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Kyle1022 posted...

How does it hurt their wallet? With all the third party raid apps that help non-urban people actually play the game, I'd imagine they were making bank off remote raid passes. Maybe not now if everyone actually follows through on quitting

People are likely walking less now and giving Niantic less geodata as a result. It's a combination of COVID and remote raid passes. Users who walk less are also less likely to be active overall on the go app outside of raids, which also means catching less Pokemon and spending less on the app.

I get that they want money and people back to walking and doing in person raids again, but they should give further incentives to people who do walk more and in person raids, and not penalize the people who prefer raiding remotely.More XL candy for in person raids as an incentive is a joke.

I'm kind of willing to bet that they are making more money from remote raids from regular users before this update than in person raids before remote raids were implemented. But my guess is that they are also not using the app as much outside of raids and community days/special events.