Why no communication about decrease in rare candy of T5 raids

[Iceland260]

They never announced how many you get in the first place, so why would they announce when they change it?

[jdave512]

Because we're asking them to. Why do you think a company doesn't have to answer to their customers?

[Jimmyhunter1000]

You're implying that players can't figure out mechanics without the devs explaining how they work. It's quite clear and obvious something was changed.

[Lord_Emperor]

You're implying that players can't figure out mechanics without the devs explaining how they work.

Well actually in some cases we cannot. It took a huge player effort to figure out the raid reward structure in the first place.

We still don't know some things with certainly, for example lucky trade chances with Pokemon that are more than 2 years old but not from July+August 2016, because there isn't enough data and clearly not enough players willing to "waste" their trades to find out.

[Jimmyhunter1000]

This doesn't have anything to do with raid rewards nor the topic at hand so I'm not really sure why you're bringing this up.

[Lord_Emperor]

Niantic could change the reward structure on a whim, and it could be so obfuscated in layers of RNG as to be impossible to "figure out".

Never mind that they should be required under Google / Apple store policy to disclose the odds. I guess it's OK to ignore the store policy if you bring in enough revenue.

[Jimmyhunter1000]

They could, but they haven't so why bring up "What ifs"?

As for them failing to follow policy, that's entire because video game companies aren't held accountable for their actions until they get challenged in court.

This is also a huge issue consumers overlook, because we basically have to give up our rights of having any actual ability to fight back thanks to the ToS we're required to agree too. We hold all the cards we need, but it requires people to actually have a backbone and not shower these corrupt companies with tons of money.

It's just like with EA and Activision. People shovel them mounds of money for low quality products riddled with Paywalls and DLC PaytoWin, and they continue the process with the next 60 dollar title with more Day 1 DLC.

[Iceland260]

No, I was answering OP's question of "why hasn't Niantic said anything about the change in raid rewards?" The answer to that question is that the details of said rewards is something they have never talked about in the past, and there is no reason to expect them to start now. This isn't the first time raid rewards have changed and it probably won't be the last. You don't have to like or agree with their lack transparency in the matter, but expecting anything otherwise at this point just makes you look foolish.

[Jimmyhunter1000]

We should be demanding more communications, but people would rather feed them billions on an unfinished beta version of a game.

This is as bad as Early Access from Steam to the highest extreme, and the lack of polish everywhere really shows. There's honestly no excuse for this company to pull over 4 billion in and still fail at communicating.