I'm not sure if it's worth answering to this thread. Inner voice telling me its not but I feel obligated to do so since probably my post started it. First of all I should specify the points of my post and not leave it with double meaning, sorry for that. I didn't mean to make you angry or sad, I wanted to make you ask yourself if maybe you made a mistake designing new spawn, deciding of restricion or spawn number. But you hardly admit you mistakes and I was silly to believe you are going to ask yourself this way. Don't take it as an offence but there is always someone to blame, there is always someone responsible for mistakes and it's hardly ever you. Let me now explain what I meant.
I bring back Froakie event because it was your (staff) decision to put 8% chance to get it from box. Greninja is famous anime pokemon, one of the most important Ash friends, everyone was talking about how much they want it, everyone was ultra hyped for it. Still for whatever reason you decided to leave it with 8% chance. Thanks to God there was no character restrictions and people made it with several chars, however price of it was insane anyway, almost as insane as the amount of complaints, hate and trash talking about how hard it was to get Froakie. Maybe you don't remember it but even one of your best tutors almost went retired because he failed to get froakie with 4-6 chars, and he realy wanted it. This event pokemon is kinda similar, most of people were hyped for freaking fox, it looks cool in anime and it's sprite in PA is amazing. I'm sure you knew it and decided with premeditation to make it's respawn lower what lead people to fight each other and then complain on forum if they lose. People call you evil for a reason, didn't you ever ask yourself why? It's not always a joke and even every joke has it's reasoning.
I don't know why but I see you find somehow funny to make people mad, to make people fight against each other. They get angy and then transfer their anger into hate either against other nation players (due to communication barrier) or to staff members (who they blame for not reacting for KS). As you said there was no reason to make any of new pokes spawning in higher amount or to make them spawn in the same amount. But if you made them spawn in the same way there would be 1 window closed for complaints - one less reason for you to be dissapointed on community reaction. People would only complaint about the amount of new pokes on spawn but it's not your fault. It's not like you can add 200 new pokes on map so everyone can catch it in 1 day, it's just people fault that they can't be patient and wait till spawn is free when they have 10 days to catch it. Hope you understand my previous post now, it wasn't just a poor show of my sarcastic hatred.
Let me now comment on this because when I'm reading it realy strong deya vu feeling accompanies me together with feeling like you only care about
your (staff) point of view and not trying to understand
our (players).
Let's start with deya vu feeling. The exact same post appeared +/- 2 years ago, some time after 2016 season change event I believe. I can't find exact thread to paste link here but I think it doesnt matter so much, maybe you remember it too. There was similar discussion about how people are not thankfull, only hating and complaining and how staff loses motivation. True thing is how demotivating is to read complaints everywhere and I can fully understand it. But instead of just getting angry maybe you should think about the reason of complaints? Ask yourself why are they complaining if you are adding new, good things? You may eventually find a conclusion - maybe these things and not so amazing and need a little improvement? There are plenty of systems that require improvements, there is a lot of nice suggestions of how it could be improved but most of them is completely ignored. Berry system and daily tasks system are the easiest examples. Great systems with potencial, but do you see anyone doing daily tasks? I'm sure you can check how many point people already made, I wonder there is nobody who got over 150 and almost 3 years passed since it was added. Same goes for berry system, do you see anyone using berries for casual leveling? I only see people using catch and loot boosters but still low number of people. Even in PVP tournaments people don't use resistance berries. Maybe because they simply don't have it and collecting is too boring. I remember how you were announcing berry rework on forum, you said that either harvest cooldown or amount of berries you getting from tree will be improved but it didn't change at all what made all efforst you put in berry system rework kinda wasted. Because how can someone be realy thankfull for such improvement if he don't find it usefull in any way? At the same time its easy to complain at it being useless. As you said, nothing and nobody is perfect, we all need improvements but nothing can be improved if we don't look at our mistakes.
Your post made me think alot about my own behaviour. I have to admit it, sadly I became one of the biggest forum haters recently, now I fully realise it, it makes me disapointed of myself. THATK YOU FOR THIS. Even if I always try to be polite and always try to use legit arguments, I was still spreading hate, no matter if it's polite or not, hate is never good and I promis to work on my behaviour.
Let's continue with deya vu feeling. Do you remember my answer there? I'm kinda sure you aren't, I don't fully remember it myself but I said there and I will repeat it here, you should focus on people who are thankfull more than on people who are always complaining. It's easy to say, you/it suck, I don't like you/it, I want you/it to be different and shit like this at the same time it's hard to say hey I like you/it, you are/it is an amazing upadate, I like this recent change, and stuff like this. There will always be more people who say
I dislike it than people who say
I like it. It is common for any game community and I feel like you are overreacting to this kind of people. Let me explain you something:
- every player who complete your new quest is a THANKS TO YOU
- every hour spend in game, having fun with friends is a THANKS TO YOU
- every player participating in event and having fun doing it is THANKS TO YOU
- every player leveling all new great pokes is THANKS TO YOU
- every player enjoying your new systems is THANKS TO YOU
- finally every donation made is a big THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR EFFORTS
This is a short list of examples how people are
thankfull, what makes you think we are only complaining is the fact that all those examples are
silent. This is something you have to understand and always keep in you mind. For every 1 complainer or forum hater there are 10 happy players in game. Saying we as a community are always unhappy, always complaining, always asking for more is unfair for those silent people who are always thankfull and always having fun in game. I will repeat myself, you should focus on those thankfull people and put your efforts for them and not to look at forum haters anymore, they will never extinct.
Let me now try to explain the point of view of those complainers since I'm one of them and I think that I can express it well. It's not like we complain because we have nothing better to do or we like it. There always must be a reason. You, staff, are not the only one who put their hearts in this game, you are not the only one who cancel their real life things to play the game, you are not the only one who spend many hours and stay for late night in game and finally
you are not the only one who are trying to improve the game but we sometimes have different vision. You are saying that it's better for you to read polite and constructive criticism but what many of us experiencing is when we use polite and constructive criticism followed with proper argumentation we get completely ignore, while when we just trashtalking and complaining we get answered pretty fast. Let me use your example of dungeon. Did you see my suggestion there about how points system could work for everyone to be happy and enjoying it? I don't realy know because I didn't get a single answer of any staff member. In the other hand anytime I simply criticised your decision making and hated it you answered within few hours. It happens pretty often and when someone is being ignored with his polite way of speaking he learns to express his feeling in negative way what then makes you angry reading it. I fully understand you can't answer every single post and every suggestion because you would have to stay on forum all the time answering in threads and you would have no time left for doing ingame stuff but you can surelly do a little more and focus on answering those polite and constructive complaints more than on brainless hates. It will make both of us feel more respected what should lead us to better cooperation between staff and players.
Let me reply to your example of lost wallet, sorry to say it but I find it being bullshit explanation :d
Do you know AliExpress? For those who don't know it is kind of Chineese amazon service. You can buy a lot of things there but lets go to my point. There was a bug once with pricing, people could but a lot of things paying
cents and not dollars for them. Staff fixed it after 1 or 2 days but they
didn't cancel any order made with bugged price, they didn't ask anyone to pay rest of the price and they didn't ask anybody to cancel orders or send back items they received, they paid for their mistake. Well, time can't be reversed, we have to move on and live with it. But I find it funny how you repeat everywhere that you don't care about ingame economy and you don't care about prices but when people caught a lot of shinies and they would earn some money you react like it is a crime. Maybe its because
everyone had the same chance of catching and you lost control of who has higher chance. It wasn't
you anymore who decided about doing shiny raids and the amount shiny spawned. I'm not complaining at shiny raids, I received some of them during previous shiny event and I find it nice initiative but some people weren't that lucky and they find it being unfair = they are angry, sad, had negative feelings toward you.
After your post we know how you (staff) feeling, I hope that my post will help you to understand how we (community) feel and if we both start understanding and respecting each other and we can improving together.