Pokémon GO Fest: Developer Insights

🌎 Pokémon GO: Developer Insights: Hear from Matt Slemon, product lead for Pokémon GO, as he shares some insights and highlights of what's to come.

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[OnSaturnDays]

The only thing i want is the "giftable" filter for the friend list

[guilhermekanto]

I wish we could trade with lucky friends even if he's in another country

[MihailBFC]

please redo the gift system..is so time consuming! let me select 20 friends and send gifts to all, same with opening! PLEASE! thank you!!

[bfunkhouser]

As a developer who has been playing this game since day 1, I would be very interested in a video series from your development team on (potentially) a variety of topics. A high level walkthrough of what all happens under the hood, challenges related to constant geolocation, challenges of building a popular game at a global scale, a discussion about your infrastructure, your testing processes, tech stack, etc.

[TheCupcakeken]

Favourite Pokemon: Lotad
We had a quest day featuring this Pokemon, coincidence? I think not!

[TheBatman]

I feel like he didn't really say anything:

So what's new in 2020?
"Something, it's gna be big, more details later"

What about mega evolutions?
"There will be mega evolutions and they will be mega and totally evolutions"

What about beyond 2020?
"The game is Pokémon go so we want to make Pokémon and definitely go"

What about the level cap increase?
"So as you know after 40 comes 41, then usually 42 and 43, levels go up and stuff happens"

[miningpixel]

I just want a ready up system for raids, I’m tired of sitting through a 120 second timer to do a level 1 raid by myself

[Wasabi_Tears]

Although this wasn't as informative as I'd have liked, I do approve of this direction. For one reason, I see a lot of resentment towards Niantic for glitches, problems when events go live, lost raid passes, official apparel being incompatible, etc. I've personally been on the receiving end of these, and at times have been consumed in my anger for things not working as intended, and due to the official pokemon company name tag, expect it to function as well as the main stream games. I forget that Niantic was originally a small team like Game Freak was before it became Game Freak, and the time frame to throw out event after event is short, so things like this will happen. This was a nice way to get a little more personal with people behind the scenes, and remember they are people, not robots.
But, I will ask, Niantic, please sort out the issues with connecting to the pokeball plus etc. It's been a while and disheartens you enough to stop playing when you've paid money and spent time trying to connect them.

[Mineman]

Bruh I'm finally about to hit level 40 after 4 years and now they're increasing it -_-

[thetwodumdums]

What about Mega Charizard. He has 2 Evouloution Stones, Charizard X and Y

[haroldkaleid]

please fix remote raids, love the feature but needs some fixing. lobby starts after invites are done. also remove limit on number of remote raiders. also all raid passes are the same remote or not.

[SaintStrength]

I, for one, love the game and Go Fest 2020.

I'm level 39, but started the game when it first came out.

I've returned multiple times. And loved the game every time I played.

80-90% of the YouTube comments are complaints. You guys need to stop being so entitled.

I saw a comment where a guy complained about getting 7 shinies.

There's a commenter here saying they are level 40 and supporting negativity and saying you should quit the game.

Just because you had a bad experience, not getting all the things you wanted and expected, doesn't mean it's Niantic's fault or they did a bad job.

They have brought me and many people much joy.

But it is as they say. Complainers are always the most vocal.

I have no complaints because I know they are working on improving the game. I don't know in what way, but I know they are always working on it.

So stop expecting so much. What have you done, what makes you so special to deserve perfection? Are you perfect? So the game should be perfect in the way you want?

Nah bro. We support game makers/developers.

Do you give handouts? Cause that's what some of you want and are expecting. Naw, 90% have never even donated to charity or given a begger a dime.

[thirsten]

GOFest2020 was awesome. especially cause I don't live in a big city so the remote options were great.

[chinaeyes]

SUGGESTIONS:

Remote Pokestop Spin (no need to leave the house)

Trade Pokemon Remotely

Replace daily Free Raid Pass with Remote Raid Pass

Transfer Unwanted Eggs

Ability to Trade Items

Ingame Chatting

Increase up to 100 poke coins to be earned a day

[Kohiku]

The gift system needs a major rework. Seriously guys.

[lordinvishil]

Thanks for the info, please post more videos like this in the future :) Or articles on your blog site too

[HazzaBlast]

He looked surprised when they asked the level cap increase question 🤔

[Kecajaloj]

1:42 Can you confirm, that mega evolved pokemon will have the same attacks, or will these change?

[Hammburger]

Whoa... they actually had a product lead in Pokemon Go? Never would have thought judging from the terrible menu system and general UX they've been trying to fix since launch.

Also, just throwing it out there, but isn't it a bit opportunistic and downright callous to release a feature for remote raiding and then CHARGE for the privilege while the world has a pandemic?

[MarcoRabadan]

Love the level cap idea. Thanks for all your hard work guys!