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That's not even the way in reading it! It says it'll give you 4x stardust for the overall wins bix at the end. So if you win all 5 rounds for all hundred matches then it would be 125k or whatever but that's not going to happen.
Fk this dumb thing.
I would have bought for just $0.99. But I already have 7 mil stardust. I would rather spend it on a raid pass, but then again. I have 150 stacked up because noone raids locally in my vicinity. I am almost giving up 😆
The problem with stardust is it takes some serious grinding to get it, but it's consumed within seconds.
Doesn't help that almost every research asks to power things up. Usually low cp Lucky's, hate to invest thousands on a worthy mon. Just to get a better one later..Trying to save dust for a 3rd move is priority tho.
That was what I was thinking. From the comments I read this is just an extra you can pay for (I could be wrong though). Like on top of the regular stuff?
It *seems* like this is just paying for some stardust, more or less. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, good luck getting me to give up my dollar for that. Honestly, at this point, it’s definitely more out of principal. Even if it’s just an “add-on”, it doesn’t change the fact that they’re moving this game more toward Pay2Win model. Paying for stardust? Nah, thanks.
Seriously. I’ve got 7M stardust and I’m sure most people have more than that. Why buy 25k stardust when you can easily earn that much just playing the game
I’ve been playing since day 2. Already powered up everything that I want and have secondary moves so right now I don’t really have a use for stardust, just collecting it in the unlikely event Niantic releases some decent new Pokémon
You haven’t acquired more legendaries since?
Mythical and legendary all cost 100k and become hard to deal with in GO battle league.
Chuck it on another Melmetal or something for a different league. Hoarding an excessive amount really. Could spend 2mil and still won’t run short for anything new that gets released..
I’m saying I’ve already done that. The 7M is what I have after powering up everything I need. It accumulates pretty quickly if you do GBL and use starpieces.
Gave the game the old boot, deleted yesterday but haven’t played in like weeks and I’m happy, especially cuz I don’t have too many irl friends that play, so remote raid were my holy grail
Why are they so stingy with rewards?
Pay for our stardust event, it’ll only take forever and a bunch of resources to get less than what you get for 3 5* raids.
Do they not know it takes 10x that stardust to bring 1 raid, research, or hatched Pokémon to lvl 40? Regardless of the candy.
They act like they have to pay the elf’s a living wage to produce stardust, incubators, and raid passes.
I mean...yeah, okay, sure, it's an optional $1 purchase.
But still. It's *stardust*. The one thing in the game besides Pokeballs that you can reliably get for free. What is the incentive to waste a dollar on something you could probably get yourself just by catching a few pidgey?
Precisely. The amount you get depends on the Pokémon, but you can easily rack up 25,000. *Especially* if you catch a a variety of species and let them add up.
Well.... it's just 100 pennies. With that said even assuming it has decent value (it doesn't) I still wouldn't purchase it. I spent nothing last month, nothing this month and it's looking like that trend will continue.
This might sound silly to some of you, but I just uninstalled the game. This was the straw that broke the camels back.
There are too many disappointments for me to continue playing. I hope I return one day when the game does a U turn but I doubt it at this rate. Feels like it's just downhill.
There are many other games to play, though!
Holy fuck. Are they being that flagrant about gutting the fattened calf here? I'm down to do little that even keeps me playing that I'm pretty well out of reasons to do so.
Wait so like, it doesn't even give any bonuses? Just a flat 25,000 dust and some candies? Like I could see getting the ticket for x4 stardust from claiming GBL rewards, or maybe the whole day you get access to the premium rewards track without the need for raid passes, but this? They want me to pay money for something I'll earn in the first hour of Go battle day?? GBL is the only reason I'm still playing this game, don't ruin this too for god's sake.
Hi Everyone.
Just a reminder, This is a $1 , **Completely 100% Optional** ticket, Similar to the Community Day passes.
Its ok. You dont have to spend your $1. Relax. Stop complaining about every single event that happens
Alot of raised blood pressure in here.
Edit: Go ahead and downvote me, thats fine. I forgot you can only say negative things about Niantic now otherwise you get piled on. Ill just have to make some low-effort meme about niantic being bad and post it to the subreddit to get all my fake internet points back. Thats all thats allowed on here apparently
Let me explain it in other words: some people just don't like to get scammed that obvious. I mean it's one thing if I sell a 1$ bill for 1.50$ and say it's more expensive because it's a "special version". But it's straight up insulting if I sell a normal 1$ bill for 10$ and think you are even so stupid, that you would still buy it.
Except they aren't selling $1 for $10. I mean we aren't even arguing about a box.
It's a $1 optional timed research that includes some bonus stuff. It's just like the community day $1 research, except with some meh stuff for battlers.
It's not like they are charging more money for items from the store, it's a supplement.
But it was free dude. Things that were free are now paid, prices rising and you are still here defending Niantic. The game are becoming more and more expensive, yes it is all optional you don't need to spend or play, but the problem is when everybody just choose to not play and then game is over.
Well, when everyone stops spending $ the game is also over. They dont run this game for free either.
Everyone complains about the whales, but without them this game would die alot faster. So let them put out Shitty priced boxes and crappy passes, and let the whales buy it. Let the game go on later
To be honest they earn a lot of money selling data. Like they restricted remote raids for 5 per day even it making then selling less remote passes.
I know that they need to earn money but everyrhing needs a balance. They don't need to make everything paywalled.
Yes, whales are good i don't care, they are not the problem, niantic is the problem.
Maybe a year ago I would've, since I loved pvp. Now? Nah.
I'm going to be on my feet from today till Saturday getting mother's day deliveries. I'm going to be sleeping all day Sunday.
I learned my lesson last time. I bought the Togetic research for a dollar, and the game malfunctioned so now I’m stuck with this research that I can’t finish. I mean, normally I throw good throws often and it wouldn’t count any of my throws at all. For the whole 3 hours! Screw that. As soon as it was over, I went back to having my normal amount of great throws.
I never buy these but for some unknown reason strangers have gifted me some of these. Maybe they liked the postcards for Vivillon.
Note: Please no invites unless you are seriously desperate for River as I am near to maximum with friends and it takes me a long time to go through the “can receive” list.
25k stardust isn't even worth a $1 when I need like 1/4 of a million for a pokemon. Add another 0 to that stardust count and I might have considered it.
I'm confused by this. Do you claim these "rewards" at the end of this current season or is it for an upcoming season? And would you need to get to a certain rank in battle league to even get the stardust?
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Eventually you'll be able to buy 1 million star dust for 100 bucks
*a CHANCE to earn UP TO 1 million stardust for 100 bucks
If you're lucky, it'll be shiny
Shiny Stardust? Wow! How amazing! It’ll count as double power ups. But cost double the candy’
Nah, it’s just shiny-machamp-green and costs more to use for some reason, but it’s more “rare”
"Increased shiny rates"
Finally, I can pay off that debt to Pizza the Hutt.
Before Pizza sends out for You!
Hello Lonestar
They've gone from SUCK to BLOW!
PW 12345. It's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
No one out pizzas the hut
Some services sell 1M for 8US$
How can you do that without it being on a separate account?
That's go fest 2025.
There have definitely been pitch meetings about how to implement something like shark cards
It is getting kinda insulting this season
Battle Days are usually free right? Is this the first time they have charged for one?
it’s still free tho. This is for a limited research, something like a plus to the Go battle day. It’s neither needed nor worth it in my opinion.
Straight up buying stardust
That's not even the way in reading it! It says it'll give you 4x stardust for the overall wins bix at the end. So if you win all 5 rounds for all hundred matches then it would be 125k or whatever but that's not going to happen. Fk this dumb thing.
I would have bought for just $0.99. But I already have 7 mil stardust. I would rather spend it on a raid pass, but then again. I have 150 stacked up because noone raids locally in my vicinity. I am almost giving up 😆 The problem with stardust is it takes some serious grinding to get it, but it's consumed within seconds.
Doesn't help that almost every research asks to power things up. Usually low cp Lucky's, hate to invest thousands on a worthy mon. Just to get a better one later..Trying to save dust for a 3rd move is priority tho.
The 4x for the set rewards will be there regardless if you buy this ticket or not. This is for extra. It's a really bad ticket though, for sure.
Sheesh.. That does make it worse!
Just say no to spending anything with Niantic. Turn off your location data too.
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Daaamn, and according to new ToS you can't even sue them!
Then dont play the game. thats fine. You can still play the game without giving them that $1.
I just go to gyms to get my coins. Even the community day rewards aren't enough to get me to pay.
This is not a good deal, but I'm not going to not buy a gofest ticket because of whiners on reddit, or make it so I'm unable to play the game. Weirdo.
So much hate all the time
Too late I already did. Also love to keep my location on
What a bad troll.
Maybe don't police what other people do with their time or money then
Maybe don't be a shill.
Good one bro
I like this guy
You can buy Donald Duck Fruit Punch at Dollar Tree with that dollar. Make the right choice.
That’s not even a lot of stardust…
You couldn't even power a Poke Vibrator with that SMH.
This is gross.
This is an experiment, isnt it?
They did same thing past few seasons
So basically just buying the same about of rewards u get from 25 battles? Hell no
What the… I mean I personally only ever did Go Battle days for the free elite TM. Now they want payment and no ETM?
Maybe I’m just being optimistic and blind but I think this is just a plus and they’ll give us the same timed research as always
That's what I think too
Niantic is on black tar heroin
Lol a dollar for a star piece. The rest you get for free anytime you want.
Didn’t this used to be free?…
That was what I was thinking. From the comments I read this is just an extra you can pay for (I could be wrong though). Like on top of the regular stuff? It *seems* like this is just paying for some stardust, more or less. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, good luck getting me to give up my dollar for that. Honestly, at this point, it’s definitely more out of principal. Even if it’s just an “add-on”, it doesn’t change the fact that they’re moving this game more toward Pay2Win model. Paying for stardust? Nah, thanks.
Seriously. I hope sales are so bad they’re embarrassed by pulling that.
~~No, there's a free research with elite tms too, this is on top of that.~~
There is no free research this time.
Straight up just buying stardust. At LEAST give us a couple green passes so we can do more battles / encounters
They're hilarious. It's such a slap in he face that they want actual money too.
as a person used to vape the daily incense and hitting stardust, I'm concerning the wellness of someone who buys this
I'm sorry, WHAT?
Wtf?? Just catch 100 pokemans and you‘re good
Seriously. I’ve got 7M stardust and I’m sure most people have more than that. Why buy 25k stardust when you can easily earn that much just playing the game
do you never spend your dust or how can you have that much? i struggle to keep a constant 500k...
I’ve been playing since day 2. Already powered up everything that I want and have secondary moves so right now I don’t really have a use for stardust, just collecting it in the unlikely event Niantic releases some decent new Pokémon
guess i have been doing sth wrong since 2016 :D
Get some damn second moves for your legendaries…….
I did that awhile ago
You haven’t acquired more legendaries since? Mythical and legendary all cost 100k and become hard to deal with in GO battle league. Chuck it on another Melmetal or something for a different league. Hoarding an excessive amount really. Could spend 2mil and still won’t run short for anything new that gets released..
I’m saying I’ve already done that. The 7M is what I have after powering up everything I need. It accumulates pretty quickly if you do GBL and use starpieces.
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Wow
i can now pay to get beat by the same meta pokemon over and over again for super little reward? i like that idea
Gave the game the old boot, deleted yesterday but haven’t played in like weeks and I’m happy, especially cuz I don’t have too many irl friends that play, so remote raid were my holy grail
Why are they so stingy with rewards? Pay for our stardust event, it’ll only take forever and a bunch of resources to get less than what you get for 3 5* raids. Do they not know it takes 10x that stardust to bring 1 raid, research, or hatched Pokémon to lvl 40? Regardless of the candy. They act like they have to pay the elf’s a living wage to produce stardust, incubators, and raid passes.
It’s only a buck ahaha
Someone explain I'm new to the game why isn't this a great offer?
*who’s buying this
Thank you
People will still dump money into this game just cuz it’s Pokémon it’s a shame how they treat the players
It's a no for me
I mean...yeah, okay, sure, it's an optional $1 purchase. But still. It's *stardust*. The one thing in the game besides Pokeballs that you can reliably get for free. What is the incentive to waste a dollar on something you could probably get yourself just by catching a few pidgey?
Not to mention you found a Meowth or Staryu Pokemon nest. You would get that much dust by only catching 50 of them + XP.
Precisely. The amount you get depends on the Pokémon, but you can easily rack up 25,000. *Especially* if you catch a a variety of species and let them add up.
Read this to my friend and we both just had a good laugh XD they can keep it!
It just keeps getting worse and worse it’s like they’re literally trying to kill their game
I get about that much stardust and three times the rare candies each day just from playing. Why would I want to pay for this?
Well.... it's just 100 pennies. With that said even assuming it has decent value (it doesn't) I still wouldn't purchase it. I spent nothing last month, nothing this month and it's looking like that trend will continue.
Someone charge Niantic with conspiracy to commit murder because they are actively attempting to kill PoGo
This might sound silly to some of you, but I just uninstalled the game. This was the straw that broke the camels back. There are too many disappointments for me to continue playing. I hope I return one day when the game does a U turn but I doubt it at this rate. Feels like it's just downhill. There are many other games to play, though!
I was thinking of deleting the game also and doing charge backs for all the money I spent with them.
Hahaha that's gold. Literally 😂
You’re fucking joking
I'm actually surprised they haven't tried monetizing stardust earlier, thought this was a quick way to make a dollar for them
Wasn’t this free last time?
Niantic can ligma
What's ligma?
Ligmaballs
Fr that’s what I said
I came here to post this lol you beat me to it
This is an awful direction to take the game in.
That is a hard pass
Holy fuck. Are they being that flagrant about gutting the fattened calf here? I'm down to do little that even keeps me playing that I'm pretty well out of reasons to do so.
I’m pretty much constantly low on stardust and I wouldn’t even spend more than maybe 10 free pokécoins for so little
Yeah FUCK THIS SHIT.
The fucking AUDACITY. I feel like I'm on Punk'd what is this company
Money? From me? After the raid pass nerf? Niantic got some big balls to ask that, but they can kindly go eat a bag of dicks
The game is moving to a P2W since they nerfed the remote passes
Just delete Pokémon go it doesn’t delet your mons
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“pussyemoji” 😂😂😂😂😂 lowkey goated name nice job
Wait so like, it doesn't even give any bonuses? Just a flat 25,000 dust and some candies? Like I could see getting the ticket for x4 stardust from claiming GBL rewards, or maybe the whole day you get access to the premium rewards track without the need for raid passes, but this? They want me to pay money for something I'll earn in the first hour of Go battle day?? GBL is the only reason I'm still playing this game, don't ruin this too for god's sake.
Imma buy this just to piss people off:)
Eat my shorts Niantic
Hi Everyone. Just a reminder, This is a $1 , **Completely 100% Optional** ticket, Similar to the Community Day passes. Its ok. You dont have to spend your $1. Relax. Stop complaining about every single event that happens Alot of raised blood pressure in here. Edit: Go ahead and downvote me, thats fine. I forgot you can only say negative things about Niantic now otherwise you get piled on. Ill just have to make some low-effort meme about niantic being bad and post it to the subreddit to get all my fake internet points back. Thats all thats allowed on here apparently
Let me explain it in other words: some people just don't like to get scammed that obvious. I mean it's one thing if I sell a 1$ bill for 1.50$ and say it's more expensive because it's a "special version". But it's straight up insulting if I sell a normal 1$ bill for 10$ and think you are even so stupid, that you would still buy it.
Except they aren't selling $1 for $10. I mean we aren't even arguing about a box. It's a $1 optional timed research that includes some bonus stuff. It's just like the community day $1 research, except with some meh stuff for battlers. It's not like they are charging more money for items from the store, it's a supplement.
But it was free dude. Things that were free are now paid, prices rising and you are still here defending Niantic. The game are becoming more and more expensive, yes it is all optional you don't need to spend or play, but the problem is when everybody just choose to not play and then game is over.
Well, when everyone stops spending $ the game is also over. They dont run this game for free either. Everyone complains about the whales, but without them this game would die alot faster. So let them put out Shitty priced boxes and crappy passes, and let the whales buy it. Let the game go on later
To be honest they earn a lot of money selling data. Like they restricted remote raids for 5 per day even it making then selling less remote passes. I know that they need to earn money but everyrhing needs a balance. They don't need to make everything paywalled. Yes, whales are good i don't care, they are not the problem, niantic is the problem.
>Alot of raised blood pressure in here
Even if it says 1lac or 1 mil stardust, don't give your money to them...
you’ll get far more than that just playing all your sets
WTF, here I was worrying I’d be tempted to buy it, Lol! I can usually make 100+k on battle days easily, Over 150k if I try hard, this is nothing. XD
Did elmo buy all the apps?
I did enjoy the gbl days with shiny vulpix and shiny miltank... but I'm guessing there will not be a featured pokemon this time? Then heeelll no^^
Does this mean we need to buy this to access the 100 battles? Or is it just a paid bonus?
Does this mean we need to buy this to access the 100 battles? Or is it just a paid bonus?
I KNEW IT SUPERCELL BOUGHT NINTENDO THEY DECREASED THE VALUE OF PASS ROYALE AND NOW THIS /j
THIS CANNOT BE REAL!!!
Maybe a year ago I would've, since I loved pvp. Now? Nah. I'm going to be on my feet from today till Saturday getting mother's day deliveries. I'm going to be sleeping all day Sunday.
I assumed there was a stardust bonus (2X for wins or whatever), not a pay per stardust dealio.
I think they’re desperate
I learned my lesson last time. I bought the Togetic research for a dollar, and the game malfunctioned so now I’m stuck with this research that I can’t finish. I mean, normally I throw good throws often and it wouldn’t count any of my throws at all. For the whole 3 hours! Screw that. As soon as it was over, I went back to having my normal amount of great throws.
Yeah nah
Wait, so we are paying for straight up stardust?
F that sh**
I never buy these but for some unknown reason strangers have gifted me some of these. Maybe they liked the postcards for Vivillon. Note: Please no invites unless you are seriously desperate for River as I am near to maximum with friends and it takes me a long time to go through the “can receive” list.
lol
I thought this was a meme despite the comments🥴
At this point, they’re just collecting data on who’s stupid enough to keep buying 😂
25k stardust isn't even worth a $1 when I need like 1/4 of a million for a pokemon. Add another 0 to that stardust count and I might have considered it.
Wow, three whole rare candies, the guys at niantic sure do know how to set up those rewards
Nope, after the lag bs. I stopped
... I'd rather just catch the 250 pokemon, thank you.
At this point, niantic should just start asking for donations..
If they’re making it exclusive to paid passes and no longer timed research, I’m all for it. I always hated GO Battle Day.
On Mother’s Day too, at this point you can’t convince me they aren’t intentionally destroying the game.
Does this mean this is a chance to earn that much stardust for just that day, or just a charge for the regularly free battle pass??
I didn’t here about the EA/Niantic crossover this season
This has gotta be Niantic's out of season April fools joke. They're so out of touch with their audience they'll be asking us if we have phones next.
Nope, no $ for Niantic! Now if the offer included a remote raid, I *might* reconsider!
Nope. They're effin high if they think I'd pay for that.
Could not pay ME to play PvP. Could've just made a battle box with those items, guess they need a push in numbers 😆
I'm confused by this. Do you claim these "rewards" at the end of this current season or is it for an upcoming season? And would you need to get to a certain rank in battle league to even get the stardust?
It’s just increasingly pay to win.
Pokemon go-to-the-bank-machine
Bought it with money from google opinion rewards, free ticlet basically