Doctor

the joke was the state of the game currently and everyone who still plays it was pranked

Sure, because they didn't lie about shiny locks for years so they can't be possibly lying about it again now! Small correction, though: it was most probably devs not telling staff rather than staff directly lying to the players, most of the time they're as much in the dark as the players are when it comes to that kind of stuff.

Literally no one cried my man why are you like this why do you feel this need to create arguments over nothing

>I don’t think I agree >proceeds to elaborate on why he actually agrees completely

Bro has been crying about this for two entire years, I respect the dedication:

This. This is the core problem of the entire game. Balance stuff so that alt acc grinders don’t abuse said stuff = stuff becomes insufferable to grind/unaffordable = players need to either swipe the credit card or create alt accounts or both to be able to PLAY the game = rebalance stuff = stuff becomes insufferable and unaffordable, rinse and repeat and you get the unplayable state of the game that we have now ”but bro you can spend three hours a day gym rerunning so that you can afford a 5x31 pokemon” seek therapy

afaik those two are very much allowed in doubles “Fanfic solutions to artificially created problems by introducing out-of-gen items/mechanics to pretend the game has new content” is my favorite flavor of dev idea, closely followed by “can’t ban anything to Ubers because bad game design” which of course usually go in tandem. The perfect chocolate-vanilla idiocy sandwich.

He wants shiny nian vanity but can’t get it because Chinese = good So please make leaderboard 2 without Chinese Use Wigglytuff it’s good (not Chinese good tho) yw

Here, have the Medicham one, I think it looks cooler

Don’t you think insulting everyone who says something that you don’t agree with could lead to more negativity and doesn’t exactly add anything constructive with the discussions? If you disagree, tell us why, but calling people names surely doesn’t fix the problem and rather becomes the problem itself friend

Merckis you've been a bit on edge lately do you need to talk about something brother

Yeah, that's fair. I understand the balance between keeping people engaged with the event and, like you said, treating it just like a farming chore is delicate. It's nice that the first boss gives 1 Lucky Red Envelope again, though, it's always good to be able to "give up" when farming stuff vs. feeling the drag of having to continue in some sort of sunken cost fallacy bias happening. For me and my friends, whenever we engaged with the Shrine, it was more or less like that: aim for the one envelope for a quick run, and sometimes if we were having a good run or we were feeling like it, continuing to the next checkpoint. With its removal it felt much more like a "forced" endeavor (understand the word forced here, not that anyone was aiming a Remoraid at my head, just a figure of speech when considering the entire run ahead). Thanks for taking the time to reply and listening, I think this is a good middle ground.

who hurt you lil bro

@Rache any explanation as to why second boss rewards have been nerfed without saying anything anywhere or am I missing something in terms of how to get the same rewards I was getting just today?

I think it's to prevent people from relogging and smashing rocks to farm for fossils