Week that was in itself a sort of apology for the previous one from Niantic, many Pokemon Go players seem to think that gaining the best rewards from Elite Raids required a lot more effort than normal – a sentiment exemplified in the Reddit post below.
Not to be deterred by low chances of success, other Pokemon Go players chose to make the best possible use of every tool at their disposal to try and ensure that they were able to get their hands on the Elite Raid’s best rewards – rare and powerful Pokemon.
While the player above deserves praise for finding such a detailed method to ensure great rewards in the game, the need for Niantic to make its players jump through hoops to enjoy some of the best content in a live service game is questionable. However, it has been lucky enough to have a community of players who take its shortcomings in their stride and continue to keep Pokemon Go alive.
Pokemon Go players would certainly hope that Niantic takes its players’ feedback into account when releasing new content for the game – and hopefully, rethink how existing elements can be tweaked to reward the loyalty of its players.
