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[Penguin]

I think first event of the sort in the game, though may be a bit too late to the party.

http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/halloween-treats-in-pokemon-go/

Halloween is here, and Pokémon GO has its own treats to give out! Starting October 26 and lasting through November 1, you can receive way more Candies than usual. Every Pokémon you catch will award six Candies—twice the normal amount. The Professor will give you two Candies instead of one for every Pokémon you transfer to him. And your Buddy Pokémon will award Candy four times faster than they usually do. Plus, you'll get twice the Candy you'd normally get when you hatch Eggs. Walk and catch all the Pokémon you can to get your fill of Candy during this special event!

Some spooky Pokémon will also be much more common leading up to Halloween. Be on the lookout for more of the following Pokémon on your trick-or-treat route:

Zubat

Golbat

Gastly

Haunter

Gengar

Drowzee

Hypno

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Even more Zubat and Drowzee? Ugh

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Can Drowzee get more common?

 

[Realeza]

I see all those fucks frequently.

 

[Penguin]

Even more Zubat and Drowzee? Ugh

Can Drowzee get more common?

Clearly I need to hang out with you folks, I hardly ever see Drowzee... zubat on the other hand...

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

In other news, one particular third party scanning service is back up and running!

Edit: >> https://fastpokemap.se

Here's hoping Niantic doesn't focus on them and instead focus on making the game better.

 

[Forkball]

So their first event is basically a double XP weekend. At least you save money instead of buying Mountain Dew.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

In other news, third party scanning service is back up and running.

Which one? Link?

 

[thedan001]

I see Niantic trying to reach out now

game died for me when they made poor decisions that drove many others away

 

[Andrefpvs]

Good idea. This game needs much more frequent events, though.

 

[Zafir]

I mean, all of those were pretty damn common before. Well besides Gengar I guess...

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Future historians will note Oct 26th as the day the Drowzee uprising began and humanity was enslaved by a sea of endless yellow-and-tan hordes.

 

[Conkerkid11]

They raised some numbers in the code...

For a second there I thought the devs were actually going to add new content.

 

[udivision]

Even more Zubat and Drowzee? Ugh

They need new Pokémon. These events that alter appearance rates don't mean much once the lineup gets stale.

 

[DNAbro]

Oh sweet double candies. I need pretty much all those pokemon so I like this.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Which one? Link?

PM-ed.

 

[Mr Swine]

I still haven't seen more than half of the Pokémon from gen 1, how about letting them Spawn for a couple of months eh?

 

[sj00]

Thanks Niantic, those are exactly the pokemon we want to see more of.

 

[Quonny]

An event would be PokeStops having a chance to drop witch hats or zombie masks that you can equip to Pokemon or all Zubats/Ghastlys/whatever have a chance to be "Halloween" versions that maybe are colored a little different or have something that makes them unique.

This is less of an event and more of a "please play we'll give you double exp".

 

[brokenbeans]

Nah I'm good it will stay deleted.

 

[Maximo]

Lol more common Zubat.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

I was just thinking it's been awfully quiet for GO lately. There hasn't even been a significant QoL update since the buddy system. It's goddamn unbelievable I still can't transfer more than one pokemon at a time though.

 

[Lanrutcon]

Lol more common Zubat.

how

 

[Zalman]

They seriously need to add more Pokémon.

 

[Razmos]

Hilariously misguided attempt to bring people back, holy shit.

 

[erpg]

Yilkes. Niantic really doesn't have the manpower to sustain this game.

 

[Chris1]

Even more Zubats and Drowzee? Fantastic, just what I've always wanted.

 

[Weebos]

Nice, this might be the first time I go out with the express purpose of just playing Pokemon Go. I usually play it while doing something else.

 

[Nightbird]

In other news, one particular third party scanning service is back up and running!

Yo, PM it to me please!

 

[GulAtiCa]

Can Drowzee get more common?

They are pretty uncommon here.

I like this event

 

[Nickovic]

Where the hell do you all live that Drowzee is so common? I've caught like two.

EDIT: Of course this happens JUST after I get 100 gastly candy.

 

[oti]

LAME

They should quadruple the amount of candy. You can do double candy on weekends god damnit.

 

[TheYanger]

Zubat is the only one of these that is even remotely common in my area. I know my mom will be stoked, ever since pokemon go came out all I get are texts from her talking about pokemon -_-

 

[Chris1]

Where the hell do you all live that Drowzee is so common? I've caught like two.

Might be a UK thing?

Right now I'm sitting on 250 Drowzee candy and I've already evolved a ton of them.

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Where the hell do you all live that Drowzee is so common? I've caught like two.

Their spawn rate is tied to latitude, iirc. More than 40* N and they're one of the most common Pokémon. Where I live, they're the third most common Pokémon after Pidgey and Rattata and are about a fifth of all spawns.

 

[Cappa]

to little to late

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Where the hell do you all live that Drowzee is so common? I've caught like two.

I see hundreds.

Yo, PM it to me please!

Done.

 

[bennywhatever]

Hey, this might get me to play again. I haven't opened it in a month but the 4x buddy candy is pretty sweet (pun intended).
Also, I have 100 unique pokemon in my dex and no Drowzee or Hypno or Golbat or Gengar so this could be good.

 

[Deleted member 74300]

So why is Abra and it's evolutions not included?

 

[Chris1]

I see hundreds.

Done.

What app is this? i thought they shut it down?

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

What app is this? i thought they shut it down?

This particular one just came live 8 hrs ago. Tested it out and its legit. 10+ developers worked on it for two weeks, cracking the game and slowly bringing it up.

And now it's up. Proud of them.

Edit: >> https://fastpokemap.se

 

[Weebos]

Where the hell do you all live that Drowzee is so common? I've caught like two.

EDIT: Of course this happens JUST after I get 100 gastly candy.

I live in Massachusetts and Drowzee are more common than almost everything else.

 

[CassSept]

Drowzee

I mean, Europe already pretty much feels like this:

The only upside is that they are thinking about events, but if they look like that next time we're getting more Jynxes for Christmas and that thought by itself makes me shudder.

 

[Kikorin]

My chanche to have a Gengar, I hope to have some free time and don't waste the possibility

 

[Moltenix]

Extra candy huh, maybe I might play those couple of days again.

*continues reading*

Drowzee being even more common?! Yeah, on second thought...

 

[SUPARSTARX]

More zubats? Lmao

They trolling now.

 

[jokkir]

I see hundreds.

Done.

Fucking Toronto. Drowzee isn't even good to farm since it's evo takes so much candies lol

 

[Shizuka]

More Zubats? Fuuuuuck.

 

[EloNoolah]

At the very least I'll finally be able to get my goddamn Gengar.

 

[_machine]

They seriously need to add more Pokémon.

Hilariously misguided attempt to bring people back, holy shit.

Yilkes. Niantic really doesn't have the manpower to sustain this game.

I think you are all very misguided by your prejudices; Pokemon GO is still higher retention rates than many of the other market leaders: http://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/64154/pokemon-go-retention-on-par-with-clash-of-clans/. It's simply following the mobile game retention standards while the scale is so much higher than anything else, making "millions churned players" seem like a big deal. It's market maturation has already very much proven a long term viability and it will easily be a +$1 billion revenue giant. Not that I particularly enjoy the game myself these days, but generally people's conceptions of the mobile game market here don't match the reality at all.