"RESULTS: 2019 Pokémon Go Unofficial Survey"

#PokemonGO: Thanks to all 1171 people who took the survey! You can view the data yourself here. My analysis is below86.9% of respondents started playing in 2016. 3.8% started in 2017, 4.7% in 2018, and 4.5% started in 2019The largest age group that plays the game is 26-35 years old with 45.9%. The 2nd largest age group is 19-25Nearly 40% of respondents said they have never taken a break from Pokemon go. 15% said they have taken short breaks every once in a while. 11% said they only took one 0-6 month break82.2% said they are primarily PvE (Gyms & Raids) players. 14.4% said they play both PvE and PvP. Only 3.4% said they are primarily PvP playersThe percentage of people using 1 account is 67.5%, meaning nearly a third of players who answered my survey actively use more than 1 account. 25.2% said they use 2 accounts.Bagon (31.4%) & Ralts (20.6%) were by far the favorite community day pokemon in 2019. Mudkip came in 3rd with 12%The favorite event was a bit of a mixed bag due to the overwhelming number of events. 19.1% said the Holloween event was their favorite. A lot of people also mentioned the Blanche event, which was not on my list, as their favorite.PVPOnly 17% of respondents are satisfied with the current state of PvP. 28.1% said they are not satisfied while 54.9% said they are somewhat satisfiedOver half (55.9%) of players said they are indifferent about the change to PvP where attack matters in situations when players use a changed attack at the same time. 39.5% said they like the change71.6% feel that Go Battle League will make the overall PvP experience better.67.4% are in favor of there being more rewards for PvP matches. 20.9% said there should maybe be more rewards. Only 11.7% said there should not be more rewards for PvP matchesPvE37.2% of players are somewhat satisfied with the current state of Gyms. 33.2% are satisfied while 29.5% are not41.3% of players are somewhat satisfied with the current state of Raids. 26.7% are satisfied while 31.9% said they are not56.1% said they feel that Raid rewards should be slightly better. 24.3% feel the rewards are fair61.1% of respondents feel that raids should be scaled based on the amount of people participating. 38.9% feel they should be left as is92.2% of people like the current length of egg timers for RaidsNearly 70% of players feel that the amount of time raids are active for is long enough. 30.7% feel they are not long enough86% of players are in favor of a way to communicate interest in raids between other players. Only 4% are not in favor of this while 10% feel there should maybe be a way to communicate interest in Raids.Buddy System44.7% of players are enjoying the new Buddy System. 38.5% said they are somewhat enjoying it and 16.8% are not liking the new buddy system65.2% are in favor of more buddy gifts daily and 34.8% are notNiantic FeedbackOnly 9.6% of players feel that Niantic fully addresses the community's concerns. 54.4% feel that they only somewhat address the community's concerns and 39.5% feel they don't at all.14.9% of players feel that Niantic has sufficient customer support. 45.3% feel that Niantic has poor customer support and 39.8% feel that Niantic's customer support is somewhat sufficient.80.5% feel that Niantic should be more active in the Pokemon Go community. 15.2% somewhat feel that they should be more active while only 4.3% feel that they do not need to be more active in the Pokemon Go community.41.8% feel that Niantic is somewhat open about upcoming/future events and content. 32.1% feel that they are open enough while 26.1% feel that Niantic needs to be more open with future contentNearly half (48.9%) of respondents feel that Wayfarer should be only accessible to level 40 players. A quarter of respondents feel that it should be open to non-level 40 players for reviews only and 9.9% say that it should be open to non-level 40 players for submissions only. 15.6% say that it should be open for both reviews and submissions to non-level 40 players via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/2sZfn4m