The BIGGEST Event of the Year!! Pokémon GO Fest 2022

Pokémon GO Fest 2022 Day 1 is over! Here's the recap of my first day of Global GO Fest!

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[Sindory]

I played 15 hours through rain and thunderstorm in Germany and got 3 shinys, 1 of them I already had from the community day. Total bummer for me.

[SCOTTCOD]

Played both days, ticket holder, walking about 6 hours first day & 4 hours second day. 16 insense used, lures on most stops, walking around a good park and my local area. (Played the full 8 hours both days) I got a total of 5 shiny. Incredibly poor. I caught hundreds and shiny checked even more! Very disappointed and will think twice before buying another ticket.

[GetCraftyCrafty]

I’m seriously starting to think Niantic gives these Pokémon YouTubers a higher shiny boosted rate.
I literally got 2 shiny Pokémon on Saturday, and 3 shiny Pokémon on Sunday. None of them being the new shiny Pokémon. I actively played 6 of 8 hours each day, I used an incense every hour, and I finished both of the special research. I can’t help but feel like I was ripped off by Niantic.
I’m also not surprised since this suspicious feeling of the lack of shiny Pokémon happened in the past Pokémon Go Feat events.

[claudiel]

I've played both days save for 30 minutes for lunch, incense on constantly, went outside for a few hours and raided. I got 2 shiny and 4 good IVs, literally had more of both on Friday for free. The despawn bug caused havoc for shiny checking in dense spawn areas/ by rocket stops.

[ZoeTwoDotss]

So glad to see Adam traded you one of your favourite shinies!! I thought he was going to be mean and give you one you didn't want 💖 Such a nice guy.

[forgethought]

Shiny rates wwere wretched. Even on raids. Niantic is screwing themselves out of a good fanbase.

I agree with others. 2 years ago was the best and it's been downhill. The rewards, bonuses, it was all pretty mediocre. I got my tickets from a friend and glad I did. Still love the community. But the game is slipping.

[TheUnitedfan]

I think if you added up all your shiny points, you still would have enough to beat most of Europe combined I think.. Utterly ridiculous event! Felt like a scam.
Still, nice to see you out and playing with your friends again. Looking forward to more travel videos in the future.

[Biblioot]

Had a nice weekend, but was pretty annoyed with the incense bug. Most of the spawns disappeared in thin air shortly after spawning. Was acknowledged by Niantic, but still happening on day 2...

[Trubbish]

“Sometimes you have good luck and sometimes you have bad luck.” No, Nick, the shiny rate was cranked way down for this event. I’m amazed you got as many as you did. I had incense going all day both days, walking the entire time except 1/2 hour each day for lunch— 3 shinies on day 1 and one shiny on day 2. Do better, Niantic.

[eNVyArT]

Shiny rate was so bad and no1 is going to address it. My whole family, friends, even ppl on social media are all complaining about just getting 1 or 2 shinys all day. I get that it's random but wow everyone I know? It was really disappointing.

[jon]

More like the most disappointing event of the year. How is that I have better shiny odds in your standard week long events than I do with go fest? Makes so sense at all!

[JeromeKerr]

It didn't really feel like a GoFest to me.. Mediocre spawns, shiny rate and catch rate were frustrating, uninspired research, incense spawns despawning too soon... 17 bucks for that? for real?

[jamespickett]

I feel like 2 years ago it was good then last year was ok then this year was absolutely terrible especially for shiny rates. The pokemon that were spawning were pretty much all kinda boring. Yes there were new shinies but good luck getting them with how the rates were. Overall I'd say 2.5-3/10

[ringod]

7 shinies for me over the 2 days, 6 on day 1 and 1 on day 2, all caught in the wild. Played about 12 hours, incense on the whole time. Didnt appreciate the ninja difficulty increase (pokemon moving and attacking WAY more than usual as well as escaping the ball WAY more too) in catching pokemon for the event or the incensed pokemon who would run away as soon as you touch them, my first paid event and possibly my last after this experience.

[connorwilkinson]

Also the incense bug was horrible, respawn after not even the full duration or it being there for 5 mins or no pokemon showing up for a few mins between incensed pokemon

[umbreonix]

I vowed last year that I wouldn’t pay for the next go fest. I saved $15 and STILL got a shiny Galarian wheezing lol

[xINVISIGOTHx]

I was wondering why there were like 500 comments on pogo instagram saying "I only got 1 shiny all day" "I got 0" "I got 2 all day", then on Sunday I stayed inside from 10am-4pm and just used incense and got only 1 shiny (which was a wild spawn, not incense. Then I went out and got a few more before it ended. Actually horrible incense and I hope everyone complains enough that we get a makeup event

[commishguy]

You need to talk to your contacts about all the glitches at Go Fest. I contacted them about the incensed mons disappearing. They said that they would give me two incenses to make up for it. Incenses don’t even begin to make up for all of the lost Torchic, Tropius, shinies, etc.

[thomaslenno]

The shiny rates for me were horrible and for the other members of my family that were playing they had slightly better for them. Compared to past events its shocking; 6 in 2 days compared to 40 last year.

[trevormoffat]

Played for about 5 hours each day with incense on the whole time, roaming through a good park, a shopping centre, and downtown area, each with ample spawns. I got 1 shiny Pikachu. I don’t think you need to have Community Day shiny rates, but come on. Still glad to have Tropius in the ‘dex because I’m never going to Africa, but the event as a whole was a bit dull.