In Pokémon GO, the tests of the new coin system have also been introduced in Germany and other countries. However, the new system is not very well received – the new tasks bring new problems with them.
This is how the new system works: Instead of taking over gyms as usual and then collecting up to 50 coins per day depending on how long your monsters spent in the gym, the system has been changed. You can now earn a maximum of 30 coins per day from gyms.
The remaining 20 coins come from “daily research”. This consists of several quests that rotate. You can find out more about how it works in our overview of the new coin system. Possible tasks come from the typical actions that players perform while playing:
- Land a fantastic/great/good throw.
- You have to catch, evolve, power up, or transfer Pokémon.
- Players should use berries and take snapshots.
- You should win a raid.
For players who generally have little interest in taking over gyms and thus hardly collected coins, it might be worth getting coins through quests. However, the new tasks also attract a lot of criticism.
Players unhappy with the new system – what could be improved?
What the community says: Even during the initial test in Australia, the revised system received massive criticism. It was subsequently adjusted again to the form we can now test in Germany. But even now, there are still several points of criticism.
On reddit, for example, a player pointed out that the “win a raid” task should be removed, and received a lot of support for this. The reason:
Players who live in rural areas and already have no access to gyms now also have no access to raids. Therefore, they do not gain any real advantage.
Such players would, in extreme cases, also have to buy a remote raid pass to get their daily coins. And saving the daily raid pass for the next day to possibly challenge a better boss would also be a problem if you want to get the coins every day.
The player suggests as a solution to remove the task or at least replace it with a PvP or Rocket battle. Alternatively, the daily raid pass should at least also work for remote raids.
What else is criticized? Another criticism is the obligation to complete all daily tasks to even receive coins. In that post, players demand a solution where partial completion of the tasks at least yields a few coins:
“Add the option to receive coins for each task, and if players decide not to do a raid, they only miss out on 3-5 coins and not the full 20” (via reddit).
The echo among MeinMMO readers is similarly negative:
- “More work for the same amount. Has already been massively criticized. Niantic is not interested. Every online minute is a minute where they might cash in. Every raid is potentially a pass purchase if one miscalculates. Behind it is just greed. The update didn’t make any sense back then,” criticizes user Zavarius.
- “Yes, this task completion package annoys me too. 4 coins per completed task and then I would be happy with the change,” says user kraeuschen.
That there is overall more variation in coin earning is defended by user “dominik”. Especially concerning the easier tasks, new opportunities would open up for players who have “renounced gym gameplay”. Only the raid stands out a bit.
By the way, the dragon week is still running until the end of the week, which was unlocked as a bonus due to the GO Fest. But there was also criticism here – due to the poor chances of getting the rarest monsters.
