Many Pokemon GO players are claiming that Remote Raids—and even raiding, in general—are now impossible following some recent changes to the game. This development is just the latest example of the community backlash against the Pokemon GO Remote Raid changes that Niantic introduced earlier this month.
Originally announced in late March, the controversial Pokemon GO update that limited players to five Remote Raids per day went live on April 6. The patch also restricted players to holding no more than three Remote Raid Passes at any given time, while also doubling the price of these items. Though this was hardly the first badly received set of tweaks to the game, it's noteworthy due to the near-universal condemnation that it has received from the global community. Some Pokemon GO players even started selling their accounts on eBay following the raid changes.
The public backlash against these tweaks has now continued with multiple player reports claiming that Remote Raids have been made impossible by the new update. Some of the newly emerged complaints focus on the fact that third-party apps for organizing Pokemon GO raids like PokeRaid and PokeGenie are overwhelmed by the latest changes. According to one such account, the raid queues powered by these services are currently so packed that joining them at the exact moment the boss egg hatches is no longer enough to be guaranteed a spot in the said Pokemon GO raid.
Other vocal portions of the fandom have taken aim at how the new changes impact the overall state of the game. According to multiple such accounts from social media, the Pokemon GO Remote Raid nerf made raiding, in general, impossible. Not least because many communities outside of massive metropolitan areas relied on remote players ever since Remote Raids launched in April 2020. By limiting fans to five such events per day, Niantic effectively killed a lot of rural players' ability to complete four- and five-star raids.
All of this newly surfaced criticism seems to fly in the face of the developer's stated intent behind the recently introduced tweaks. Niantic, for its part, claimed that these controversial changes to the way Remote Raids work were all made in an effort to guarantee the game's "long-term health." It remains to be seen whether this fairly unprecedented player pushback will be enough to persuade the company behind Pokemon GO to reverse the highly unpopular nerf.
Pokemon GO is available now on mobile devices.
Source: Dexerto