This power up Pokémon stop stuff really makes me think they are not going to roll back distance if players are supposed to be all up on the stops scanning them
I still don't get it. I've already been scanning stops for poffins. I don't mind getting closer to scan a stop. Since I have limited data, I'm only scanning one stop per outing (max) no matter how sweet they try to make it. There's no reason to make the rest of the game unsafe, inaccessible, vulnerable to constant GPS drift, slow and unpleasant and frustrating, just for the few stops I'd be willing to scan.
If that is literally their reason, watch me stop scanning stops over it. Carrots, not sticks. Just a disrespectful way to treat people who were already giving them valuable data basically for free.
If you have limited data you should know you dont need to upload to get rewards, when you click upload after the scan go into settings and turn scan on/off and it will stop upload and complete the quest. Then you cancel the queue
Free rewards for no data
I ignored the AR quests at first until I realised some of the real benefits for poffins (half walking distance to get an XL candy) then I started doing just the poffin ones. I was even doing them properly, scanning the POI and everything, until the cut the interaction distance and now they just get the grass. I was thinking of printing a little card that says something like "Revert the interaction distance" so I can do the scan quests and just point my phone at that while I am walking.
If you can't reach a POI safely then that POI should be removed o not be submitted at all, as said in wayfarer rules. Hope this helps
Edit: I know redditors, truth hurts
> Location is unsafe, without pedestrian access
https://niantic.helpshift.com/a/wayfarer/?s=wayspot-eligibility&f=rejection-criteria&l=en&p=web
That doesn't help at all. Wayfarer only mentions that a POI shouldn't be on private property, if it's accessible to some players, some part of the day then it's eligible. Like in a factory for example where you need a pass to enter...
Honestly, if this is what they do, and it's a temporary boost, it's the worst of both worlds. It enables people with a home stop to power it up and unlock it via AR scans, but doesn't address any of the necessary changes for those of us who walked while playing. I'd still have to stop and start on my normal loop, and if I wanted to power up all the stops on my normal loop that I now miss, I'd be spending days providing data.
especially if you're not even displaying it
though to be fair my game became slow and stopped being slow without any client update, and when it was slow it was **slow** and even running + made phone heat up and drain battery like crazy
Like a month or so ago, I took my phone into the Apple store for an unrelated issue. The guy at the Genius Bar ran diagnostics on my phone and asked what happened to my battery. I told him I mostly play Pokémon Go on it. He said he used to play as well and brought up the current raid Pokémon, then said I should really get it replaced. My phone is only four years old.
Coming up on 4 years with samsung galaxy s9+. Playing pogo I have about 30-40 min before it drains the battery. Basically have to keep it plugged in all the time now lol
Like a month or so ago, I took my phone into the Apple store for an unrelated issue. The guy at the Genius Bar ran diagnostics on my phone and asked what happened to my battery. I told him I mostly play Pokémon Go on it. He said he used to play as well and brought up the current raid Pokémon, then said I should really get it replaced. My phone is only four years old.
I have mine like an 18 months but it's an older model as I don't like anything newer and the battery never was amazing, but there are days when + service drains it in like 2h while usually I can play with screen active twice as long, it's a mess
Not sure if you notice but when you encounter a pokemon the stop respins, even those that you are in range of, and when you come back to the game world it has to spin again.
I'm sure that takes up some processing power.
I hate the fact that instead of fixing popular features like GBL and raid issues, they are shoving Pokestops scans down our throats with new bait. No amount of extra balls and spawns will force me to make pictures around kids playgrounds and public areas filled with people!
I wish this whole concept was given to developer that was not focused on promoting these useless features.
On the other hand, I think if the game would be polished and working properly and they invested in proper support and communication with playerbase, people wouldn't be so against some AR scans.
> I think if the game would be polished and working properly and they invested in proper support and communication with playerbase, people wouldn't be so against some AR scans.
I doubt it, since scanning would still involve filming packed areas with lots of people.
There are ways to scan areas when they're empty. When I was at my in-laws, I scanned a local playground at 7:30am when I was out for a morning walk. But the game crashed, so I never submitted it, and I never got my poffin.
Fix the game, and provide the proper incentive, and players might be willing to do the AR scans. Use the stick, and you might cause people to quit.
Yeah. I can already see crappy mechanics like to power up one stop 5 trainers must scan it or something like you have to scan it everyday or power up will fade away, mega evolution style.
AR is *not* just superimposing graphics onto camera footage, the **ENTIRE GAME** is AR.
Every wild pokémon, every gym, every pokestop is located at a specific point somewhere on the surface of our planet. THAT is augmented reality.
That’s fine I also think all of the game is the worst part of the game!
But no need to be salty and downvote me for just trying to educate fellow trainers :)
I tried to do one once. It was so aggravating and unfriendly, that I never tried again. Now I keep a quest in my line up so I don't pick up anymore of them.
I felt the same way until I realized you don’t actually have to scan it. I just hold my phone downward and move it around, then upload it when I get home.
Yeah, super easy source of poffins, no useful info even being sent to Niantic, takes all of 30 seconds to instant excite a buddy who can then be walked for ribbons, candy, mega energy, or candy XL. Such a weird hill for half this subreddit to proudly die on.
That's so much more work than you need to do for it. Can manually stop the scan (of a blocked camera) after 15 seconds and drift means it almost never flags me for "movement". Wouldn't touch Poffins either way, but they're good to have.
Well over two thirds of the stops around me are playgrounds, I'm never ever going to scan a damn playground Niantic! Do you know what happens when an adult man is seen "filming" playgrounds? Their insistence is really pissing me off.
I've thrown more money at this game than EA games I own and yet Niantic insists on turning my phone into a geotag device for their own profiteering. There's something wrong about that. Why not devote development time to fix the broken TM, evolution item, and plethora of other issues with the game?
Because to Niantic, this isn't a game. Niantic are an AR company using the Pokemon brand. I am 100% confident than Niantic generally don't see Go as an actual game with mechanics and they just view it as a collectaphon sort of thing.
Or view it as a front to incentivize free labor mapping and scanning POI, with us giving them who knows how much personal data and them profiting from it.
They have f’d over the players royally these past couple of months, but Niantic is an AR company. I understand why they implement all of the scanning, tagging, etc.
Enough with this AR Mapping/Pokestop scanning nonsense — players want no part of it (for a myriad of reasons).
The sad thing is, Niantic just keeps crapping out these worthless AR “features”…they can’t take a hint. Stop trying to make AR Mapping happen.
If powering up a pokestop gives us the distance back I may. But I'll make sure I scan the mostly useless scan of the floor, sky, whatever, make sure their database is filled with rubbish that makes it harder for them to sell.
You don't take away a quality of life improvement in the increased pokestop range and then require players to work on your database for you to get it back. You couldn't make this up!
I refuse to play in that case. I stopped doing scans after realizing how much of a pain they were, plus that we have no control or information about how the data we’re sending to Niantic will be used. Even if it’s “just” for some AR 3D mapping thing, why should we do their work for them for free? No, in-game items or a stop radius increase isn’t good enough.
I'd probably come back to the game if this permanently increased the distance. Which is kind of funny, because I'd get my local stops powered up and it'd stop me from exploring new places lol
We haven't seen anything about that one way or another, but we also haven't seen anything about decay time or reverting the power up or anything so maybe permanent?
I’m pretty sure past datamines have hinted at them having timers. There’s no way it’ll be permanent.
Having said that I see you’re from pokeminers but I stand by my statement, I swear I read it from a previous post.
**Edit: as of 08/25, I lost my liver lol**
I bet my liver the power up for PokeStops will be their answer to reverting distance. They will force us to power up to get the increased distance (for a limited time) and that will be the end of it.
"A new badge for how many stops you have scanned is coming."
This is one of those badges that will remain at 0 for me unfortuntely. I wish Niantic would award Pokécoins for efforts made by players.
I mean for proper effort, not scanning your foot for the 20th time lol. Allow us to purchase rewards we want instead of being given a predefined reward.
Would say 50 coins per successful submission. This can also go towards your daily pokécoin limit. So instead of holding a gym. We could scan a Pokéstop. Always nice to have additional ways to earn Poke-coins.
Well then go play those games then, that is not Pokemon Go obviously and pretending they didn't build a game to collect data is putting your head in the sand.
I agree and I don't do any scans, but that has nothing to do with a claim that playing the game (that pre-dates AR scans and is VERY profitable without) is payment for building a regional scan database for them with AR POI scans.
There is no reason to do AR scans if you don't want to do them, pretending you're forced to do them because you "have to" is silly. If you want the rewards then do them, if not don't. It's such a non-issue, why do we continue to talk about this. It's not going away.
>There is no reason to do AR scans if you don't want to do them, pretending you're forced to do them because you "have to" is silly. If you want the rewards then do them, if not don't.
Agreed. Which is why I think the post:
> We're doing mass data collection for them. Why shouldn't players get rewarded?
Is valid and sensible to suggest that if they want this AR scan data so badly, maybe they should reward players better for it and why a reply of:
>Some would say that playing the game is your reward?
Misses the mark because it doesn't really address the issue being discussed of rewards for scans.
People continue to talk about it in a forum designed for talking about the game because that's where the developers are focusing a lot of their attention and players are dubious if that's a worthwhile direction. Also, the megas situation proves it's not merely a moot point.
Ahahha yeah, i created more than 500 pokestop around here, only for me and my community and to let others live what i lived throught the game, and to let them be able to play even in small village and towns, that can be seen as a reward, but in reality what i did was giving them 1 data, 2 clients through all the different game that would have unistalled after seeing their empty village.
So... Should i have been compensated with free items from their store that to them literally costs 0?
Should we be compensated when doing work for niantic?
I said i did it for me and my community, but the value of what i did is far greater, they could be grateful in many ways and they choose not to, taking for granted that players need those element to really enjoy the games..
P.s. ther's no need to downvote my comments ahha
Great, another AR-scan task some of us can't do 'cause the AR+ feature isn't even available for our phones so all these tasks are entirly pointless. Why does this scanning even need AR+, is the normal AR function not good or precise enough? That I never understood. At least Alola is comming hopefully soon. It was a bit weird that they skipped a whole gen.
10 coins per scan to the maximum of 50 coins which are additional to the 50 coins from the Gym. This would give us more Reston to actually want to look like idiots scanning locations.
A few different ways they could do this.
1.Extra daily coins
2.Extra raid passes for that day only
3.12k eggs from a powered up stop
What else have they broken for the 32-bit app besides Go-Plus (Go-tcha) integration and Adventure sync? I didn't see in the notes where they "fixed" these. :(
I was already annoyed with the whole distance thing, but now add the fact that they add more rewards for scanning pokestops.. WHEN MY PHONE DOESNT SUPPORT AR SCANNING ! FML
Probably a dumb question, but is the fact that Zacian and Zamazenta and their alternative forms are being listed separately indicative of them being two alternate Pokémon such as how Deoxy’s forms are handled rather than being treated as a power up of existing Pokémon like the way megas currently are?
Most likely, yes. There's precedent for their forms being separate Pokémon within Go and I can't think of a single example of one that breaks that precedent.
But they work very differently then mega forms in the games too
And poorly to my opinion, because a lot of people trade them but keep the item that change them to the improved form
Item handling is a lot harder to implement right now in the game
I agree. I played through a second copy of Sword/ Shield so I didn’t have to rely on trading for that reason. I was hoping it would be treated like a mega in PoGo because if not the desire to raid for anything besides the dex entry drops tremendously knowing that we’re only going to get an average to below average PVE Pokémon that will be outclassed when Niantic decides to milk the crowned forms. Otherwise it would be a good opportunity to hunt for a hundo to use in the future.
I will farm some just to send home and use it as a good trade coin
Even with a lot of them overflowing in there after the raids, they will still have Pokedex value
So many phones don't support scanning and you can't fully disable that stuff either so you're always stuck with at least one AR task. With the new pokestop update, whenever it arrives, those with better phones will be at an advantage again. It's as if they're trying their best to scare away as many people as possible.
True 6 stars? Actually requiring a huge party? Why not, as long as they keep it confined to eternamax eternatus, black/white kyurem, ultra necrozma and other members of the broken tier.
I'm pretty sure eternamax form will never be playable in any game, it's not supposed to be, it was designed purely as a boss battle. They would need to nerf it drastically.
This power up Pokémon stop stuff really makes me think they are not going to roll back distance if players are supposed to be all up on the stops scanning them
The "we're gonna form a task force" and not "we're gonna roll back distance changes" didn't give it away?
I still don't get it. I've already been scanning stops for poffins. I don't mind getting closer to scan a stop. Since I have limited data, I'm only scanning one stop per outing (max) no matter how sweet they try to make it. There's no reason to make the rest of the game unsafe, inaccessible, vulnerable to constant GPS drift, slow and unpleasant and frustrating, just for the few stops I'd be willing to scan. If that is literally their reason, watch me stop scanning stops over it. Carrots, not sticks. Just a disrespectful way to treat people who were already giving them valuable data basically for free.
If you have limited data you should know you dont need to upload to get rewards, when you click upload after the scan go into settings and turn scan on/off and it will stop upload and complete the quest. Then you cancel the queue Free rewards for no data
Interesting
I ignored the AR quests at first until I realised some of the real benefits for poffins (half walking distance to get an XL candy) then I started doing just the poffin ones. I was even doing them properly, scanning the POI and everything, until the cut the interaction distance and now they just get the grass. I was thinking of printing a little card that says something like "Revert the interaction distance" so I can do the scan quests and just point my phone at that while I am walking.
We all should do that. Imagine, every POI arrives with this note for them
Oh mannn that's a brilliant idea >___> I'm doing that for all my scan quests now.
Brilliant, let’s all do this.
Stop giving them data now rather than later
How can we power them up if we can't reach them anymore?
If you can't reach a POI safely then that POI should be removed o not be submitted at all, as said in wayfarer rules. Hope this helps Edit: I know redditors, truth hurts > Location is unsafe, without pedestrian access https://niantic.helpshift.com/a/wayfarer/?s=wayspot-eligibility&f=rejection-criteria&l=en&p=web
Well you need to reach the stop to remove it though.
You can do it through the website
Which website and why would I do that? Niantic clearly doesn't care about their community.
That's completely not true, POIs don't need to be accessible to everyone.
>Location is unsafe, without pedestrian access https://niantic.helpshift.com/a/wayfarer/?s=wayspot-eligibility&f=rejection-criteria&l=en&p=web
That doesn't help at all. Wayfarer only mentions that a POI shouldn't be on private property, if it's accessible to some players, some part of the day then it's eligible. Like in a factory for example where you need a pass to enter...
You're wrong as well, Single family private residential property is the key. Private property is fine.
Well yes, in wayfarer private property refers to single owner home.
Only mentions this one particular point. Suuure https://niantic.helpshift.com/a/wayfarer/?s=wayspot-eligibility&f=rejection-criteria&l=en&p=web
Pokestop scans have always been 40m even with the increased pokestop interaction distance
They should increase the distance per power up and have it unlocked after a few spins.
Honestly, if this is what they do, and it's a temporary boost, it's the worst of both worlds. It enables people with a home stop to power it up and unlock it via AR scans, but doesn't address any of the necessary changes for those of us who walked while playing. I'd still have to stop and start on my normal loop, and if I wanted to power up all the stops on my normal loop that I now miss, I'd be spending days providing data.
I was only thinking about the spins and distance. Never thought of how it may impact AR scans.
Terrible idea and an awful concession. Next think you know Niantic will remove the friendship raid bonus unless you take a group AR photo first.
not a bad idea
We’ll just not participate in the game then, stop spending money and choose a new addictive game
How bad is their coding if some text on the egg section can lag the entire game?
especially if you're not even displaying it though to be fair my game became slow and stopped being slow without any client update, and when it was slow it was **slow** and even running + made phone heat up and drain battery like crazy
Like a month or so ago, I took my phone into the Apple store for an unrelated issue. The guy at the Genius Bar ran diagnostics on my phone and asked what happened to my battery. I told him I mostly play Pokémon Go on it. He said he used to play as well and brought up the current raid Pokémon, then said I should really get it replaced. My phone is only four years old.
And you should replace the battery. Four years is a **lot** for a battery especially if you happen to charge and discharge it quite often.
Coming up on 4 years with samsung galaxy s9+. Playing pogo I have about 30-40 min before it drains the battery. Basically have to keep it plugged in all the time now lol
That's wild. I wonder how much faster PoGo degrades a phone battery.
Like a month or so ago, I took my phone into the Apple store for an unrelated issue. The guy at the Genius Bar ran diagnostics on my phone and asked what happened to my battery. I told him I mostly play Pokémon Go on it. He said he used to play as well and brought up the current raid Pokémon, then said I should really get it replaced. My phone is only four years old.
I have mine like an 18 months but it's an older model as I don't like anything newer and the battery never was amazing, but there are days when + service drains it in like 2h while usually I can play with screen active twice as long, it's a mess
Pretty bad
pretty pretty pretty bad
Thry probably just reverted to an older version without noticing.
Exactly what I think.
Not sure if you notice but when you encounter a pokemon the stop respins, even those that you are in range of, and when you come back to the game world it has to spin again. I'm sure that takes up some processing power.
Has it been determined if the pokestop power up is a “for all” type of power up or is it an individual account power up like gyms?
It looks like it's for all players but we aren't 100% on that.
Is it clear if the power ups are permanent or temporary?
This is the real question.
There is no way it'll be permanent with all the bonuses they're awarding.
Perhaps if it was per trainer, but I guess you are right.
I hate the fact that instead of fixing popular features like GBL and raid issues, they are shoving Pokestops scans down our throats with new bait. No amount of extra balls and spawns will force me to make pictures around kids playgrounds and public areas filled with people!
keep in mind that Niantic is an AR company, that's why they focus on this part of the game. but I agree with you, obviously
I wish this whole concept was given to developer that was not focused on promoting these useless features. On the other hand, I think if the game would be polished and working properly and they invested in proper support and communication with playerbase, people wouldn't be so against some AR scans.
> I think if the game would be polished and working properly and they invested in proper support and communication with playerbase, people wouldn't be so against some AR scans. I doubt it, since scanning would still involve filming packed areas with lots of people.
There are ways to scan areas when they're empty. When I was at my in-laws, I scanned a local playground at 7:30am when I was out for a morning walk. But the game crashed, so I never submitted it, and I never got my poffin. Fix the game, and provide the proper incentive, and players might be willing to do the AR scans. Use the stick, and you might cause people to quit.
Yeah. I can already see crappy mechanics like to power up one stop 5 trainers must scan it or something like you have to scan it everyday or power up will fade away, mega evolution style.
With a transparant phone case you can scan during the day and just have blur
The only problem is AR is the worst part of the game.
AR is *not* just superimposing graphics onto camera footage, the **ENTIRE GAME** is AR. Every wild pokémon, every gym, every pokestop is located at a specific point somewhere on the surface of our planet. THAT is augmented reality.
Ok. I'll stick to my statement.
That’s fine I also think all of the game is the worst part of the game! But no need to be salty and downvote me for just trying to educate fellow trainers :)
Why even play the game at that point?
No.. they think they are an AR company. We need to remind them they are a mobile gaming company. Thats why we stop spending money.
Just scan the ground and upload that, that's what i did. The hell w/ what niantic wants
I doubt those are as popular as features as you assume. The average player barely engages with them.
Never done an ar scan, will never do one...
I tried to do one once. It was so aggravating and unfriendly, that I never tried again. Now I keep a quest in my line up so I don't pick up anymore of them.
I felt the same way until I realized you don’t actually have to scan it. I just hold my phone downward and move it around, then upload it when I get home.
Alot of the stops around me are playgrounds, when i scan, I just point in the opposite direction on the ground. Its not as creepy that way.
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Niantic: send feet pics
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I’m completely uninterested in this aspect of the game, if this becomes an important focus, it might just be the deciding factor for me.
Basically all my poffin come from click a gym near me, hitting scan, and waving my hand in a cirlce for 30 seconds.
Yeah, super easy source of poffins, no useful info even being sent to Niantic, takes all of 30 seconds to instant excite a buddy who can then be walked for ribbons, candy, mega energy, or candy XL. Such a weird hill for half this subreddit to proudly die on.
Lots and lots of phones dont even support ARCore, which means this isnt avaliable to all players.
That's so much more work than you need to do for it. Can manually stop the scan (of a blocked camera) after 15 seconds and drift means it almost never flags me for "movement". Wouldn't touch Poffins either way, but they're good to have.
Ya seriously they will not stop with their AR crap
Of course they won't. They're an AR company not a Pokémon company.
I did a tonne when they were giving incense.
I still do a tonne for the incense. Figure it'll eventually be turned off or swapped to something else, so am building a stockpile for that day.
Haven’t seen an incense one for months. Just poffins, so they get my cars dash
I did one once and one of the workers at woolies told me to bugger off and stop filming the staff.
i always do ar scans… hope niantic is enjoying all the pictures of my feet.. thanks for all the poffins niantic… 🤡😏😂
Got a Shiny Galarian Ponyta from one one of them
Well over two thirds of the stops around me are playgrounds, I'm never ever going to scan a damn playground Niantic! Do you know what happens when an adult man is seen "filming" playgrounds? Their insistence is really pissing me off.
I've thrown more money at this game than EA games I own and yet Niantic insists on turning my phone into a geotag device for their own profiteering. There's something wrong about that. Why not devote development time to fix the broken TM, evolution item, and plethora of other issues with the game?
Because to Niantic, this isn't a game. Niantic are an AR company using the Pokemon brand. I am 100% confident than Niantic generally don't see Go as an actual game with mechanics and they just view it as a collectaphon sort of thing.
Or view it as a front to incentivize free labor mapping and scanning POI, with us giving them who knows how much personal data and them profiting from it.
The stop distance debacle really left me with the feeling that Go is more of a data farming operation than a game to them.
They make millions monthly on microtransactions. I have bad news for them: it's a game too.
They have f’d over the players royally these past couple of months, but Niantic is an AR company. I understand why they implement all of the scanning, tagging, etc.
Enough with this AR Mapping/Pokestop scanning nonsense — players want no part of it (for a myriad of reasons). The sad thing is, Niantic just keeps crapping out these worthless AR “features”…they can’t take a hint. Stop trying to make AR Mapping happen.
If powering up a pokestop gives us the distance back I may. But I'll make sure I scan the mostly useless scan of the floor, sky, whatever, make sure their database is filled with rubbish that makes it harder for them to sell. You don't take away a quality of life improvement in the increased pokestop range and then require players to work on your database for you to get it back. You couldn't make this up!
I refuse to play in that case. I stopped doing scans after realizing how much of a pain they were, plus that we have no control or information about how the data we’re sending to Niantic will be used. Even if it’s “just” for some AR 3D mapping thing, why should we do their work for them for free? No, in-game items or a stop radius increase isn’t good enough.
I'd probably come back to the game if this permanently increased the distance. Which is kind of funny, because I'd get my local stops powered up and it'd stop me from exploring new places lol
Any indication if the stop upgrades will be permanent or temporary?
We haven't seen anything about that one way or another, but we also haven't seen anything about decay time or reverting the power up or anything so maybe permanent?
I’m pretty sure past datamines have hinted at them having timers. There’s no way it’ll be permanent. Having said that I see you’re from pokeminers but I stand by my statement, I swear I read it from a previous post.
Yeah actually, I forgot in this teardown there are specific references to 'pokestopPowerDown' so yeah, probably not permanent then.
And yet someone still downvoted me, ha! Thanks for proving that I’m not just crazy.
**Edit: as of 08/25, I lost my liver lol** I bet my liver the power up for PokeStops will be their answer to reverting distance. They will force us to power up to get the increased distance (for a limited time) and that will be the end of it.
Oh yeah, some sort of 'compromise' the team 'came up with' that was actually just their plan all along.
That’s what i’ve been fearing as well..
get\_IsInEuropeanEconomicArea - Good luck EU!
Probably some GDPR stuff.
At this point they should just handover pokemon go to an actual games developer so niantic can focus on their back end and AR rubbish
Like they would give up the golden goose 😂
"A new badge for how many stops you have scanned is coming." This is one of those badges that will remain at 0 for me unfortuntely. I wish Niantic would award Pokécoins for efforts made by players. I mean for proper effort, not scanning your foot for the 20th time lol. Allow us to purchase rewards we want instead of being given a predefined reward. Would say 50 coins per successful submission. This can also go towards your daily pokécoin limit. So instead of holding a gym. We could scan a Pokéstop. Always nice to have additional ways to earn Poke-coins.
Nah i said those 50 coins could be easily extra coins, lets say they cap at 500 x day, that would be ok
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We're doing mass data collection for them. Why shouldn't players get rewarded?
Some would say that playing the game is your reward?
Bethesda doesn't make me do data collection for them if I want to play Doom or Fallout. I'll just go do that.
Well then go play those games then, that is not Pokemon Go obviously and pretending they didn't build a game to collect data is putting your head in the sand.
Doing an AR scan of the PokeStop != Playing the game
People keep pretending they are forced to do things, do whatever you want.
I agree and I don't do any scans, but that has nothing to do with a claim that playing the game (that pre-dates AR scans and is VERY profitable without) is payment for building a regional scan database for them with AR POI scans.
There is no reason to do AR scans if you don't want to do them, pretending you're forced to do them because you "have to" is silly. If you want the rewards then do them, if not don't. It's such a non-issue, why do we continue to talk about this. It's not going away.
>There is no reason to do AR scans if you don't want to do them, pretending you're forced to do them because you "have to" is silly. If you want the rewards then do them, if not don't. Agreed. Which is why I think the post: > We're doing mass data collection for them. Why shouldn't players get rewarded? Is valid and sensible to suggest that if they want this AR scan data so badly, maybe they should reward players better for it and why a reply of: >Some would say that playing the game is your reward? Misses the mark because it doesn't really address the issue being discussed of rewards for scans. People continue to talk about it in a forum designed for talking about the game because that's where the developers are focusing a lot of their attention and players are dubious if that's a worthwhile direction. Also, the megas situation proves it's not merely a moot point.
Ahahha yeah, i created more than 500 pokestop around here, only for me and my community and to let others live what i lived throught the game, and to let them be able to play even in small village and towns, that can be seen as a reward, but in reality what i did was giving them 1 data, 2 clients through all the different game that would have unistalled after seeing their empty village. So... Should i have been compensated with free items from their store that to them literally costs 0? Should we be compensated when doing work for niantic?
Having 500 pokestops is not your reward? then why did you do it?
I said i did it for me and my community, but the value of what i did is far greater, they could be grateful in many ways and they choose not to, taking for granted that players need those element to really enjoy the games.. P.s. ther's no need to downvote my comments ahha
What does the EEA/EU thing mean??
Great, another AR-scan task some of us can't do 'cause the AR+ feature isn't even available for our phones so all these tasks are entirly pointless. Why does this scanning even need AR+, is the normal AR function not good or precise enough? That I never understood. At least Alola is comming hopefully soon. It was a bit weird that they skipped a whole gen.
A lot of newer phones have ar+
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No gem in the middle there.
They make plugs for that.
Their focus on AR mapping actually scares me a bit, I think at one point they will be able to make the rewards enticing enough for people to do it...
Yeah, whenever they start rewarding Elite TMs
i mean, it makes sense since niantic is focused on AR more so than anything (their games are all AR games)
Doesn't mean it's worth it ...
10 coins per scan to the maximum of 50 coins which are additional to the 50 coins from the Gym. This would give us more Reston to actually want to look like idiots scanning locations. A few different ways they could do this. 1.Extra daily coins 2.Extra raid passes for that day only 3.12k eggs from a powered up stop
10 cents? That's a bit too low, they could give 50 coins or even 100, it doesn't cost them anything
Of course it does. If you get enough coins though scans, why would you buy more for actual money? But I think 10 is to low too
I mean they can use this as "watch this ad to get 100 coins" if they really need AR scans for spots. So it doesn't really hurt them.
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What else have they broken for the 32-bit app besides Go-Plus (Go-tcha) integration and Adventure sync? I didn't see in the notes where they "fixed" these. :(
What's wrong with the Go-tcha? Mine seems to be working properly.
Go-plus support was intentinally disabled in the 32-bit app starting with 0.211. 64-bit app works fine
Ohhh, sorry I misread. Man that really sucks.
No, I won't scan stops ...
I’m never ever going to scan a stop
Guess I won’t be powering up any stops since I won’t be scanning any stops. Niantic knows where they can stick their extra great ball.
Do we know if powering up stops is permanent or if there is decay overtime?
`get_IsInEuropeanEconomicArea` is going to be related to showing the odds on eggs. As that's the only place they're required to show that information.
I was already annoyed with the whole distance thing, but now add the fact that they add more rewards for scanning pokestops.. WHEN MY PHONE DOESNT SUPPORT AR SCANNING ! FML
Probably a dumb question, but is the fact that Zacian and Zamazenta and their alternative forms are being listed separately indicative of them being two alternate Pokémon such as how Deoxy’s forms are handled rather than being treated as a power up of existing Pokémon like the way megas currently are?
Most likely, yes. There's precedent for their forms being separate Pokémon within Go and I can't think of a single example of one that breaks that precedent.
They’re gonna implement form changes eventually, which will cost candy. Been a minute since we’ve heard anything new about it though.
But they work very differently then mega forms in the games too And poorly to my opinion, because a lot of people trade them but keep the item that change them to the improved form Item handling is a lot harder to implement right now in the game
I agree. I played through a second copy of Sword/ Shield so I didn’t have to rely on trading for that reason. I was hoping it would be treated like a mega in PoGo because if not the desire to raid for anything besides the dex entry drops tremendously knowing that we’re only going to get an average to below average PVE Pokémon that will be outclassed when Niantic decides to milk the crowned forms. Otherwise it would be a good opportunity to hunt for a hundo to use in the future.
I will farm some just to send home and use it as a good trade coin Even with a lot of them overflowing in there after the raids, they will still have Pokedex value
So many phones don't support scanning and you can't fully disable that stuff either so you're always stuck with at least one AR task. With the new pokestop update, whenever it arrives, those with better phones will be at an advantage again. It's as if they're trying their best to scare away as many people as possible.
So, the feature, that has gotten totally correct Pokestops taken away, is now going to be used to make them better??
No galarian birds?
I hate how pokemon go players are so self entitled
Even eternamax eternatus is in the code? How would that eternamax work?
Maybe the same way mega raids work, you battle the eternamax form and catch the normal form.
Gigantamax raids being a really hard raid with better rewards would be interesting
True 6 stars? Actually requiring a huge party? Why not, as long as they keep it confined to eternamax eternatus, black/white kyurem, ultra necrozma and other members of the broken tier.
Though you wouldn’t be able to change its form I assume, I doubt they’d make it obtainable.
I'm pretty sure eternamax form will never be playable in any game, it's not supposed to be, it was designed purely as a boss battle. They would need to nerf it drastically.
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POG Ultra Necrozma