@@coreyarnold5763 I took about 2 years and enough had changed from then, it’s a real shame they took so long to make such big changes, I’d probably be half way to level 50 by now if they put more effort into the first couple of years
Its funny, if you go back and watch some of Mystic's old videos, he would complain about certain legendaries in the research box. Things like Moltres first being in the box for several weeks, then whenver Kyogre and Groudon would keep getting featured. Just shows how much people don't really appreciate something until it's gone.
Mystic7 complained that we got the same Pokémon in the research breakthrough box for 1 month straight instead of a few different potential encounters since we always know what it will be during that month. Research breakthroughs were a new feature so it’s natural to give constructive criticism and it still works that way, aside from legendaries going away…
I played during that time and it was really annoying for every other month to be the same pokemon, everyone would have a problem with that, if next month was galarian stunfisk people would complain, because that's annoying
Personally I have always been very satisfied about the research boxes back then. I mean, it's a completely free chance at getting a 100%, a shiny, or even a shundo legendary. An opportunity to catch something in a ball other than the premier ball (Kyogre just works so neat with that great ball color scheme). And at the very least, some free candy for a legendary Pokémon. For all I care they'd have put Moltres in these boxes for an entire year so to speak. That would have been vastly preferable over crap they pull now like giving an alola grimer that was just in a (shiny boosted) event, or giving a medicham, which is shiny locked, and while meditite is in events frequently.
EX-raids were frustrating and sometimes very depressing. I’d often get them, or get invites when that was implemented, but it was almost always a time when I couldn’t go.
Same. I hope they never return for this reason. I would usually get my scheduled ex-raid invitations for a times when I was working at my job. So frustrating.
@@donalgrump69yrsago9 Remote Raids and the Special CD Raids are much better. EX-Raids were good for the time but honestly its a relic of the past so to speak
I’ve actually never seen those encounter animations before. A shame they were removed, it would’ve given the Pokémon more of a personality. Also yeah incense sucks now if you aren’t walking, a Pokémon every five minutes is just terrible, but I guess the whole point of the game it to get out and move so I guess that makes sense? Also man, I miss the days of breakthrough box legendaries, I remember getting shiny moltres from one of the breakthrough boxes. Honestly, I had no idea ex raids were gone. Some gyms are still classified as “ex gyms” so I would assume they stayed. It’s a shame they went though, I remember being super hyped about catching my first ever mewtwo. Those were the days man, those were the days…
I remember getting most of my legendaries through the weekly research, few duplicates as well, still have 3 Kyogre, they should have kept it in but maybe made it a monthly prize or a bit more difficult than doing one a day, I have loads of gyms around me that say ex raid as well but wondered why nothing ever happens, some changes have been excellent where as some have been awful
I miss the legendaries in research breakthrough boxes, it was an easy way to get legendaries for rural players, and people/kids that can't spend money on the game. I also thought the pokemon animation was a nice feature, I took screenshots of some of them so I can remember what it was like. They made some cool stunts. That should've been left in teh game I think.
At the start I was playing on an old phone which had trouble keeping up with the animations. I think that might have affected a significant amount of players. Any new animations or the stuff like postcards also takes up more space which will make it hard for some people to keep playing at all.
I was expecting the Incense nerf to be less dramatic honestly. Making it two minutes stationary would still make them way more effective if you’re walking but wouldn’t be as insulting if you aren’t/can’t. At 5 minutes in between spawns it’s better to just not use one a lot of the time.
Notice how most of these features were, for the most part, super fun and cool that almost everyone enjoyed. Getting rid of so many bonuses that people enjoyed are reasons why so many people including myself are not playing as much anymore.
What made them fun was mostly obtaining new pokemon to most, and as the game pretty much caught up, there just wasn't as much to hunt for. If you don't have a certain legendary that has been featured a couple of times already you might not even find a group to do it with anymore.
The 1 coin remote raid passes and legendary research breakthrough boxes were amazing, I got a shiny Latios from one of those (98iv btw) but got locked out of that account not long after 😢
Kyogre was the first legendary i caught. It was from the research breakthrough boxes back then. The game's becoming more grindier which is the reverse of how the mainline games are going.
I actually find the grinding one of the best parts personally, for me it makes it fun and levelling up feels like more of an achievement to talk about, especially from levels 45+
I remember getting my first ever EX raid pass in its initial second or third wave and lemme tell ya(to the new players), the feeling of opening Pokémon go in the morning and seeing the invite pop up on the screen for the first time was one of the best feelings in the world
I never want EX raids back ever again unless they make it available for every gym. I lived in a town with 15 gyms, plenty of pokestops but not a single one was an ex gym so it was just unavailable and only available if I went a town over and hoped there was a raid there and hope maybe it could give an ex raid and hope the raid was on a day I could travel there.
You forgot the part where you would have to hope that when you showed up people were there ready to raid at the same time as you smh. They prob had good intentions and thought it was a clever and innovative raid system, but in reality is was the opposite; just a dumb and overcomplicated mechanic. I can't believe they would walk away from remote raiding to go back to that crap.
When i got an EX raid invitation i thought i was invited by niantic to participate in this rare thing and explained to my mom how important it was and i got together with friends and it was easily one of the best times i had on pokemon go
I miss doing EX raids... I remember being so excited when I got my first one because I felt like I was invited to an exclusive group or something. 🤣 though. That and the introduction of raids are what pushed me to become more social. I never would have met the people I have or the friends I have made without EX raids and raids in general.
I dont want EX raids to come back, I see no reason to lcok Pokemon behind something liek that... shiny hunting EX raids was a pain in the ass for mewtwo
@@EastonAndSorbet I think most people would only ever tolerate it with something one time or extremely exclusive. We already have the most rare kinds of pokemon not in EX raids so making it harder to obtain something we've already got the better way for wouldn't go over well
Has everyone forgotten about the original tracking system? The 3, 2, 1, foot print tracking is what Pokemon GO is all about in my mind, and they took it out after less than a week I believe? In my opinion, that is the biggest loss in the games history. The core mechanic that the game was supposed to be built around was removed immediately and we were left playing a crippled version of the game for the rest of the last 6 years.
the old encounter animations were actually really special to me because I heard about their release and wanted to see for myself so I immediately opened the game to try it out and my very first encounter was a SHINY gastly✨ (which is literally my favorite family of Pokémon) animation and all! I didn’t think to record it or screenshot when I saw it and now I get sad whenever I remember that the animations ever existed
They should've left the incense buffs alone it makes using incenses so much more worthy of having them I barely use them now as it is. EX raids never experienced them I believe they should make the mythical Pokémon like Mew,Jirachi,and Celebi with their shiny forms available like any shiny eligible raids. It would give them their own class of raids. Weekly research boxes really need more worthy Pokémon in them they should be rotating all legendary Pokémon in the game currently like they start with the birds then the beasts to groudon kyogre rayquaza and so on. It would make them more appealing to complete weekly research tasks. I get it Niantic is trying to make the game as it once was but I think they should try to compromise a little bit and come to a middle ground with their player base. These are just some ideas that most of us have thought and some topics in Pokémon GO for a while now. One last thing is I have a question for anyone here ; Do you think community days need to be better with featured Pokémon or longer time periods for CD or do you think community days are fine the way they are? Just something because I'm curious to see if anyone has ideas for this.
Imo*. I think the CDs are worse bc of the 3 hour period and the incense nerf. Why nerf both of them instead of just one? Like a 3 hour period but the incense buffed or possibly a 6 hour cday but incense nerfed. They really need to fix this for the people without any stops or gyms near them :/
My thing with the cd hours ig it they don’t want to bring 6 hours back for every single one then don’t. But make it a perk like the 4 star raids after 2 are of the incense spawning starvias. So let’s say out of the 11 one Pokémon cdays (not counting December com day rap up for this one) make it to we’re 3-4 of those are 6 out com day and the others are a mix of the other perks like 4 star raids or incense 2 stage mons. I would love for cdays to be back to 6 hours but I think this would be a good comprised if used right. Like don’t give the 6 hour widow to a mon like hoppip or geodud give it to a mon like deino or the new mon stufful. This is just my opinion also sorry for the bad grammar
So nostalgic. I remember them all and miss many of them, especially the incense. It made treadmill runs more fun when I couldn’t go outside. And ex raids were so fun because you knew people would be there.
In one Trainertips video he explained the “tip/trick” of splitting the healing power of one hyper potion between two different Pokémon by tapping them at the same time. That “feature” was quickly removed after his video… and I was sad.
There is a weird subtle animation left: if you make Swirlix your buddy, once in a while when on the buddy screen, it will slowly roll end over end (that is, it will roll continuously, but only once in a while will that animation show up on the buddy screen). It's goofy and cute.
I missed Ex Raids. It brought the community together and actually had communication amongst each other. Yea you have community day but not everyone is there talking to each other. With EX raids, you had to show up on time, talk to people, get with friends/add friends, and organize groups with same team to get the most potential premier balls. I met so many new people back in the day showing up for EX raids. It felt like the initial trailer of pokemon Go where people were chasing Mewtwo around NY
I feel niantic could drive hype up for remote raiding hints why they removed it from the discount. If they were to bring it back it would make demand go up because players will want to maximize the potential of their purchases and think there’s a chance the deal could leave again... also this is just an idea I have no factual evidence to backup any claims to clarify.
I remembered the Legendary Research Breakthroughs. Back in 2019, around August-October and counting (if I recall correctly,) whenever I completed Research Breakthroughs, I’d get a Legendary. The only three I’ve ever gotten before that feature was removed was a Moltres, Articuno, and a Groudon. Ever since then, I no longer saw any legendaries and I was like, “Where did they go?” It was fun while it lasted though. I wish I found that Zapdos in the special research though :
I miss ex raids. I only got 2 at local gyms and I loved it because I got to see everyone who played near me and we could trade information to create raid groups which are dying off in my area now
I really love all the bonus during covid,it make the game way easier to play,and I don’t have to go out in a hot summer for special events or a raid boss I want to raid.
My friend often laments the EX Raids being gone. It was the best way to get our community together. People would often send an EX Raid invite to someone they were lucky friends with. The group would get together and then trade after the raid was over. I also kinda miss sending EX Raid invites to force friendship interaction with a few who never open/send.... 😉😉😉
I actually just came back to the game after a good couple of years gone. I was surprised there were no more EX raids since there are still gyms labeled as EX gyms
What about the Pokémon tracker feature where it showed how many “feet” away it was and you could track them down in the wild with the “nearby” feature.
they also removed having to tap your screen to power your charge attacks in pvp oh and they removed specific moves from pokemons move pools all the way back in 2016 but if you have a pokemon with that move it still has it. for example, porygon with quick attack
I remember my first ex raid when I saw 40-50 other people and when we did beat it, the building (or gym) workers were confused because it was screaming etc.
I love how I didn't return to this game until literally AFTER ALL of these bonuses. March of 2022...managed to get Celebi research. And that's it. Missed Apex Ho-Oh :(
I loved the ex raids! It was so much fun to coordinate them and see everyone who got the pass. Hopefully, they will bring them back, but who knows? They haven’t removed the ex raid gym status yet, so maybe?
Hearing about all this stuff I missed, me being a player for about 1-2 years now, this makes me cry. I’ve missed SO much and this makes me wish even more that I would have listened to my siblings and download PoGo earlier
They also killed the Insence and shortened community day to half the time so bye bye versitality. Niantic really thinks they can shorten it bc "only 17% of people play 3 hours or more blah blah blah". Really ruined it for me since I have zero anything in the area and 2 spawns per 10 minutes walking around the house.
The day they added Go Rocket, I encountered a grunt using a Shiny Rattata in battle, but I didn't get to catch it afterward, and have never seen anything like that since. How was that possible?
The EX Raids could be a pain in some ways, but there's such nostalgia there. I nerded out, and for a LONG time my facebook picture was an AR shot of me with Mewtwo.
I loved EX Raids but they are sorta annoying because when i had my first EX raid Mewtwo i got there 5 minutes late and the raid had already been completed by all of the players that got invites. I still wish they could add it back though for some new mythicals
When they said they were going to cut incense, I expected them to cut the time duration, not the timing of spawns. Cutting it to 30 minutes and keeping the 1 per minute would have been FAR better. 30>12.
Im not sure if many people can remember, but back when it was released, the Pokemon in your storage would have a map of where they were caught. Im fairly sure they removed it after a few months as it was very performance intensive on the phone
I really miss the 1 coin remote raids. I'd play with my friends that lived far away, it was a good time. Now we don't play as often because we don't all have enough coins at one time to buy passes.
For the weekly remote pass box, I can see why they've got rid of it since it looks like the world is (slowly) getting back to normal & Niantic wants people to get back outside, but I do wish they would bring them back though. As for the ex-raids, I can remember getting a pass to do a ex-raid, but I was gutted I couldn't do it because no one was available to do the raid.
I’m noticing myself and many of my friends who were playing a lot during Covid barely logging in anymore once they started to remove the quality of life bonuses that honestly saved their game during quarantine. Getting rid of the weekly Remote Raid passes, nerfing incenses, shortening Community Day Events, removing the Free Ultra Balls on Community Day, and the underwhelming weekly research rewards have many less eager to log in. All the changes look designed to encourage cash grabs yet people were more willing to spend money when actually playing because they were enjoying the quality of life improvements, tho everything lately feels like a step backwards and in the wrong direction.
I remember in 2020 before the pandemic hit, I was still a senior in high school, I did my first (and last) EX raid, because I had gotten a pass as well as a friend, since many other people didn’t get one we started inviting others to the raid and I think the way it worked was if you had a pass you can invite someone else, so we had a HUGE bunch of people from school take down deoxys, and it was pretty fun at our local park that we walked to after school.
Remembered all of them except encounter animations since i think it was in that few weeks i didnt play the game when it was added and removed or i just didnt notice it i first learnd of it when watching one of ur vids
I remember in like the first week of release nearby would actually show you how close you were to a Pokémon so players would have to walk around and figure out which direction would get them closer to the Pokémon and which would take them further away from it. I completely understand the safety issues of the original nearby mechanics but I still miss the hunt of not knowing exactly where the Pokémon was and playing hot cold to find it.
I wish the 1 coin for raids. I never do raids, mostly because I don't want to spend 100 coins on a pass. Also, If a friend invites you to a raid, it doesn't show you how many people are in there.
The animations are still in the game, but are just used for playing with your buddy. If you click on your buddy to play with it, it will do the same animations that was previously shown.
After Covid we really miss the EX raids and I was hoping they would be reintroduced this summer. Most importantly it's EX raids that started the local raid communities since EX raids were introduced before Community Days which wouldn't have been a success without us meeting locally because of EX raids and raids. When you live in a big town it's very random if you meet other players when Going out because people nowadays use their phones outside for all kind of things as you know. So them standing near a gym tapping fast is almost the only way you can spot another player. EX raids helped local players meeting each other because you were invited to a certain gym at a certain time so you would for sure meet other players. That lead to starting groups on Facebook or whatever social media to coordinate what time to meet and to find out who would turn up to ensure enough players would Go to be able to win the EX raids and of course also other legendary raids. Later you could also invite another player for an EX raid. Always big hype in our local group when EX raid invitations were sent out (especially when schedules were not during normal work/school hours). So EX raids lead to players coordinating raids and also exchange news and views about the game in the social media groups. But during Covid most people didn't play in groups anymore since it was not allowed and also EX raids were cancelled which now means many new players often don't get to meet the experienced players who already are in groups and often don't know where to find local players to group with. That's a shame and that's why we need EX raids to be back asap so we can get all the local players back together again.
I'm so sad that legendaries are gone from the research breakthrough boxes. I got a shiny Zapdos in one and it was the best moment of my career at the time.
Another removed feature was the old PvP charge move mechanic. Instead of a minigame, you would have to tap the button several times quickly. This was removed due to how often it bugged out for some players, and didn't charge, and the fact that you'd have to tire yourself out to charge it enough.
A couple QoL features were removed too: Emojis in Pokemon names Copying/pasting text sub-menus seemingly trivial, but I was angry about both for months.... still am actually
EX raids were the worst. Nothing is worse than getting an invite for a time when you arent available to raid (which always happened to me). They could have easily matched your last raid time at that gym.....
As a 2016 player I can confirm that I remember these but also I have to agree that the legendary raid boxes was one of the best features of the game aswell as this, I have a zapdos I caught in the hospitalwhen I first met my brother and that zapdos is one of my most treasured pokemon
Pre-pandemic I worked early enough that any time an EX raid was scheduled (usually between noon and 6pm) I could do it, any day of the week. I'm not looking forward to their return because I've since then I've moved, don't have as many EX gyms available, and my work schedule will likely block me from attending most of them. And that's assuming there's even a player base in the areas I'm most likely to attend them, so silver lining if/when they do return is I might be able to find a local group again.
I remember one time me and my dad beat a rapidash raid in 2019 i think and then it said we were invited to an ex raid, i didn't know what it was but when the egg hatched there was a regigigas, at first i thought it was a big taco, but we didn't do the raid because no one plays out here and there was only two of us against, regigigas, or the big taco.
I completely forgot about those encounter animations. They were a really nice addition. I wonder if they were removed for network issues and extra strain on peoples mobile data
I would like if they brought back ex raids, where if you had an ex raid invite you could remote to it. I always seemed to get ex raid invites to gyms I couldn't get to at the time of the raid. It would still make you work with local communities, but if you were unable to be there, you still had a chance.
I got an ex raid once, showed up right on time and no one else was there, waited and no one came. Just made me realize that they need to rework raids so they can be done solo. A raid's difficulty/rewards should be based on how many players are there. That way even if you don't have friends or a community to play with, you can still play.
another quality of life feature that was removed was friendlier idle animations for sent out buddy pokemon in ar. Now most bird pokemon don't really like standing on the ground anymore.
