Serebii Update: Pokémon GO is trialling a new Reward Road feature in the shop in areas such as New Zealand, where you get more points and rewards the more you spend. Details being added @ www.serebii.net - ThreadSky

serebii.bsky.social • 88 days ago

Serebii Update: Pokémon GO is trialling a new Reward Road feature in the shop in areas such as New Zealand, where you get more points and rewards the more you spend.

Details being added @ https://www.serebii.net

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feebasxl.bsky.social•88 days ago

they are so shameless lmaoo

owenlars2.bsky.social•88 days ago

woah woah woah, you get points ONLY for using currency money, the points reset each month, and the top and bottom tiers are 5 and 3000. i doubt it, but let's just pretend that the 5 point tier can be gotten with the cheapest purchase possible of $1, that means $600/mo for the top tier. wtf

ryuu-van-draco.bsky.social•87 days ago

Which makes the rewards absolutely worthless in comparison

owenlars2.bsky.social•87 days ago

frankly, i think this is a system designed to trick people who are already spending money because they think they're getting a great deal on the offered boxes. I've been a free-to-player since year 1, and have been doing fine, and have a hard time wrapping my head around folks dropping $100s/month

reunicluster.bsky.social•88 days ago

oh this is disgusting

seabed-aria.bsky.social•87 days ago

pretty sure that’s actually illegal in a lot of places too

gdgrana.bsky.social•88 days ago

Every announcement makes me feel less and less bad about transferring my shiny legendaries from this game.

albond8746.bsky.social•88 days ago

They could not be any more blatant 🤦‍♂️

8xviktor.bsky.social•88 days ago

So not only do they add a "Battle Pass" into the game, but they also SOMEHOW manage to fuck it up?
Niantic always manages to hit an even lower rock bottom.

slyacezeta.bsky.social•88 days ago

For the people who already spend a lot of money, this is a good thing to give them more for their money. For the people who don't spend any money, this affects nothing. Still, it is pretty transparent that they want you to spend more.

edlim.bsky.social•88 days ago

Just hoping they don’t reduce the value/upgrade pricing in the meantime.

arikkhoundoom.bsky.social•87 days ago

To think the one freemium Pokémon game with the best cost/benefit relation out of all (solely thanks to being mainline-compatible) also happens to be the most predatory one

benhodder.me•88 days ago

Seems to be getting a lot of hate. Not really sure why. Loyalty should be rewarded. Clearly I’m missing something 🤷🏼‍♂️

aenima72826.bsky.social•88 days ago

Sure, but they could have made a feature that involved actual gameplay instead of opening your wallet.

benhodder.me•88 days ago

Games gotta make money to survive though.

schiggus.bsky.social•88 days ago

They earn more than enough, it's just cashing for more. This system is plain bs, but GO players are famous for spending any amount for anything.

magicpuss.bsky.social•88 days ago

Interesting. If there was a free version of the Reward Road Program, that would be a lot better. I can imagine the free version you gain points by completing raids and Max battles, completing research tasks, catching Pokemon and hatching eggs and spending Pokecoins instead of real money.

thehopeful1997.bsky.social•88 days ago

Honestly, this could be better. Nice concept for paying players, but the barriers are *way too high*.

At 5pts/99p purchase, the top reward would be just 1/rd my paycheck? This is diablo immortal levels of bs.

adrianoctavio.bsky.social•88 days ago

What are not enough militaries buying their ai data 😭

applessmillion.newgrounds.com•87 days ago

interesting mechanic, but horrible it's tied to spending real money on the game.. Rewards from this pic are pretty worthless for what you'd need to spend to get them

joshuamoore.com•88 days ago

Man, this game really is going off the rails.

happytalker.bsky.social•88 days ago

Just like an incentive for those of us who already pay

gleamer.bsky.social•88 days ago

Huh... Ew!

ryuu-van-draco.bsky.social•88 days ago

"Reward points will not carry over between months." Yeah no.

iconqueity.bsky.social•88 days ago

I think it needs to be cool to bully Niantic, personally.

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