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Title will be... better than that. WIP.
Anyways, gist: to-the-point opinion piece on how niantic could improve its event announcements and also treatment of niche pokemon.
Points to cover:
- announcing not to open mystery box for meltan for the event before a certain date and time, else you have to wait a week... after said date and time
- recent comm day events only announced a couple weeks ahead of time (causing people e.g. me to miss out entirely)
- feebas day on short notice too
- now clamperl 3 hour event announced 3 days ahead of time, and then a day later "weekend will also have latias raids where it can be shiny" announcement
As for niche pokemon:
- understandable that some pokes e.g. shinx were chosen to be super rare at least at launch, e.g. raid and egg only
- others however like lotad being tied to basically rainy weather only? despite grass types being sunny boosted? particularly annoying when for months its spawns were badly nerfed
- nincada badly rare given eggs and currently unavailable field research tasks (that were rare...). shedinja disappointing given near uselessness in battles - ability that made it interesting and its unusual method of obtaining lead to an underwhelming month of field research
- smeargle seemingly to be released via photobombing in new ar snapshot mode. because when I think photobombing, I think smeargle...
- and now clamperl, and the gimmick of item trade evolution ignored with an rng method chosen. why wait on releasing clamperl then??
- but spiritomb with its halloween special research was quite cool - can that be done more instead niantic?
Okay that's actually a fair bit. Maybe better in two articles...? Thoughts?
Anyways, gist: to-the-point opinion piece on how niantic could improve its event announcements and also treatment of niche pokemon.
Points to cover:
- announcing not to open mystery box for meltan for the event before a certain date and time, else you have to wait a week... after said date and time
- recent comm day events only announced a couple weeks ahead of time (causing people e.g. me to miss out entirely)
- feebas day on short notice too
- now clamperl 3 hour event announced 3 days ahead of time, and then a day later "weekend will also have latias raids where it can be shiny" announcement
As for niche pokemon:
- understandable that some pokes e.g. shinx were chosen to be super rare at least at launch, e.g. raid and egg only
- others however like lotad being tied to basically rainy weather only? despite grass types being sunny boosted? particularly annoying when for months its spawns were badly nerfed
- nincada badly rare given eggs and currently unavailable field research tasks (that were rare...). shedinja disappointing given near uselessness in battles - ability that made it interesting and its unusual method of obtaining lead to an underwhelming month of field research
- smeargle seemingly to be released via photobombing in new ar snapshot mode. because when I think photobombing, I think smeargle...
- and now clamperl, and the gimmick of item trade evolution ignored with an rng method chosen. why wait on releasing clamperl then??
- but spiritomb with its halloween special research was quite cool - can that be done more instead niantic?
Okay that's actually a fair bit. Maybe better in two articles...? Thoughts?
