Mobile game mega-hit Pokémon GO Never lack and chance has faire and inexplicably terrible decision. His latest comes with the game’s eighth anniversary celebration, where he made the bizarre decision to refuse access to long-time players who completed a specific quest in 2020.
Every year, POGO celebrates its anniversary with a few in-game events, some free, some premium. For 2024, the “Pokémon GOThe “8th Birthday Party” offers a bunch of features, including a way to meet Meltan without a mystery box, a range of recycled materials. monsters wearing party hats, standard timed search tasks (both free and paid), and the main highlight, a $5 masterpiece search called Whispers in the Woods with Celebi glowing. (Oh, and in a choice that seems way too on the nose, the only new Pokémon to win a party this year are Grimer and Muk.)
Whispers in the Woods is a new, very long quest that will end with players receiving one of the ultimate hunting Pokémon, a Shiny Pokémon. Celebi. But along the way it also offers an impressive 153 Ultra Balls, three Super Incubators, a Poffin, rare candies, TM lure modules, Battle Passes, a piece of XP and Stardust, and much more. Even leaving out the Celebi, it’s a superb crop. of in-game items for five dollars. Only incubators would generally cost you more.
Which makes it the most astonishing discovery made by anyone who completed the Distracted by Something Shiny Special Research during the Covid year of 2020 is not allowed to participate. The option to purchase a ticket is just grayed out in the store, with the useless message: “You already have a ticket to this event, or you have an active or completed research that disqualifies you from being able to purchase this ticket.
Visit the event blogand you are informed in a footnote,
Trainers who have completed the Special Research story Distracted by Something Shiny will not be able to purchase this Masterpiece Research story.
No reason was given and we have yet to hear back from Niantic when we asked why. Mythical Pokémon of Generation II being an extra-special and unique creature, rather than one among many of its kind, a la Pikachu or Charizard. But then, that’s already entirely undermined by allowing players to have both a regular and a shiny version of the monster, so, you know, what?
Complaining about not being able to give Niantic five extra dollars at once POGO has been allowed to become so rotten that it might seem a little strange, but that’s because it only exacerbates the frustrations. of any substance to do in the game lately, and the paltry events that appear that would have been free before are now paid for, whereas the recent masterpieces have been so incredibly massive as to be unmanageable. (Glimmers of Gratitude, for example, requires you to capture a stunning 492 Pokémon from each of the first four regions, for its first step of seven.)
Whispers In The Woods would finally be a more manageable event to enjoy, with a cool Pokémon at the end (and the chance to catch a shiny celebrity with better stats than you may have received before), and a ton of Super useful gaming items for a relatively cheap price. Denying access to those who are engaged enough with the game to have played it for over four years is extremely stupid. decision, and a much more infuriating one given that it would be worth buying even if it simply denied you the Celebi in the end.
As we mentioned, we’ve reached out to Niantic to find out what’s going on. In the meantime, long-time players will enjoy… er, catching a Muk with a hat. Weeeeeeee.
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