Niantic today revealed details on a new type of raid coming to Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>known as Shadow Raids<\/a> and to the surprise of no one, the developer has once again decided to lock players who use Remote Raid Passes from taking part in them. <\/strong><\/p>
Related:<\/strong> Shadow Raids are an \u2018evolution\u2019 for Pok\u00e9mon Go as Niantic works to incentivize players with new content<\/a><\/p>
This doesn’t even dive into the fact Remote Raid Passes in general have seen massive changes recently, with Niantic upping the cost of the passes and limiting the amount players can use to five a day<\/a>. While the community has been frustrated about this, even Sterenka agreed he wasn’t a huge fan of the Remote Raid pass changes, but knew it had to be done, saying it was ” a very, very painful decision to make even for me. But when we look at sort of the overall health of the game, and the type of behaviors that remote raid passes were introducing, it just really didn’t align with the kind of experience we were trying to create.”<\/p>
Steranka also acknowledged that Remote Raids and in-person-only features would always be a tricky balance, but he and his team were confident they wouldn’t shy away from their mission and what he feels makes Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>special through its real-world components\u2014even if the majority of the HearUsNiantic movement, and players, disagree otherwise.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
