The current price of Remote Raid Passes is distorting that economy and it’s frankly making the game unsustainable in the long term. Remote Raids, frankly, have become a shortcut to playing the game, and we’ve seen an imbalance in the game. And at the same time, we haven’t made changes to Remote Raid Passes in the kind of magnitude that will be necessary to stop them from dominating the experience of playing the game in a way that we never intended. And so we intended to temporarily adjust the game by introducing Remote Raid Passes to allow folks to continue to have some of the magic of playing together, even though they could not necessarily be physically together.įast forward three years and the world has largely moved back to the outdoors. Players all over the world stopped having that ability to come together and meet up in real life to play Pokémon Go. It was incredibly heartening to see.Īs you might imagine, in 2020, all that had to come to a stop in a real sudden way. Millions of people were actually raiding together on the streets and in the parks in the real world. was one of the first promises that we made to the community in our launch trailer, as you might remember - and the reaction to the launch of the feature in 2017 was incredibly positive. As we spun out from Google, I was the manager and lead of the Pokémon Go team who designed much of the technical architecture, and also built much of the raids feature itself, and led the team that built it. When we initially designed the raids feature in 2017, it was the first major feature post-launch that encouraged people to get together in the real world at the same time in the same place. We do plan to keep Remote Raid Passes as part of Pokémon Go, but at the core, this change is necessary for the long-term health of the game, and for Niantic’s principles of getting folks outside and exploring the world together. And there’s some game balancing changes we’ll make that are in addition to that: We’ll increase the XL Candy from five-star raids, as well as include a chance for Remote Raid Passes to be delivered in Research Breakthrough rewards. We’re going to raise the price of Remote Raid Passes, and we’re going to put a cap on daily usage. But at the end of the day, the actual changes that we’re making are quite simple. You can read an edited version of our conversation below, which begins with Wu explaining the thought process behind the changes.Įd Wu: As you might imagine, with any change of this kind, we’re going to really evaluate every possible option, look at a bunch of data and think through a lot of different plans. We feel this is a necessary step toward our goal of preserving and improving the unique experience of playing Pokémon Go-a game we hope you continue to enjoy long into the future.”įor more information about the change, Polygon spoke to Ed Wu, VP of Pokémon Go at Niantic. “However, we believe this change is necessary for the long-term health of the game, and we do not make it lightly.
“We plan to keep Remote Raid Passes as part of Pokémon Go,” the developer said in a blog post. Niantic is further incentivizing in-person raids by rewarding players with additional XL Candy if they participate in five-star Raids.
Niantic is also limiting the number of Remote Raids players can participate in per day, up to a maximum of five - though the company notes that may change (and increase) for special events.
Players may be able to earn a Remote Raid Pass from Research Breakthroughs, however. Here’s how pricing is changing: The price of a single Remote Raid Pass will increase to 195 PokéCoins (up from 100 PokéCoins) and the price of a Remote Raid Pass three-pack will increase to 525 PokéCoins (up from 300 PokéCoins). Niantic says that Raids played far away from Gyms have not only become a shortcut to play, but have “come to dominate the experience of playing Pokémon Go in a way we never intended.” The company behind the mobile gotta-catch-’em-all game is raising the price of Remote Raid Passes and limiting the number of Remote Raids that players can do in a single day. Niantic is changing how Pokémon Go’s Remote Raids work.
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