I never buy medals. See agents buy both blue and green. I dont understand way we cant buy both when Niantic say medals are for the faction agent are. Way Niantic lock and we only can buy faction medal we use.
I wait for new avatars but take long time for lots new avatars release.
I never think to support Ingress Prime and Niantic. I only buy avatars now in Prime i like. When now only relese and spend time on medals for buy i dont like I dont buy.
Lazy and ugly. I like to support Ingress and Niantic, but these just don't look worthwhile. Not to mention that it is summer where I am (40°C earlier this week), so the whole snowy winter theme is irrelevant - especially as I have never seen snow.
That two redacted arrow bugging me since the beginning. Why not just one avatar, that change the color according to the player faction? Just like it originally was. Seeing someone using the wrong color is wrong...
If I was having those thoughts, I would ask myself why it actually mattered to me. You only see other players avatars of you look at their profiles, AFAIK.
But old now. Niantic only spend time to relese new medals often. Hope Niantic soon spend lots of time on relese new avatars and we minimum get 1 new avatar every month. If we spend for subscription when Niantic relese it we get new avatars and medals.
I'm not against the medals available in the store, but honestly it could be a more elaborate design, to have a greater reason to buy them and help Niantic/INGRESS.
That we have the love of the game and the community does not mean that they try less on us.
They are by an apocalyptic margin the ugliest badges in my profile...
I bought em for the support factor, and i still am a huge **** for profile stickers, even ugly ducklings, but Niantic, for the love of god, put some more time into these...
Bring back some of that umbra, didact, avenir flair.... i know those also got a lot of hate and you can't really please everybody, but nobody can argue they weren't elaborate and finely crafted. You can tell somebody made those with love.
Anybody with some extremely minimal photoshop knowledge and even less design experience can make these in like an hour...
If you made this and you're reading this, i'm truely sorry but you litterally couldn't make them more basic if you tried. People need to buy these for how they look and they look really... off compared to most of the others.
It's like seeing a nice row of pretty cars and then suddenly granddad parks his rusty old Volvo next to them.
They're rare Collectables. You made a collection of them. Haven't you ever played any game with collectables, like pokemon, Mario stickers, spiderman games, etc, There is away some sort is Collectables in modern games. Cards, comic books, coins, bestiary data, etc. The point is "gotta catch'em all", they're trophies.
I only dislike this approach of Niantic beacuse those badges are mixed with the achievements badges. I've bought some, but just the ones I liked. I'm not going all in like some agents do.
As always, I wish that this medal had to be earned by doing something other than forking over money. I want my badges to reflect accomplishments rather than just being shiny objects. I'd be happy to pay for it, I just want to have to accomplish something, anything really, before forking over the $$.
I bought the last two, but this “design” is just too much for me. So I think I’ll pass on this one. This looks like a 3 minute job between finding the vector on some random vector site and then throwing it into Illustrator. Sorry, pass..
It wouldn't have to be much of a challenge. Earn 5K AP or something trivial, just so there was a do-something component to it. But that's just me. I know I'm in the minority when it comes to the decorative badge thing, and I'd be happy to fork over money to Niantic if it didn't leave me feeling bad about it every time I looked at my profile.
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Basic.
I used to joke that Niantic should add hats to Ingress, like Team Fortress 2 did.
These are hats.
I like hats. Easy way to toss Niantic a few bucks without doing anything that unbalances the game.
Why not actual hat on the avatars? The avatars seems pretty abandoned... I feel like they could play a larger role.
Some of the player avatars look so good, I just cant buy them :') third world issues amirite!
I never buy medals. See agents buy both blue and green. I dont understand way we cant buy both when Niantic say medals are for the faction agent are. Way Niantic lock and we only can buy faction medal we use.
I wait for new avatars but take long time for lots new avatars release.
@NianticBrian
You can buy both, they are not faction-locked. Nowhere does Niantic state that you can only buy the badge for your faction.
I like them, i bought both to support the game.
I never think to support Ingress Prime and Niantic. I only buy avatars now in Prime i like. When now only relese and spend time on medals for buy i dont like I dont buy.
Lazy and ugly. I like to support Ingress and Niantic, but these just don't look worthwhile. Not to mention that it is summer where I am (40°C earlier this week), so the whole snowy winter theme is irrelevant - especially as I have never seen snow.
You have a few options for avatars already. NL-1331, the 1.x scanner arrows (blue and green), the... colors poly balls?, and TOAAAAAAST.
That two redacted arrow bugging me since the beginning. Why not just one avatar, that change the color according to the player faction? Just like it originally was. Seeing someone using the wrong color is wrong...
And they can do it, since NL operate this way.
If I was having those thoughts, I would ask myself why it actually mattered to me. You only see other players avatars of you look at their profiles, AFAIK.
But old now. Niantic only spend time to relese new medals often. Hope Niantic soon spend lots of time on relese new avatars and we minimum get 1 new avatar every month. If we spend for subscription when Niantic relese it we get new avatars and medals.
They probably already figured out that badges = $$$ while avatars didn't make much in comparison.
I'm not against the medals available in the store, but honestly it could be a more elaborate design, to have a greater reason to buy them and help Niantic/INGRESS.
That we have the love of the game and the community does not mean that they try less on us.
What is fun to buy medals we look at 1 time?
More fun with avatars we can use often when we play. Way more interesting of buy medals in store?
They are by an apocalyptic margin the ugliest badges in my profile...
I bought em for the support factor, and i still am a huge **** for profile stickers, even ugly ducklings, but Niantic, for the love of god, put some more time into these...
Bring back some of that umbra, didact, avenir flair.... i know those also got a lot of hate and you can't really please everybody, but nobody can argue they weren't elaborate and finely crafted. You can tell somebody made those with love.
Anybody with some extremely minimal photoshop knowledge and even less design experience can make these in like an hour...
If you made this and you're reading this, i'm truely sorry but you litterally couldn't make them more basic if you tried. People need to buy these for how they look and they look really... off compared to most of the others.
It's like seeing a nice row of pretty cars and then suddenly granddad parks his rusty old Volvo next to them.
They're rare Collectables. You made a collection of them. Haven't you ever played any game with collectables, like pokemon, Mario stickers, spiderman games, etc, There is away some sort is Collectables in modern games. Cards, comic books, coins, bestiary data, etc. The point is "gotta catch'em all", they're trophies.
I only dislike this approach of Niantic beacuse those badges are mixed with the achievements badges. I've bought some, but just the ones I liked. I'm not going all in like some agents do.
Only like to play hard on Ingress evets to earn medals. Memory when i get the medal. All medals for buy are bad and not fun to have on profile for me.
Latest Halloween, new year or bad winter and dad desing not follow ingress Prime desing.
All new medals for Prime we get for free on events looks nice.
Just don't buy them if you don't like them. If Niantic tried to make everyone happy all of the time, we would all be angry at them, all of the time.
But now i must see theme If i look on agents profile. Not help If dont buy it when i never or dont look on my profile often.
Thats because your profile is boring. Have you recursed already?
It would be better if there was event tiered medals between paid medals. I might end up having 2 consecutive rows of paid medals soon.
As always, I wish that this medal had to be earned by doing something other than forking over money. I want my badges to reflect accomplishments rather than just being shiny objects. I'd be happy to pay for it, I just want to have to accomplish something, anything really, before forking over the $$.
I bought the last two, but this “design” is just too much for me. So I think I’ll pass on this one. This looks like a 3 minute job between finding the vector on some random vector site and then throwing it into Illustrator. Sorry, pass..
until we can have global challenges back or similar, this is what they offer for now optional.
I like badges that mean something, not screen clutter.
It wouldn't have to be much of a challenge. Earn 5K AP or something trivial, just so there was a do-something component to it. But that's just me. I know I'm in the minority when it comes to the decorative badge thing, and I'd be happy to fork over money to Niantic if it didn't leave me feeling bad about it every time I looked at my profile.