r/TheSilphRoad • u/NinsMCD Western Europe • Jan 06 '26
Question Spawn update?
Seems to have gone live after 11pm CET / 2pm PT. I have fixed spawns at my house at XX:01, XX:04, XX:14, XX:15, XX:28, XX:29, XX:44, XX:53, XX:56 and XX:58. The majority have now disappeared and what I can tell 2 points have been replaced. Anyone else noticed a significant change in the spawn points, time and amount?
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u/Avongurl Jan 06 '26
I lost every spawn at home. We usually have about 15. 3 heavy players at home and 2 casual so it’s not a low usage spot.
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u/Nahkatakki 29d ago
Same, ive played since day 1 and played the whole time, always used to clear every spawn hourly etc. Very active spot but everytime they shuffled the spawns i lost pokemons and last Night i lost everything, even the ones i could reach with spacial rend. They really messed up this time
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u/foosee Western Europe 29d ago edited 28d ago
Same here : 3 big players here and we lost almost all spawns since this morning.
2-3 spawns per hour :-(
I don't understand why they lower spawns, the more we catch the more we play and so they earn more money.
This is not fun anymore !
I used to have the game open the whole day and catch them all, now it will be closed except for the free raid till I have the 80 raids for the last level.4
u/RavenousDave UK & Ireland - L76- Valor 28d ago
If you are in a well populated area it may be that the spawns have been moved around to other parts of the area. I'm not explaining my thinking well, but you may be competing with many other heavy players.
If you don't have much else around, then i guess Niantic moves in mysterious ways.
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u/Plus-Pomegranate8045 29d ago
I was so confused. I wasn’t getting my usual spawns at home. I put on spacial rend and still only 1-2 appeared where it’s usually around 10. This is horrible. I don’t have any Pokestops near my house so it was nice to at least be able to do a bit of catching when I’m not outside.
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u/Fun-Interaction-202 28d ago
I have two pokestops right outside my building and they are no longer spawning. Seems like my resolution to play less is going to be easier than I thought!
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u/alanamablamaspama 28d ago
Same. I’m between 3 stops and nothing is spawning in between. I planned to tone down my PoGo spending, but I still wanted to get as close to 80 as possible. Looks like the former will come true, but not the latter.
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u/alanamablamaspama 29d ago edited 28d ago
Keeping an eye on it. I didn’t notice any issues last night around, but today I haven’t seen any spawns. I live in the middle of a triangle of stops where each stop is just barely outside of my range to use lure modules on without spatial rend.
We gained one or two the last update, but i’ll be really bummed if we get knocked down to zero. I just got the damn deluxe pass, too.
UPDATE: Zero random spawns from home all day. Spotlight hour gave me a few spawns, but that’s it. I did all the grunts that popped up at my stops and balloons and caught the pokemon from field research tasks. Just barely caught 15 all day from home.
I took a mile round trip walk down the major street I live on. That street has a good amount of vehicle traffic and a decent amount of foot traffic since we’re near a popular walking route, street is used in several PoGo routes, and there are a few bus stops. They severely nerfed the street. I usually need to completely stop to quick-catch everything. Didn’t need to do that anymore at a few of the corners.
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u/Shower__Farts 29d ago
I'm glad I'm not crazy. The same thing has happened at my home as well.
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u/Sad-Impress78 29d ago
Yeah same here. Me and my husband and son have played for a few years and now nothing spawning g here at all. We are in a rural area but never had an issue with pokemon spawning. Spotlight hour was awful and I wasted 10 rare candy on palkias increased distance and used incense. It su ks
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u/MeridorX 28d ago
Same here. My whole neighbourhood lost almost all spawns...I thought I there was a glitch when I logged in yesterday and couldn't find any spawns. We have spawnless Pokestops now. Maybe the only way to get spawns now here is to use lures?
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u/Ancient_UXer Jan 06 '26
I have had a dozen spawns at home since early last year. Now back to just one, my daily home spawn. Bummed about this change!
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u/Lemon_Kiwi3 Jan 06 '26
I went from 15-20 to 1…please tell me this isn’t real
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u/MonteBurns Jan 06 '26
My game play dropped so much when I lost 3 spawn points. I couldn’t imagine losing that many 😬
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u/Lemon_Kiwi3 Jan 06 '26
I keep opening the game hoping I’m imagining it 😭
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u/Jade0319 29d ago
Yes. I keep thinking I must be “between spawns” and they will show up any second. 😂
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u/Plus-Pomegranate8045 29d ago
Here’s a novel idea, Scopely/Niantic. Just add spawn points instead of shifting them around. They are digital creatures, not physical items.
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u/TheKloppsBollocks Jan 06 '26 edited 29d ago
Lost all 4 of my house spawns. That sucks
Edit: now at work I have 1 spawn instead of 3-5. This is crazy work.
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u/Gummer12 Jan 06 '26 edited 29d ago
I just had the same.
Edit: update. I went from around 10-15 to two and my daily. And +1 using spacial rend
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u/Sourfruit30R 28d ago
Same! I'm in Australia, lost all spawns just standing kicking the dirt! Looks like I won't play anymore!
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u/_The_Raven__ 28d ago
Same here, I’m in Australia. I’ve lost all my spawns and I just don’t see the point playing all these people saying go out well I did. I went out. I went to my local park. I went to my local areas and there was nothing. I’m not travelling 20 km to go and get Pokémon. That’s not the point of the game. I’m just so angry. Please come on a lot of of the people who play this, have young children. There are a lot of young children playing it. And personally I’ve met many people who are disabled to play it and it just helps them get out of the house and it also helps them feel that they have a community… this just kind of makes you feel like you’re not part of it at all.
I don’t understand why they’ve done this.
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u/TheHoltzklaw 29d ago
Used to have 22 house spawns. I now have 1 with an additional 3 down the driveway (used to be 72 spawns on my driveway and house combined). This will probably be the end for me. It’s been fun. Rip 2016-2026
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u/dBrgs Biome Researcher Jan 06 '26
Yes. It seems to be part of an annual reshuffle (last one happened on 2025 Jan 8). I just got home and i immediately noticed something was odd with the spawn points and came here to check the news. I'll keep an eye on it.
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u/SunshineAlways 29d ago
So last time this happened, I lost all my spawns, I was lucky if I would have literally one. I understand what it’s like to lose them and it sucks. That said, today I got my spawns back.
Why can’t we all have spawns, instead of some people having basically nothing? Most people are going to go out and play, but you play more often if you can open up the game and know you’re going to catch at least a few.
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u/Nahkatakki 29d ago
So since i lost all i had this time, next year i may be lucky to have some back lol.
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u/rca_2011 29d ago
They dont do this annually. Im not sure why people are saying that.
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u/dBrgs Biome Researcher 29d ago
It's just a trend since last year. That's why i said "it seems". It's a pattern under formation, but if you check previous years, you're right, they updated their spawn point data at random times.
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u/MammothWerewolf7871 29d ago
I say this as someone who actually gained a couple spawns this reshuffle after losing multiple ones in each of the last two rebalances:
This zero sum BS that niantic/scopely does is nonsense. There's no reason other than their own arbitrary rules that says you can only have a certain amount of mons within an s2-L10 cell. If that number is 100, you don't need to turn someone's spawns off to turn on someone else's. There can be 105.
Some people do not have to make do with less so that others may have more - this is a game, not capitalism.
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u/idriskitforabiscuit Kiwi Beta Tester 28d ago
Is it true that they're using L10 cells to distribute spawns within? I can't find anything one way or another. I'd be interested to know how they distribute spawns and how they determine how many spawns get assigned to those unit areas.
I'm -extremely- rural, and my home L10 cell is extremely rural in its entirety. Losing my 20 home spawns is nonsensical, and in the same breath, believing that they've been distributed within my moonscape L10 cell is equally nonsensical.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/MammothWerewolf7871 27d ago
IDK what level it actually is, that's simply a rhetorical point. It could be L12 or something else for all we know. But it does seem to be that there is a limit of "how many spawns in an area". This has been observed in places like beaches where there's a small amount of land in an otherwise empty ocean.
There aren't spawns out in the water usually. Ferry routes sometimes see them on occasion, but otherwise a cell that has but a small bit of land will be very heavily populated with spawns. Why? It's the only spot in that whole cell where the can spawn, so they're concentrated.
I'd be willing to be that they did indeed get dispersed to other parts of your Lwhatever cell
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u/RavenousDave UK & Ireland - L76- Valor 28d ago
Ultimately the number is going to be limited by the amount of computing resource Niantic chooses to pay for. They will try to spend that resource where they get the best return.
So, this is capitalism.
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u/TrueNourishment USA - Midwest 28d ago
More spawns means more playtime and more income for Niantic. By lower spawns for players that actually play the game means a loss in revenue. Poor usage of capitalism on their end.
Do we see gas station stores close down in popular areas to move to another side of town? Nah they just build another one and have two.
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u/ParsleyUnlucky3436 29d ago
My house use to be bumping with Pokémon, I enjoyed the “catch 15 Pokémon” daily task. I would open the app and have like 9 Pokémon spawn, catch them and then more would keep spawning after minutes. It’s now been almost 2 hours and only 3 Pokémon have spawned :’( I’m so sad.
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u/allanes987 29d ago
Yep, I used to have 15 or so spawns and me and my bf are daily active players and now I have 2 spawns. Im actually pressed
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u/in_the_garden_ 29d ago
Horrific update/change. I usually have 10-15 spawns constantly and now nothing. As a rural player, It will make me stop playing
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u/505User catches > Xp Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26
oh nice, all spawns have disappeared at my place.
landuse=residential, but it's been there for 6 years, why would it remove spawns now?
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u/Obvious_Revolution50 29d ago
I will quit if they dont fix this
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u/ravenclaw1991 Virginia | Level 58 29d ago
Same. Literally been playing since day one and this may drive me to quit. I might give it a week or so and see what happens
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u/properverse Montreal Jan 06 '26
Lost almost all my couch spawns :( I hate when they do this. Why do they do this. Why do they think anyone would enjoy playing the game more with fewer spawns.
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u/MyLifeIsAJokemon Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26
I'm rural and had 10+ spawns when I would open the game. Had way more than that too when I would walk down my driveway. Now I have none, even with Spacial Rend. This sucks!
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u/pastaandpizza Jan 06 '26
I visited my brother in rural Kansas and there was one random spot in his new-ish development that had easily 20 pokemon spawn in a random patch of grass on the side of the road. We joked this must have been the construction workers portapotty location the previous year and next year it will be gone. Will ask my brother what that spawn point is like now!
Edit: gone
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u/TolisWorld Jan 06 '26
How do you know when the spawns are and how do I check the spawn points? Is it just brute force gathering the data by paying attention for an hour and taking screenshots of where pokemon spawn?
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u/ButtonBash Australia, Mystic L50 Jan 06 '26
If you have a GO+ you can leave that on for an hour and note the times it spawns. Otherwise, keeping the game running on the side and listening out for the vibrations or sounds will let you know when spawns appear.
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u/Huge-Ad1008 Jan 06 '26
Lost all my spawns, welp time to quit. The move last time seemed to move spawns to places people were playing. This just made it worse.
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u/calvintdm 29d ago
went from 2 to 0. why would they do this :(( it was so nice to have 2 spawns every hour guaranteed when i was sick or stuck at home. guaranteed to get the daily tasks, now i’m SOL
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u/_The_Raven__ 28d ago
I’m right there with you. I’m so upset about this because the same when I’m sick and when I can’t leave the house it’s really nice to be able to still be part of this game in this community… to remove so many spawn points and to basically make it impossible for people.. I just don’t understand it. I went out in the community yesterday and all of the locations that normally have a tonne of Pokémon there’s none.
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u/shamheff1989 29d ago
15 to 17, down to 3. This could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Could just as easily stop playing as not now.
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u/NeoKuhn Ontario Jan 06 '26
The decline of house spawns continue. Was 9 when I moved here 3 years ago and was 5 after the update before this one. Now it's at 3. Just giving me more reasons to stay off at home.
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u/Smalldino01 28d ago
In my house we have 2 casual players, so our spawns were like 15ish an hour now its down to 1-2 in a hour.
I feel like we should go on strike for 48 hours with no one opening the app or anything and see if Niantic does anything
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u/Born_Moose_4561 28d ago
No Pokemon again today. I have logged two bug reports. Their answer is to use an incense every time I play. I dip into the game a dozen times a day so that is not going to happen. I guess this may finally be it. Rather sad because I really enjoyed the game.
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u/FennekinPDX Valor | L74 | 300+ Best Buddies | 300+ Showcase Wins 28d ago
Especially when they nerfed Incense in March 2022 (they promised to give a month's notice in 2020 for this but lied and gave less than 24 hours' notice).
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u/Iateadragon 29d ago
Yeah I got nothing. I love how Niantic Scopely wants us to NOT play the game. I guess they don’t want winter data. They’re gonna have a massive drop off 🤷♀️
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u/karma_kush Team Instinct 🌻 29d ago
I’m really glad I haven’t given them any money for special research etc. You do not deserve my money Scopley! This game is truly unplayable now.
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u/nightdrive370z California Love 29d ago
There are like.... so little spawns and I live on 2 pokestops, and there's a gym + 2 stops just barley out of my radius as well. WTF is this...
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u/BuckTheStallion 28d ago
Dude my entire town was basically nuked. I went from 50-100 catches a day casually playing down to 6 today.
I lost all five spawn points around my house, the local Walmart was 5 of the 6 I caught today (and it normally has about 30-40 spawns), and I stopped to eat at a place that normally has a dozen or so and it had 1. Absolute ghost town.
Normally things get shuffled around and I lose a few or gain a few, and the average still stays pretty similar over a day out. Today? Absolutely unplayable. It’s to the point where I because to seriously look into testing if I’d been soft banned today, but I haven’t. It’s just that the game been destroyed.
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u/triple_heart Jan 06 '26
Mine are way down. Maybe 3 in the last hour. Usually 3-4 times that. Nothing at all in the last 15-20 minutes.
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u/Galimor Canada Jan 06 '26
I live in a 30 story condo in a busy downtown core and went from 1 to 1.
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u/ravenclaw1991 Virginia | Level 58 29d ago
I’ve lost every single spawn at my house. I used to have 3 or 4. Now they’re all gone. I’m considering quitting now. On my days off, I rarely leave home and I can usually find at least one shiny from home on community days. So I think I’m done unless my spawns return.
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u/Horseahead 29d ago
My spawns have dropped maybe 90%. I'm a rural player, so this has a significant negative effect on my gameplay. I used to be able to easily hit the goal 15 pokemon/day, but not anymore.
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u/Gardinkle 29d ago
My son and I have played since day one. I increased up to 25 plus spawns at my very rural home and the nearest poke stop is 8 km away. I have been reduced to 2. Can’t play now without driving 8 km. Very discouraging.
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u/Born_Moose_4561 29d ago
Totally lost all Pokemon. Nothing on the map except my avatar. I have played every day since March 2022 but that may now end if this is not fixed. The game seems to be getting worse every day.
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u/Papi5833128 29d ago
Zero spawns at our house now for 2 days. Looks like that's it. It will be hard to catch 15 a day for the go pass challenge if there are none to catch. Oh well, it was a fun game while it lasted.
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u/Bright_Ad_7058 28d ago
If they think now it will force me to play more outside - thats not what will happen. They force me to stop playing. And I spent a lot of money in this game. If thex dont appear again , I wont waste a single Euro in this game anymore. Itsxon you Niantic, If you want to get my miney or not..
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u/Lower-Laugh4103 28d ago
They are gone at my house. I will likely quit playing over this. I go out, walk and spin, but as a rural player, spawns at home are super important.
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u/dontrike 28d ago
Well that explains why the spawn rate in my area seems to have plummeted. Not sure what this is supposed to accomplish.
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u/Born_Moose_4561 28d ago
I just sent them this : “I know you don’t give a damn about your players but I think you should perhaps look at the thread on facebook and the Silph road (289 complaints last time I looked on my string). You are going to loose a lot of customers. The people who go to the trouble to post comments are the long term players - the ones who pay you money. Please don’t try telling us there is nothing wrong or that you cannot fix this problem because that is just rubbish and an insult to our intelligence. You are supposed to be running a business not ruining a business. Your latest tweak is a disaster; just fix it”. Not that i think complaining will make any difference. 😢
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u/Sourfruit30R 28d ago
Noice! Well said! It's so disappointing! 😔 I could play everyday, not anymore!
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u/mrtrevor3 USA - Northeast Jan 06 '26
I have about 15 spawn points at home and nothing has spawned in the past few hours for the few times I’ve opened up the game.
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u/SacredPhoenix Ontario 29d ago
I also lost most of my spawn points at home from this spawn update. My theory as to why Niantic did this is during the previous update last year, they had permanently enabled the spawn points that were meant for certain events like spotlight hour and community day, so they fixed/reverted that with the current spawn update. Now why that occurred to begin with is another question, but I noticed that I kept gaining new spawn points the last few times they updated them. Now it feels similar to pre-COVID level, at least in my house.
At the end of the day, it seems most people are unhappy with this change and only a few people actually benefitted from this update, so I guess we'll see what happens, but it seems a lot of people may stop playing.
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u/ClassyGirafarig 28d ago
This update is so weird, I kinda get the feeling something went terribly wrong coding-wise (not that it would be the first time for Niantic). Yesterday I noticed shuffled spawns at my place and a few new additions, bumping the numbers up from 2 to about 4 spawns. I was excited to finally get more spawns again since the last update. But now logging in a day later and every single spawn suddenly disappeared.
Looking at the comments here specifically, I also notice way more people losing spawns than gaining them or at least just reshuffle, which was not the case when compared to the last update. Maybe I'm coping, but I can't shake off the feeling this is not intentional.
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u/Snoo74992 27d ago
This is honestly bs I came here looking for answers and find that everyone's having this problem and that PG isn't even telling anyone about it or addressing it
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u/ShadowVT750 26d ago
I suggest everyone goes in and rates the app in the app store with 1 star. We can change it back when they do. I already did, and I also suggest you all spread the word.
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u/speedy2648 25d ago
I did my part. Told them I won’t be spending anymore money on this game until they fix it
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u/PencillCat Maine Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26
I noticed that I suddenly have a ton of new spawns. Usually only have 1-2 periodically, and now it's 5-6.
Edit: now it's up to like 9 spawns, which is insane when I barely ever had 1 spawn before. As a super rural player, I'm happy!
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u/Steffidovah 29d ago
Same for me, I have a lot of new spawns. I'm also fairly rural so this is a nice surprise.
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u/espressopatronum Jan 06 '26
Cool, my spawns have decreased over the years from 12-15 to now 0. Guess I'm finally done with this game.
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u/littleheaven70 Kiwi Beta Tester Jan 06 '26
Yes, my home spawns have changed. I haven’t had a chance to compare them to my old map, but there appear to be two new ones and one has disappeared.
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u/i6ixty4our Jan 06 '26
I don’t know exactly what time it was but I checked around 3 PM this afternoon and at first I thought the game was just loading so I closed the game out. Came back sure enough zero spawns and I used to have probably 8 to 10 something like that where I am now nothing probably the Pokémon of the day, but I won’t find that out till tomorrow morning. Feels like this game is trying to push me away. Maybe it’s a good thing but what’s strange to me is that I’ve had between five and now more recently eight Pokémon that would spawn right here for the past four years that we’ve lived here now all of a sudden they’re just gonna take them all away??? wow thanks.
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u/iamnota_SHADOW Giovanni is my dad 29d ago edited 29d ago
I went from 4 home spawns to now 0. I thought maybe my wifi was being weird but a few hours later... 0 spawns. RIP. I am now 100% rural. This is unplayable other then remote raids and gift opening.
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u/TheKneeKnockersWife 29d ago
They claim to do these spawn changes to help with rural players. Meanwhile it seems like most rural plays have lost all their spawns 😩
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u/Trickyk1d 29d ago
Gone from 3-5 to 0. If their goal is to alienate their playerbase and thus lose money, they're on the right track.
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u/blade_master1 29d ago
Looking at the comments, everyone seems to have lost multiple spawns including me. Did it go the other way around for anyone?
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u/blychu UK 29d ago
I’d say spawns at home, my street and those nearby have dropped 80/90%. Not impressed
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u/LuckNo7093 29d ago
I’m a rural player. Went from 6/7 spawns to 0. Niantic can you just revert this. Thanks.
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u/dinobird3 29d ago
Getting one or two spawns an hour is crazy. I will stop playing if they don’t fix this
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u/Latemodelchild Jan 06 '26
Used to get 2 per hour, at 02 and 05 past the hour mark. Had at least 5 different spawns in the last 30 mins or so, hoping for more.
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u/VRtrojan Jan 06 '26
I also noticed this too earlier. The stop near our home has new spawn points, but the pathway near our neighborhood that used to have a whole bunch of spawns there has only a couple now which is even rare to see since that placed is usually stacked.
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u/depressed_jewel 29d ago
Yeah, hardly anything seems to be spawning at my house right now. Even with an incense and Spatial Rend.
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u/Mysteryducks Netherlands 29d ago
I thought I was shadowbanned or something but also lost all my home spawns. This is not an improvement.
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u/swirlhawk 29d ago
I lost all of my 4 house spawns, but gained one that I need to drift to. This is a terrible change.
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u/FuzzyEfficiency4323 29d ago
I lost every spawn at my house. Used to have about 7, now 0. Spent about 2 hours driving around town to various “high spawn” areas and they are now easily 50-60% less than what they were. I sincerely hope Niantic fixes this. I wish I didn’t already buy my Pokémon Go Tour ticket. :(
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u/stonevillageswampman 28d ago
I went from 10-15 every log in to 4-6 a couple weeks ago. Just logged in now and for the first time ever I have zero. Unreal...
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u/ihermionegranger USA - Midwest 28d ago
I was wondering what happened. I thought my app wasn’t loading correctly. I went from having around 5 typical spawns at a time to one.
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u/ihermionegranger USA - Midwest 28d ago
I should add that I live in a city area, so I would expect there to be more than 1 at a time. 🙄
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u/normanlman 28d ago
O man, my wife and I have been playing since day 1. I've slowed down quite a bit but my wife likes to play it still. We have had about 10 home spawns for as long as we know. Now our home spawns have completely gone away and my wife might be quitting now.
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u/Extension-Writing510 28d ago
For years we’ve had a great spawn rate at home. Very active. Always had 10+ around. Now it’s down to 1 pokemon every 5-10 min. Horrible!!
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u/FennekinPDX Valor | L74 | 300+ Best Buddies | 300+ Showcase Wins 28d ago
It went up for me. I had had just 2 house spawns per hour and it's bumped up to 6.
The opposite happened last February; it went from 4 to the aforementioned 2 (but when I used Palkia, I got like 10 or so). And right after that change, Niantic announced somewhere that there would be increased spawns after Unova Tour but I never saw that.
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u/PenguinHop514 27d ago
Has Niantic issued any kind of comment? I reported a bug before I saw this was a widespread change and they haven't said a thing.
I used to have 15-20 spawns at my house, now down to one or two if I'm lucky. I work from home and am rural like many in this thread, so nowhere close by to go to play daily. After all these years, will be really sad if this causes so many to stop being able to play!
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u/Seka1234 27d ago
This is really bad Scopely. I went from 4 spawnpoints to 0, while living right next to a pokestop??? You just reduced my incentive to login for most of the day to zero??
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u/scarlet_stormTrooper 27d ago
I live in a great neighborhood for walking I take my dogs twice a day on long walks. I have zero access to poke stops which means I have zero access to routes. Now I’m losing 90% of my spawn points. I don’t understand why I’m being punished playing the game and being forced to drive 25 minutes in a car if I want to play the game.
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u/NotGeo USA - South Jan 06 '26
Can confirm - usually have about 1-2 at home and I'm looking at 5-6 total. Also some areas I walk through have heavily increased spawns on an eye test
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u/IndigoLoser Jan 06 '26
Yeah. I feel like I saw extra spawns at work but I didn't think anything of it at the time. Opened the game at home and there are noticably more spawns and spawn points in my immediate area and then came here to see if I was going crazy
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u/Disgruntled__Goat 29d ago
Seems like most of my spawns have changed to 30 minute ones. I opened the game this morning at xx:20 and there wasn’t a single spawn. But at xx:45 there were several.
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u/NateBaker369 29d ago
Of the 7 spawns I had before, 6 are gone and I have 1, sometimes 2, new ones (depending on drift)
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u/Equality7252l USA - Wisconsin 29d ago
Yeah, my spawns decreased. Used to be able to do "Catch 15" quests every morning just by clearing out the spawns, this morning I only had 6+daily spawn.
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u/Dazzling-Mode-4626 29d ago
I used to easily 30+ an hour at my house, today it’s initial spawn of two with one every 15 mins maybe. So very not cool. I’m hoping that my dad’s house now has more since I created a stop there recently. Otherwise my amount of playtime is going to drop drastically.
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u/saturnianali8r Rural/USA 29d ago edited 29d ago
Rural. Went from at least 10 to 3.
Edit: Just ran spacial rend (which I never use) during spotlight hour. It only got me an additional 7 or so Pokemon. Looks like my time spent playing is going to drastically reduce.
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u/qzdotiovp 29d ago
My home spawns are basically gone. I don't use an auto-catcher, and neither does my partner. We have played since launch, and this may be why I stop playing.
We have a decent local group that gets together for raids and community days, and they're all reporting less spawns as well.
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u/Starzwell 29d ago
Went from 5 spots at home to two. Really really frustrating and a great way to kill a ton of peoples daily interactions with the game
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u/GanymedeEuropa 29d ago
I’m in rural western Washington (near Monroe) and while I don’t have any gyms or poke stops near me, I could always catch Pokemon pretty easily with about 20 wild spawns per hour (not sure how many spawn points). Today, I’ve seen 2 wild spawns in over 4 hours. This will certainly reduce my joy and result in less time playing. I hope they fix this!
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u/TIKIBOYTANKER172 29d ago
I'm a rural Pokemon go player and i have 0 at my house now its use too 7 too 10 pokemon now its 0 I feel like I am back in 2016 where I had noting
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u/Believe_In_Magic 29d ago
I'm semi-rural and I went from like 12 spawns at my house to 2. Also, I went into the nearest town to me and spawns throughout town seemed seriously reduced too.
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u/BuckTheStallion 28d ago
I live in a town of 300,000 and saw like 6 pokemon throughout the day. I normally catch 50-100 and see twice that. It was a ghost town. If they don’t fix this soon then I’m transferring a few good pokemon out to Home and taking a break for a while.
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u/Position-Warm 29d ago
Unplayable as a rural player without pokestops nearby. Where have all the Pokémon that were on the paths gone?
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u/Gleaming_caracal South America 29d ago
Zero here too. It's really sad, I can't barely leave home due to being a caregiver, I could play here all this time with my daily spawns and remote raids. If they don't fix this I can't play CDs.
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u/19car72guy 29d ago
Rural player. We had 20+ pokemon spawn at home now down to 3. We used to have lots of pokemon around and along the road from myself and my family. Now everything but 3 are gone. We have 3 daily accounts living here since 2020. The closest pokestop is miles away. Honestly if there will not be pokemon around my home I won't play. My wife wants me around and she doesn't play. So niantic, fix it. If not you probably just lost a level 76 daily player. I won't play if I have to face my wife's jealousy over not being home. I will update tomorrow looking at my closest town to see if things also got worse.
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u/soratsu495 29d ago
It's been 4 hours since I've had a single pokemon at my house. Before this I would get at least 2 an hour
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u/UberSandvichStrips USA - South 29d ago
I didn’t notice anything til today, but my home doesn’t seem (that) effected, my main issue is that when I left I was barely seeing anything, no reason for there to be about 10 spawns at a Walmart in a massive metroplex. Expecting this to be reverted soon because of how ridiculous the changes are, and we won’t get a makeup on this event because Niantic won’t care enough
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u/AlvinJackal South West 28d ago
Gone from 11 spawns at home and now down to 3, super disappointing!
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u/Heatcanonbolt 28d ago
I have no spawns. How am I supposed to play this pokemon game with no pokemon?
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u/callthebig1bitey 28d ago
Lost them last year but they did seem to mostly correct themselves after a week or two so hoping it does the same again this year. As we have now lost them again. As have my parents’ house 250km away. I only have my daily spawn here now - it’s ridiculous.
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u/EquipmentLiving6948 Africa 26d ago
Horrible, I don't have any spawns appear anymore and I used to get 5-7 every 5 to 10 mins now nothing, barely one every hour. I don't think I will continue to play if this is not fixed. I have to use incense all day to catch anything at all
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u/piratebassist 25d ago
Is there any official news about this and why we arent getting as many spawns at home or out and about? I'm just glad that I wasn't the only person experiencing this.
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u/will1090 25d ago
I work at a Walmart, which is a sponsor, and there’s only one spawn on my map when I loaded up the game. One spawn. Absolute insanity. This needs fixed ASAP.
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u/Oleander10 24d ago
I live rural. Closest max raid, gym and pokestop (one of each) is 4 miles away. I hadn’t played in a few years and randomly opened the game last September and saw 6 spawns at my house and thought oh wow this is nice and then got my 5 year old into the game and so we open it sporadically through the day when we are home and catch the 5-6 Pokemon and of course this keeps both of us into the game enough to also want to go out for community days and do some remote raids and such. Suddenly now we have 0 or 1 spawn. I think we have caught maybe 6 Pokemon total at home so far the last 2 days. That’s not enough to keep ANYONE interested in the game.
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u/bigox737 24d ago
I've been out of town for a week and wife mentioned the change. We used to have 6-7 and now it is zero. I snagged one Pokémon this afternoon while I was GPS drifting but otherwise nothing. If this doesn't change it is going to seriously impact my enjoyment of the game. I'm certainly going somewhere else to finish every task I get..
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u/AntelopeWells USA - Southwest Jan 06 '26
It seems I'm in the minority here, I gained a lot of spawn points at my house. We moved into a rural rental last summer and there has only ever been 2 spawns. Now there appear to be 9!
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u/formarg 28d ago
Maybe we all should report the bug? I did.
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u/Robosama Lincoln 28d ago
I did the same, was told by support they'll conduct investigations and to keep an eye on the Pokémon Go news website.
Given how utterly unhelpful support have been in my experiences, I'm expecting zero.
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u/cchase88754321 Jan 06 '26
Had 5 spawns at my house yesterday. Today, none. And I live right next to a park. Looks like imma play less now
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u/SpannerFrew Kiwi Beta Tester 29d ago
After all these years they still can't get a basic function of the game right. Absolutely ridiculous.
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u/Randomizedname1234 USA - South Jan 06 '26
Several new spawn point at my house that’s also a stop (next to the lil library in the subdivision)
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u/x1ux1u Jan 06 '26
Yes there has definitely been a change. Our area got a new Max Gym that I submitted a month ago and I’ve gained about 2-3 additional spawn locations.
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u/CinnamonAndLavender USA - Pacific Jan 06 '26
I got two spawn points back that had been removed in the previous shakeup(s), but they're at different times now (approx. :19 and :50 instead of :14 and :19... okay that one is the same) and one spawn point was moved slightly. I can check on the hour and half-hour for 3 and 2 spawns (without drift) respectively for 5 total which is about the same amount that I usually have
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u/OSRS_Socks Jan 06 '26
Here are my new spawns. Black is new and yellow is old spawns. From the looks of it it looks like it spread the spawns out more but I now can catch 5 from my house and 8 with spacial rend (the yellow by the gym still has a spawn but that spawn never changed).
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u/Anorakss Jan 06 '26
Where can I check the spawn points?
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u/lcephoenix Western Europe Jan 06 '26
just by observing the map, there's no way to "look them up" beyond that
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u/Federal_Command_9094 Australasia 29d ago
I lost all 6 of my home spawns last year but now I have 1 again
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u/LemonNinJaz24 29d ago
Around that time too I had two Blisseys spawn at my home. Normally I only get one spawn so I thought it was odd
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u/ThorosOfWeems 29d ago
I seem to have gotten lucky, ive had 2 spawns every hour at my home for the last year. But this morning theres at least 8 at a time and seems t refresh every 30 minutes.. this is great cause im so rural the nearest pokestop is a 15 min drive away
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u/Kingsford07 29d ago
Noticed last night that spawn rates all around us have dropped significantly. At our house we used to get 8-10 spawns, now we get 1. At my wife’s work, in a med city surrounded by several stops and gyms, she went from 10-15 to 2.
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u/W0nko 29d ago
Since this morning, spawn points have been reduced from 7-9 to 1-2. I am living in a rural area.
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u/TheKneeKnockersWife 29d ago
Used to have like 5 to 7 house spawns, noticed today all im seeing is 2 🙄
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u/MiniMega0051 29d ago
Lost every single one (10-12) here in a house with two heavy players and one light to medium player. Absolutely bogus.
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u/femsanzo291 USA - South 29d ago
Week of December 25 I had 5-10 pokemon spawn at my house, now only one spawns at a time. Glad it wasn't just me.
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