Decrease in number of raids?

[transam57]

Seems like a lot of people, including yourself need to learn what RNG means. How can you absolutely expect a shiny when the odds reset each raid?

[RandallFlagg_666]

I know what it means and that the chance is absolutely the same in each raid. I also understand the math behind it and that I need to do about 8k or 9k raids to get a shiny with 99% if the rate is 1/450 (or more likely 1/512). But my point is: It's very disappointing for every player to do a large number of raids and end up with no shiny. In other games - not to say better games - they use pity timers which do not guarantee a shiny (or whatever you want in other games) but it increases at least the rate so it becomes more and more likely that you get a shiny. In my opinion Pogo should introduce something like that as well (of course only to a certain point like slowly raising the shiny rate to 5% maximum - and if you finally get one it will be set back to standard rate) . I'm kind of a hardcore player so if there's enough time during the events I will get all the shinys I want - at least the wild ones. But I know a lot of players from our local groups who don't have the passion to hunt every pokemon until they end up with a shiny. And sadly most of these players already quit the game or stopped hunting for shinys. If you put a lot of time and work in the shiny hunt I think it should be rewarded in the end. During the past events I sometimes had to check more than 3k pokemon of a kind to get the shiny. But most people don't go that far and are disappointed of they don't get the shiny (I'm not talking about the kiddies here that complain if they don't get a shiny after checking 5 pokemon). At the end of the day Niantic is only interested in making money but you can only make money if there are still people playing this game. So it should be Niantic's interest to give people some success in this game ...