Just the Bad and the Ugly: Pokémon GO Avatar update
Despite feedback from early test rollouts and the insistance from bot accounts on how great it is, the new Avatar system is anything but.
Despite feedback from early test rollouts and the insistance from bot accounts on how great it is, the new Avatar system is anything but.
The brand-new feature has made everyone’s day! What a time to be alive.
“We believe this change is necessary for the long-term health of the game, and we do not make it lightly.”
Despite $6 billion in six years, Pokémon GO has seen more unannounced, unpopular changes, more bugs, and now the disappearance of promised developer diary entries.
Barely half a year on from the interaction distance controversy, players have even more reasons to be disgruntled.
Glitches have included late starts to time-limited events, game crashes and region-wide server issues.
Thanks to a demiltarised buffer zone implemented almost half a century ago, players in parts of Cyprus have odd time zones and no wild spawns in Pokémon GO.
The pandemic continues, but you’ll still have to get closer to that PokéStop now.
Xerneas, the Life Pokémon, will make its Pokémon GO debut during the Luminous Legends X event, while Yveltal, the Destruction Pokémon, will be making its Pokémon GO debut during the Luminous Legends Y event.
The event intended to make up for an earlier mistake ended up repeating the very same thing.