No free participation in Umbra anomalies

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  • Just made me consider something I hadn't.

    Those poor agents who haven't been able to attend past events, but are lucky enough to live in a city for this next round - they might not be able to get the badge now either.

  • LemoMcLemonFaceLemoMcLemonFace ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2019

    Old passcodes will no longer redeem...

    Took me a few mins to realise that was fake.. 😂

  • Just wait enough time, and it won't be fake. Can see it coming 😂

  • DSktrDSktr ✭✭✭✭

    I suggest U to change price to $0.99 in whole world if U want to see if Agents are ready to play and give some extra benefits for those who paid already.

  • To be fair, a lot of faithful players started leaving once the toxicity from the guardian hunting, spoofing, and data scraping came to the forefront. It got worse with Prime’s force on new players and Redacted’s **** spiral.

    You know all this strike would do is get PoGo and WU players angry at us as a community even more, since they “pay for our rent” (rent being the server farm and resources we share), and argue with “we already pay to play at events so why can’t you?”

    Niantic already has to employ reviewers per that recent trespassing/nuisance settlement, so all this would do is just slow down the approval process with no real impact in many congested areas. They’ll just push through and delay QoL improvements that won’t affect profitability for any other game that utilizes the Real World Platform.

    We would need a different approach to countering the effects of this. Maybe organize unofficial free volunteer-run events in different cities during the anomaly weekend. Then they could see how uninhibited free participation compares to paid participation in a global setting. People keep track of stats all the time in this game without needing Niantic’s direct access, and without breaking TOS. This happens on IFS events all the time. Mind you, such volunteer events will probably be less complex, similar to early anomaly series with cluster battles and field control with a couple other elements thrown in.

    Also Niantic really needs to look at e-sports leagues in general. Free leagues tend to be more popular and competitive than the paid ones; paid ones tend to be more ‘elite’ and showy but also offer real prizes and swag so people join for the tangible stuff (hint HINT).

  • To be fair, a lot of faithful players started leaving once the toxicity from the guardian hunting, spoofing, and data scraping came to the forefront. It got worse with Prime’s force on new players and Redacted’s **** spiral.

    You know all this strike would do is get PoGo and WU players angry at us as a community even more, since they “pay for our rent” (rent being the server farm and resources we share), and argue with “we already pay to play at events so why can’t you?”

    Niantic already has to employ reviewers per that recent trespassing/nuisance settlement, so all this would do is just slow down the approval process with no real impact in many congested areas. They’ll just push through and delay QoL improvements that won’t affect profitability for any other game that utilizes the Real World Platform.

    We would need a different approach to countering the effects of this. Maybe organize unofficial free volunteer-run events in different cities during the anomaly weekend. Then they could see how uninhibited free participation compares to paid participation in a global setting. People keep track of stats all the time in this game without needing Niantic’s direct access, and without breaking TOS. This happens on IFS events all the time. Mind you, such volunteer event will probably be less complex, similar to early anomaly series with cluster battles and field control with a couple other elements thrown in.

    Also Niantic really needs to look at e-sports leagues in general. Free leagues tend to be more popular and competitive than the paid ones; paid ones tend to be more ‘elite’ and showy but also offer real prizes and swag so people join for the tangible stuff (hint HINT).

  • To be fair, a lot of faithful players started leaving once the toxicity from the guardian hunting, spoofing, and data scraping came to the forefront. It got worse with Prime’s force on new players and Redacted’s **** spiral.

    You know all this strike would do is get PoGo and WU players angry at us as a community even more, since they “pay for our rent” (rent being the server farm and resources we share), and argue with “we already pay to play at events so why can’t you?”

    Niantic already has to employ reviewers per that recent trespassing/nuisance settlement, so all this would do is just slow down the approval process with no real impact in many congested areas. They’ll just push through and delay QoL improvements that won’t affect profitability for any other game that utilizes the Real World Platform.

    We would need a different approach to countering the effects of this. Maybe organize unofficial free volunteer-run events in different cities during the anomaly weekend. Then they could see how uninhibited free participation compares to paid participation in a global setting. People keep track of stats all the time in this game without needing Niantic’s direct access, and without breaking TOS. This happens on IFS events all the time. Mind you, such volunteer event will probably be less complex, similar to early anomaly series with cluster battles and field control with a couple other elements thrown in.

    Also Niantic really needs to look at e-sports leagues in general. Free leagues tend to be more popular and competitive than the paid ones; paid ones tend to be more ‘elite’ and showy but also offer real prizes and swag so people join for the tangible stuff (hint HINT).

  • Well, looks like I won't be attending any anomalies outside Finland anymore if NIA can come up with **** like this AFTER everyone has booked their flights and all. (If any anomalies at all, €15 for a single badge is total bulls***.)

    At this rate it looks like Nemesis will succeed in shutting down the portal network by killing all the interest in it.

  • TheFarixTheFarix ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm more surprised to find out that Naintic even allowed unpaid participation in an organized event, such as an anomaly.

  • SoylentGrienSoylentGrien ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2019

    All participation was free until now. Swag, item packs and character cards were optional extras. And this was when Niantic actually turned up on site with registration staff and often one of the backstory/lore characters (an actor). Now we have to pay and they won't even be there because registration is automated.

  • TheFarixTheFarix ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2019

    I'm rather flabergasted to hear that. Anomoies seems like natural revenue streams. That they never charged before is rather idiotic, IMO. I wouldn't expect to go to an anime convention, arts&craft fair, or a trade show without paying the attendance fee.

  • I totally agree with the part that since Niantic, doesn't participate on site at each event, the paid ticket it's kinda too much, since all the job gets done by each community all the time, but what I find most unacceptable is that there yet to be a post from someone in Niantic, explaining the reason behind this ticket value, especially for the off-site ones.

    If Niantic plans to use the technology that created for the GoFest events that goes like, if you don't have a ticket you don't see the volatile portals, that could be the only good aspect of it, since it will prevent accounts from flying around affecting negatively the gameplay, like it happen in past anomalies especially when media were one of the anomaly's games for some points, that could prevent people buying more tickets for vault accounts as well, to do that. I'm curious to see what response will Niantic give to all of this chaos

  • This is a player organized event, Niantic's input here doesn't go much forther then "sanctioning" the event as official and setting up some sign up page where people can give them money and pushing a medal.

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