The bundles at the right most of the carousel breaks busgress. I can't ask my bus driver to slow, and every little bit of increase in time to do actions is a nail in the coffin.
I'm posting here too to clarify that the new "buy" stuff while playing is very anoying. I hope this will be a opt-in thing and we are able to turn it off or reverted back to where it was before.
I love the sony earbuds thing might need to get me some sony earbuds now. (Marketing is working xD)
I can see this being an option if you are short on L8 resos or whatever, but if I have two hundred L8 resos, I certainly don't need anymore.
Another instance of it being painfully obvious the dev team doesn't play the game and is out of touch when implementing changes like this and likely isn't utilizing feedback from the folks using beta builds either...
Because Release Notes are generally posted by someone at Niantic. And since they are just posting them wonky on their website, someone posted them here. And everyone is bloody annoyed at the store items in the carousel causing yet more issues. Apparently Niantic wanted to see if there was a new way to tick of users. That or they decided that they wanted to see how many 1 star reviews they could pick up this release?
sigh
People who don't normally post 1 star reviews are doing just that due to the stupid new store stuff in the carousel. Do they not gather input from anyone before they make these issues for themselves? It's frustrating to watch.
It's like a vicious cycle where a kid keeps touching a hot stove and you keep having to tell them not to do it or they are going to get burned. But they keep doing it anyway.
How about only showing the bundles if you're out of L8 gear? Someone with 94 L8 resonators is simply not going to buy more. But maybe the would, once they have less than five. (Not counting what's in Quantum Capsules, assuming those are kept just for breeding.)
There really needs more thought out into how this interaction occurs. I thought, what if it was on the left end near the L1 resos. Well, same problem because when I’m **** uniques, I’m using L1 resos. Which is the whole problem, we’re usually sliding the carousel to the far right or left quickly, anyone can see that’s the issue. What if when you **** it over, it stops on the 8s and if you did wanna purchase some, you have to actually tap it, but it’s off to the right in an inconspicuous place?
I dunno, kinda spit balling ideas. But really, it’s a poor design with little thought. It needs to be removed or somehow fixed that actually makes sense….
The only way it makes sense is to COMPLETELY REMOVE it.
If people want to buy something they go to the store section.
THERE'S NO NEED TO SHOVE UPSELL INTO ANY OTHER PART OF UI. Especially with hostile and predatory design that they put in this time.
I'm contemplating canceling my CORE subscription because of this. I find this change disgusting. The fact that Niantic thinks this is acceptable is unacceptable to me. Their greed of more money will result in them making less money.
Maybe have a swipe up or down on the carousel to access the "store items" ? Instead of the other things. It's not a natural movement that you would normally do, but then again, how would you know it's there?
Add my voice to the growing chorus who find this incredibly frustrating. I'm trying to deploy 8s, and I probably hit the purchase button 20 times last weekend when I was out building.
Store items on the carousel: Anyone who played Ingress a lot would have immediately understood that this is a horrible idea that would impact gameplay and provide no real benefit to players, and for the love of all that is good and right in the world I absolutely wouldn't have made this change before the first big anomaly in years. I would have listened to that one person in the meetings who said "this is going to annoy users more than it's worth."
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The bundles at the right most of the carousel breaks busgress. I can't ask my bus driver to slow, and every little bit of increase in time to do actions is a nail in the coffin.
"We know how you feel, we tried this before. We just don't care." ~ Niantic.
As I told in another topic,for me this button even doesn't work🤣
I'm posting here too to clarify that the new "buy" stuff while playing is very anoying. I hope this will be a opt-in thing and we are able to turn it off or reverted back to where it was before.
I love the sony earbuds thing might need to get me some sony earbuds now. (Marketing is working xD)
Or make it a toggle, especially for CORE subscribers.
Get real - they can't even remove "Join CORE" from the store for existing CORE subscribers.
Yeah I don’t know what I was thinking.
This all happened before, and they still make the same mistakes.
I can see this being an option if you are short on L8 resos or whatever, but if I have two hundred L8 resos, I certainly don't need anymore.
Another instance of it being painfully obvious the dev team doesn't play the game and is out of touch when implementing changes like this and likely isn't utilizing feedback from the folks using beta builds either...
Not to mention the previous fiasco when they did exactly this. Huge backlash, apologies, changes. Only to do it again. Sigh.
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Why is this post in "general" and not "release notes"?
Because Release Notes are generally posted by someone at Niantic. And since they are just posting them wonky on their website, someone posted them here. And everyone is bloody annoyed at the store items in the carousel causing yet more issues. Apparently Niantic wanted to see if there was a new way to tick of users. That or they decided that they wanted to see how many 1 star reviews they could pick up this release?
sigh
People who don't normally post 1 star reviews are doing just that due to the stupid new store stuff in the carousel. Do they not gather input from anyone before they make these issues for themselves? It's frustrating to watch.
Same as last time around I guess.
It's like a vicious cycle where a kid keeps touching a hot stove and you keep having to tell them not to do it or they are going to get burned. But they keep doing it anyway.
@NianticThia ^^^^
How about only showing the bundles if you're out of L8 gear? Someone with 94 L8 resonators is simply not going to buy more. But maybe the would, once they have less than five. (Not counting what's in Quantum Capsules, assuming those are kept just for breeding.)
There really needs more thought out into how this interaction occurs. I thought, what if it was on the left end near the L1 resos. Well, same problem because when I’m **** uniques, I’m using L1 resos. Which is the whole problem, we’re usually sliding the carousel to the far right or left quickly, anyone can see that’s the issue. What if when you **** it over, it stops on the 8s and if you did wanna purchase some, you have to actually tap it, but it’s off to the right in an inconspicuous place?
I dunno, kinda spit balling ideas. But really, it’s a poor design with little thought. It needs to be removed or somehow fixed that actually makes sense….
The only way it makes sense is to COMPLETELY REMOVE it.
If people want to buy something they go to the store section.
THERE'S NO NEED TO SHOVE UPSELL INTO ANY OTHER PART OF UI. Especially with hostile and predatory design that they put in this time.
I'm contemplating canceling my CORE subscription because of this. I find this change disgusting. The fact that Niantic thinks this is acceptable is unacceptable to me. Their greed of more money will result in them making less money.
yeah, and this is the second time. They probably didn’t want to waste the development time ;P
Maybe have a swipe up or down on the carousel to access the "store items" ? Instead of the other things. It's not a natural movement that you would normally do, but then again, how would you know it's there?
Add my voice to the growing chorus who find this incredibly frustrating. I'm trying to deploy 8s, and I probably hit the purchase button 20 times last weekend when I was out building.
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Store items on the carousel: Anyone who played Ingress a lot would have immediately understood that this is a horrible idea that would impact gameplay and provide no real benefit to players, and for the love of all that is good and right in the world I absolutely wouldn't have made this change before the first big anomaly in years. I would have listened to that one person in the meetings who said "this is going to annoy users more than it's worth."
I am posting this @NianticThia
1). The packs should be on the far left of the carousel, for Resonators and Xmps
2) Level 8 xmps should not be avail for purchase. Max level for P2W xmps is Level 6