In Pokémon GO there is again a major topic of criticism. The rewards for raids have changed, which is causing a lot of discontent.
What has changed? It is about the rare candies in legendary raids. There, when you got any at all, you received 3 at once. This has now been reduced to one rare candy.
So the 3-pack of rare candies has simply been divided by three.
Fewer rare candies in raids leads to sharp criticism
This is how it looks now: Rewards for raids are always distributed in bundles. So there were always 4-8 bundles per legendary raid, which brought either 3 revives or 3 rare candies.
This is now different. If you received 12 rare candies from a raid, you now only get 4 (4x the bundle of one rare candy).
This means for the players: You will now find it significantly harder to get the coveted candies. Leveling up legendary Pokémon will likely become trickier. Rare candies were often used for this purpose.
Even with EX raids, this rule applies. So if you fight against Regigigas now, you will also receive significantly fewer rare candies.
There are also changes here: Players report that there are now more rare candies in Level 3 and 4 raids. It seems that the bundles have been increased for these.
So if you want to have a lot of rare candies, you should focus on the smaller raids and skip the legendary raids.
How is the change received by the players? The majority is upset. The lack of communication from Niantic on this topic is also criticized. There were no statements from the developers regarding this, they simply changed it suddenly.
Here we collect the opinions of some players:
- theeggman12345: “This is a terrible change and there is no justified explanation for it.”
- vitamster03: “Niantic thought it was a good idea to reduce the bundles of rare candies from 3 to 1, making rare candies now three times harder to obtain.”
- Tidea: “It has been 3-4 days, and Niantic has not commented on the severe rare candy nerf of Level 5 raids. We need to make some noise.”
What do you think of the changes? Can you understand the nerf or are legendary raids now less attractive to you?
