Thank you for all the things you did for our game, for community, for every single player. I'm so glad to know you and it was great pleasure and honour to work and play together. You are amazing and generous person. Hugs, @Claudija and hope see you sometime somewhere (sooooon😃) for the beer and pleasant memories 🤗❤️😘
All of this is unfortunately true, I have already discussed all of this with my community.
I see more and more good agents, old agents, giving up because of all bad Niantic's decisions.
Apex, bad decision, only caused more spoofers to appear to level up quickly and destroy all the work, time, kilometers and spent Money fuel. If they say that they ended up with the Guardians because of the spoofer then the apex did not bring anything beneficial to the game, at least they only put it in the paid option ...
Among so many other things well marked, perhaps with a lot of abandonment by several agents, niantic was already late to remedy all the wrong done, and this game is doomed, which gives money is the application of pocket monsters.
Thank you very much for your work. I hope that Niantic understands that the play is not the game they invented anymore.... We need radical upgrades that let us play as we used to. Thank you again
@Claudija, thanks for being an awesome Vanguard! Very much appreciate the time you spent in the role and the care you've shown all players of the game.. And also, thanks for your well-written Goodbye message. All the best!
I'd like to supplement some of your points with my own experience.
It is exactly because of the standalone Mission Days in my country, I started to journey around my country first time for my whole life. It is exactly because of visiting standalone Mission Days, I started thinking about going abroad for the first time, and have actually visited two Anomalies and a few NL events, Field Test and Hexathlon. Up to the current moment ALL of my abroad journeys were because of Ingress. Mission Days were the chain link for me, a then new agent, between local playing and Anomalies. And now, Niantic just killed this chain link by only having Mission Days alongside with some other events. I think this is totally not a wise decision.
Their statement about return of standalone Mission Days has turned to be only statement and no actual doings. I'm afraid that, even if they do return it, they will ramp up their quantity, and this will drop their value. I don't want it.
I like your stance on team-based events also. Hexatlons, unlike of Anomalies, are single player (and cause you to actually try to rival your own factionmates!). By themselves they are indeed good events. But what is a team based supplement to them? Nothing. We are not a PoGo, we are two very distinct factions and teams and team competition is the primary sense for us to play Ingress. It could've been more anomalies, but intead we have less anomalies for 2020.
The Tessellation. An enormously cool event with complex and interesting rules which is ruined by total lack of marketing, easy enough explanation for people on why do they even need to participate and, until recently, awards.
Features. Portal scanning WOAHHH an egregious way to use Ingress players as labor without any return, gameplay meaning, and even basic usability like progress bar and truly background upload. Was there anything else beside that?
The (absent) communication. Shout out to @ofer2 who at least tried to communicate with us, after Andrew has left, but has gone silent shortly after. Please return and talk to us. Not only you but at least someone from Niantic. People are tired of talking to a wall.
You know, Niantic, this cannot be really a surprise to you. All you really needed to do is to listen your users, us, the agents. I personally have been losing interest to Ingress, because there's nothing really new. Sure, you re-painted, decorated and added some new walls but nothing real new things. Missions are basicly the thing why I play Ingress nowdays.
Just.. listen to your users. Others than HPWU and PoGo users too. The original ones, you know? Community could really give you some insight on what could be good direction to develop content, features etc. But that only works if you listen to what it has to say.
I agree with Claudija, these are the reasons why maybe a lot of players like me, stopped playing ingress like the first years, and felt like niantic just wanted us to get out of their servers and maybe just use that for the games they feel are more rentable... I might be playing ingress until the end. Thanks Claudija for all your efforts, see you soon.
I totally agree with your points. Thank you very much for helping Ingress to grow and connect agents. I really miss physical bio cards, and Niantic didn't even gave us the Nemesis template made me sad. The lack of mission days is another thing that I relate to so much.
Warning: this comment is full of cliche's, but these are thoughs from the bottom of my heart.
To whoever from Niantic: I just wanted to say that this is very well described what Ingress is to us, and what do we want to change about it. Please give it a thought (or better two), and change something while listening to your Vanguards. Don't let Ingress die, it's a great game, and as you say, more than it. It's a global community full of great people, thrilling stories and long-lasting friendships!
To @Claudija : Honestly, I don't even know who you are, but just from this text I can tell that you represented our community well and tried to do as much as possible to help Ingress. Big thank you! Sad to see you stepping down, but I kinda get why you did it. Again, thanks for all the effort and all the other things you did for us!
This is 100% true and 100% sad. Thanks for everything, I hope that with this message you will encourage them to get started and do something better for the community and the game. Although it's Niantic so it most likely won't.
@Claudija I really appreciate your honest **** for change. NIA needs more people like Andrew and you, that raise their voice against the currrent direction that the game takes....
Thanks for being so open, taking responsibility and trying to support the community part of Ingress.
Thanks for your efforts and your well formulated input to improve the community aspect of this game, that engaged me for years, to see it in a different way.
Thank you, Claudija, for being an amazing player advocate and working to make this game better. You will be missed as a vanguard, but the work you’ve done and the dedication you displayed will always be remembered and valued.
I have had the privelege to be a fighter for you in a few EU wins and it has been my honor as an American to do that. I have been blessed over the years to fight for this team (enl) as hard as I can. I have nothing but respect for our counterparts in the resistance.
We as a group on both sides have been lucky and blessed to have you as a leader, and everything you said comes from the heart of, I believe, both sides. They company has failed us, no matter how hard, we as a group of players, have tried to help them understand us.
You will be missed, but you name the need, and you know we will be there for you. Thank you for everything you have done to support thins game of ours.
Es impresionante todo lo que expones, es cierto, los agentes le ponemos pasión al juego aún en estás adversidades y nos encantaría que mejorará y no quedará en el olvido como parece que sucede actualmente. Ojalá Niantic tomé en cuenta toda tu retroalimentación final. Lamento que todo terminara así para tí. Mucho exito de corazón para el futuro.
Amazing you did the job so long after being deserted by nia!!! Thanks!
You summed up their #fails pretty well, as a former anomaly poc i can only confirm everything. "so we can not use the logos any longer, even if we if it's not commercial. well, what's the cost to license them?" - niantic employee: "I'm waiting for answers from america on this".... for weeks. many weeks....
Ingress war immer Crowdsourcing, ohne die Crowd (oder einzelne Leute) jemals ernst zu nehmen. Wir sind Datenspendefutter und die Sympathien, die die Spielprinzipien bei vielen von uns gewonnen haben, wurden nie vernünftig monetarisiert. Was haben wir nicht schon ausgegeben an Geld für Datenvolumen (speziell als deutsche Nutzer), neue Hardware, oder gar Reisen und Übernachtungen zu Events. Aber Niantic war stets zu doof, aus diesem Spielprinzip vernünftig Kohle zu machen. Nun konzentrieren sie sich auf die Kiddielizenzen- da wir offenbar zu schwierig abzumelken sind -weil man uns nicht ernst nimmt.
Ich vermute, für die Schlipsträger sind wir ein Furunkel am Arsch. Ich rechne damit, dass dieses Altspiel als unrentabler Unternehmenszweig im Prinzip jeden Moment eingestellt werden kann. Eine idealistische Wertschätzung hält es jedenfalls nicht am Leben.
Das komplette Balancing "wegen Corona" einfach mal in die Tonne zu treten ist derart peinlich- die kennen weder ihr Produkt noch ihre Kunden. Und so haben sie die Customer Relationship, oder wie man das nennt, die sie verdienen.
Ohne dieses Verarschungsgefühl wäre ich seit Jahren ohne weiteres bereit gewesen, meinen 5er im Monat zu berappen für die App. Warum denn auch nicht.
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Thank you for all the things you did for our game, for community, for every single player. I'm so glad to know you and it was great pleasure and honour to work and play together. You are amazing and generous person. Hugs, @Claudija and hope see you sometime somewhere (sooooon😃) for the beer and pleasant memories 🤗❤️😘
Just my 5 cents...
All of this is unfortunately true, I have already discussed all of this with my community.
I see more and more good agents, old agents, giving up because of all bad Niantic's decisions.
Apex, bad decision, only caused more spoofers to appear to level up quickly and destroy all the work, time, kilometers and spent Money fuel. If they say that they ended up with the Guardians because of the spoofer then the apex did not bring anything beneficial to the game, at least they only put it in the paid option ...
Among so many other things well marked, perhaps with a lot of abandonment by several agents, niantic was already late to remedy all the wrong done, and this game is doomed, which gives money is the application of pocket monsters.
Thank you for everything dear agent @Claudija
O hope i'm rong.
Greetings everyone
Thank you for all you've done for the communities. It's sad you're stepping down for the reasons you've mentioned, though it's fully understandable.
We'll be in touch, even only to meet up for a beer.
It Is sad to hear that yet another Vanguard is leaving the team.
The reasons are clear and resonate the ones that left already.
It is hard for us as player to see Niantic not caring enough about this game anymore as they still did not long ago.
You take care @Claudija hopefully these signals will make an insight towards the "new leaders" at Ingress/Niantic HQ
Thank you very much for your work. I hope that Niantic understands that the play is not the game they invented anymore.... We need radical upgrades that let us play as we used to. Thank you again
@Claudija, thanks for being an awesome Vanguard! Very much appreciate the time you spent in the role and the care you've shown all players of the game.. And also, thanks for your well-written Goodbye message. All the best!
I'd like to supplement some of your points with my own experience.
It is exactly because of the standalone Mission Days in my country, I started to journey around my country first time for my whole life. It is exactly because of visiting standalone Mission Days, I started thinking about going abroad for the first time, and have actually visited two Anomalies and a few NL events, Field Test and Hexathlon. Up to the current moment ALL of my abroad journeys were because of Ingress. Mission Days were the chain link for me, a then new agent, between local playing and Anomalies. And now, Niantic just killed this chain link by only having Mission Days alongside with some other events. I think this is totally not a wise decision.
Their statement about return of standalone Mission Days has turned to be only statement and no actual doings. I'm afraid that, even if they do return it, they will ramp up their quantity, and this will drop their value. I don't want it.
I like your stance on team-based events also. Hexatlons, unlike of Anomalies, are single player (and cause you to actually try to rival your own factionmates!). By themselves they are indeed good events. But what is a team based supplement to them? Nothing. We are not a PoGo, we are two very distinct factions and teams and team competition is the primary sense for us to play Ingress. It could've been more anomalies, but intead we have less anomalies for 2020.
The Tessellation. An enormously cool event with complex and interesting rules which is ruined by total lack of marketing, easy enough explanation for people on why do they even need to participate and, until recently, awards.
Features. Portal scanning WOAHHH an egregious way to use Ingress players as labor without any return, gameplay meaning, and even basic usability like progress bar and truly background upload. Was there anything else beside that?
The (absent) communication. Shout out to @ofer2 who at least tried to communicate with us, after Andrew has left, but has gone silent shortly after. Please return and talk to us. Not only you but at least someone from Niantic. People are tired of talking to a wall.
Wow, that's... Just wow... This letter makes total sense to me, I agree with every single word...
Thanks a lot @claudija for your work as a vanguard but also as a very nice and helpful agent. It's heartbreaking to see nice ones giving up 🙁
I feel like the game is slowly dying.
Ty for your time, effort and the good work you did. An intelligent, passionate and fair vanguard 💙💚
This is really sad news, and I'd like to think Niantic will take it as a wake-up call. We all know they won't though {:-(
Thanks for all you've done!
Lastima perder otro vanguard.😭😭😭
Thank you, Claudija, for your work as vanguard and these well set words!
You know, Niantic, this cannot be really a surprise to you. All you really needed to do is to listen your users, us, the agents. I personally have been losing interest to Ingress, because there's nothing really new. Sure, you re-painted, decorated and added some new walls but nothing real new things. Missions are basicly the thing why I play Ingress nowdays.
Just.. listen to your users. Others than HPWU and PoGo users too. The original ones, you know? Community could really give you some insight on what could be good direction to develop content, features etc. But that only works if you listen to what it has to say.
We need some cake for sure, you know I agree completely with all you said, see you soon, lots of love,
Paumaza
I agree with Claudija, these are the reasons why maybe a lot of players like me, stopped playing ingress like the first years, and felt like niantic just wanted us to get out of their servers and maybe just use that for the games they feel are more rentable... I might be playing ingress until the end. Thanks Claudija for all your efforts, see you soon.
I totally agree with your points. Thank you very much for helping Ingress to grow and connect agents. I really miss physical bio cards, and Niantic didn't even gave us the Nemesis template made me sad. The lack of mission days is another thing that I relate to so much.
Warning: this comment is full of cliche's, but these are thoughs from the bottom of my heart.
To whoever from Niantic: I just wanted to say that this is very well described what Ingress is to us, and what do we want to change about it. Please give it a thought (or better two), and change something while listening to your Vanguards. Don't let Ingress die, it's a great game, and as you say, more than it. It's a global community full of great people, thrilling stories and long-lasting friendships!
To @Claudija : Honestly, I don't even know who you are, but just from this text I can tell that you represented our community well and tried to do as much as possible to help Ingress. Big thank you! Sad to see you stepping down, but I kinda get why you did it. Again, thanks for all the effort and all the other things you did for us!
P.S.: I'm not crying, y'all are crying!
This is 100% true and 100% sad. Thanks for everything, I hope that with this message you will encourage them to get started and do something better for the community and the game. Although it's Niantic so it most likely won't.
@Claudija I really appreciate your honest **** for change. NIA needs more people like Andrew and you, that raise their voice against the currrent direction that the game takes....
Thanks for being so open, taking responsibility and trying to support the community part of Ingress.
Thanks for your efforts and your well formulated input to improve the community aspect of this game, that engaged me for years, to see it in a different way.
All the best for you 👍
Bonjour Claudjia
NIA mérite plus qu'on fasse des efforts pour eux. Il recherche le moyen de faire de l'argent. Donc le jeu est terminé.
Sauf si tu payes.
Bonne continuation et merci.
Wave
Thank you, Claudija, for being an amazing player advocate and working to make this game better. You will be missed as a vanguard, but the work you’ve done and the dedication you displayed will always be remembered and valued.
To Claudia,
I have had the privelege to be a fighter for you in a few EU wins and it has been my honor as an American to do that. I have been blessed over the years to fight for this team (enl) as hard as I can. I have nothing but respect for our counterparts in the resistance.
We as a group on both sides have been lucky and blessed to have you as a leader, and everything you said comes from the heart of, I believe, both sides. They company has failed us, no matter how hard, we as a group of players, have tried to help them understand us.
You will be missed, but you name the need, and you know we will be there for you. Thank you for everything you have done to support thins game of ours.
Sincerely,
Vedorian NJ.
Niantic, WAKE UP and listen already! These people are our voice and this community is this game!
Es impresionante todo lo que expones, es cierto, los agentes le ponemos pasión al juego aún en estás adversidades y nos encantaría que mejorará y no quedará en el olvido como parece que sucede actualmente. Ojalá Niantic tomé en cuenta toda tu retroalimentación final. Lamento que todo terminara así para tí. Mucho exito de corazón para el futuro.
Thanks
Thanks @Claudija for your work, your text is very good and hits the nerve - I hope Nia thinks about it calmly.
Thanks so much for your time, passion, and thoughtfulness @Claudija
Thanks for all your work! ❤❤
Amazing you did the job so long after being deserted by nia!!! Thanks!
You summed up their #fails pretty well, as a former anomaly poc i can only confirm everything. "so we can not use the logos any longer, even if we if it's not commercial. well, what's the cost to license them?" - niantic employee: "I'm waiting for answers from america on this".... for weeks. many weeks....
Ingress war immer Crowdsourcing, ohne die Crowd (oder einzelne Leute) jemals ernst zu nehmen. Wir sind Datenspendefutter und die Sympathien, die die Spielprinzipien bei vielen von uns gewonnen haben, wurden nie vernünftig monetarisiert. Was haben wir nicht schon ausgegeben an Geld für Datenvolumen (speziell als deutsche Nutzer), neue Hardware, oder gar Reisen und Übernachtungen zu Events. Aber Niantic war stets zu doof, aus diesem Spielprinzip vernünftig Kohle zu machen. Nun konzentrieren sie sich auf die Kiddielizenzen- da wir offenbar zu schwierig abzumelken sind -weil man uns nicht ernst nimmt.
Ich vermute, für die Schlipsträger sind wir ein Furunkel am Arsch. Ich rechne damit, dass dieses Altspiel als unrentabler Unternehmenszweig im Prinzip jeden Moment eingestellt werden kann. Eine idealistische Wertschätzung hält es jedenfalls nicht am Leben.
Das komplette Balancing "wegen Corona" einfach mal in die Tonne zu treten ist derart peinlich- die kennen weder ihr Produkt noch ihre Kunden. Und so haben sie die Customer Relationship, oder wie man das nennt, die sie verdienen.
Ohne dieses Verarschungsgefühl wäre ich seit Jahren ohne weiteres bereit gewesen, meinen 5er im Monat zu berappen für die App. Warum denn auch nicht.