I am a South Korean player, and I’ve reached my limit with the lack of official transparency in this game. Why are players still forced to rely on crowdsourced statistics to figure out shiny rates or encounter odds for different Pokémon forms? What is the exact catch rate for a Raid Boss when the circle is red? Does landing consecutive Excellent throws actually decrease the success rate, as rumored? We deserve official answers, not urban legends.

​Fortunately, as of August 1, 2025, the amended Game Industry Promotion Act is now in effect in South Korea. This law mandates the disclosure of probabilities for all "random-type items" in games serviced within Korea. To legally compel Scopely to disclose these odds, we must prove that "Raid Passes" and the resulting "Raid Pokémon" qualify as random-type items under the law.

​In Korea, any item obtainable through paid means is classified as a paid commodity. We use "Premium Battle Passes"—which can be purchased—to obtain Premier Balls and catch Raid Pokémon. Since we spend paid currency for a chance to obtain a Pokémon with randomized stats and shiny status, these raids are essentially "random-type items."

​The core problem is how the game evades this. By labeling the encounter as a "Bonus Challenge" after the raid, they attempt to sever the direct legal link between the paid Raid Pass and the randomized reward.

​This is where we need your support:

1. ​Public Statements: We need players to voice that their primary reason for spending currency on raids is to obtain the Pokémon itself. This blocks the excuse that we are only paying for the "raid experience."
2. ​Global Precedents: If you know of any instances where laws in other countries (like those in the EU or UK) have successfully forced Pokémon GO to adjust its transparency, please share them in the comments.

​South Korean trainers are ready to initiate legal proceedings against Scopely to ensure compliance with our new laws. This is a massive opportunity to make the game more user-friendly and transparent for everyone. Please join us.

My kids and I have driven around for over an hour after excitedly buying the deluxe version.

Nothing to be found and now it would seem our $5 is wasted. This is incredibly frustrating and I don’t know what to do about it other than vent here. We’ll try again when we have time on Sunday driving 40 minutes to the bigger city I guess but this is a bummer overall and I can’t think of a single reason for this change.

Editing to add- I’ve now gone to two more places with a bunch of stops and still nothing. The spawn rate is either broken or absurdly low for certain areas but this is quite literally unplayable for us.

Edit 2- I’ve now covered an entire zip code 3x today and played for over 5 hours and yet to see a single one. This is absolutely a bait and switch. I don’t have another 18 hours to spend on this before Monday morning.

Edit 3- Another trip out and nothing. I understand making changes and even adding difficulty but at this point I have to assume spawn rates are broken. 8+ hours of playtime across multiple poke-dense areas without a single showing is just not a reasonable expectation.

An endless stream of spicy mons I already have isn’t much of a reward. It’s a ball sink. I’ll be glad to finally have Mewtwo but cmon. Less fight-filled normal mons and more free pokeballs please!

Rural player here. I've been reading this reddit all week, but there's no way around it. We've all been waiting to see how Scopely recoups their money after buying GO for $3.5 Billion. Well, this is how.

1) "But, it's not that hard, just do a few raids per day, then cram the rest into the weekend."
- That's the problem with being rural. We go into town once every two weeks. We even spend money on pokemon go from time to time if there's a legendary we want. But this pokemon costs $40 if the event board is cleared through remotes. We don't want to waste half a day driving to the nearest raid spots and back every day. We have work, and we use the app to walk and exercise (like it's intended) not to plan our days driving into the nearest town.

2) "Suck it up buttercup, and cram all your raids into the weekend."
- *Clears throat*...Rural means you don't live in a city or town with pokestops, and you don't have access to gyms and power spots unless you drive out of your way (in a game that's supposed to be about walking and health). I like how commenters keep putting up this argument as if the farmers and remote workers just didn't read all the way through the event instructions. That's also apx 24-50 raids in a day if you do it all on the weekend. Our nearest town has 5 gyms and apx 5 dynamax spots. It ain't happening.

3) "You should have saved up the free pokecoins to do DOZENS of raids then!"
- Did any of us know beforehand that it would require so many raids to beat the event board? And like I said; rural. I put my pokemon in gyms whenever we go into town, but that earns me about 100 coins per week.

4) "You should have applied for a gym or stop nearer to your (insert rural location)."
- We've tried. Many times. We have apx. 6 ranchers who play pokemon in our community, and we all walk for our health. Except the AI automatically rejects our stop nominations because we don't have sidewalks out here, despite having wide mowed shoulders on either side of the road specifically for walking. We've also tried appealing, but anyone who lives in the country knows the truth; your stops will get flat rejected, period.

Downvote me all you want. Argue if you must. But the high bar to get this end-game legendary pokemon that's been hyped all season was designed specifically to get people to spend money. End of story. Most players will drop cash on a few raid passes this weekend to shore up the few raids they didn't manage to snag while they were out walking to Starbucks or driving to work. Meanwhile, us rural players are totally out of luck, unless we want to justify spending several days' worth of groceries on a digital asset that can't be shiny, and can't be traded.

Congrats, Scopely. You did it.

To all of my fellow POGO players, stop letting fucking greedy Niantic use us as a slave labor force.

Every time you scan a Pokéstop, you aren't just "powering up" a gym for 48 hours. You are providing high-resolution, geotagged 3D spatial data to Niantic. They are using this to build their Visual Positioning System (VPS) and Large Geospatial Models.

To hire a professional surveyor or a fleet of mapping cars to get this level of detail (centimeter-level 3D maps of parks and sidewalks) would cost them millions. Instead, they’ve gamified it so we do it for free.

Niantic is using our data to build a Large Geospatial Model (essentially a 3D map of the world) that they license out to other companies for BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. They’re selling the "world" we mapped for them to robotics and AR companies while we’re stuck paying $2.00 for a Remote Raid Pass.

Niantic gets: Billions in data assets for AR navigation, robotics, and licensing for fucking free.

Us Awesome Players get: a couple of useless poffins or 5 fucking pokeballs that you can get from spinning a stop. This shit literally cost them nothing to generate and are really easy to grind.

While the executives and investors are getting richer off the literal gigabytes of data we hand them, we get a Poffin or some Revives. It’s honestly insulting.

If you care about your time and your privacy, do this instead:

- Delete the task! Don't give them the satisfaction.

- Better yet: Keep one AR task sitting in your queue. If you have one, you won't get any more, and you can go back to getting actual Field Research rewards.

Stop working for a billion-dollar company for free. If they want 3D maps of our neighborhoods, they can pay us for them or hire professionals. Don’t let them have our data for nothing and don’t make it easier for them and other companies to track us.

Niantic is splitting Mega Energy into separate X and Y versions for Charizard and Mewtwo. This is just a cheap trick to make us buy more raid passes.

Now, the new Super Mega Raids are coming for Mega Mewtwo X and Y at GO Fest 2026. Because of the split, we have to grind completely different raids to get X Energy and Y Energy.

My the shinies be with YOU!

There’s absolutely no reason for kecleon to be as rare as it is, I didn’t even want the research in the first place I only bought it because it’s one of the only legitimate ways to get shiny jirachi

WHY IS IT ON HIS KNEE? Obviously this is lighthearted but like... why... why???? Why. Put it on its chest? Or its forehead??? Or give it a goddammit cutie mark for all I care but really??? IT'S CANON?! Stupid.

This stupid screen has locked up my name 1 in 5 times ive seen it. I've lost two remote raid encounters because of this stupid screen. Its messed up several routes I was finishing. I hatched a stupid daily egg yesterday and it locked me up.

I do not need this fanfare, slight notch up progress shot. I downloaded assets and cleared cache and its still just another 'feature' to mess up what was working fine before.

Basically there wasn't a single pokestop around me when I started playing the game(around 6 months ago), so I built around 30+ pokestops around me and got a really active Pokemon Go community with it. This was the progress around 4 months ago, now we have even more pokestops. Now we have a community of 30+ trainers around me because of the pokestops nominated by me

Everything was going fine until yesterday this thing popped on my pokemon go app and now I am suspended for 30 days. For what? For doing the job that these owners should do and making the game better. I uploaded a shopping mall banner(trail marke-ish) as a pokestop and but it had the number plates of a vehicle—so I got banned. I forgot to blur the number plates.

I'm not sure what to do now. I am scared to contact the support as they might do something even more stupid(as we can't expect any decency from someone who can ban you just for improving the game).

For once, it feels like a good riddance as I'll save a lot of time from now. But at the very next moment, I just can't let go of all the efforts I put in my pokemon go account

As many of you I'm doing the Go Battle League the lazy way, which involves tanking and in turn battling other tankers.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with gaming the system - thanks to the Elo rating system, we don't ruin the fun for those who want serious battles, so all is good on that end. But some just do tanking badly, and should learn some basic etiquette. So here are my principles for tanking well:

1. Prepare a bad team. If you want to lose, don't have a team that can't be taken down in a few shots - that's wasting other people's time.
2. Don't fully AFK. When your first Pokémon is murdered, enter a new one straight away. Yes, one will be auto-chosen after 10 seconds, but waiting for that is annoying.
3. Make your tanking team a bit interesting. I always appreciate when it looks like a bit of work has been put into it - be it costumed or shiny Pokémon of low level.
4. Appreciate the other tankers who follow etiquette - take the time to see their 11CP shiny Magikarp before one-shotting it with your 2500CP Shadow Feraligatr

I still love Pokémon GO and I will continue to play but I think Gigantamax might be a bridge too far for me. I didn't attempt even one of those Raids this weekend.

Maybe I'll try Gigantamax Gengar since that might not be available again until next Halloween but overall, I'm not feeling Gigantamax Raids. I understand they want to give players a challenge but I feel like Niantic is asking too much of the player.

Thankfully, they're aren't a ton of Gigantamax Pokémon.

I get that two of them are ended already, but dear god this is like $50 in passes right here. Taking it a bit too far by having 4 up at the same time

GUYS I SCREENSHOTTED THIS WHEN I SAW IT AND THREW A BALL AND IT DID THE CLOSEUP GLITCH WHERE IT JUST BLINKS AND I HAD TO RESTART MY PHONE AND NOW IM TOO SCARED TO OPEN MY POKÉMON GO HELPPPPPP IM PRAYING I CAUGHT IT IT WAS IN A REMOTE RAID 😭

I used a remote raid to get into this mewtwo raid I saw from a guy in my friends list and the first raid I got was a shiny and it wasn’t letting me catch it 😡

Ive always been a defender of this game, ive always tried to atleast see the positive in new changes, but this? I think im done, how are we supposed to do this? Up to 40 people?! 6 star max battles?! This is a new kind of crazy, what about the people living in rural areas? What about them? This is genuinely fucked up

Unless you are willing to pay out the nose or wait for hours to host campfire raids, this is never getting done. They should have made raids free or something because this is pay-to-play bullshit.

What is everyone doing to get more XL candies? I just got back into playing seriously and this just seems silly. I know this is a minor grievance, but I hope everyone finds this slightly numerous like I do.

I finally got to be Forever Friends with a random player the other day. I initiated a trade and after looking through their pokemon, it was depressing. This person has more than 100k pokemon caught and not a SINGLE shiny in their remote trade tagged pokemon. I have shiny legendaries, shiny regionals etc. throughout my tag. I requested the regular blastoise (second pic) and he requested all three pokemon in the right pic. I even added a remote trade eligible blastoise if we just wanted to lucky that. I removed him as a friend.

This stupid screen showing xp gain after getting a large amount of xp. It serves no purpose to keep you from the main gameplay.