Sakura Badges - Discussion
So, what's up with this?
I like having these occasional fun badges, but three seems overkill. Why not allow people to pick just one of the three?
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So, what's up with this?
I like having these occasional fun badges, but three seems overkill. Why not allow people to pick just one of the three?
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ya all the choices are in each person how many medals they will take.
Ah, here's the Niantic writeup: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13949/let-s-welcome-the-season-of-cherry-blossoms
So no, they're not just for the event.
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I'd be happy to give Niantic my money but I think I'm gonna sit this one out. Profiles look like a joke now without the ability to rearrange badges or put these unearned ones somewhere else.
I ended up buying all three but I kind of regret not sticking with just one.
Why not allow people to pick just one of the three?
I don't understand why we shouldn't be able to buy all three. Badges don't influence the game and are cosmetic only, Niantic would s h o o t themselves in the foot allowing only one badge to be bought.
I personally really like them and bought them all instantly ;)
the 3 are really nice, and now with CORE i have some "extra" CMO... so... already done =)
But why dont they give us som more medals from the archive instead. Thinks its too much sesonal badges now. But want to support Ingress also. Maybe the next step is to be able to sort our medals.
edit: not my thing, but to each their own I guess :)
Please bring on some medals we can earn!
I LOVE these and cannot believe the negativity on this thread. They're pretty, and they're optional. If you don't like them, don't buy them!
@NianticBrian if you're reading this, JOB WELL DONE. More of this, please!
Three medals seems a little bit excesive, but I've bought all of them cause they are SO PRETTYYYYY!!! 😍😍🤩
Stop de selling!!! the community in my country is upset. and they are stopping playing.
a) You don't need to buy them.
b) They are purely decorative and offer no game-play advantage
c) They're beautiful.
I don't understand the problem here?
If the community in your country stops playing due to some optional, non-gameplay affecting badges, chances are that the real reasons are not the badges.
wonder why all the bashing? one medal every 2-3 months? sure, no harm done
winter medals for both enl and res? okay, two factions, two colors.. still kinda scummy (could've made one prettier winter themed medal, no?)
released subscription meanwhile, so you got a major income boost
now 3 flower medals? this is becoming a blatant cash grab, community showed some support and you're getting greedy. cash grabs are a sign of trouble, and you have just shown us that the magnitude of it will just increase while we accept it
and shove the argument that they don't affect gameplay, this greed will take you there eventually
These are beautiful and I would buy all three if paid-for badges were separated from earned badges in some way. But until that happens, I'm not spending money on badges.
My initial reaction was really 3 paid medals? but quickly realized since I only want 1 this gives me a better selection, and to anyone who wants them all that's great too they get 3 new medals and Niantic gets some more income, lastly anyone who wants none that's fine too simply do not buy them and you're set.
I do miss earned badges with events but it makes sense that those aren't happening yet.
I regret everything
Skipping them (just as all other seasonal ones), don't want to clutter my achievements with this.
Its good that we still can get some badges while the game is not used to be like what it should be in time being (pandemic and curfew)
The price still reasonable compared to how much we paid for Anomalies. Just the experience of getting on-site event medals and in store medals are totally difference.
(luckily these badges looks cool, bought it all haha)
I actually like all 3 and grabbed them as soon as I saw. I really like the art on them. The only weird thing is that Sakura Branch has black border and 2 others got white borders.. idk, this difference is bugging me a bit.. But otherwise I love 'em.
Badges to adorn the profile? I want 3!
I haven't seen anyone complain about how they look. They are very nice badges. The main issue that's being raised is that while these badges are pretty, they do clutter the profile and make it more difficult to find and see achievement medals. Some of us want to buy them but have that holding us back, and Niantic should know what they can do to get more sales.
I love them. Thank you for improving the design of these festive medals. These look gorgeous!
It would have been nice to have pink XM temporarily to accompany the event and badges
As pretty as these are, I'm not touching seasonal badges until (if at all) we get event badges. I get we can't have earned event badges due to Covid FOMO, but why don't we have a purchasable event badge for the current Resonate the World event? 3 seasonal badges for ONE SEASON and not a single event badge? This is a slap in the face to people that play this game.
@NianticBrian wouldnt pink xm be cool during this event ?
I like them. Used my CMU from CORE to get them all. As others have said Pink XM as “cherry blossoms” would have been a cool tie in.
I prefer event ranked medals.
I hate these pay only seasonal ones too. Make them pay or play instead of pay only. That way everyone will be happy.
Citing covid for avoiding a badge is a bad excuse, pogo has ton of events even now. If its pay or play then those who can play can play for it and those stuck at home can buy it.
Ton of paid only stuff is so boring especially since there is no way to earn cmu in game.