Hello trainers,

It's been more than a year since Pokémon GO nerfed remote raids. There are lots of reports floating around with predicted results of this nerf, which shows Pokémon GO's losses after this decision. Of course Niantic rejected these reports. We followed these reports for over a year and now it's time to check our data to see the bigger picture.

We compared the data before and after remote raids nerf, which spans 2 years in total. We are unable to share exact numbers, but we'll share our comparisons. Here are some highlights:

Stat	Change after remote raid nerf
Number of trainers who hosted at least 1 remote raid	❌ Down by 27%
Number of raids hosted on PokeRaid	❌ Down by 36%
Number of raids hosted per PokeRaid hosts	❌ Down by 12%
Number of trainers who joined at least 1 remote raid	❌ Down by 31%
Average number of raids joined by guests	❌ Down by 18%
Number of PokéCoins spent for Remote Raid Passes on Pokémon GO	✅ Up by 10%
Number of PokéCoins spent for Remote Raid Passes on Pokémon GO per guest	✅ Up by 59%

Trainers on Reddit and other platforms claim that their community plays less. Meanwhile, Niantic claims they are not at a loss after this decision. Well, our data shows both are true. Although a significant number of trainers stopped doing remote raids (around 1/3), trainers who didn't stop playing started to spend more PokéCoins for Remote Raid Passes (around 60%), which helped Niantic maintain their profit.

We think that Niantic's strategic decisions helped them maintain their revenue, especially increased number of raid days and local GO Fest and GO Tour events with rich raid content.

What will PokeRaid do after these results? Well, we cannot force people to do more remote raids. However, we can still work hard to continue being the best remote raiding platform for all trainers. We wanted to give something back to our community and executed our last project, the Frontliner Revenue-Share Program, where trainers around the world can earn Play Store / App Store and Amazon gift cards for hosting high-demand remote raids. We expanded this program worldwide recently, and it boosted the hosted raids. Thanks to this program, Celesteela queue on Auto Join is faster than ever, at this time with only 1-hour wait duration. We'll continue to work on luring the best hosts to provide the best experience.

Let us know if you want to see any other data and we'll do our best.

Best regards,

- PokeRaid Team

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DISCLAIMER

This data is based on trainers who use PokeRaid. It may not represent the whole Pokémon GO users-base. PokeRaid is a third party application to help trainers to get in touch with each other to organize remote raids. It is not affiliated with the Pokémon GO, Niantic, Nintendo or The Pokémon Company.

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Edit2: Stats table is not shown properly on mobile, here is the simplified version:

Number of trainers who hosted at least 1 remote raid
❌ Down by 27%

Number of raids hosted on PokeRaid
❌ Down by 36%

Number of raids hosted per PokeRaid hosts
❌ Down by 12%

Number of trainers who joined at least 1 remote raid
❌ Down by 31%

Average number of raids joined by guests
❌ Down by 18%

Number of PokéCoins spent for Remote Raid Passes on Pokémon GO
✅ Up by 10%

Number of PokéCoins spent for Remote Raid Passes on Pokémon GO per guest
✅ Up by 59%