R Lokesh Kumar

[POKEMON IV100 @Nakibo90]

🚨 😩SCOPELY – What’s Changed in Pokémon GO? 🚨

Since Scopely/Scopely Explore took over, players have noticed more rewards being reduced, removed, or shifted behind paid GO Passes. 😤 (translated from a Reddit post by ShadedRonin)

🎈 Team GO Rocket Balloons reduced from 4/day to 1/day.
✨ Wild Shiny rates reportedly nerfed, with some boosted species dropping toward standard odds.
💰 Boosted Shiny chances increasingly tied to paid GO Passes.
👑 Giovanni removed from Rocket Balloons — Super Rocket Radar users must find him at PokéStops.
🎁 Research Breakthroughs diluted with a much larger Pokémon pool, making desirable rewards harder to obtain.
⚔️ GBL Rank 20 Legendary rewards changed from the current Raid Boss to a random Legendary pool.
📅 Major events such as GO Fest, Mega Ascension & Mega Finale can replace or remove regular weekly bonuses, Spotlight Hours and Raid Hours.
🤝 Friendship Friday bonuses disappear during some major events.
⏳ Super Rocket Radars can expire.
🐉 Mega Rayquaza moved from repeatable Raids to limited encounters, with extra access potentially paid.
🎟️ Mega Finale gives fewer free Raid opportunities, while many valuable rewards are placed in the GO Pass.
🔬 Free Legendary Research and Field Research targeting have been reduced or heavily diluted.
🥐 AR Scan tasks were removed, cutting off an easy source of free Poffins.
📡 Remote Super Mega Raids now require Remote Raid Pass + Link Charges.
📈 Seasonal bonuses are increasingly locked behind GO Pass progression instead of being automatic.
⌛ Permanent Research is being replaced by time-limited progression, with rewards disappearing after events.
🏆 PokéStop Showcases and Collection Challenges have become much less frequent.
❌ Fast-Track Monday and Double-Time Sunday bonuses were removed.
🎫 Monthly GO Pass value has reportedly dropped, including removal of the Tier 100 Legendary Special Background.
🧪 Some paid rewards are now temporary “rental” items, such as Timed Incubators.
💸 Players have also reported testing of higher prices for identical item bundles.

📉 The overall concern: less free content, more diluted rewards, more temporary systems — and more desirable bonuses being moved behind paid passes.

What do you think? 🤔
Is Pokémon GO becoming too heavily monetized under Scopely? 👇

[FleeceKing @ItsFleeceKing]

Pokémon GO not only removed Giovanni from Rocket Ballons, but now they’ve limited Rocket Ballons to once a day. Such a bad decision that kills more accessibility for people and I really hope this change is reversed.

#PokemonGO

[R Lokesh Kumar @rlokeshk96]

I have also attached the conversation screenshot from In game Support. Please help @ScopelyExplore @PokemonGoApp #LuckyTrinket #Trinket #PokemonGo #missingluckytrinket

[R Lokesh Kumar @rlokeshk96]

I bought August Go Pass from in game store and I claimed Lucky Trinket. But can’t find it in Item Storage. Please help @ScopelyExplore @PokemonGoApp #PokemonGo

[FleeceKing @ItsFleeceKing]

I appreciate the acknowledgement for the issues with raids. However, the compensation just being more raids to spend more money on isn’t the compensation people deserve. Not to mention, compensation should be for EVERYONE, not just for some countries/certain regions. Everyone worldwide was affected by raid issues the whole weekend in some way.

People deserve raid passes back, other premium items like lucky eggs, star pieces, incense, link charges etc. More importantly like some past compensations, give people special research with encounters with legendary Pokémon with guaranteed backgrounds from across the weekend, with a shiny rate of 1/10 perhaps. Or if you have an extended raid event, make the raids free to join and available everywhere. People didn’t just lose time raiding, they lost money because of the raid passes/link charges they lost, and other premium items on in the background like lucky eggs, star pieces etc.

No one’s perfect, mistakes happen, things can go wrong and anyone thinking reasonably can understand that. While I understand with such a huge global event, issues can happen that are not anticipated and outside of your control, what you CAN control is the appropriate compensation for people, and not just to select groups but to everyone, especially with it being the 10 year anniversary too.

#PokemonGO

[R Lokesh Kumar @rlokeshk96]

@FlareblazeA Is the animated Lugia Head going to be the special background for 5 star legendary raids (except Mewtwo) ?

[R Lokesh Kumar @rlokeshk96]

@g47ix You mentioned Mewtwo in 4pm-7pm slot, have you placed Mewtwo because u don’t have space or is it spawning only between 4pm - 7pm ?

[R Lokesh Kumar @rlokeshk96]

@JerHeyd @PokemonGoApp @NianticSupport1 Exactly, these guys are making Super Mega Raids very rare to increase the hype and that’s why they keep it to cities. If it is about great teamwork as they say, Super Mega Raids shouldn’t be allowed to remote raid at all

[R Lokesh Kumar @rlokeshk96]

I cannot find any Super Mega Skarmory Raids near me. I have around 4 gyms near my location. I can only see 1 star or 5 star raids keep spawning like Raid hour during the Skarmory Mega Raids.
@PokemonGoApp @NianticSupport1

[R Lokesh Kumar @rlokeshk96]

@NianticHelp If you are saying Super Mega Raids take great teamwork and may only appear in certain gyms, on what basis you are making sure that certain gym is eligible for Super Mega RAIDs ? If it really takes great teamwork, why we can Remote raid Super Mega Raid ?