Pokémon GO’s New $500 Battle Pass

The new Pokémon GO battle pass is FINALLY here...

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[blackbeltgamerfire-spitt]

I’m sorry but 500 dollars for a battle pass? Yeah, you could buy a new game console with a couple games, use it for a down payment on something, buy a new phone…that is way too much.

Niantic, you are treading on even thinner ice now.

[PurpleLugia]

Tip: Another way to tell if a Sinistea is Phony or Antique, is how many Candy it needs to evolve. Phonies need only 50, while Antiques need 400.

[carterzealand]

this game's economy is SO broken. the daily cap of 50 earned coins can't even get you 20 stickers. it's so frustrating playing games where developers put so little thought into the currency system. if there were more interactive methods of acquiring coins, people would play the game even more...

[AJMSecond]

"If you buy pokecoins, and we all do"

I beg your pardon but we don't. Most of us spend no or little money and I don't think you should encourage people to spend money on this game given the pathethic updates, events and the downright humiliating cashgrabs.

The game is going to shit and if we keep spending money on it, nothing is going to change

[hawkinszeg]

$500 for completion of a battle pass, if their really bad on money, get rid of the remote raid restrictions and lower the cost of it.

[BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein]

Niantic CEO should watch out, given the recent... issues concerning CEOs

[xxxnicholasthebestd]

I won’t be wasting money on mushrooms.

[Ryan-ru]

If it carried over each month i might be intrested in this. Aways adding useless fearures they should add good features like the ability to delete eggs

[valorjoz]

Yeah, I'm not paying for this.

I've paid for more than enough over the year just for stuff like incubators and passes and even then, the hatches have been pretty terrible.

If they think "more things that cost real money" is the way to go, they are gonna find themselves sorely disappointed.

[grin_of_grimmsnarl]

In main series a Max Mushroom turns your regular Dynamax pokemon into Gigantamax permanently (obviously provided they had a Gigantamax form.) The fact that they don't do that in Go AND they want you to buy them: Huge L

[bradyspelbring]

I've never seen a company so disconnected from its player bse

[insomniacmnr]

Yoo 500 is crazy u could buy a whole new phone for that

[Lucashenrique]

It's so easy for them to implement a battle pass in pokemon go. Just reward players points for their catch streak, spinning streak, raids / max battles, first set of go battle league of the day, field researches, trades, routes, gifts and other activities. Premium route gives you more items (and exclusive stuff like avatar poses, clothing, costume pokemon...) and faster progression compared to the standard. I'd love for the premium version to be purchasable with pokecoins, but I can see them putting it as a add on the store every month. As long as it isn't anything pay to win and the rewards are worth it, it should encourage replayability.

[DefNotJake]

15:30 who's this "we" you're talking about? this a free game, no way in hell the average consumer who watches your content spends hundreds of dollars a month on pokemon go

[AJMSecond]

"The battlepass format is weird and I don't know why they went this way"

Don't play the fool, you know it's money. You just can't say anything since your income is dependent on pokemon doing well

[poke_drake]

I wanna see how the Niantic Defenders are gonna defend this, 500$+ for garbage awards should honestly land them in prison 😅

[TheBobDare]

I'm a free to play player. And I'm still glad I haven't spent a dime on this game. Absolutely disgusting money grab.

[NevSweeney]

You could buy those items for about £20 instead of £500

[ryanwolchko]

It’s not meant to be a battle pass, more of a rewards program that gives you extra rewards for buying things you’d normally otherwise buy.

[rpwithington]

The easiest way to tell if Sinistea is phony or not is to check the Evolve cost... fake costs only 50 candy, real costs 400.