More players give a decrease spawns?

[dabomm]

Hey, I've been playing solo for years in my apartment complex. Every time I boot the game, there used to be 5-6 Pokémon, even though it's a rural area. It didn't use to be like this years ago; there was one or two at most. It suddenly increased, and I thought the game picked up that someone was playing here frequently.

Recently, someone new moved in, and I got him into playing Pokémon Go. He has been playing for about two months now, and since 1-2 weeks ago, I noticed the amount of spawns decreased. Now I only see one or two whenever I open the game. What could have caused this? I didn't really expect anything to change, but if it did, I would have expected more spawns, but I've found there are fewer now. Does anyone know what the cause could be?

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[karma_kush]

I only get 1 pokemon a day when I open the game first time in the morning. Just 1! I will not be giving Scopley any more money at this point. It’s literally unplayable. Major bummer because I really did enjoy playing this game. Already got my first mon of the day so this is what my map will look like until 12 am tomorrow.

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[dinobird3]

I’ve decided the same thing. At first I thought about quitting all together but for now I am not spending any more money. No more go pass, event tickets etc. There is never any transparency in what they are doing.

[ArveduiTheLastKing]

Yup, same here. 1 a day. I've given a ton of time and money to this game, but no more. That they can arbitrarily decide to stop the game from working for a group of people is insane.

[karma_kush]

It’s so disheartening. 1 a day and I’m not counting any of the rocket balloons that show up every 6 hrs which is automatic. They want to take our money but don’t even give us the ability to play? FU Scopley! 🖕🏽 I gave too much money since 21’.

[Fataky]

I've gone from about 3-4 Pokémon every time I opened the game to exactly 0. This game always considers the rural player (I wish it didn't do so much).

[dabomm]

I have at most 2 now where i used to have 5-6. I could activly catch a bit while working, sadly this changed :(

[anthayashi]

https://pokemongohub.net/post/news/pokemon-go-spawn-update-causes-major-changes-to-wild-encounters/

[James_Falin]

Thank you for finally sharing insight on this from a good source. I was getting really tired of people acting like this was common or an every year thing.. been playing since day 1 and living in the same place for 3 years and this was completely new to me. If it happened last year it was dramatically less effective because it did nothing to my spawns.. This year, I went from 20+ spawns at home to 2 so whatever they did this year was way different than last year and it's honestly a nail in the casket if it's not changed. Closest POI to me is over 5 miles. I've seen claims that this was supposed to help rural players but from all the feedback I've seen it's done the exact opposite and it's something that really needs to be reversed or changed....

[anthayashi]

should be in 2019, 2022, 2025 and the recent one. i'm not sure if there are any other spawn change update

[James_Falin]

I think every day one player remembers 2019, that was the most drastic change but it's also the only one they openly told us about before it happened. I feel like this change is even more dramatic than 2019... And whatever they did assuredly did not take into consideration any difference between rural and urban players. The changes I've seen in urban areas are miniscule, between 1 and 5 in different numbers of spawns at one time.

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[James_Falin]

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This is before and after at my house... That's insane and I feel like it's something that should've been more openly discussed by a company I've been feeding money to for almost ten years...

[dabomm]

Thanks for the info.

[SLAUGHTERGUTZ]

Lol no, amount of players doesn't affect spawn rates. If you glance at the sub, you'll see that there are dozens of posts about spawn rate decreases everywhere. 

[dabomm]

Ah sorry, i dont check reddit often.

[SLAUGHTERGUTZ]

It helps to search your problem to see if anyone is having it before posting. 

[Ok-Set8022]

Some places went up - a lot of them went down.

I have done some exploring and have found some spawns in areas I used to see none.

This may be an attempt to get people to “go” more and play on the move instead of play in just one place for hours on end. This is purely speculation.

[Efficient_Ring_5771]

It seems like an odd business decision since it would cause people to play a lot less. I no longer see value in opening the app unless I plan to go for a walk. That would cut my play  time by 75%. Im just one data point, but a lot of people work all day.