I’m calling Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Charmander in the wild. Maybe a hat Pikachu
The day before there will be a Finale Celebration. New York City. Invite only. Perfect Zygarde and Perfect Eternatus for attendees.
Can’t miss it 🤩
Trainers, we are investigating an issue affecting a small number of Raid Battles in Pokémon GO. We are working to resolve it as soon as possible and will provide an update once the issue has been resolved. #PokemonGO
Don’t worry y’all… they’ll do a makeup event. It’ll be invite exclusive, you’ll accept it because your sheep influencer leaders tell you to, you’ll get a few “free” bull shit encounters, & keep playing like nothing happened.
Hammer -> Nail -> Head.
This week has SUCKED with raiding and GBL being laggy and crashing. Makes we worried about doing in-person things this weekend.
Meanwhile. 0.001% of the player base gets a guaranteed Hundo.
This PoGo drama is such a microcosm of the way the world is.
A few well off people get everything, and us plebs get nothing, and then the elites are like "why is everyone mad at me?"
What make its very exclusive is the Background, please just to be objective, we all have a chance for hundo but the only we maybe never get a chance to have NYC backgroud mewtwo. Get it bro?
Interesting controversy in Pokemon Go:
The game has been out for ten years and is celebrating its tenth anniversary. To celebrate, they had a lavish event in Times Square last night, where the game took over all the screens and participants could battle the legendary Pokemon Mewtwo in the game. This echoed a cinematic trailer released with the game’s launch in 2016 that had never previously been possible in the actual game.
BUT, the event was restricted to a group of 2000 streamers, “community ambassadors” and invited guests who were given tickets that activated the event in their game. If you showed up to Times Square without an invitation, there was nothing there.
The Mewtwo the special influencers got had perfect stats and a special background that nobody else can get. This weekend, Mega Mewtwo is releasing worldwide, and Niantic/Scopely, the publisher of the game, expected the millions of players to watch a livestream where a bunch of Twitch streamers attended a spectacular party everyone else was not invited to and were gifted powerful in-game characters, and then they expect all those players to pay money this weekend to buy raid passes to hunt for a perfect Mewtwo.
The community is furious. If Niantic/Scopely had expected this to be received positively, they radically miscalculated. Their mistake, which a lot of companies make, is that they believed people like influencers, and enjoy watching influencers receive free stuff as they promote products.
In fact, most people HATE influencers, and they especially hate it when these leeches get free stuff.