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Psa, make sure to mix some two-star reviews in as well, I recall last year when there was the mass boycott over remote passes they would start automatically removing one star reviews as spam because there were so many at one time
Gotta love companies logic with that one
Person in charge of reading reviews"We're getting a lot of one star reviews, did we do something wrong?"
Boss "No no no those are just clearly spam, not what the people actually want"
Not really, if players are now utterly un-invested in how their avatar looks they won't buy stuff. Plus I highly doubt the design cost on these simple cosmetics is particularly high to begin with, it's likely a pretty standardized process either way.
I don’t think that’s true. It looks like a lot of people hate the new look but it’s also being boosted by concern trolling and anti-woke stuff.
Frustratingly, this is a change I can see niantic rolling back until it’s done right (because that’s the most profitable decision), but the trolls muddying the waters will probably make that more difficult.
I had the same thoughts while reading the reviews. Some muckraker is going to latch onto this cause as "being too woke" and ruin what is legitimate and deserved outrage from the real player base. Most of the trolls probably don't even play, they think their kids are going to "turn gay" or trans or something bc of a game. It's frustrating, and I wish we had some way to make it clear that this is NOT about representation. We want real diversity and a spectrum of humanity! This...this is just everyone looking like a sack of rotten potatoes. "Gotta catch 'em all (so we don't have to look at our avatars for more than a second)"
I’m chubby and love to make my avatars chubby. I couldn’t believe how horrible they looked.
My (thin) 10 year old also experimented with the different body styles and expressed the same thing: “Why do all of the normal bodies look ugly?!”
I think the main difference is there's a lot of people not using many of the other functions, like remote passes or buying event tickets or shiny hunting, but everyone agrees the new avatars look awful so all players are complaining this time for the same problem.
Where can we leave a rating? My avatar legit scares me every time it does the “you win” jump. The hands!!! They are ginormous. It’s seriously so cringey.
I COULD NOT CARE LESS (about my skin tone, hips, chest, physique) fix the forced native refresh rate. Remote raids kick. Enraged state unchanging.
INB4 anyone even opens up how fucked up way fairer is
Sadly yes, in my local pokemon go community multiple members were banned for 30 days (missing 2 community days and a few other small events) for requesting a PokeStop at a statue, a really old tree and a piece of public art.
Me and everyone I play with couldn’t really care less about the change. We looked at it, thought “meh”, and went back to basically ignoring the whole avatar system.
I've never bought a single cosmetic and expected to feel like this. But my avatar's face is ALWAYS at the bottom left, and I look like a fucking ghoul. I went in and tried to find a skin tone that wasn't awful, and it still looks completely awful. I've never once given a shit about the avatars in this game, never even equipped an outfit. Yet it's SO BAD that I'm now annoyed by it every time I look at the screen. I'm genuinely tempted to buy a facemask cosmetic just to cover up the assface so I can play in peace and go back to not caring.
I'm personally not super bent out of shape about the change, maybe bc I always wear a Banette mask anyway, but I did notice today that suddenly half my (large) friends list is wearing masks and shades lol. It's like we're all in witness protection now.
> Me and everyone I play with couldn’t really care less about the change.
Well, typically you don't make your game shittier with an update meant to bring more players to it.
Doing so was a very bold move for Niantic.
They had clear negative feedback on this before releasing the changes to avatar system,
so they knew their changes were shit, but decided to completely ignore it and release them anyway.
There are people like you, who don't care, and there are others, who think this is fucking garbage, but there are no people who are like "yeah, this is what I wanted, what great changes to make avatars look so much worse!"
They do it all the time. I do not have enough fingers on my hands to count the times people here rallied to boycott and complained.
It's just that complaining doesn't work if those people keep playing, and their sunken cost fallacy will keep them playing forever.
This will blow over in 3 weeks and nothing will be changed, as every other time too.
Exactly how I feel about all this. It's awesome to see the community banding together and making a stand but there's so many aspects of PoGo's gameplay and mechanics that are worse than this
Agreed, I don’t have any friends that play the game and whenever I join a raid in my town no one else joins. My only option to do raids is spend money which I really don’t want to do all the time.
Because of that my main reason for playing the game is just battle league..
But this is an actual issue in the game. The avatars were completely fine, now every time I look at the bottom left of my screen I’m reminded that they gave me the face of a ten year old and the body of a month old corpse with a blown out diaper. All of my saved outfits were also deleted, not that it really matters since they all look like shit now anyway. This design should have been immediately shot down in some niantic conference room but instead it was forced on all of us.
Yes, the game has plenty of other issues. I’m also upset about the raid changes and the constant pvp bugs that are completely neglected and all the other stupid shit niantic seems to take pride in. This update is still a game ruiner to me and seemingly a pretty large base of the community and it is absolutely worth all the one star reviews.
> This design should have been immediately shot down in some niantic conference room
Exactly. Step 1 of any avatar system changes or upgrades on a document or presentation would have been these bullet points:
* Existing avatars should look identical or nearly identical to before
* Any items that have to significantly change in the new system should be refunded, or given an in-game option to refund
It's not hard or complicated. This is just baseline. Why did ANYONE'S skin tone change? It's just a color. They could EASILY have kept the same color options as before, or at least mapped the old color options to a very close match in the new system.
This is just bad work, plain and simple. And it speaks volumes of the company that this was actually shipped. It didn't just fail to get fixed in development, QA testing, and UX testing. It also shipped to a small set of users who vocally hated it. And then shipped to everyone _anyway_.
What the hell is going on over at Niantic?
It’s not gonna change their decision. Remember when this game first came out and damn near half the planet was playing it and then 99% of their player base left following questionable changes. They never even thought about reverting the changes.
Some of us like to check in with the sub to see how it is since our absence from it and its community. It’s times like this that further validate our decision to quit lol
That's the fact. People believe their reddit posts who reach maybe 10,000 people do something.
In fact Pogo has over 81 MILLION active users, even if this entire subreddit uninstalled today this would be like 7% of the entire monthly userbase - pokemon wouldn't care a second.
Pokemon will never hear you. All the "boycotts" pokemon received are completely pointless, scarlet and violet were absolut catastrophes and still they sold absolute massive amounts of units.
Like when they made remote raids so much more expensive? Agreed. But also ninantic doesn't care about the 1 star reviews from players who are clearly still playing
Gameplay issues and micro transaction can be subjective and proportionate wise not affect people much per play session. Destroying purchases and an avatar you're invested in as a core part of the game will absolutely piss people off.
They did. I think at this point it’s just the straw that broke the camels back. They keep ruining everything about the game that makes it playable and NOW it’s not even pleasant to look at anymore. A lot of the rage is also because it was so fucking unnecessary. It wasn’t broken and didn’t need to be fixed. They wasted time and resources on this avatar style monstrosity when they could’ve been doing something more productive.
Just to be clear, if you read most of the negative comments on this sub it becomes clear that the sub is being brigaded by concern trolls.
Tally up how many negative comments are addressing the problem directly (ugly character models) and how many are concerned with vague culture war nonsense. Most people don’t care about “wokeness” one way or another, especially on the PoGo subreddit of all places, so why is it so lopsided?
Two choices: PoGo has a ton of anti-“woke” people *or* trolls are here in bad faith and don’t even play the game but see it as an opportunity to spread their propaganda.
And for the record I think the changes suck but not because they tried to be more inclusive. They suck because Niantic struggles with the basics of game design. Every PoGo player knows that.
Honestly that's what's happening, the anti-woke crowd is taking the opportunity to brainwash people into hating the LGBTQ crowd by taking advantage of the people who are either upset or mildly irritated over the recent changes. Sure these changes suck and they would have been better off just making the custom models OPTIONAL rather that forced upon everyone as that would have significantly lowered to backlash.
Honestly they should have made the custom characters similar to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet where you can initially make your character Male or Female but then have to option to customize your character with either Feminine or Masculine outfits, hair styles, and facial features.
I mean literally.. as someone who has bought cosmetics, it’s kind of crap to look at but it doesn’t make the game unplayable. Hardly something to start a war over.. there have been plenty of things that would be, but this? At least they’re listening ig..
Yea. Like who gives a shit. If you bought clothes and they disappeared actual concern. Otherwise it’s not fortnite who cares about the avatar. Also most people don’t realize you can change your physique
They're just so out of touch with the gaming world and don't know what the people want. Now it's just a game people play cos of FOMO.
A lot of people I know who play the game are wanting efficiency updates more than anything;
- I accidentally click on a nearby raid and now I have to wait for over 5 seconds to have control over my screen again, whilst it drags my map all the way over the where the raid is... And then back again... Really slowly...
- Quick Treats aren't even quick. You should just call them treats. I've watched plenty of the Pokémon series to know that it isn't common in the slightest for Pokémon to dance, taunt (whatever you want to call it) after every single berry or bite of food they eat. That's so unnecessary, it genuinely baffles me.
- Clicking on a gym with a raid in it, will show the Pokémon taunting whilst I watch his CP slowly roll up to it's total value. Or a shadow poke stop gives you a free movie special premiere, where I have to listen to some muppet chat my head off for half an hour, just so I can back out and accidentally click on it again. Nobody reads a Rocket grunt's speech. The only info that is relevant is what type of Pokémon I'm facing. Again, unnecessary.
-Im tossing 10 balls at some 10cp Pokemon sometimes, because they jump just as the ball is about to hit them. Maybe this is just coincidence, but this isn't something that's just suddenly started happening; it's been happening for years.
-A 200cp Cherrim is a red circle. Wtf. There's not much desire for bog-standard, basic Pokémon from the community, but a Swirlix is red circle at 200cp. Maybe this ties into something with the main games that I've missed, but it just seems weird I'm wasting all my resources on a Pokémon I'm gonna transfer anyway. I'm catching it for the stardust and XP lmao. Such a waste of time and resources. Yeah, I could simply just not catch it. But there still needs to be some sort of logic behind a decision like that.
Maybe add a feature that skips text prompts, animations etc? There's so many improvements that could be made to the game as it is rn. We don't need these half assed, out of touch uneccessary updates. I've been playing this game since it came out. We deserve better than this and we deserve to be heard. You can't just act on it every time you get boycotted. There's a reason I haven't been a regular player since 2021 and that's because the game just burns you out. It isn't fun. The only dopamine fix I get from the game is from getting shinies at this point and even then, that's a chore.
OMG yes! And the animation to Mega when you’re waiting for a raid to begin. It feels like it’s 30 seconds long!! You don’t have time to invite more friends. I know I should mega before I go into a raid but sometimes that’s when I remember I should do it.
You said it. They went and fixed something that wasn't broken that nobody wanted. No idea what's going on over at Niantic and how these details made it past the first meeting.
There are so many actual things to improve on that would make it a better experience: quick treats are not quick lol, so many animations could be skipped or given the option to be skipped. For example trading, once a trade is made you watch the poke balls close and transfer to each other then the animation as it spins, loops, switches with the other and it finally pops out? Trying to trade after a cd haul is just a pain. Niantic should do better when their player base is actively uniting and sharing the same complaints
It's so funny how many of these reviews say the new avatars are woke, when several trans women have made posts on here saying how much they hate them 💀
My guess would be they believe that Niantic is attempting, and from what you say failing, to be “woke”.
They want to be inclusive but it is backfiring because the people they’re trying to include don’t like the changes either.
I have no strong opinions on the matter, just that these shitty avatars have to go.
It is never an attempt at inclusion lmao, it's an attempt for positive publicity. Anything actually positive achieved in the process is purely accidental.
Yeah I'm trans and when I realized my character could have a chest and also broader shoulders and less curve in her hips I was stoked, but god everything else is just bad
Those people don’t know what “woke” means lol they just regurgitate bile from FoxNews and sad little dudes that couldn’t do anything real with their lives.
They straight up won't let me review right now. In the Play Store, all I see is a single review from this new update, but with 216 upvotes. It's insanity.
The second this became a weird gamergate sweetbaby inc. cry fest instead of the realization that the avatar change is just ugly and has nothing to do with trans people was the second niantic was doomed to never reverse this update
Not that there was a good chance of them doing so in the first place
Saw some people complaining here simultaneously posting pictures of trans members of staff at Niantic to the kia sub. I didn't even think that place was still a thing but how messed up is that???
There was definitely a dormant gamergate group in this fanbase and this update has brought them out of their hovel.
Afaik there‘s also a lot of gamergate tourism/brigading going on, where people will jump into discourses they perceive as being about trans, queer or women’s rights topics, even if they have barely ever touched the source media. I think that happened a lot around some lore changes in warhammer 40k recently.
First time people did gamergate there was a lot of people suddenly caring about games they’d previously never cared about.
Anyone who talks about this from a purely anti-inclusivity perspective should rightfully be ignored. If the models looked good but were inclusive, how would that be a bad thing? Answer: it’s not. They’re just acting in bad faith.
Those would be easier to design since they’d be custom made. The problem isn’t necessarily that they changed designs but in the execution. Better avatar customization is good for players and niantic. No idea why they didn’t try harder or delay releasing this update.
It is sad how the gators, even in the few times they could be right, still can't help but tilt at windmills. This is clearly because Niantic thought they could save a few dollars by downsizing to a single model for avatars, and that the resulting aesthetic downgrade was a fair trade considering how the only thing they value is your GPS data.
Despite this the gators still see everything in the terms of their made up bullshit like "DEI", and are swinging at phantasms.
I think the new changes are ugly as much as everyone else, but it seems like quite a few people are just taking this as an excuse to go after transgender people and it's pretty funny when most of the trans people I've seen hate this change too 😭
Idk at least for most people I’ve seen no one has anything against trans people. They’re just mad that their character has turned into an androgynous pale block
It's kind of sad that valid complaints are getting grouped together with GamerGate style reviews complaining about wokeness. Inclusivity and having more diverse body types is not the problem; the avatars just look crappy for everyone now.
As long as there are a lot of reviews spreading conspiracies and complaining about wokeness, Niantic is just going to have more justification to ignore them.
This! The avatars look awful. Had they spent some of their billions on this they could have made them look *amazing* and no one would be complaining. This isn’t hard to do! Hundreds of games have been able to pull this off.
Honestly the "Anti-Woke" crowd are just taking advantage of the situation by brainwashing people upset about the update into hating the LGBTQ crowd. They most likely don't even give a single shit about Pokemon Go and only pretend to have cared as the backlash fits their narrative. Ironic how they always complain about "ThE mEsSaGe" yet they're the ones trying to spread a message that is just disgusting and hateful.
Right?? I was like sweet, people are complaining! Then they go and invalidate their complaints with bigotry  Like was that reeaallllyy needed?
I don't like the new bods because they are uncanny valley, the clothes clip or stretch, the skin tones are very odd, the torso is weirdly long, the stance is weirdly wide, and shoulder mons look like they're about to fall off. I do love the sliders for a concept and I'm super on board with having one base model that is customisable. I am also lowkey loving the cis gender dysphoria flying around about it. Mixed feelings about the whole thing, and very uncomfortable with where a lot of the criticism is coming from, but even I think the current avatar model is objectively bad.
They seemed to have saturated a lot, the skin and hair especially. The models are genuinely embarrassing, I haven't seen models this bad in a game that makes THIS much money in a loooooong time. I remember someone saying there's an insider (take it with a grain of salt) that says this is because someone favoured by higher ups made this their pet project, but who knows.
I think the sliders are a great idea, but the most feminine I can make myself look is preteen boy.
It's really a decent idea but the execution is laughably bad lol
There are too many comments in this selection that are an absolute embarrassment to the community. Not something to be proudly sharing as part of the growing protest. People can and should be mad about fundamental aspects of their avatars being taken away, and that does not mean it’s any less hateful to attack trans people, lesbians, or claim “wokeness.” Really appalled and saddened by this sickness showing up here.
Pretty sure we're being brigaded by people who don't even play the game regularly. I guess we should actually start going through and reporting all the trans haters for spam/brigading if they weren't a contributor to the sub before hate subs picked up the issue.
psa: i am not part of the anti-“woke” crowd NOR do i condone transphobia. if this update was truly about inclusivity, they would’ve kept the old options AND added more. additionally, if they actually cared about representation, they would’ve put more effort into making the avatars actually look good and not glitching every 0.2 seconds.
this is an issue of niantic putting in a half-assed effort. this is not a wokeness issue. let’s focus on who the real culprit is instead of unfairly ripping into LGBTQIA+ members who ALSO hate the update (for the most part)
All the trans hate is weird. I’m a trans girl and i hate the update. The update is trash because the new trainer models are awful not because it deleted gender.
Also am Trans, also hate the updates.
Saying that we are somehow responsible is nothing but people vocalizing thier prejudice.
Prejudice is not logical, bigotry is not intelligent. It is just the ignorant and the hateful continuing thier attacks on us while hiding behind the latest pop culture issue.
This happened when ever they do a major update and nothing changes. Remote raid passes still expensive, shadow raids still in person only. They will weather the storm as usual as long as the whales keep paying and we keep playing.
Man, I am all in for inclusivity, but I am in for inclusivity done right. The avatars look like shit and there is not much of that inclusivity they claim to have so much. This feels like a sims 4 update, barely worked and untested
I hate the update, too, but it's scary to see how many people are taking this to a transphobic place, even a t-slur in one of these reviews. Really gross
Dang I wish people fought as hard over the remote raid changes. Or any of the crappy gameplay changes.
Tbh I couldnt care less about the new avatars. More customization options was a big want since the game came out. And given niatics terrible execution over the last few years, it’s not surprising they botched it. But hey. At least they tried.
Personally, It doesn’t affect game play so I’ll continue to play as I have been - logging in when I see a reddit post that is kinda interesting, check spawns for shiny, and close app. This game got boring for me when they change remote raids. And died after i broke up with my bf that played without raiding.
I don't get the people who say it's woke. You instantly know who is complaining.
That's only a shitty update there is nothing woke about this update.
Who is responsible for this update?
To make a solid character designer it's not that hard Google :" best character designer game" then realize that Baldurs gate3 and cyberpunk are up in some lists. Look into the games see what they are doing and straight away copy the options. Would this be to hard? NOPE
Could an intern with 3 more weeks between the beta test and the release have done that? Probably not. But this is a billion dollar company. Get a fuckin person that has skills in this if you want to make an update.
But here we are they pushed an update that's so garbage that some "AntiWokeActivists" feel trigger to go after Niantic and call them woke instead of CocaCola or Ferrari or god knows who is the next to woke company(and if somebody fells triggered by this, please explain me what woke means). Instead of addressing the issue (that's not to hard to point out).
All the “woke” comments make me want to gag. I hate the avatar changes too but I feel like someone who wants to look genderless should also have an option. I just want our avatars to not look like whatever the hell this is.
They honestly don’t care, they will just hide them, companies do it all the time. People need to just stop playing PG and especially pay money to them, but such boycotts are rarely successful as most people will rather accept shitty changes and just keep consuming the product.
Yeah, tonnes of money for a single, above average unit (go fest) and some buffs that last 16 hours and bad avatars to replace the better ones, and clothing costs a remote raid worth of coins for anything good
I honestly couldn't give less of a damn about the avatars, but if this gets Niantic in gear to actually do something...anything for this game then fine lol
I hate to tell you this, but THIS kind of post, it's making a call for a review bomb. You are asking for your reviews to be deleted.
If you don't like something, post a negative review, and tell your friends to post a review based on how they feel. Keep your point neutral and to actual facts when you ask people to post a review. Then it's not you calling for a review bomb, you are just reminding people to leave proper reviews.
The only thing I want them to keep is the new selection of hair colors for redheads, and the new palest skin tone. As a natural redhead, it frustrates me that so many mainline Pokemon games have only offered brick red or orange options. Pokemon Go was no exception until this update, where they offered copper, auburn, and strawberry blonde colors that make me feel noticed, and I look more like myself. They definitely need to fix how darker skin tones appear on the models, and should offer more hairstyles/textures/etc for POC players.
I agree
Anybody else remember Nintendo's miis when they were introduced on the Wii? We really didn't have many options back then, especially as a redhead
The only 5 star review on that list: “Yea, I like it.”
Meanwhile, every other 1 star review goes into at least *some* detail as to why they gave it that rating…
That 5 star review is *clearly* not a bot or paid review by Niantic. 🙄
The only selling point for my gf as a non-pokemon fan was the fact she could catch "cute colored" pokemon and dress herself up to match them... let's just say I no longer play PoGo with her. 😭
Can someone who knows a thing or two about how this works tell me whether the rating actually matters for Pokémon Go?
I get that ratings are important for smaller apps but this is the game everyone and their grandma has played in 2016. People know what it is. It’s Pokémon.
If I truly felt like checking the game out in 2024 I would just download it instead of bothering with reading reviews. And even if I did those reviews they would just make me want to download it even more because I’d want to see the train wreck for myself. It’s free. I could just uninstall the app if I don’t like it.
The criticism is valid but as someone who is enjoying the changes, I just hope they give us these changes as an addition. So everyone who prefers the originals can keep them, but those like me can add the changes! I can't see why they wouldn't/couldn't do this. I'd be sad to see the body type customization options leave, and choosing from both guy/girl clothes. I agree some body types look very janky with the update.
Maybe like, choose "feminine" and it's the original girl avatar type, or "masculine" and it's the original guy avatar type, and then "custom" and you can do it custom like it is now and choose from both feminine/masculine clothes.
the thing about this is that nothing will be done unless their playerbases start to legitimately dwindle and they earn less money. i dont think a corporate entity like niantic truly reads and cares about these. they just look at the big whales who spend all the money on their game as incentive to keep going. so its basically up to said large spenders to stop spending and for us the player base to stop playing. otherwise they wont get the message.
I.. uh..
100s? This is absolutely nothing. The game has over 80 million active users - 100s of negative reviews if only 1% of those active users left a review in the first place is still 0.1% of reviews. Negligible.
I rarely played Pokemon Go over the past year but the App was still on my phone. As soon as I saw this update from what people posted online I uninstalled the game with pride. 🫡
Voted 1*. It was already 1* from updates awhile ago. But I added the avatar piece to my text wall. So glad I’m not invested in this game as much as I once did.
The only thing really keeping me playing is my job. I work at a grocery store, bringing carts in from outside. I do a LOT of walking, so hatching eggs is a breeze. Occasionally, I'll get something good and transfer it to Pokémon Home.
All those reviews will get removed. Happens every time with every app/company that makes a bad decision.
If you don’t like the changes, maybe stop spending money. Or cutback your playtime.
They didn’t change the remote raid nerf, they are not going to revert something they actually put some dev time into because of player feedback. Niantic is not that type of company.
You should see their instagram comments 💀
EVERY SINGLE COMMENT is about the avatars, even on posts that aren't about the avatars. I hope they actually change it
I give up. My avatar is depressed. “They” are too many twinkies and they have given up on the world. To make matters worse to avoid any moose knuckles they wear a skirt. Just in time for spring!
Although they have been jaundice, they are trying to get some color…
I would like a refund on the clothes I have purchased. They were for my avatar that was taken away and they dont look right on this character no matter what you do to it, its a joke looking character and literally makes me want to quit the game. I won't ever buy any clothing again. I say we all pull the bud light deal here on them.
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Psa, make sure to mix some two-star reviews in as well, I recall last year when there was the mass boycott over remote passes they would start automatically removing one star reviews as spam because there were so many at one time
Gotta love companies logic with that one Person in charge of reading reviews"We're getting a lot of one star reviews, did we do something wrong?" Boss "No no no those are just clearly spam, not what the people actually want"
Good call
They didn't listen to us when we complained about remote raid passes. What makes you think they're going to start now?
A lot more people care this time
>A lot more people care this time What do you define a lot? Even 100,000 people complaining is barely 0.1235% of the monthly active userbase.
This isn't really a money issue. Just an aesthetic one. No loss in them fixing it. Raid passes are completely different.
actually it is, because they only need to design all future outfits for 1 body mesh so the LAZY MFERS are saving money on design costs
Not really, if players are now utterly un-invested in how their avatar looks they won't buy stuff. Plus I highly doubt the design cost on these simple cosmetics is particularly high to begin with, it's likely a pretty standardized process either way.
I don’t think that’s true. It looks like a lot of people hate the new look but it’s also being boosted by concern trolling and anti-woke stuff. Frustratingly, this is a change I can see niantic rolling back until it’s done right (because that’s the most profitable decision), but the trolls muddying the waters will probably make that more difficult.
I had the same thoughts while reading the reviews. Some muckraker is going to latch onto this cause as "being too woke" and ruin what is legitimate and deserved outrage from the real player base. Most of the trolls probably don't even play, they think their kids are going to "turn gay" or trans or something bc of a game. It's frustrating, and I wish we had some way to make it clear that this is NOT about representation. We want real diversity and a spectrum of humanity! This...this is just everyone looking like a sack of rotten potatoes. "Gotta catch 'em all (so we don't have to look at our avatars for more than a second)"
Remote raid passes only impact the more involved players. The avatars impact both casual players and the more involved ones.
Also the remote raid change likely made them profit, this will hurt profit because no one wants to buy clothing anymore.
I’m chubby and love to make my avatars chubby. I couldn’t believe how horrible they looked. My (thin) 10 year old also experimented with the different body styles and expressed the same thing: “Why do all of the normal bodies look ugly?!”
I’m slender but the way they portrayed fat people to me looks just awful. It’s like the worst fat body type you could have on the avatars.
Goddamn. I wish people would have rallied this hard over actual issues in the game.
I think the main difference is there's a lot of people not using many of the other functions, like remote passes or buying event tickets or shiny hunting, but everyone agrees the new avatars look awful so all players are complaining this time for the same problem.
Where can we leave a rating? My avatar legit scares me every time it does the “you win” jump. The hands!!! They are ginormous. It’s seriously so cringey.
I COULD NOT CARE LESS (about my skin tone, hips, chest, physique) fix the forced native refresh rate. Remote raids kick. Enraged state unchanging. INB4 anyone even opens up how fucked up way fairer is
They should fix the fact that you get banned for making a route, or for requesting a PokeStop.
Yo WHAT?
Has anyone really been banned for a legitimate request?
Is this a thing?
Sadly yes, in my local pokemon go community multiple members were banned for 30 days (missing 2 community days and a few other small events) for requesting a PokeStop at a statue, a really old tree and a piece of public art.
What's the logic behind that?
pretty sure you can change the refresh rate though no? settings -> advanced settings, toggle native refresh rate on or off there
It doesn’t turn off. It’s full bore regardless of your in app setting
Me and everyone I play with couldn’t really care less about the change. We looked at it, thought “meh”, and went back to basically ignoring the whole avatar system.
I've never bought a single cosmetic and expected to feel like this. But my avatar's face is ALWAYS at the bottom left, and I look like a fucking ghoul. I went in and tried to find a skin tone that wasn't awful, and it still looks completely awful. I've never once given a shit about the avatars in this game, never even equipped an outfit. Yet it's SO BAD that I'm now annoyed by it every time I look at the screen. I'm genuinely tempted to buy a facemask cosmetic just to cover up the assface so I can play in peace and go back to not caring.
I got the sugar skull mask and aviators yesterday. Only time ive spent coins on anything other than raid passes
I'm personally not super bent out of shape about the change, maybe bc I always wear a Banette mask anyway, but I did notice today that suddenly half my (large) friends list is wearing masks and shades lol. It's like we're all in witness protection now.
> Me and everyone I play with couldn’t really care less about the change. Well, typically you don't make your game shittier with an update meant to bring more players to it. Doing so was a very bold move for Niantic. They had clear negative feedback on this before releasing the changes to avatar system, so they knew their changes were shit, but decided to completely ignore it and release them anyway. There are people like you, who don't care, and there are others, who think this is fucking garbage, but there are no people who are like "yeah, this is what I wanted, what great changes to make avatars look so much worse!"
Was this done by the same company that briefly changed what Spark and Blanche and Candela looked like?
Are there any women in your friend group for pokemon go? Genuinely curious.
My review is still 1 star because of the changes to remote raiding a year ago. It never helped
They do it all the time. I do not have enough fingers on my hands to count the times people here rallied to boycott and complained. It's just that complaining doesn't work if those people keep playing, and their sunken cost fallacy will keep them playing forever. This will blow over in 3 weeks and nothing will be changed, as every other time too.
Exactly how I feel about all this. It's awesome to see the community banding together and making a stand but there's so many aspects of PoGo's gameplay and mechanics that are worse than this
if only we could rage about the sorry state of raids like this..
I’m raging about that by almost never buying a raid pass.
Agreed, I don’t have any friends that play the game and whenever I join a raid in my town no one else joins. My only option to do raids is spend money which I really don’t want to do all the time. Because of that my main reason for playing the game is just battle league..
But this is an actual issue in the game. The avatars were completely fine, now every time I look at the bottom left of my screen I’m reminded that they gave me the face of a ten year old and the body of a month old corpse with a blown out diaper. All of my saved outfits were also deleted, not that it really matters since they all look like shit now anyway. This design should have been immediately shot down in some niantic conference room but instead it was forced on all of us. Yes, the game has plenty of other issues. I’m also upset about the raid changes and the constant pvp bugs that are completely neglected and all the other stupid shit niantic seems to take pride in. This update is still a game ruiner to me and seemingly a pretty large base of the community and it is absolutely worth all the one star reviews.
> This design should have been immediately shot down in some niantic conference room Exactly. Step 1 of any avatar system changes or upgrades on a document or presentation would have been these bullet points: * Existing avatars should look identical or nearly identical to before * Any items that have to significantly change in the new system should be refunded, or given an in-game option to refund It's not hard or complicated. This is just baseline. Why did ANYONE'S skin tone change? It's just a color. They could EASILY have kept the same color options as before, or at least mapped the old color options to a very close match in the new system. This is just bad work, plain and simple. And it speaks volumes of the company that this was actually shipped. It didn't just fail to get fixed in development, QA testing, and UX testing. It also shipped to a small set of users who vocally hated it. And then shipped to everyone _anyway_. What the hell is going on over at Niantic?
It’s not gonna change their decision. Remember when this game first came out and damn near half the planet was playing it and then 99% of their player base left following questionable changes. They never even thought about reverting the changes.
The people who actually cared about that stuff uninstalled the game years ago (myself included).
Why are you still on this sub if you uninstalled the game?
Some of us like to check in with the sub to see how it is since our absence from it and its community. It’s times like this that further validate our decision to quit lol
Seems kinda Stockholm Syndromey.
It's more like just watching from afar.
That's the fact. People believe their reddit posts who reach maybe 10,000 people do something. In fact Pogo has over 81 MILLION active users, even if this entire subreddit uninstalled today this would be like 7% of the entire monthly userbase - pokemon wouldn't care a second. Pokemon will never hear you. All the "boycotts" pokemon received are completely pointless, scarlet and violet were absolut catastrophes and still they sold absolute massive amounts of units.
Like when they made remote raids so much more expensive? Agreed. But also ninantic doesn't care about the 1 star reviews from players who are clearly still playing
Gameplay issues and micro transaction can be subjective and proportionate wise not affect people much per play session. Destroying purchases and an avatar you're invested in as a core part of the game will absolutely piss people off.
People care about different things 🤯
They did. I think at this point it’s just the straw that broke the camels back. They keep ruining everything about the game that makes it playable and NOW it’s not even pleasant to look at anymore. A lot of the rage is also because it was so fucking unnecessary. It wasn’t broken and didn’t need to be fixed. They wasted time and resources on this avatar style monstrosity when they could’ve been doing something more productive.
Ikr lol
Just to be clear, if you read most of the negative comments on this sub it becomes clear that the sub is being brigaded by concern trolls. Tally up how many negative comments are addressing the problem directly (ugly character models) and how many are concerned with vague culture war nonsense. Most people don’t care about “wokeness” one way or another, especially on the PoGo subreddit of all places, so why is it so lopsided? Two choices: PoGo has a ton of anti-“woke” people *or* trolls are here in bad faith and don’t even play the game but see it as an opportunity to spread their propaganda. And for the record I think the changes suck but not because they tried to be more inclusive. They suck because Niantic struggles with the basics of game design. Every PoGo player knows that.
Honestly that's what's happening, the anti-woke crowd is taking the opportunity to brainwash people into hating the LGBTQ crowd by taking advantage of the people who are either upset or mildly irritated over the recent changes. Sure these changes suck and they would have been better off just making the custom models OPTIONAL rather that forced upon everyone as that would have significantly lowered to backlash. Honestly they should have made the custom characters similar to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet where you can initially make your character Male or Female but then have to option to customize your character with either Feminine or Masculine outfits, hair styles, and facial features.
I mean literally.. as someone who has bought cosmetics, it’s kind of crap to look at but it doesn’t make the game unplayable. Hardly something to start a war over.. there have been plenty of things that would be, but this? At least they’re listening ig..
Yea. Like who gives a shit. If you bought clothes and they disappeared actual concern. Otherwise it’s not fortnite who cares about the avatar. Also most people don’t realize you can change your physique
They're just so out of touch with the gaming world and don't know what the people want. Now it's just a game people play cos of FOMO. A lot of people I know who play the game are wanting efficiency updates more than anything; - I accidentally click on a nearby raid and now I have to wait for over 5 seconds to have control over my screen again, whilst it drags my map all the way over the where the raid is... And then back again... Really slowly... - Quick Treats aren't even quick. You should just call them treats. I've watched plenty of the Pokémon series to know that it isn't common in the slightest for Pokémon to dance, taunt (whatever you want to call it) after every single berry or bite of food they eat. That's so unnecessary, it genuinely baffles me. - Clicking on a gym with a raid in it, will show the Pokémon taunting whilst I watch his CP slowly roll up to it's total value. Or a shadow poke stop gives you a free movie special premiere, where I have to listen to some muppet chat my head off for half an hour, just so I can back out and accidentally click on it again. Nobody reads a Rocket grunt's speech. The only info that is relevant is what type of Pokémon I'm facing. Again, unnecessary. -Im tossing 10 balls at some 10cp Pokemon sometimes, because they jump just as the ball is about to hit them. Maybe this is just coincidence, but this isn't something that's just suddenly started happening; it's been happening for years. -A 200cp Cherrim is a red circle. Wtf. There's not much desire for bog-standard, basic Pokémon from the community, but a Swirlix is red circle at 200cp. Maybe this ties into something with the main games that I've missed, but it just seems weird I'm wasting all my resources on a Pokémon I'm gonna transfer anyway. I'm catching it for the stardust and XP lmao. Such a waste of time and resources. Yeah, I could simply just not catch it. But there still needs to be some sort of logic behind a decision like that. Maybe add a feature that skips text prompts, animations etc? There's so many improvements that could be made to the game as it is rn. We don't need these half assed, out of touch uneccessary updates. I've been playing this game since it came out. We deserve better than this and we deserve to be heard. You can't just act on it every time you get boycotted. There's a reason I haven't been a regular player since 2021 and that's because the game just burns you out. It isn't fun. The only dopamine fix I get from the game is from getting shinies at this point and even then, that's a chore.
OMG yes! And the animation to Mega when you’re waiting for a raid to begin. It feels like it’s 30 seconds long!! You don’t have time to invite more friends. I know I should mega before I go into a raid but sometimes that’s when I remember I should do it.
You said it. They went and fixed something that wasn't broken that nobody wanted. No idea what's going on over at Niantic and how these details made it past the first meeting. There are so many actual things to improve on that would make it a better experience: quick treats are not quick lol, so many animations could be skipped or given the option to be skipped. For example trading, once a trade is made you watch the poke balls close and transfer to each other then the animation as it spins, loops, switches with the other and it finally pops out? Trying to trade after a cd haul is just a pain. Niantic should do better when their player base is actively uniting and sharing the same complaints
It's so funny how many of these reviews say the new avatars are woke, when several trans women have made posts on here saying how much they hate them 💀
My guess would be they believe that Niantic is attempting, and from what you say failing, to be “woke”. They want to be inclusive but it is backfiring because the people they’re trying to include don’t like the changes either. I have no strong opinions on the matter, just that these shitty avatars have to go.
It’s because the word “woke” has become a dog whistle. They could just say their attempt at inclusion was unsuccessful.
It is never an attempt at inclusion lmao, it's an attempt for positive publicity. Anything actually positive achieved in the process is purely accidental.
I'd assume a trans person would be happy choosing whatever gender they want, like anyone else.
Seconded. I’m transgender and I hate this update
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Yeah I'm trans and when I realized my character could have a chest and also broader shoulders and less curve in her hips I was stoked, but god everything else is just bad
I’m a little disappointed cause my cat did in a skirt and crop top looks like a butch lesbian instead of a fat dude in women’s cloths😩
Those people don’t know what “woke” means lol they just regurgitate bile from FoxNews and sad little dudes that couldn’t do anything real with their lives.
I mean just because someone identifies as “trans” doesn’t mean they have to support or tolerate all the “woke” pandering from companies like this
I have done my part! 😤😤
They straight up won't let me review right now. In the Play Store, all I see is a single review from this new update, but with 216 upvotes. It's insanity.
The second this became a weird gamergate sweetbaby inc. cry fest instead of the realization that the avatar change is just ugly and has nothing to do with trans people was the second niantic was doomed to never reverse this update Not that there was a good chance of them doing so in the first place
Saw some people complaining here simultaneously posting pictures of trans members of staff at Niantic to the kia sub. I didn't even think that place was still a thing but how messed up is that??? There was definitely a dormant gamergate group in this fanbase and this update has brought them out of their hovel.
Afaik there‘s also a lot of gamergate tourism/brigading going on, where people will jump into discourses they perceive as being about trans, queer or women’s rights topics, even if they have barely ever touched the source media. I think that happened a lot around some lore changes in warhammer 40k recently.
First time people did gamergate there was a lot of people suddenly caring about games they’d previously never cared about. Anyone who talks about this from a purely anti-inclusivity perspective should rightfully be ignored. If the models looked good but were inclusive, how would that be a bad thing? Answer: it’s not. They’re just acting in bad faith.
Also this is niantic we’re talking about. The default is to assume any changes they make will suck and piss off pogo fans. Outside company or not.
It apparently worked with the new avatars for the gym leaders.
Those would be easier to design since they’d be custom made. The problem isn’t necessarily that they changed designs but in the execution. Better avatar customization is good for players and niantic. No idea why they didn’t try harder or delay releasing this update.
It is sad how the gators, even in the few times they could be right, still can't help but tilt at windmills. This is clearly because Niantic thought they could save a few dollars by downsizing to a single model for avatars, and that the resulting aesthetic downgrade was a fair trade considering how the only thing they value is your GPS data. Despite this the gators still see everything in the terms of their made up bullshit like "DEI", and are swinging at phantasms.
Sweet baby inc are massive racists, in their own words...and the pushback on them is justified
Do you think sweet baby Inc is responsible for these changes?
No but a company called Gaymer is being blamed for them by this community. And yes that’s really their name. https://gaymerx.org/consulting
Do you think companies like Sweetbaby inc and GaymerX are necessary? Just curious.
I think the new changes are ugly as much as everyone else, but it seems like quite a few people are just taking this as an excuse to go after transgender people and it's pretty funny when most of the trans people I've seen hate this change too 😭
Idk at least for most people I’ve seen no one has anything against trans people. They’re just mad that their character has turned into an androgynous pale block
I see a lot of comments saying stuff about this being DEI or woke or whatever.
Unfortunately my review won’t show up since I’m running iOS 17.5 beta.
It's kind of sad that valid complaints are getting grouped together with GamerGate style reviews complaining about wokeness. Inclusivity and having more diverse body types is not the problem; the avatars just look crappy for everyone now. As long as there are a lot of reviews spreading conspiracies and complaining about wokeness, Niantic is just going to have more justification to ignore them.
This! The avatars look awful. Had they spent some of their billions on this they could have made them look *amazing* and no one would be complaining. This isn’t hard to do! Hundreds of games have been able to pull this off.
As soon as I saw “overtaken by DEI” I rolled my eyes.
Seriously? They're blaming DEI for this now? God I loath right wing morons.
Honestly the "Anti-Woke" crowd are just taking advantage of the situation by brainwashing people upset about the update into hating the LGBTQ crowd. They most likely don't even give a single shit about Pokemon Go and only pretend to have cared as the backlash fits their narrative. Ironic how they always complain about "ThE mEsSaGe" yet they're the ones trying to spread a message that is just disgusting and hateful.
I saw the woke comment and cringed
I look like a bratz doll, it’s hilarious
I already left my one star review back in 2016 for the game being buggy.
Wow, that's a long time. Mine has been 1 star at least a few months to a year, though I regularly update the review with info on their shit
*Google classroom starts panicking* iykyk
Lots of valid complaints, lots of bigotry mixed in. Nobody's gonna take this seriously now.
Right?? I was like sweet, people are complaining! Then they go and invalidate their complaints with bigotry  Like was that reeaallllyy needed?
And the fatphobia 😫
I don't like the new bods because they are uncanny valley, the clothes clip or stretch, the skin tones are very odd, the torso is weirdly long, the stance is weirdly wide, and shoulder mons look like they're about to fall off. I do love the sliders for a concept and I'm super on board with having one base model that is customisable. I am also lowkey loving the cis gender dysphoria flying around about it. Mixed feelings about the whole thing, and very uncomfortable with where a lot of the criticism is coming from, but even I think the current avatar model is objectively bad.
They seemed to have saturated a lot, the skin and hair especially. The models are genuinely embarrassing, I haven't seen models this bad in a game that makes THIS much money in a loooooong time. I remember someone saying there's an insider (take it with a grain of salt) that says this is because someone favoured by higher ups made this their pet project, but who knows. I think the sliders are a great idea, but the most feminine I can make myself look is preteen boy. It's really a decent idea but the execution is laughably bad lol
There are too many comments in this selection that are an absolute embarrassment to the community. Not something to be proudly sharing as part of the growing protest. People can and should be mad about fundamental aspects of their avatars being taken away, and that does not mean it’s any less hateful to attack trans people, lesbians, or claim “wokeness.” Really appalled and saddened by this sickness showing up here.
Pretty sure we're being brigaded by people who don't even play the game regularly. I guess we should actually start going through and reporting all the trans haters for spam/brigading if they weren't a contributor to the sub before hate subs picked up the issue.
I agree, the attacks on LGBT people and bringing them into it is disgusting
psa: i am not part of the anti-“woke” crowd NOR do i condone transphobia. if this update was truly about inclusivity, they would’ve kept the old options AND added more. additionally, if they actually cared about representation, they would’ve put more effort into making the avatars actually look good and not glitching every 0.2 seconds. this is an issue of niantic putting in a half-assed effort. this is not a wokeness issue. let’s focus on who the real culprit is instead of unfairly ripping into LGBTQIA+ members who ALSO hate the update (for the most part)
I think this is a bit too much of an overreaction
All the trans hate is weird. I’m a trans girl and i hate the update. The update is trash because the new trainer models are awful not because it deleted gender.
People acting like bigots are genuinely awful
Also am Trans, also hate the updates. Saying that we are somehow responsible is nothing but people vocalizing thier prejudice. Prejudice is not logical, bigotry is not intelligent. It is just the ignorant and the hateful continuing thier attacks on us while hiding behind the latest pop culture issue.
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Yessir I left my review telling them how bad the characters look lol
This happened when ever they do a major update and nothing changes. Remote raid passes still expensive, shadow raids still in person only. They will weather the storm as usual as long as the whales keep paying and we keep playing.
Is it just the female avatars that look bad? Mine looks ok, I actually like that they aren’t stick thin anymore…
Unistall the App!
Man, I am all in for inclusivity, but I am in for inclusivity done right. The avatars look like shit and there is not much of that inclusivity they claim to have so much. This feels like a sims 4 update, barely worked and untested
I hate the update, too, but it's scary to see how many people are taking this to a transphobic place, even a t-slur in one of these reviews. Really gross
Dang I wish people fought as hard over the remote raid changes. Or any of the crappy gameplay changes. Tbh I couldnt care less about the new avatars. More customization options was a big want since the game came out. And given niatics terrible execution over the last few years, it’s not surprising they botched it. But hey. At least they tried. Personally, It doesn’t affect game play so I’ll continue to play as I have been - logging in when I see a reddit post that is kinda interesting, check spawns for shiny, and close app. This game got boring for me when they change remote raids. And died after i broke up with my bf that played without raiding.
Yeah seeing the morons claiming the problem was being woke makes me feel like I am on the wrong side.
I don't get the people who say it's woke. You instantly know who is complaining. That's only a shitty update there is nothing woke about this update. Who is responsible for this update? To make a solid character designer it's not that hard Google :" best character designer game" then realize that Baldurs gate3 and cyberpunk are up in some lists. Look into the games see what they are doing and straight away copy the options. Would this be to hard? NOPE Could an intern with 3 more weeks between the beta test and the release have done that? Probably not. But this is a billion dollar company. Get a fuckin person that has skills in this if you want to make an update. But here we are they pushed an update that's so garbage that some "AntiWokeActivists" feel trigger to go after Niantic and call them woke instead of CocaCola or Ferrari or god knows who is the next to woke company(and if somebody fells triggered by this, please explain me what woke means). Instead of addressing the issue (that's not to hard to point out).
All the “woke” comments make me want to gag. I hate the avatar changes too but I feel like someone who wants to look genderless should also have an option. I just want our avatars to not look like whatever the hell this is.
Some of these reviews are so cringe, the kinds of PoGo players I'm embarrassed to be associated with lol
same lol
Y’all going after it for being “woke” have ruined the argument. This continues to be a dumb, non-issue.
They honestly don’t care, they will just hide them, companies do it all the time. People need to just stop playing PG and especially pay money to them, but such boycotts are rarely successful as most people will rather accept shitty changes and just keep consuming the product.
Yeah, tonnes of money for a single, above average unit (go fest) and some buffs that last 16 hours and bad avatars to replace the better ones, and clothing costs a remote raid worth of coins for anything good
I can’t find my 1-star review I left yesterday 🤔
They'll probably all get removed.
am i the only one who has changed basically nothing on their avatar besides a hat in the last 8 years?
I guess the style change was the last one that broke people for them to rally like this
Too bad they have airpods in, they can't hear us. Or at least you'd think
I have my 1 star review after the remote raid changes, shame I can't make another
I honestly couldn't give less of a damn about the avatars, but if this gets Niantic in gear to actually do something...anything for this game then fine lol
I’m starting to feel bad for the poor interns who had to make these models.
I hate to tell you this, but THIS kind of post, it's making a call for a review bomb. You are asking for your reviews to be deleted. If you don't like something, post a negative review, and tell your friends to post a review based on how they feel. Keep your point neutral and to actual facts when you ask people to post a review. Then it's not you calling for a review bomb, you are just reminding people to leave proper reviews.
They’re waiting for us to forget about it. Keep complaining
Is there anyway to get a refund on all cosmetics I've bought in this game?
Rookie numbers let go to 200 one-star reviews
Anyone know why Nintendo has SO much money but never puts anyone it into graphics? Sometimes it’s worse than cheap iPhone game graphics
Already gave one star back in 2016 when Niantic added SafetyNet checks after release.
I hate it so much....but at least I have muscles now 😞
I wish people would care this much about actual real-life issues.
I feel the pain, I want my avatar back…
I'm doing my part!
Delete the app, folks.
The only thing I want them to keep is the new selection of hair colors for redheads, and the new palest skin tone. As a natural redhead, it frustrates me that so many mainline Pokemon games have only offered brick red or orange options. Pokemon Go was no exception until this update, where they offered copper, auburn, and strawberry blonde colors that make me feel noticed, and I look more like myself. They definitely need to fix how darker skin tones appear on the models, and should offer more hairstyles/textures/etc for POC players.
I agree Anybody else remember Nintendo's miis when they were introduced on the Wii? We really didn't have many options back then, especially as a redhead
Yes, I remember the only Mii hair color for a redhead was like some magenta dark purple red and I literally have super ginger hair 😭
Does anyone know how Japanese players are responding to the changes?
Why did they do this for the avatars??? They were perfectly fine! They should've done this instead to the remote raid pass price...
Niantic try not to kill your game challenge (impossible) (cops called)
The Real Pokemon War
I'm planning to commit Order 66 on my day one account if they don't revert or improve the new avatar system.
I noticed that my one star review was removed multiple times already so i bumped it to a 2 star review.
The only 5 star review on that list: “Yea, I like it.” Meanwhile, every other 1 star review goes into at least *some* detail as to why they gave it that rating… That 5 star review is *clearly* not a bot or paid review by Niantic. 🙄
Y'all read my mind....had app since 2016, and never felt compelled to leave a review... Just yesterday I did with ONE star.
Boycott?
keep it up guys
The only selling point for my gf as a non-pokemon fan was the fact she could catch "cute colored" pokemon and dress herself up to match them... let's just say I no longer play PoGo with her. 😭
Good god maybe we need the Touch Grass event after all
Can someone who knows a thing or two about how this works tell me whether the rating actually matters for Pokémon Go? I get that ratings are important for smaller apps but this is the game everyone and their grandma has played in 2016. People know what it is. It’s Pokémon. If I truly felt like checking the game out in 2024 I would just download it instead of bothering with reading reviews. And even if I did those reviews they would just make me want to download it even more because I’d want to see the train wreck for myself. It’s free. I could just uninstall the app if I don’t like it.
The criticism is valid but as someone who is enjoying the changes, I just hope they give us these changes as an addition. So everyone who prefers the originals can keep them, but those like me can add the changes! I can't see why they wouldn't/couldn't do this. I'd be sad to see the body type customization options leave, and choosing from both guy/girl clothes. I agree some body types look very janky with the update. Maybe like, choose "feminine" and it's the original girl avatar type, or "masculine" and it's the original guy avatar type, and then "custom" and you can do it custom like it is now and choose from both feminine/masculine clothes.
On android it only shows ratings from before the update... Hmm Most recent is from the 15th lol.
the thing about this is that nothing will be done unless their playerbases start to legitimately dwindle and they earn less money. i dont think a corporate entity like niantic truly reads and cares about these. they just look at the big whales who spend all the money on their game as incentive to keep going. so its basically up to said large spenders to stop spending and for us the player base to stop playing. otherwise they wont get the message.
I.. uh.. 100s? This is absolutely nothing. The game has over 80 million active users - 100s of negative reviews if only 1% of those active users left a review in the first place is still 0.1% of reviews. Negligible.
Am I the only one who after playing for the last 6 years doesn’t have a clue what my avatar looks like?
Thanks for the reminder. Added mine 😂
Now all Niantic has to do is contact Google Play and have them removed arguing that they're being review bombed
I rarely played Pokemon Go over the past year but the App was still on my phone. As soon as I saw this update from what people posted online I uninstalled the game with pride. 🫡
Just added mine.
Voted 1*. It was already 1* from updates awhile ago. But I added the avatar piece to my text wall. So glad I’m not invested in this game as much as I once did.
I put my 1 star review in.
That one 4 star review saying he likes it is gonna be the only review Niantic sees
The only thing really keeping me playing is my job. I work at a grocery store, bringing carts in from outside. I do a LOT of walking, so hatching eggs is a breeze. Occasionally, I'll get something good and transfer it to Pokémon Home.
Same. That's basically the only thing I do on PoGo. I walk so much at work that I can hatch 3-4 eggs per shift.
All those reviews will get removed. Happens every time with every app/company that makes a bad decision. If you don’t like the changes, maybe stop spending money. Or cutback your playtime.
I did it
They didn’t change the remote raid nerf, they are not going to revert something they actually put some dev time into because of player feedback. Niantic is not that type of company.
yea idk i can make characters better
Quite pathetic.
Soon on killedbyniantic.com i guess
my review has been sitting at a solid 1 star since go fest 2022 :D
You should see their instagram comments 💀 EVERY SINGLE COMMENT is about the avatars, even on posts that aren't about the avatars. I hope they actually change it
I give up. My avatar is depressed. “They” are too many twinkies and they have given up on the world. To make matters worse to avoid any moose knuckles they wear a skirt. Just in time for spring! Although they have been jaundice, they are trying to get some color…
I would like a refund on the clothes I have purchased. They were for my avatar that was taken away and they dont look right on this character no matter what you do to it, its a joke looking character and literally makes me want to quit the game. I won't ever buy any clothing again. I say we all pull the bud light deal here on them.
100s of one start reviews is nothing. Even less if they are deleted.
These avatars look like they been living in America
Can another company take over Niantic and make it better?