"[Story] Today I observed a failed EX Raid"

#PokemonGO: Today I was farming some Pokemon at a nest and knew there was an EX Raid scheduled there for that afternoon, so I decided to run by the gym to see how it'd go. The people invited had been trying to plan it out on Discord for awhile, but they took note that only a few had seemed to receive invites.When I arrived, there were 4 people who had received EX Raid invites waiting around, hoping for more to show. After they waited about 15 minutes, they went ahead and gave it a shot, but came no where close. Of the four people invited, 3 appeared to be relatively casual players or new to the game.There's nothing wrong with being a casual player, but Niantic needs to take this into account when sending out EX Raid invites. These four people had been looking forward to this raid for about a week and a half, only to be disappointed when it turned out very few invites had been sent out. This was a gym where more people could have been invited. People raid at this gym fairly frequently. I had soloed a Scyther raid at that gym the day before the invites went out, but of course I received nothing.We're past the test phase, it is unacceptable for Niantic to hold an EX Raid without inviting more people than this. Niantic talked about the cancellation system in their last discussion of EX Raids, and this may have been a good one for them to cancel. Instead, these people wasted time and money in the form of gas to travel to the gym and face an impossible task. To rub salt into the wound, another round of EX Raid invites went out to a gym nearby a few days ago and several more people were invited. Now the people who failed this raid have to sit by and watch this other group take down a Mewtwo with ease. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2ygAxaw