Disappointed player
I used to love this game, but since the update I have lost all motivation to play. It's sad, Niantic screwed up the only thing that kept me playing, gym play. I am competitive and loved gym play before the update, I even enjoyed prestiging. I can't believe they would screw a game up that has made them rich.
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And to add to your comment. Raids cost money after using up free pass for the day. Gym play before update was free, in fact it rewarded hard work through coins and dust. The gym system now is a fucking bad joke. I have zero motivation to hit gyms. I used to sometimes hold dozens of gyms at once with my strongest defenders. Now if I get into a gym I just place expendable defenders. My 300 CP Yanma brought back some coins today. Then off to the professor. What non sense.
I like that they changed the gym system, because I was tired of seeing high level gyms with mainly Blisseys. Yes, it is possible to take them down, but it is a freaking nightmare.
I also like that we now have to have different Pokemons in gyms. Gives more diversity.
But when it comes to the fact that we now want our Pokemon to get knocked out of a gym because we want the coins is just weird.
And at the same time they made it so that we have to help our teammates by feeding the Pokemons berries.
But in doing so we might help the gym, but probably annoy our teammates as well.
Also, if it's a gym in a fairly populated area, feeding them berries doesn't really help much? Someone will have a go at my Blissey whether it has 2000CP or 200CP.
Also, a 50 coin per day cap?! Really?
I can get that by taking one gym, so what's the incentive to battle gyms? To get a badge? YAY!
Raid battles are interesting and perhaps fun, but it also means that almost anyone now can get a Tyranitar or a Snorlax fairly easy.
You can get a Tyranitar without even walking 10km to hatch a Larvitar from an egg.
Well, unless you are in a rural area with few players, then you are, as usual with this game, kinda fucked.
And there's a one free raid pass limit, so don't even think of stockpiling them for future use. No, you get one. That's it.
Niantic used to be a "we don't care about our costumers" company and now they are also greedy as fuck. Not good.
The thing is, I think it was a GOOD thing level 10 gyms took 30-60 minutes to tear down and required a lot of resources...This made holding gyms possible to begin with. There is a balance here and the old system, as bad as it was, allowed territories to be fought over depending on who wanted it more badly.
This was why they stayed up...If it took 1 run through to clear a level 10, etc...there would never be any gyms and we would have what we have now.
Now, gyms are super EASY to tear down...the 1st round, it's 6-10 minutes probably...(high CP guys)...next, probably 5 minutes tops...then, it's like 30 secs with mostly watching the splash screens for the last run which you don't even dodge (the splash screen is cool, but why can't I see my battle record without battling!?)...
Gyms being TOO easy to tear down means that no gym will ever stay up and that's what we have now...They gyms around stay up because your old rivals simply don't want to reward you for being in the gym...Yes, it's a stupid system...The old system was stagnant, but tweaking it could have made it playable...Even they are so easy, it's also a waste of time to take gyms since they won't stay up for you and you may get booted within an hour rewarding the other team.
This new one, as near most everyone who worked and benefited from the old one will agree, is a total mess...
Ultimately, I've passed any upset stage now (if I was ever that upset to begin with), but the main thing is grinding of any sort is out the window. All goals (I used to love to level so I won't get shaved off) is out the window, hatching eggs (I just hatched a frigging Mantine from a 10km egg) is out the window. Raid bosses WILL rotate, I'm sure of it...High IV and incubators, not that important...
Ultimately, people will just play a lot less and spend less money IMO which hurts Niantic's bottom line...(and jobs, $$, etc...).
I know I play less since if I got my 50 coins for the day, why waste my time/gas/etc?
Yeah, they ruined the whole gym system...and as good as raids are, after a month or 2, people will get bored with it and now, I'm sure some people have left...
Lol the real issues with Blissey towers were spoofers/botters with multiple accounts on the one hand and Bubblestrat on the other. It was Niantics task to recognise and eventually fix these kind of issues. Idk about point 1, but for point 2, it would have been possible, if u simply add a lvl 5 restriction for gym defenders. With the marking of spoofed mons, they have also shown, that it is possible for them to identify those people.
I see the argument, that small people should have access to gyms too, but they also could have added more gyms around and limit players gyms to 12 or 15. Not to mention; that about half of all gym spots in my city were occupied by spoofers or people with multiple accs, so if they would have solved that, they would have also helped the lower lvls.
Now this whole system is just like a switch from capitalism to communism, everyone gets the same, regardless of the amount of work, ressources and grindin you spent. Didnt work out for the larger economy and it doesn't work out here either.
Fuck Niantic. Amen
