Sakura Badges - Discussion

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  • GrukzGrukz ✭✭
    edited March 2021

    Most of the regulars here spent lot of money for the game so these might not be a big deal for them, but these are super expensive here and as a casual micro fielding solo player not fun for me.

    For those saying it's optional, it's optional but it's for the profile which is big deal.

    I only started ingress in Dec 2019 and I come from PoGo.

    I loved the game become of lack of fomo, single player experience and lack of cash grabby fomo stuff unlike pogo.

    With no way to make free cmu it's kind of bad to see the game becoming cash grabby by introducing ton of limited time badges.

    I don't mind character badges since they are rarer and also in game premium items but these fun badges being locked behind a pay wall is not fun.

    They could have added a way to play for them. Play or pay for seasonal would have been fun.

    They honestly don't care about f2p or casuals at all, even pogo is better in this regard because of free coins.

    Before anyone says go play pogo, I am exactly going to do that. Better that than this.

    Both are becoming cashgrabby but it least one has free coins.

    The no cash grab allure of ingress has gone for me. I have lost all the motivation to play like before.

    I am stopping being super active and just gonna play ingress super casually. I guess I am not the target audience.

  • ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ive mentioned this in the past, as have others, but I’d pay 2500cmu for this all day if there were tasks associated with the medal. Otherwise, will continue to pass unless the artwork is exceptional or fits nice on my profile. I know there is a pandemic going on, but there are still tasks people can complete, especially with the drone being an option.

    The ingress team must be making some good money off these if they keep cranking them out though. Numbers speak louder than any of us here in the forums 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • MoogModularMoogModular ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't get how this is a cash grab when it's completely optional. I see these event badges as the character badges back in the day. You didn't need to buy the Rare and Very Rare loadouts to participate but they were there if you loved the event.

  • PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is there a source that Pokémon GO will get a CORE like subscription? I mean, I don’t doubt that it will, but wondered if there was anything about it.

  • jontebulajontebula ✭✭✭✭✭

    I dont like the medals and the design. Hope @NianticBrian soon can tell Niantic relese lots of avatars we can spend CMU.

  • There isn't. There is code which Prime uses, in the common classes shared between PoGo and Prime, and PoGo data miners have taken this to mean PoGo will get a subscription.

    It could if CORE is successful, and the effort would be very minimal to implement for PoGo, but the reason the classes and strings are there, is for Prime.

  • thesolothesolo ✭✭✭✭✭

    See also my other thread about how they need to fix the agent profiles.

  • Jak mogę usunąć te medale?

  • expediterexpediter ✭✭✭

    Love the designs of the badges. Hope to see more beautiful badges in the future. Although... don't forget about the archived characters. They need some love too.

  • I like these badges, and it's an opportunity to support ingress ... There are items in the shop that would normally be bought (pokemon go: remote raidpass, incubator ...). It is optional who wants to buy them 😄



  • Otrera35Otrera35 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2021

    No, thank you! Already doing portal scans as free labor. I believe Niantic owes agents who do portal scans additional badges rather than the existing Scout and Scout controller badges.  Would it be nice if Niantic gives the three Sakura badges to those hard-working agents who collect and upload portal scans as a way to motivate them? But, alas it's just wishful thinking and it won't happen. At least dreams are free. 😀

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  • GoblinGranateGoblinGranate ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm Ok about paid badges, but at least make them related to the lore? Why not getting character badges, for example?

  • InerasIneras ✭✭✭

    I am in favor of the new cosmetic medals. Yes, they have nothing to do with the story; however, character medals are also optional. Many minimalists never purchased any medals at all, so they're clearly not the target audience. Agents have the choice of forgoing sold medals if they only want to deck their profiles with in-game achievements. I think the latter group should keep in mind that people get to enjoy Ingress for free because there are players supporting the game via subscriptions and store items.

    A better argument would be, "Why not allocate resources elsewhere?" Which @GoblinGranate addressed. I'd purchase all the archetype medals on release.

  • AnderorAnderor ✭✭

    Are there any other medals planned, or something where CMUs can be used? There is nothing in the shop, buying resonators / rockets is not worthwhile when I recycle them with LVL8 🤦‍♀️


  • The Ingress team is doing regular events, but only have so many worker bees. They've been producing lots of badges lately, with various means of obtaining them. I'm sure they'll come back around to paid ones, but many people complained that there weren't effort-based ones too.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭

    monthly character badges should be on rotation each month i dont get it.. there is demand for it surely.

  • I want these badges back in the store as I wasn't playing at the time and I really like the look of them.

  • Will they return in 2023? Oo

  • PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭

    Probably not. We didn’t get a Halloween badge in 2022, and the events look sparse for Q1.

  • Last year they also sold the Lunar New Year (Year of the Tiger) badge. It would be cool if they followed up this year with the Year of the Rabbit badge in the same style.



  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2023


    As it looks now for Q1 niantic has removed all mini events for some reason all we got for start of new year is a cosmetic badge to buy for cmu.... is this how they plan to increase the playerbase by having less events then a year ago and even the outcome for enl winning the anomaly is totaly silence about that cube and what was inside 🤔

  • PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭

    ENL wins never come with good prizes I’ve been told so maybe the prize this time was that all the Q1 events got cancelled.

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