Hello everyone,
I just wanted to share my thoughts on the Alolan Marowak special event.
First of all I want to say great skin design and thanks to the person who submitted this skin to the form contest.
I am really looking forward to the following events and the new forms coming 😊
But now to the rather negative, the rates, 1/300 chance of a Pokémon spawning at a rate of about 0.6-0.7%, and then the whole thing for 7 days. Has anyone actually thought about what that means?
I farmed 7 days, 12000 encounters, that's about 40 hours of hunting, that's like a full-time job. During that time I encountered 74 Alolan Marowak.
It is simply impossible to earn anything without luck. (And that's becoming more and more the case in recent events.)
74, that's not even a quarter of the 300 where you're still far from a good chance of having an Alolan Marowak with event skin.
Just as a counterexample, the Star Wars Pawniard was on Route 1 at a rate of 1/100 back then.
A few thoughts on the events in general:
I just can't understand why the rates have to keep getting worse.
"if the forms are rarer, then they are more valuable" - such comments are then heard.
But then you look at the trade, empty – no event forms. And if forms are in there, then they are commons that are traded for 20-30k.
Just a note, I've searched Vulcan Plaza for so long and Rattata #5849 came up with an event form, that was on the 7th! Day. 7 days for an event form, which is then worth 20k.
The only effect is that you look for an event pokemon for days or weeks, it then has bad stats and you are so frustrated or have no more time in the event, that you don’t start looking for a second one again.
Rates have been significantly better in the past, 1/50, oh, good old times, you also searched for days, but if you found the event form after a few days, then you still had motivation if you found a bad one.
Nowadays you put hundreds of hours into the game and usually end up with nothing. I don't understand for whom the events are then organized. I used to have the feeling that it should be fun and the game makers celebrate the events together with the players.
Even though I know that such texts are probably read by very few and certainly not by the people who could change something about them, I still had to express my growing disappointment.
Apologies for any spelling mistakes it may contain
Greetings
Marksman1303 of MewtusRache
P.S. Thanks to my dear guildies who accompany me on what feels like endless hunts so we
can still have a good time somehow😊
P.P.S. the new dungeon is nice and fun