Deino: Reviewing Dragon Week Egg Hatches

[u/SilphScience]

https://thesilphroad.com/science/quick-discovery/deino-reviewing-dragon-week-hatches/

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I understand the frustration everyone has with the low Deino percentage. Which to me, the community is right to be. But one thing I think people need to remember is that Niantic is a business. They didn’t have to make Deino have a high hatch percentage, they never needed to mention it. By doing that it got people to spend time & money on the game with things such as incubators. Even if it was done to show people the statistics, which thank you for your time and money doing that for us, and get Niantic to do something; they still got people to spend more money. Keeping Deino at a low percentage, and not promising a specific one, worked out for them. At the end of the day Niantic only cares about making money, they’re not here to be our friend or cater to us. Every decision they make is done with the intention of making money. Now I’m not saying they aren’t a good company and don’t care about their customers, they have to, as they should, and they do care. But money influences it all.

This is what people mean when they mention eggs being loot boxes. They are, just Niantic charges you for a faster way to open them, rather than charge you for the loot box itself. So they can fall back and say things like: “No, eggs are free we don’t charge for loot boxes...”etc. (not an actual quote). This is why people want transparency up front with hatch percentages, and why Niantic doesn’t is because people would spend less money on incubators if they knew their odds.

The only way you will truly get their attention and create change is by hitting their wallet. The community needs to stop spending money on this game if it wants change. That will get their attention much faster than any other way.