New social features are coming Pokemon Go Help bring people together for raids and arrange potential gatherings.
The new social features, some of which are based on the separate Niantic app, have been “tested over time” and will be available in Pokemon Go sometime in the coming months.
Niantic says it hopes the new features will make it easier for trainers to communicate with each other, discover new communities, and enjoy local raid battles.
The company said it’s “excited to be able to play together again in person” and to support players who struggle to get to gyms, it will continue to work on solutions such as tools for community leaders to organize local events and faster approval of new gyms.
Starting this month, Super Powers and Rare Candies XL are also available as rewards for completing local raid battles, making it easier for your Pokemon to evolve and strengthen.
Some Pokemon Go players might not care about this, but some will.
According to Niantic, the 1 PokeCoinEvent Box published every Monday will no longer contain a Remote Raid Pass. Instead, it will have a rotated array of items. In other words, if you don’t have a remote raid pass, you’ll need to fork over 100 PokeCoins for one raid pass, or 250 PokeCoins for three raid passes, as usual.
It’s just another way Niantic gets people out there to raid with others and form friendships of all kinds. However, it should also be taken into account that there are a lot of people who are not very close to the gym, and depending on where they live, they really need a remote raid pass.
And then some people are still a little wary of bypassing others because, COVID hasn’t gone away. Then others like to do the Raid Hour on Wednesdays but can’t go out because it falls off when most people are sitting down for dinner. Then there are people who live in smaller towns where players aren’t very sociable to begin with, and there aren’t many people hanging out around gyms or PokeStops.
So while the 1 PokeCoin event box is a nice gesture for Niantic as it’s a relatively free ranged raid pass, it’s a bit frustrating that it’s taken away as buying a ranged raid pass may cost you in the long run Expensive, especially when you sometimes have to expand your Poke Storage and/or buy more bag space for items. If you’re not careful, the money you spend can start accumulating quickly, as is often the case with free-to-play games.
Anyway, the 1 PokeCoin Event Box was just something everyone used to remotely raid with others, and now it’s disappearing. We just have to get used to it, I think. Change is always inevitable, and it doesn’t matter whether we like what we say.
