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Kyle1022 posted...

In case you didn't know, Pokemon Go was more popular during covid than it was even during 2016, thanks to the addition of remote raid passes and other suburb- and rural-friendly content updates

In 2022 they began to roll back these features since it went against their "vision" for the game, until they completely nerfed remote raid passes in 2023, limiting them and drastically increasing the price

As a result, 2023 was just about their worst year yet when accounting for inflation

The company is located in San Francisco and for some reason, they have tunnel vision that their ENTIRE playerbase lives in an urban metropolis like them, with pokestops and gyms everywhere you look

Obviously this is not the case but they won't listen to feedback from suburban and rural players. So, they get way less money now. Well-deserved, if you ask me

What I also hate are local-only Raids, where you can't even use remote passes for them. It's near-impractical for most players to get a local group of players going in time for those raids.

Then there are the Shadow Raids, which are both local only and require you to grind for and use those shards to weaken the Shadow Pokemon, and people have reported that even those tend to not weaken the Pokemon enough to make it feasible to defeat them in time.

Among other reasons, this is also why I have stopped giving Niantic any money.