In Pokémon GO, you can get the butterfly Vivillon, but you have to use the postcard feature for that. However, some trainers apparently don’t like what the new monster has made of the feature.
This is how Vivillon works: Vivillon is a special monster in Pokémon GO that you can’t just get. You first have to secure its pre-evolution Purmel – and that’s done through the “postcard feature”.
For this, you have to pin postcards that you receive in Pokémon GO through gifts. You get those from other trainers with whom you’ve made friends in the game. You can pin postcards from other trainers, but also your own.
The twist: Depending on which region the postcard comes from, the Vivillon will look different in the end. There are numerous different patterns from different regions that you can find here in the Vivillon map for Pokémon GO.
Some trainers have set themselves the goal of getting all Vivillon forms. Many are hunting for postcards from different regions and are specifically looking for friend codes from there to pin suitable postcards.
But for some trainers, this seems to be a misuse of the original feature.
Trainers liked unique postcards in Pokémon GO: “It’s just spam now”
Here’s the problem: Even before the Vivillon aspect, you could pin postcards in the game. While it didn’t provide any bonuses, it could create a nice collection of various places. For some trainers, that was apparently completely sufficient.
This issue is currently being brought up by a post from Reddit user “underwater_rivers”. In the Pokémon GO subreddit, the user describes: “Vivillon has ruined my favorite aspect of the game and that makes me sad.”
“I know, of course, that PoGo is about discovering and collecting Pokémon. But my favorite aspect of the game has always been receiving gifts from faraway places and saving the coolest ones in my postcard book,” describes “underwater_rivers”.
This would also have been a great motivation to go out and look for cool stops to send them. The best part was when others pinned a card: “I was happy when I received the message that someone had saved my postcard because they liked it.”
This aspect is now gone. While it’s nice to be rewarded with countless Purmel, the user thinks, but: “I really miss the joy I felt when someone saved my postcard because now I never know if they did so because they liked the place I wanted to show them or because they want a Vivillon point,” says “underwater_rivers”: “It’s just all spam now.”
How are other trainers reacting? Currently, the post has 490 upvotes, with 87% responding positively to it. Some players also share in the comments that they had or still have a love for the postcard feature:
- “If this makes you feel better, I can tell you that there are still people who cherish the postcards out of love and excitement. One example is me,” says a user, who also qualifies: “However, I also pin some and throw them away to get Purmel, but I digress” (via reddit).
- “Yes, I also keep some really cool gifts. I just cleaned out my recently saved postcards, and I have 101 cool cards left that I have kept!” (via reddit)
- “I feel the same way. I enjoyed it when someone whose postcards I really liked saved one of mine and was a bit proud of it,” says a user (via reddit): “And I always tried to get cool new cards for my long-time friends so they wouldn’t get the same thing every day. Now this all seems pretty pointless to me.”
Some users describe in the thread that they used to secure cool postcards from time to time, but now they would save everything and it doesn’t feel special anymore.
However, others describe that the postcard topic was of no interest to them at all before Vivillon and that they only became aware of it through the new feature. Some, on the other hand, cannot understand the user’s frustration.
What do you think? How do you feel about postcards in Pokémon GO? Was it a cool feature for you even before Vivillon, or are you only using it since the butterfly is in Pokémon GO? Do the cards have meaning for you? Let us know in the comments!
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