Why Pokémon GO Isn’t Designed for Long-Term Players 

I have been playing since the game started. I mainly play out of habit, but still enjoy some things in the game. I just wish that Niantic would listen to the player base and stop doing things that shows that whoever decided on the changes, never played the game. Would be nice for Niantic to listen to the player base feedback!

Pokemon Go needs: quality of life updates: - multi gift sending and opening - speeding up ALL animations - remote lucky trades - feed entire gym 60 berries - TM the community day move on an already evolved pokemon (i have to keep some of the base form pokemon for years because of this) features for long term players: - training pokemon (increasing IV's by completing battles) - classic turn based PVP mode (i dont like GBL personally)

I wish it didn’t take months to hit lucky friends with people, especially since it takes months just to get to best friends

Couldn’t agree more. It’s become a habit and less exciting month after month

I agree that the burnout can be real. As for long-term players, this is one of the reasons why I focus so much on getting gold level on as many gyms as possible. I'm up to 193 now and still going!

I don’t know how any game can stay fresh for years. Once you have caught everything and raided everything, what is left? They added buddies and pvp with friends, GBL, Team Rocket. They could add breeding, I guess. I know some people keep a male and female of each species.

played since day 1, game is never stale and always fun to do. its not just a game, its a reason to hang out with others and just go do stuff. socializing and getting out is what the game was made for. and the fact it succeeded in making me do that, on top of being pokemon related, makes it worth putting in the time for it

I just play casually now. Burnout came from me after seeing Niantics' pattern of taking things away or nerfing things I love to force me to play HOW THEY WANT. The remote raid pass changes solidified that for me. Instead of spending my excess game cash on PokeGo, I save it for games that aren't so greedy or controlling.

i am happy i got a Go plus + and i walk every day

I feel like nothing I have is actually valuable. You'd think playing since July 2016 would give me some edge... but it doesn't. Everything comes back and I don't really have any incentives to play hard cause I know if I wait, everything will be accessible in an event. I remember when people in the town would say "LARVITAR ON ELM STREET" and we'd all rush over. It was a chase.. now it's not. and, outside of "UNOWN ?" or black hat pikachu, nothing I have is valuable in a trade... and if it is, whoever is playing is probably new and can't afford the stardust to trade for it... so I can't even help out newbies. I also felt really let down when I had 100%s run from raids. 100% are way more rare than shiny and actually useful. I get that we have the new master ball but once I use it, it's gone, so it's always a game of chance. I pay for the raids and really need that 100% to dump the XL candy in. I don't know why 100%s aren't guarantee catches

They need more goals and they need to be doable for solo players. I've said many times, a system of introducing Gym Leaders like Erika from the games into Pokemon Go that has a level-up system for the badges that makes the battles more difficult as you level them up could be fun.

Totally agree with all of this! I do hope they add more to the things like the route play. It would be fun to have more random items that we need to work for like the Zygard Cells to keep the game interesting and fun.

They could add new charged moves, allow for more than two charged moves, and make remote passes less expensive.

A couple of creators have called for it before but I would love to see challenging NPC battles against Gym Leaders, Elite Four and Champions. Could link it to routes to get people to use that feature more, instead of mateo and a pointless gift exchange you can find say Brock and battle him to win a gym badge. The next time you complete a route on a different day if you've already beaten brock before you now find Misty and so on. Eventually you get all 8 badges and can take on the elite four and champion. Each leader gets progressively harder e.g. first 2 are both Little cup 500 cp battles (you are also limited to the same cp as the leaders to make it challenging and not just quick tapping like rocket battles), 3, 4, 5 and 6 are great league 1500 cp cap, 7 and 8 are UL 2500 cp. Then elite four are all UL and Champion is master league (with no legendaries). Each season in Go could feature a different set of leaders from a different region.

I bet 3 year old accounts already built every pokemon worth building.

I would have put down this game a looooooooooooooooooong time ago if it wasnt for GBL.

Hey Billy, I’m in a predicament. My girlfriend got me into playing Pokemon go but all of a sudden she got bored with it and doesn’t want to play anymore. I still want to play but she gets annoyed when we are out and I start playing. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to break up over Pokémon go 😂. We are actually going to New York because we had already planned the trip. I think I’m gonna take a break after go fest. I like PVP. It’s freaking hard to win but when I do it’s really fun. She is a Pokédex player.

You are just realizing this? They have brought back Zapdos, Heatran, and some legendaries up to 10+ times now in raids.

I started losing interest in PoGo since the day I noticed I’m never going to get the Go Puls+ that was promised 🥴 but it’s all good, I needed a break from PoGo anyway. Much love and support for the TTC💪Love the content buddy

They should expand a new research that involves like combat journeys. Like event Pokémon (like necrozma, Shaymin, marshadow etc.) should, on first raid catch of an event or cycle, open a research that has you bring this Pokémon through different battles within the research as part of a lore-relevant and coherent story, which also introduces new unique battle mechanics in the process, which could then become a means of testing these mechanics for potential future battle league events in the process.

I just had a funny thought what if there is a pokemon masters event. Where you can challenge in stead of taken over rocket gunts/leaders at gyms, you can battle gym leaders from various regions at gyms 🤔

I think the pay to win aspect of the game destroyed the game too, because there is no sense of accomplishment for guys like fleeceking who buy their Pokemon. You can use a machine to catch Pokemon like Fleece, and get a billion XP but what’s the point if you didn’t accomplish it yourself.

My sister & I play for stress relief every day. I think having someone to play with helps keep the game fresh!

It depends on your playstyle. I’ve been playing since the game came out but I still play every day. I consider my playstyle casual but hardcore. I play every time I go outside to do something, going to and from work, shopping, etc. at work I let my go plus spin pokestops to refill items. I only do raids that I come across while I’m out doing something, whenever a new Pokémon comes out in raids I get a few, I don’t grind raids like crazy, I enjoy hatching more than raiding. I don’t pvp unless there is a quest for it. Once a week I mega evolve my megas to level them up. As for Friendship and buddy’s I don’t do that as much as I could. There is so many things you can do in game that there are many different ways you can play. I’m more of a go out and catch and hatch with an occasional raid or two. I don’t get hung up on grinding I don’t care how long it takes to get to max level or how long it takes to get a new Pokémon. Im still level 48 I’ll get to 50 when I get to 50 there is no need to rush since levels don’t really matter much.

There should be a xp to stardust conversion system when hitting 50. Even thought there are a lot of level 50 gbl players that use a lot of stardust, I feel like a lot of people get an accomplishment from maxing Pokémon and catching pokemon for candys to evolve and max out instead of catching everything for stardust mindlessly

I absolutely love your content and always look forward to your videos. I've been playing for about a year. My favorite thing is to simply grind but the spawns have been horrible with these events as of late.

I cannot imagine being a PoGO player that’s not interested in PvP. The only reason that I still grind this game is to hunt for better IVs of meta-relevant mons for GBL

I set a goal to work for, like you did with your 100,000,000 stardust, and focus on that. Trying to get to 300,000 hours as gym leader by NYE. About 20,000 to go.

New player here 🙋🏼‍♀️ I really enjoy the game so far, but I can see how it can get boring over time. I really would like to be able to TRAIN my pokemon and be an actual pokemon TRAINER. Because at this point I feel more like a pokemon catcher rather than a pokemon trainer. But since I am new to the game, I have lots of catching to do so it doesn’t bother me much for now. Being able to train your pokemon would be the best move for legacy players though, since not everyone enjoy doing pvp battles.

Daily player for last two years and raid bosses returning helps me collect more candy/xl candy to power up. Fun to try for hundos as well. I'm sure I'll get more bored of raid boss rotations after I get 98 or 100 of the legendaries I like and enough xls to power up. But so far 2 years in I'm still excited to see kyogre, groudon, kartana, and psuedo legendarie spawns

I agree. Been playing since 2016. The game needs new game play features. Billy had recommended new game play features on this channel before but yet to be seen if Niantic will implement it.

I’ve been hardcore since about day two in Japan (about two weeks after release in the US), and I am starting to feel the colossal waste of time that is regular play. I barely raid anymore, don’t care if I have to work on events like ComDay (used to go nuts!), and I’m getting tired of the constant disappointment. I’ve toyed with the idea of quitting entirely, but I love the friends I’ve made and I’ve also invested a lot of time and money in the game. You’re right that it’s catered to newer players, but that’s not a good strategy because the newer players usually don’t stick around and/or spend the money the legacy players do. It’s unsustainable. Allowing you to actually TRAIN your monsters, as you suggested, as well as having something like breeding or other tasks/functions to keep long-term players busy and happy would work for sure. Plus giving us lvl 60.

I’ve been hardcore since about day two in Japan (about two weeks after release in the US), and I am starting to feel the colossal waste of time that is regular play. I barely raid anymore, don’t care if I have to work on events like ComDay (used to go nuts!), and I’m getting tired of the constant disappointment. I’ve toyed with the idea of quitting entirely, but I love the friends I’ve made and I’ve also invested a lot of time and money in the game. You’re right that it’s catered to newer players, but that’s not a good strategy because the newer players usually don’t stick around and/or spend the money the legacy players do. It’s unsustainable. Allowing you to actually TRAIN your monsters, as you suggested, as well as having something like breeding or other tasks/functions to keep long-term players busy and happy would work for sure. Plus giving us lvl 60.

It is hard to remain exciting for years on.... 8 years is a very long time already! To me level 60 is needed to keep older players interested and motivated. The one problem being the complete re-shuffle of the GBL leagues and Meta if they also modify the POkémon CP values.

I'm currently taking June off to relax and strategically think about how to play the game once I return in June There are days I can barely play due to work, or I'm just drained after my work is finished and don't want to play. However, I've moved on from shiny hunting and dust collection to challenges to motivate more game play (e.g, playing a certain CD using only the Go++, quick catch without looking at the phone)

I'm not really in it for the game but more for the community. I set my own personal goals but if I don't hit it I don't get depressed. However I am in a very privileged position in that I travel to live events. I also have access to some of the top play areas in the world (NYC, Tokyo). So I just do my own thing and I also try to help out kids by giving them regionals.

I think at this point not having new badge achievements is partly what slows it down. Once you've platinum all types, and have completed the trades, hatches, and showcase, etc. Whats next? Social component and exercise yes, but get to do that without pogo honestly i think niantic needs to institute some new badges, an indigo set of 8, and just like in the original you cant get to the next one until you have gotten the last one. Include a gym leader battle to move up. The mechanic is already there, as the team rocket setup proves. Not to mention where is the excellent throw badge?😅

I started playing Pokemon Go in 2021 I'm still having fun playing it there's a few things I don't do and then there's gbl I used to do gbl and would always try to reach rank 20 and that was good enough for me but have quit doing it to much has put it in a negative view of people myself including I still do it for go battle events like days and weekends but aside from that I don't do it and elite raids are a no go for me because I don't have people around me who play that I've actually met the people I have met and added to my friends list I never see anymore

I've been playing since day 1. I prefer that they drop level 60 and usually hit ace trainer in GBL and stop there. I want them to have more relevant wild spawns.

What would be cool is, add pokemon games (like red/blue) in pokemon go - people who are at home can play a controllable game, catch pokemon and they carry over to pokemon go, an integrated system - they can then keep adding legacy games into the thing, put it behind a paywall, like $4.99 to unlock a game mode and you go around battle pokemon and farm while still interacting with pokemon go. pokemon go could use some sort of a pokemon battle that is PVE and not PVP, maybe an optional battle screen when catching pokemon like legendaries, to aid in catching, once it's defeated it gives another small increase in catch rate, like a second berry kind of thing.

Developing interest in the mainline games is helpful if you lose interest in PoGo. I play casually daily and on event days. Any other time, I’m playing the mainline Nintendo games.

while i agree with the title (and pretty much what billy said) i'll have to admit it's a monumental task to keep a game like this fresh for legacy players. short of a new feature that's specifcally tailored to incentivise the time you've given (like what he said here 7:44) what they could do (on the side) is little QOL stuff to reduce fatigue for legacy players (like fixing GBL bugs; listening to the playerbase; implementing a way to gain coins IN GAME) - whilst in the bakground working on features that serve new and/or legacy players (remember that new players will eventually become legacy players over time)

I would do more Legendary Shadow raids. Except they are only on weekends and require coordinating enough other players to team up. I wish they were part of Wednesday night raid hours.

Been playing since 2022, Almost level 43 at the moment. It gets somewhat repetitive. Other than the masterwork research for shiny mythicals, id probably stop playing pogo

What I don’t enjoy is the stale seasonal spawns in between events. Also some events have rubbish spawns too.

the problem is forcing a player to meet up physically in the same spot at the same time with other players to do a bunch of activities (groups, shadow raids, trading...). This is simply cutting off many potential players and just helps spoofers.

I appreciate their mission about getting people out and together, but I just don’t have time for that in my life. Being able to raid remotely was a blessing… it turned a 45 minute commitment into a 5-minute one… but then they handicapped that. Now instead of helping newer players with their remote raids, I think twice about spending my remote raid passes. I’ve really dialed back my play since then and have gone days where I don’t play at all. I’m not in a hurry to complete tasks… the lackadaisical way I went about battling rocket team leaders to finally advance to level 45 was comical. I already have enough XP to get to 46 whenever I do complete the level 45 tasks. Ironically, I feel even too ADD for PoGo now… I lose interest in the middle of a trade with my baby account because the animation is slow and tedious. I can’t stay focused long enough to ever keep my Poke storage under control. So yeah… taking breaks and letting go of FOMO over every community day or spotlight hour or raid hour has been a relief.

Remote raid limits broke the game for me. I'm level 50 and liked being in a group and helping in raids. Add more stuff to the game if you have to, but don't take things away. New avatars designs are annoying and unneeded. Thanks.

I just wish all the pokemons were available in the game with shiny forms, and had more precise habitats irl. Make it so you can only get 1 unique of every legendary pokemon (obtained in crazy irl destination, and you would power them up like mythicals, and for IVs just implement bottle caps into the game) With that add more pokestops to rurals places or « dead » places to have a lot of them in every habitats. And delete events from the game. With all that, we might complete objectives more easily and in shorter times, but at least we would have fun playing the game instead of playing a boring game for decades

everyone plays this game for different reason and Niantic needs to know that and limiting things that are important to players does more harm than good, and the stuff they feel is important blows my mind. My biggest issue is being able to invite people to raid since connection can be at the aera for in person, hard to just load the screen to invite people plus getting kick out and having to restart. I feel the rewards for the people who grind are lack luster and even the encounters and shiny rates long time players are not there in research. I feel region locks should rotate through the world since not everyone has friends around the world or even cares to use raid apps. long distance lucky trades they need to get out, not everyone can travel unless they spoof. opening all the presents would be nice and don't understand the limit since they control what in the gift anyway, and it does suck when hatching eggs when it only comes from gifts. at the end of the day, it still a business, and telling people they care about their health is a joke, nerfing remote hurt a lot of people since the raid are person like the elite raids or shadows and now doing these with rayquaza only person and between time I will not be able to since I will be at work. I feel it should be all-day event, but what do i know since i play the game a suit just sits there coming up with unless ideas for something they don't play.

Fantastic video as always Billy keep up the amazing work and content for everyone to see and enjoy 😊

Iv been minimally playing the game for months now. Skipping many events because there are too many. Not buying tickets.

The GO ++ has been a life saver. I just flip stops with it usually but it lets me focus on catching as I go. I quit for many years until my son got old enough and wanted to get into it, now we are grinding again.

I started playing in 2016. Then took a long break until last year. I simply use the game as a motivation to stay active

I'm just waiting for level 60!

maybe they could add more kecleon because I’m still stuck on that task

Most pokemon do come back but I still need shiny Tauros and they haven't brought him back globally in years.

I've played 3.5 yrs, lv 50. They don't need more features, they need to FIX THE GAME!!! I don't play much because so tired of super lag, freezing, and auto reloading. The graphics updates really took a toll. I'm tired of the same spawns. There are tons of Pokemon already in GO, how about we see more of them instead of recycled starters. I'm sick of Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander! The avatars being destroyed has also really effected me. I know it's stupid "who cares what you look like, it's just a game" but those faces creep me out. That wide-eyed stare and childish grin. So I have to cover it up, and it just makes me sad to look at it. I'm still playing events, but don't open the game on a daily basis anymore - it just makes me sad and frustrated.

I started at the start, week 3 of the game coming out, I started playing. Back then it was REALLY tedious. I stopped playing at lvl 24. Years later, in 2019, November, I started playing again, as my step-mum asked if I still played it, when I said I had stopped, she said, you should o-en it up, they have added so much since then (when I stopped). I haven’t stopped since. But you are right. It feels a little stale. With how many that are still to be added, and with how many shiny to still be added, Niantic could easily add a new shiny every two weeks, and add a new mon every two weeks, and not run out for a couple years…. Not to mention, 7 mega’s still to be added…. Manaphy and Phione and Arceus…. Volcanion, Magearna, Crown Zacian and Zamazenta…

Things that would help the game. End shiny draughts Make it possible to stardust up a ton more Pokémon. So, we could even enjoy those useless Pokémon that we just love. Increase shiny costume rate or other shiny so we would have more to trade. Ppl here rarely get enough to trade. Reduce remote pass costs. Since they raised prices all 3 local city groups are reduced by almost 2/3 of ppl out during big events. Bring us back to the casual play game that made it so famous and enjoyable. Make it so Hundo raid Pokémon don't run... just like shiny. Give the high iv collectors fair treatment. Give us 4- 5 special trades for big events. Often the only time we see many players. Give us better iv's in raids again, especially shadow raids. Nothing worse than blowing 30+ raid passes on shadow raid without one good iv to show for it. They should also improve shadow grunt reward iv's a bit. We noticed the drop in good iv rates. We have many other great ideas that would make Niantic $$$ but we want remote price gouging stopped first. No higher than 125. You get more with in-person passes, fact.

New players are probably more likely to spend money upfront, is my guess. If this was a game you purchased once and then it was open to play (like... every other Pokemon game) you wouldn't have a max of 300 Pokemon storage and 350 item storage. Those two factors of this game can incentivize a new player to spend money. $40 gets you 1000 extra slots of either storage. If you want to play the game regularly, that's about the minimum you need (500 more items, 500 more Pokemon) to have a good time without running out of resources constantly or giving up rare, useful, or trade-worthy Pokemon. It's not far from $40 to reach $60 or $70 if you want some premium items or event tickets over a few months. Elite TMs on a com day to make ALL those past Pokemon you missed that bit better? A new player is going to spend money to catch up. A veteran player with giant storage space and a ton of candy for most Pokemon has no reason to spend money. I've been playing for only a year and already just stick to my daily free raid pass and coins I get from gyms. I've put maybe $100 into the game in that year, all from impatience.

There is so much that can be done in this game to make it fun for long term players!!! I am level 50 and I play a fair bit but maybe not as much as some. Niantic still doesn’t get it! They send you a survey to complete within the game to score them 1-10 But no opportunity to say what they could improve. 100% Legendary should be an automatic catch!!! How boring is the shiny search when the shiny is the same colour as the catch? Poor Slakoth is such a beautiful pink colour which makes you not to want to evolve it just to become boring and the same as the normal colour. It takes so long to become lucky friends and I am absolutely NOT excited about this trade because it’s hard enough to get shiny legendary and when you trade them as lucky they mostly become crappy or worse these days. I remember when you actually got a lucky trade in the beginning of time, they used to be worth keeping, now I delete most of them, yes make it harder to get the lucky but FFS don’t make my shiny, especially legendary trade to 2- a low 3 ⭐️ I kid you not, I will throw excellent throws on every throw trying to catch a legendary and it can still manage to run. What is the meaning of this excellent throw and the ability to throw an excellent throw if it means very little within the game except for extra XP if you manage to catch the thing. 3 excellent throws, especially on a legendary it should be mine especially if I have paid good money for those ridiculously expensive remote raid ticket. I paid for it so there should be some benefit to this proficiency in excellent throw and paying for something! After playing since 2016 I only have 400 odd 100% Pokemon and 12, 100% legendary after so much raiding, trading, lucky friend trades so it becomes exhausting and not very rewarding. I suppose we live in hope that Niantic will wake up to themselves at some point. As for making the game exciting and back to the boring colours, there are so many brownish yellow bland colours that one wants to look at. Costumes aren’t the only thing that can make this game exciting. Let’s start a colour collection and liven up this game. Give me an event for an evolution to a baby blue slaking, a green one, pink etc. I’m sure you get where Im heading with it. This game has so much potential but they are killing it for the older players, I totally agree. As a level 50 player after so many years, the reward for time effort and money is also crap. Give us an extra incubator even to use at the cost of 500 stardust or so. This will make me want to collect more stardust for something fun especially during egg hatching events. Level 50 I just feel like a starter player with no extra fun or rewards. One other thing… Please don’t claim that this is a game about a walking discovery when you put on an event and not enough research tasks in the area and you make people need to drive, put out more event Pokemon and give me something to want to walk for. Thanks for these great videos, keep up the good work. 😊

I can see the concern with anything past lvl 50. I am a day 5 player however have been on and off until mid last year where I’m going hard on the game and will continue to. Have my first Go Fest in person event for Madrid, can’t wait! I do however don’t see anything exclusive to lvl 50. I’m almost 44 now and the challenges required to lvl up can be very challenging, especially for the casual player. With that being said, there should be some kind of exclusive lvl 50 gameplay, IE: specific lvl 50 raids, maybe exclusive lvl 50 gyms where you get high end items or certain lvl 50 raids that reward you with old costume Pokemon or event Pokemon that have not been out since. I do believe something needs to be added to incentivize gameplay after 50.

I'm currently taking June off to relax and strategically think about how to play the game once I return in June There are days I can barely play due to work, or I'm just drained after my work is finished and don't want to play. However, I've moved on from shiny hunting and dust collection to challenges to motivate more game play (e.g, playing a certain CD using only the Go++, quick catch without looking at the phone)

Every time I find a new goal, it gets nerfed. Remote raids hit hard on our community. I challenged myself in wayfarer and add stops an gyms. But now the rules changed, our trail markers are removed and players are getting banned because of nominations that were legit at the time. So I quit nominating and reviewing. Than I found a map that showed where the 4* spawns were. I hurried to get them, but now niantic is focusing on blocking these maps. Our raid hour group doesn't do a tour anymore, we do our free pass and than we go for a drink. Or even skip RH and go to a bar immediately. My last personal challenge was to put 20 shiny bronzor in gyms, which I completed last week. And now? No goals left.

Im a day one player and never missed a single day yet Im not level 50 yet. I should hit 50 by the end of the year. I do exactly what you said, I catch one Pokemon, I spin one stop, I complete one task, and on top of that I play with my buddy to get my 3 hearts and I evolve a mega for free. I try to complete every tasks, I buy some tickets but not all. There are up and downs in the game but I feel it is way better than what it used to (except for the remote nerf, this was the worst decision ever and killed so many online communities which were so active before that, I admin one and most of the people stopped playing because what they wold enjoyed the most was raiding with friends from our chats). A few things which would improve the game play for me: - Being able to improve stats somehow, training, or even fusing pokemons together to keep the higher stat for each line - replace regionals by costumes, like, have a Mime with an I

Yes! I started July 2016. I just commented to a friend on com day that the game has become stale. I wish one could undo game mistakes by undoing purified Pokémon, undo accidentally powering up Pokemon. Even if reversions cost dust that would be okay. The fact that remote raid cost have limits and price increases, what is the point of grinding?

Started in early 2017 and played every day since. I do not feel the 'stale' like many people. I love grinding though so I set hard goals. There are still so many that I haven't achieved yet ( like shiny/hundo of every available Pokemon) so I'll continue playing until I get it, really don't care how long it takes. If I get bored of one goal I'll just move to another for a while then come back to the original. While I do buy items I don't go nuts buying boost items every day. It makes everything too fast and I don't want to burn out. Determination and a positive attitude keeps me going. Stale is a mindset IMO.

Honestly the best thing I recommend for long time players is take breaks from the game. I’ve taken 2 breaks once in 2017 for 6 months & again January this year (I just got back in the game) it really makes the game feel fresh cause their are more shinies , new Pokémon, raid bosses and storylines to do. Gives you new purpose

I still play every day after hitting level 50 and completing all available research tasks (except for the group tasks). There are still a lot of shinies and other things that I haven't found yet, and there is enough "new" content to keep me mostly interested. I have been getting frustrated with the shiny debut pokemon though. For example, I've probably done 30+ tasks that have given me Komala this week and haven't found anything good. I get that there is a lot of RNG, but sometimes I feel like the game should have better RNG than it does. I'll go out for an hour or more, and after looking at everything I've caught I will usually delete everything. I can go weeks and hundreds of encounters without finding shinies, and when I do find some they are usually ones that I have and not the ones that I want out of the pool of spawns. Nerfing remote raids was a bummer, so I just don't really do raids unless there is something new or a shiny I am really trying for. Battle league can be fun, but it is stressful enough for me that I don't really enjoy it that much.

Kind of feels like we haven't had any new wild Pokemon spawns to go for in a while most of the news ones have been either in raids or locked behind eggs. Been playing daily for 4 years only days I really miss if the weather is too bad for it like too cold out 30 below 0 or tornadoes going on and such. Sometimes I just do a bare minimum of sending gifts, some legendary Pokemon I wish they didn't take so long on rotation like Entei, Raikou, Suicune and others. Didn't have much luck with a Hundo Zapdos this time so hoping it doesn't take two years to return. Plus I think they should bring normal Farfetch'd back in a event global I have one from Kanto tour, but I think they should bring it around again. Been a few days I get burned out and don't want to play it and just end up sending gifts. I'm also probably like the only level 50 player that hasn't used Mega evolution yet since from day 1 I wanted Lucario to be first and is within my top 3 favorites and I got the Shundo ready for it I hope we get a Lucario outfit after waiting this long and it just might be playing in the same location as to why the game has been boring for me a bit somedays.

Wish they'd add a feature to increase stats of Mons (say, by using candies and stardust). I don't have a single hundo pidgeot after catching thousands of these. One of my goals playing the game is getting all hundos, obviously without such a feature, it's impossible. Spec research mythicals stuck with crappy stats.. No luck on catches.. yeah....

So funny, I was just talking about that today at work with my collegue! What would bring back all the fans would be totally different Pokémon that have never appeard in the mainline games. f.ex Meltan and Melmetal Like imagine a whole line/gen just for Pogo and then they would be released in a future Gen

Legacy player from the very beginning, through allllll the bugs😂. Take a month or so break each year to keep it fresh. Stay in Durban (South Africa) so not many gyms , stops or regular players. Love all the Trainer Club videos and Tips keep it up and live the game.

I’m a legacy constant player… started day one… but I don’t ever go 100 percent except for specific events… most days I just catch a few mon do whatever and then do the same thing the next day. I’m lvl 42 and still have never got a shundo… need more hundos and def don’t have all the shinys… I think only those who make living doing this are effected, maybe not but yea … I work 45+ hours a week so yea that’s kept me from ever going that hard.

I think one solution to the issue of hitting level and not having that xp incentive would be the creation of a prestige level. Maybe every 5 million xp you gey a prestige level and it will give you 50,000 stardust plus (1000x prestige level number) for scaling gives excitement for high xp events and a use for luck eggs still. The numbers may be wonky but the idea could help some amount of players engaged when they wouldnt be otherwise.

I've been playing since August 2016, primarily as a motivator to get physically outside at least once a day, even if that is just to, as you say, keep streaks alive, some days for me even that is difficult due to mobility issues Pokemon go is a long term game by design, otherwise they'd have released every pokemon available across all current 9 generations by now, and those who have everything would never be enticed to log back in ever again Lately I'm grateful for any lackluster events just to be able to slow down the grind and reset I play smart not hard these days, only evolving the best I have, unless evolving is part of a collection thing then i'll evolve anything and transfer it if it's bad when it comes to spending money I'm free to play unless I feel an extra ticket will actually benefit me, I'm all in for a global go fest or tour event, as those are always beneficial, (I just wish global go fest was any other weekend this year, but I'll make something work) I bought the egg ticket in February because chansey comm day was egg based, sinnoh tour had eggs, and I used the leftover few incubators for the cleffa hatch day

I have been playing since day one hard cord. I move to a small town from a city. There is not much company to play with, and the raids that we have met up weren't enough to play. Harder to play when remote, not aloud. I have slow down so much that I couldn't keep up. I'm level 50 for the last two years. It s not same. And all the pay walls suck fun out of. I use love remote but now can't afford it. I opening game to see what out side my home and to feed my buddy. I love the head bump so I alway have line up of buddy's. Raid hour is so hard. Alot Want to host but not enough remote. And getting kick of my city group because I move was unfair so i don't us discord much . I still like check-in on the trainer club page. I still like battling gyms when I go out. Theme gym is always fun to look at. This is the first time I'm not as excited about the Go Fest. I didn't battle others trainers get old quick. I still like community days.

I agree with everyones comments. Yes, this game is becoming stagnant for the older players. But here's a temporary solution. One of my friends suggested; why not make spoofing to different regions without getting your account banned. Think about it; catching regional pokemon, shiny regional pokemon, and even raiding and trading with other trainers from all over the world. You could pay a small fee for a travel pass for an hour or more. The tech is already there for iphone users, why not!!!

Hey Billy. I started playing a week after pogo came out. Since then I've only taken time off when I had a broken phone and when my phone got stolen. Other than that I play everyday. I don't really play with a lot of people. Every once in a while I'll meet up with a group usually pogo fest. I wish they would make a "village" gym leader. Make a big gym in the center of a town. And then u can take over a gym with ur best 6 mons and be challenged by other trainers to earn gym badges as a leader. They could give out a legendary or mythical mon if u are the leader of the gym for a week.

I played since Day 1. Started playing less when the changes/nerfing occurred. I only do the daily catch and pokestop. Will do some Com Days with my partner depending on the Pokémon.

Since the last update with the map stuff, my phone can't run pokemon properly. Frame rate is ludicrous and lag is extreme sometimes. It's often unplayable so... I am a dormant player for the time being. Just log in to do basic stuff and then put it away. I am not buying a new phone just to play pokemon go when all other games I play run great.

i dont have "friends who play" the game anymore and i just feel weird walking up to someone and be like "oh are you this person?'" i have "local friends" ik but i dont "know" them, so for me its just i play out of habit. it's so just meh, I finally got my shinny snorlax but we need something fun its just out of habit now out of anything else. when im out i'll turn it on, but i dont think about it, i keep saying its getting boring, but its like a nasty habit like picking your nails.

Launch day player here (level 50) who doesn't enjoy gbl. And it's hard to find the motivation to even remember to log in every day. Not sure why the features are so slow in pgo. Monster hunter now has released more content in the last 9 months than pgo has released in the last 4-5 years. Mhn is currently earning my play time and money

to me there's choices that are awful for early players, and some that are awful for long term players. Early players are discouraged when they live in rural areas, as they build up skills catching legendaries/being able to start winning raids, have bad UI for completing goals, and get so little info from official sources on how to play the game. You have to go online to youtube/forums or meet people irl to learn to play this game.

I played when it came out in 2016 but took a 2 year break since it became stale. I rejoined in 2019 and have had a blast but I do see it getting old fast. I’m big into shiny hunting and don’t care much for PVP or the meta of the battles. I think as long as they continue bringing new features then they can keep this game going.

I agree it has become stale, I love the game, but it is not exciting anymore. Some events here and there keep me playing. And they force us stay with the special research that requires us to do something every day for a couple weeks in a row. But I would appreciate better events, more upgrades, new features all to reduce burnout. It feels like all they really care about is making money off us.

I hope they don't implement a way to increase/decrease IVs on pokemon. It would completely ruin the rarity of shundos, which a lot of people strive to get. There is no way they would implement it though b/c then you would only have to do one raid, making them less money.

The game how it’s set up right now is meant for players who play for a long time. I would say back then before the raid passes got nerfed was more for players in the now since you could essentially max a legendary by just grinding raids. That’s what a lot of players who did that and were shooting up in levels now find the game stale and boring because they are being made to wait since things do get recycled it is geared for players who will play long term that way you will eventually max out your pokemon with XL.

my end game is wayfaring :)

One of the reasons is cause they keep banned players for spoofing meanwhile they didn't make any progress or solution for it such as realising joystick perhaps or whatever... So people easy to get frustrated and bored so they won't play this game ever again 😂😂

This isn't new. This game always has a cap on it. You need to find what your end game is and then stop. But I guess you need to make content about something. But half of the RU-vid content creators only play pogo because it is a revenue stream. You don't have love for the game anymore and it is evident.

I'm a longer term player and I haven't really been playing since the raid pass changes doing daily stuff a few times a week. I actually still need some of the old raids but its a lot harder to find teams or get much candy for them or farm shiny with the remote limit so I don't even bother raiding anymore. I played pvp for awhile and liked it but the events and dust situation made it feel meh after awhile; it felt bad in pvp against people who didn't have legacy moves once I had them myself it just doesn't feel even. I wish pvp was more like the mainline games I dunno if much else other then raid changes would get me back into the game more.

What I don’t like is how rare the mythical Pokémon are Kaldeo only came out once and so many more. I mean why? How does having 1 bad IV one do us any good? Why can’t they be put in raids eggs?

Try another perspective like collecting pokemon cards, funkos, plushies just anything related. There's alot of pokemon necessity out there

They should retire the old Shiny Pokémon definitely and introduce new shiny phases. That will make the older ones rarer and a trade commodity. Com days with 2 or more color phases would make the game so much better

I guess I'm considered a legacy player since I started in the beginning. But I burned out 2 years into it. Pick it up again played another 2 years and within the last year I basically stopped playing. I even stopped caring about the shinys

The game is stale because the company your sponsored by doesnt listen not respect it's playerbase. They take every initiative and advantage out of the game make you spend 1000s of dollars for a legendary that why the game becomes stale and no long term players really last people also moved on to better games.

Thanks for this, I am on a break now and just am not feeling excited about it. I don’t know what it is that I would need so not super helpful. But I try to keep up with what is going on in case something sounds interesting.

The problem is that someone who has been playing for three years has the same Pokédex as someone who has been playing seven or eight. There’s too much redundancy across the board.