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I've never lost motivation to play the game until now. Niantic, this is a horrible concept.
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After couple of days I'm inclined to agree. It's going to be all about raids looks like. I went to nearest provincial city yesterday and had fun with first raid I did as lots of us there and it was lapras. But 18km away where I live in town of 14000 there was no one around for any raid eggs so I can only do lvl 1,2. I tried flareon by myself but timed out. So far I've spent 300 coins on 3 raid passes for very average mons. And the premium raid pass has only been good for one use, not all day. So, I'm figuring niantic are making it more pay to play but disguising that fact in the re-work excitement. If you can't get enough people together in town for yellow raid egg, no chance of tm's, and I read on hub that when legendaries in eggs it will be for experienced high level "raid" players. There, I've had my moan.
I love the idea of the raid system, but it has been poorly implement, I think they are on the edge of losing in a few days/weeks thousands of hundreds of players once again if they don't balance this quickly and well.
Small areas are completely screwed, a lot more than before, limit to 50 coins, a gym system that does not benefit at all how much you can stay on there or how much of them you take down, and the raid system completely impossible to play from level 3 or above...
I wonder if you need 100 players to take down a legendary raid in the future, how in the world anyone that does not play in a 100k+ city will do it? The mon CP should SCALE down if there are less players than the needed to take it down normally, or the timer go up, or both of them, and of course we should always SEE who is in the lobby BEFORE consuming the raid passes. I have lost 3 too, and won't ever buy anymore unless I find a way to know if there are other players inside to fight with me, now my hole experience relies on this and spoofers, without this the raid system is nothing for solo and small areas players.
I think they already screwed themselves. Yesterday so many people were excited to do raids, and then when they ended in 20 seconds people were like "that's it!" People waited around for over an hour for a 20 second battle. I don't think the game will recover from this mess.
Not to mention, I have done 15 raids and not a single TM. I'm already so over it. Wasted my whole day.
At least you have been able to find them, defeat them and get rare candies and some rewards hahah xD.
I feel sorry man, I know how this feels...It is a big s...t
About TM's I don't know how they work but seems like you are the unluckiest of all players? I have tried 4 raids. 3 premium level 3/4 where I lost the pass without having a chance to win, got nothing of course, and 1 with my free pass level 3 Arcanine, got lucky that 1 player joined (a spoofer), and got 2xcharged TM's on that fight.
Of course wasted them on a single mon, despite having 2/3 chances of getting an ice move for my Lapras I still managed to get HP on the first try and made me spend the second charged TM on the same mon lol.
Anyway I would wait a couple more days, hope they are getting the message and they change the system, there is no reason why we should not be able to see the lobby before using the pass, there is no reason to not guarantee a TM on level 3 and above and there is no reason to make the mon CP and strenght the same if you are 1 player or 20.
Count me in. The whole world of Pokémon Go revolves around raids now. Having defenders doesn't matter. Catching Pokémon becomes a chore. Coin cap limit is just outrageous. Previously, you'd want your gyms to last as long as humanity's timeline itself. Now you want your gyms to be demolished as soon as getting that 50 coin cap...
