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Have Niantic let us down?

I think most of us are pretty bored with the state of the game at the moment. We needed Gen 2 over Xmas. Niantic gave us silly Pikachu santa hats.

Asked by Clackers8 years 11 months ago
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Well the dataminers found gift/present icons in the latest patch APK so there will be another christmas event.

Even though it might be something non-free like christmas bundles for the item shop...

https://thesilphroad.com/news/hints-of-holiday-event-2016

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Do you realise we are 24hrs away from Xmas day in some timezones? The app store is also shut now, so nothing will be added/release in the app store until December 28 at the earliest.

What a monumental fuck up by Niantic.

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The seemingly low hatch rate of baby 'mon is not helping, either. I get more frustrated with every common Gen 1 hatch.

I really thought we would see an event announcement yesterday. The Watch app is nice and at least Santa won't let me down on Sunday, so I have that to look forward too (but I think I am in the minority).

At the very least, I am still hoping for a single gift wrapped present on the 25th from Niantic in one of those fancy boxes found in the code. Maybe our present will be to force us to interact more with our loved ones. :)

Happy Holidays to ALL!!!

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afaik they can spawn Gen 2 Pokemon from the server side.

At least Delibird and Stantler cry for beeing released at christmas

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by 2acres 8 years 11 months ago

I expect a surprise from Niantic on Christmas Day.

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Please... I'm still reeling from the minute-to-minute Rattata update that used to be my sightings page...

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I expect something good too. I personally would be happy if they remove jynx, electrabuzz, magmar from 10k eggs. Europe is in disadvantage with crappy Mr. Mime hatching from 10k eggs. Possibilities for good 10 k hatches drop drastically

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My estimation is it will be a Christmas-New Year event starts on either 24th or 26th and ends on 2nd Jan.

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My guess is that they are having some tech delays and are scrambling to get the event up before Christmas. It makes no sense why they would wait until 12/25, especially since they have now trained me to hold off on using my extra incubators until an event.

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I think I'm in the minority who aren't bored. Yes, special events are a nice addition but they're not the reason I play.

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Isn't the new year a bigger deal world wide than Christmas?

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Nope, not here at least, new year's eve is just a night and Christmas vacations lasts for around 10-15 days, from the 22th to the 5th all kids are out of school and a lot of people has at least 1 week off work. Niantic has already made a big mistake in my opinion, making a 10-15 days event would have been a better choice, still don't know what are they waiting for the release of the event.

I hope their sales are going down fast so they realize their mistakes and start working harder and faster, last update is full of bugs. I haven't updated to the last version seeing the hundreds of complaints on reddit about people that can't even play anymore.

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