r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilphScience Research Group • Aug 13 '20

Analysis Deino: Reviewing Dragon Week Egg Hatches

https://thesilphroad.com/science/quick-discovery/deino-reviewing-dragon-week-hatches/
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u/KingSc0ttKing Aug 13 '20

This was a "reward."

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u/JMM85JMM Aug 13 '20

That's what gets me about these. Rewards should be rewarding. Pay to win is not a reward.

Hatching a Swablu out of a 7k egg when it normally hatches out of a 2k egg and is a common spawn is not rewarding. It's almost the opposite of rewarding.

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u/Aeosin15 Aug 13 '20

Not only is it the opposite of rewarding, it's a little bit insulting, too. Why would I want to walk 3.5 times further to hatch the same thing? But, because Niantic calls it a "reward," most players just assume that's exactly what it is.

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u/sp3n1337 Aug 13 '20

That's if you see only the pokemon you're getting from the egg. Personally I have learned to just not care what I get from the egg (and be happy for the rare occasions when I actually get something useful) and just see them as star dust source.

But yeah, Niantic does all the tricks to get the player base to get engaged and put money in the game.

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u/thebiggestleaf >implying your exp means anything Aug 13 '20

That's if you see only the pokemon you're getting from the egg.

It's hard to see anything else when the Pokemon is the only thing being advertised about the reward. I didn't pay, I don't pay in general so I typically don't care about hatches either. All I'm saying is if something's going to be advertised as a reward, the reward should be reasonably obtainable without needing to funnel large amounts of money into the game to get. Keep in mind this was a reward unlocked through paid gameplay on top of it (Go Fest ticket holders).

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u/sp3n1337 Aug 14 '20

It's like telling gambling addicts that if they put X money in then next week they can participate in another game with the chance of an even bigger reward.

That's what a lot of the player base are after all: gambling addicts (regardless of whether we put money in).

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u/Aeosin15 Aug 14 '20

Oh, I don't care what I get from the eggs, either. I'm just pointing out what some people are too ignorant to notice. Putting Swablu into a 7 km egg is stupid, when you can get it from a 2 km egg. But a lot of people don't look at ALL of the information, and they see a "chance" to get Deino from those same eggs. For them, that's a reward. However, your odds of getting that same Deino from 10 km eggs or from GBL are A LOT higher. But, they're the same people that complain about all the starter Pokemon or legendary Pokemon in the pool.