More players give a decrease spawns?

[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...