In Pokémon GO, the Community Day featuring Eevee is currently taking place. Although the corresponding €1 ticket is worth its price, members of the community do not want to purchase it. The reason for this is the controversial changes implemented by the development team.
What kind of ticket is this? In line with the Community Days in Pokémon GO, which take place every month on a weekend, trainers can purchase a ticket for €1. This then unlocks a special research with tasks and more rewards.
The contents of the ticket vary slightly from month to month. Although the ticket is actually worthwhile this month, some members of the community do not want to spend money on it. They are foregoing the extra content. But why? The ticket is currently available for Community Day in August featuring Eevee.
Community does not want to buy ticket – why?
Here are the voices: In the reddit forum, the new €1 ticket for Eevee’s Community Day is being discussed. A graphic shows the contents of the ticket. Mathematically, the ticket is a good purchase because you get the included items at a significantly cheaper price.
Yet, a part of the community refuses to buy the content (via reddit.com).
- Caitsith31: “Is it worth it? Probably. Will they get my money? No”
- bamfor: “Two months ago, I would have bought the ticket immediately. But this time I’m sitting it out”
- Myrkull: “Same here. This will be the first event that my girlfriend and I will skip since we started playing a year ago”
- step207: “Since I started playing again a year ago, I bought every ticket. This will be the first one I won’t [buy]. Hopefully, many others will do the same”
- Fake_Engineer: “This applies to me as well. I doubt it will make a difference, but I still can’t bring myself to give Niantic more money.”
- srozo: “Even if it’s only $1. I refuse to spend money until September 1st. Stand together, [TheSilphRoad]!”
- OrganicMasonJars: “Yes, I don’t care what’s inside. I’m not buying it”
The background: But what leads the community to reject such an offer? The background is a change in the game that the development team activated at the beginning of August.
Niantic’s team decided at the beginning of August 2021 to reactivate some COVID bonuses. Thus, in the USA and New Zealand, players must now approach PokéStops much closer to interact with them. The community sees major safety concerns here, particularly regarding COVID, leading to an open letter to Niantic demanding that the changes be reversed.
Familiar faces like Brandon Tan, who is regarded by some as the best Pokémon GO player in the world, YouTubers like Trainer Tips and ZoëTwoDots, and many websites shared the letter.
It took only a few hours for the Niantic development team to respond. However, this response was not particularly well-received. The core message is that Niantic is assembling a team to develop proposals addressing the concerns regarding the reduced interaction distance at PokéStops. And they are taking until September 1st to do this. You can find Niantic’s full response to the open letter here.
For this reason, some figures from the Pokémon GO community are now waiting for September 1st. Depending on how Niantic’s decision turns out, they would spend money again – or not. Their decision to spend less money is intended as a message from the community to the development team. They will not accept everything.
What are your thoughts on this topic? Are you part of the movement supporting Niantic by not making ingame purchases, or do you take it more lightly because the changes aren’t even active in Germany yet? Feel free to share your opinion in the comments here on MeinMMO and discuss the topic with our community.
