"Top 10 Worst Changes to PoGO"

#PokemonGO: First let me start by saying that this is an opinion post. I should also note I may have forgotten some terrible permanent changes. Please keep this in mind as you read. Thank you :)10) Removal of Free Raid Pass extended distanceFor the past year, you used to be able to attain a raid pass at a distance of ~300-325 meters from a gym if it had a raid actively on it, or if there was a raid egg on the gym (by clicking the gym, then clicking the egg icon in the bottom left). This was particularly helpful this past winter when my area saw numerous snowstorms and while I couldn't go out and raid, I could at least, safely, attain my daily raid pass so that I could use it the next day when snow was plowed and it was safer. Niantic just a few days ago silently patched this out. The reason it's at #10 is because you can still easily get a raid pass by going to a gym. This was, simply, a nice little QoL change (bug) that didn't hurt no one.9) Removal of PokeStop Spin XP when bag was fullBack in 2016, you could spin a PokeStop with a full bag and still attain 50 XP for doing so. I remember going to my local hotspot and walking around in the middle of summer for well over an hour just catching and spinning PokeStops and gaining a ton of XP. I remember enjoying these little sessions a lot. One day, I suddenly didn't gain XP and got an error when trying to spin a PokeStop when my bag was full. I went online and saw others complaining about it and that Niantic had "patched it." This was the last day I'd go out for a fun session like this. I really miss doing this...8) Removal of shaking leaves to show spawn pointsAnother 2016 removal. Remember the shaking leaves? These showed where your local spawn points were and if you went to it, you had a "chance" to encounter a Pokemon (later was discovered spawns were 30 mins, so you had to time yourself correctly to "guarantee" a spawn). I also remember the golden fast shaking leaves. These would show where a nest was located and was very helpful in finding mini-nests and things of that nature. It was exciting to step into a park and see all the shaking gold leaves. Niantic removed this feature because "too much for their servers to handle" and to this day we still don't have any feature to show where nests are located. Sad that we knew more about nests in 2016 than we do in 2021...7) Removal of Sightings when PokeStops are nearbyJust another change that made no sense. The common complaint when PokeStop Sightings went into effect was that you could see Pokemon down the street but not across the street from you. I miss seeing shadows on my nearby and having to do some hunting for them. While it's nice to know where that Pokemon is exactly, I did like having to do at least some form of hunting for them.6) 1st In, 1st Out Gym ChangesI've always felt the gym system would be better with a 1st in, Last out mechanic. It just doesn't make sense for it to be the way it is. You're the one that worked to turn the gym to your team, why are you also the first one to be booted then after? I miss the old gym system but def saw and understood its flaws.5) Implementation of the SpeedcapI can understand why a speedcap was implemented, but never understood why they did it the way they did. I'll never forget driving to my local library to refill my item bag and on my way, using my GO+, and it suddenly erroring out on every Stop. I was confused by this and thought there was a problem with my +, so I waited until I got to an empty road and manually spun a stop while I drove by. No dice. I asked in my local discord server if anyone else was having this issue but it was later in the night so no one was really checking. The next day, tons of threads and posts online about the new speedcap changes. This change in particular though hurt quite a few people and was one of the bigger waves of "I'm leaving this game" that was seen.4) Removal of 3-step trackingThe first wave of uninstallations. This was such a fun and great feature that really got you out to explore. Combined with the shaking leaves, and you truly felt like a real Pokemon trainer. However, "server issues" would persist and this ended up breaking pretty early on in the games life. Niantic has been asked if they ever plan to bring this back and they said no.3) Reversing the effectiveness of IncenseI think I speak for a lot of people when I say Incense was pretty useless up until the COVID bonuses. I never used it outside of CD/GO Fest type events because it just flat out sucked. Unfortunately, it seems Niantic has reversed its usefulness and as such, they'll just collect dust in my item bag.2) Reducing 100 Coins per day to 50Remember when you could get up to 800 coins per week if you redeemed the 100 coins every 21 hours? Those were the days. Like I said above, I miss the old gym system where what you dropped actually mattered. I still haven't forgiven Niantic for this (and never will). I wish we got to see the new coin system that AUS got to test with for a bit (without the forced raid part). What a shame :/1) Reversing Double DistanceCome on, you knew this was gonna be #1. I don't even have to say much about this. This is universally agreed upon to be the worst change in history for this game.I hope you enjoyed this walk down memory lane for those who have been around since 2016. And for you newer guys, what neat features you missed out on.Aight, welp, uninstalling PoGO now. I'll be back when Niantic makes double distance permanent. If that never happens...then so be it. via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/2VnpNbY