I'd love to see more archive medals, but it sounds like after they "experimented" with them, they were replaced by the new festive badges (Haloween, New Year and winter medals). I'm not sure if we'll see them again in the near future, but if we do, I'll throw in my vote for Susanna as well :D
Deactivating old passcodes would be a very, very dumb idea IMO. If you bought a passcode legitimately from Niantic, but for whatever reason didn't redeem it yet, you're essentially getting your money stolen away from you. I'm not a lawyer and have no ideas how American laws work, but it feels illigal as well. At the very, very least, if the passcodes will be invalid at some point, Niantic would have to give at least half a year notice, so agents can scramble around to redeem any codes they might have or give them away.
IMO they should have had an expiring date since the beginning, to prevent any abuse and reselling. They were all anomaly related, right? So it could had a very short expiring date, still allowing it to be used as gift at their respective time,but not years ahead.
But thinking more about this, the "grey" isn't hurting anyone, actually... All that old passcodes were bought, right? So Niantic already had their money for it. It's not an in game item. Reselling the badges with this purpose is just like if a marvel decided to reprint Amazing fantasy #15 and sell it for hundreds instead the cents 🤔
I'd guesstimate that at most half of the badge passcodes come from anomalies. Events like NL-1331 also sold passcodes, both for the NL-1331 badge (or variations of it before it became tiered) and various characters. Some badges were also distributed as dead drops. Klue'16 for example has only ever been available from dead drops if my memory isn't completely screwing me over.
Regarding the "grey", as long as Niantic isn't actively selling the badges, I wouldn't think it would directly affect them.
I can't speak for @MoogModular , but I also have several loadout cards I haven't used yet. I guess I'm saving them "for an emergency". For example, last year I didn't use most of the New Year codes we were given over the holidays, so when I went to the Oxford First Saturday and ran out of bursters I was able to redeem 5 or 6 codes and get a bunch more to play on.
Throwing my support behind this idea. Need a way to spend that CMU that's going to be accumulating. Would love to see more archived medals in the store.
I have a few extras of characters but if I ever sell them, it's for the intention of selling them physically. Never really for the intention of profit but more for trades.
Some of the loadout cards I have are pretty extreme - VR loadout cards give a lot:
Has anyone ever mentioned if they did well? I’m not into them because there isn’t a connection to something I attended or earned. But I feel like if more people bought them, they would do them more often. I think Brian mentioned something about them at some point, but can’t recall it what manner.
Id love it if they did some of the events over for some of those medals. I know OG gate keepers would croak if that happened, but 🤷🏼♂️😭
I think they should release a Full set of badges about the same theme. I was waiting to collect all of the Nemesis, but covid taked at least two away. Every year could have at least 4 (one each season) global events and also purchaseable badges about them, to keep the same thematic.
You can (and many have) asked others to pick up their anomaly packs for the character medals from anomalies they can't attend in person. They don't get anomaly medals (for the later anomalies) of course.
I do love a badge however Personally I couldn't bring myself to part with £50 especially when I didn't earn them plus my Mrs would **** me if she saw that sort of money come out of the account for ingress 😂
badges should be based on achievement / merit, not $$$ donations.
don't get me wrong, i'm happy to pay to keep servers running because i like the game, but there needs to be recognition of achievement separate from me pulling $$$ out of my wallet.
I wish even though the badges and loadouts are all digital, that they released a dossier (maybe as a pdf?) for the characters. It was always nice to see the art and background of the story for the character.
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I myself would like susanna moyer or one of the older ada badge to buy..
I'd love to see more archive medals, but it sounds like after they "experimented" with them, they were replaced by the new festive badges (Haloween, New Year and winter medals). I'm not sure if we'll see them again in the near future, but if we do, I'll throw in my vote for Susanna as well :D
Weren't that badges also with the purpose of ending the black market of passcodes?
Would be interesting if Niantic just released all of them at once, for a cheap price, while also announcing that the passcodes will became inactive.
Deactivating old passcodes would be a very, very dumb idea IMO. If you bought a passcode legitimately from Niantic, but for whatever reason didn't redeem it yet, you're essentially getting your money stolen away from you. I'm not a lawyer and have no ideas how American laws work, but it feels illigal as well. At the very, very least, if the passcodes will be invalid at some point, Niantic would have to give at least half a year notice, so agents can scramble around to redeem any codes they might have or give them away.
IMO they should have had an expiring date since the beginning, to prevent any abuse and reselling. They were all anomaly related, right? So it could had a very short expiring date, still allowing it to be used as gift at their respective time,but not years ahead.
But thinking more about this, the "grey" isn't hurting anyone, actually... All that old passcodes were bought, right? So Niantic already had their money for it. It's not an in game item. Reselling the badges with this purpose is just like if a marvel decided to reprint Amazing fantasy #15 and sell it for hundreds instead the cents 🤔
> They were all anomaly related, right?
I'd guesstimate that at most half of the badge passcodes come from anomalies. Events like NL-1331 also sold passcodes, both for the NL-1331 badge (or variations of it before it became tiered) and various characters. Some badges were also distributed as dead drops. Klue'16 for example has only ever been available from dead drops if my memory isn't completely screwing me over.
Regarding the "grey", as long as Niantic isn't actively selling the badges, I wouldn't think it would directly affect them.
I still have a lot of loadout codes awaiting redemption.
I know people still have Hint water passcodes on hand for emergency situations.
Just out of curiosity, why you didn't redeemed your codes yet?
Still plenty of those codes at ebay but buying there niantic wont get a dime....
I want the ADA one I'm missing.
I can't speak for @MoogModular , but I also have several loadout cards I haven't used yet. I guess I'm saving them "for an emergency". For example, last year I didn't use most of the New Year codes we were given over the holidays, so when I went to the Oxford First Saturday and ran out of bursters I was able to redeem 5 or 6 codes and get a bunch more to play on.
Throwing my support behind this idea. Need a way to spend that CMU that's going to be accumulating. Would love to see more archived medals in the store.
Still can use them for a dire situation.
But the ones with badges too? I would redeem those asap.
I have a few extras of characters but if I ever sell them, it's for the intention of selling them physically. Never really for the intention of profit but more for trades.
Some of the loadout cards I have are pretty extreme - VR loadout cards give a lot:
Prefer Niantic didn't sell old characters.
A lot of ppl spent a ton of money flying to anomalies to get those badges.
It would be like Niantic selling Navarro badges. Or founders, or Apple badge.
I know its good for fundraising, but why not just create new badges?
Has anyone ever mentioned if they did well? I’m not into them because there isn’t a connection to something I attended or earned. But I feel like if more people bought them, they would do them more often. I think Brian mentioned something about them at some point, but can’t recall it what manner.
Id love it if they did some of the events over for some of those medals. I know OG gate keepers would croak if that happened, but 🤷🏼♂️😭
I think they should release a Full set of badges about the same theme. I was waiting to collect all of the Nemesis, but covid taked at least two away. Every year could have at least 4 (one each season) global events and also purchaseable badges about them, to keep the same thematic.
Probably not, if there was a competitive event you had to attend.
You can (and many have) asked others to pick up their anomaly packs for the character medals from anomalies they can't attend in person. They don't get anomaly medals (for the later anomalies) of course.
I do love a badge however Personally I couldn't bring myself to part with £50 especially when I didn't earn them plus my Mrs would **** me if she saw that sort of money come out of the account for ingress 😂
there ars still some passcodes out there for archive medals!
A Drone Badge would be great!
It would be great if Niantic put a few medals from the archive in the store again.
i agreee... even the highly relevant for ingress story, they can create new ones
the old school players can have both, and the new players can see the lore in the new ones
badges should be based on achievement / merit, not $$$ donations.
don't get me wrong, i'm happy to pay to keep servers running because i like the game, but there needs to be recognition of achievement separate from me pulling $$$ out of my wallet.
I wish even though the badges and loadouts are all digital, that they released a dossier (maybe as a pdf?) for the characters. It was always nice to see the art and background of the story for the character.
I'm sure they still have the old items cards for the face medals somewhere. Though I do like the idea of a printable file of them for collectors.