Some say it is a conspiracy, some say it is not: In order to get the Mega Rayquaza, you either have to buy a Go Fest ticket for $15, or you have to buy some Raid tickets, because they set the Mega energy to 90 each when you do a raid, and you need 400 Mega energy to evolve to a Mega Rayquaza, so you need to do 5 raids, but you only have 2 free raids max. Don't get me wrong, I already paid about US$600 in the first two years (2016 and 2017), and I heard Niantic said, it won't be a "Pay to Win" kind of game, so I just wanted to follow that way after paying $600. There are people who did $0 playing (total freeloader) and I think that's too overboard. So nobody serious is going to go back home without a Mega Rayquaza, so I see it as a conspiracy by Niantic. Do you?
God, you're the whale who feeds these shit games
This isn't reddit. Add your TC.
Who tf plays this game still π
Millions of people. The game is still bringing in over half a billion dollars a year.
It is so pathetic
Niantic is bad and it should feel bad.
Why don't you have free coins frm gym collected over time to do such special events?
you get some and you use them. Not everyone saves up a few hundred. You buy Pokemon bag space and item bag space. That's also part of Niantic's conspiracy I feel.
If you are looking for a conspiracy, look no further than Niantic hiring policy, they pushed the DEI agenda for years only to face a class action lawsuit because they were systematically paying women less... Virtue signal and exploit... https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787809/niantic-lawsuit-systemic-sexual-bias-pay-disparity
Conspiracy usually involves multiple parties. Who is Niantic conspiring with here?
well then in this case it is a single party conspiracy. For example, I set up people to try something and they call in to cancel it, but I only set the number of people at the call center to handle 600 calls per day, but I attracted 300,000 people to join, so there is no way they can wait until they reach a representative. So even if every single day people call in to cancel at full capacity, I will still have a lot of paid customers. There, it is a conspiracy with a single party.
I conspire with myself too.