# Niantic rolling back all the advantages!

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**Category:** General Chat\
**Created:** [April 24, 2022, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/t/niantic-rolling-back-all-the-advantages/27643 "2022-04-24T05:40:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darloup](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Darloup](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/u/Darloup)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/t/niantic-rolling-back-all-the-advantages/27643/1 "2022-04-24T05:40:05Z")

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Have you noticed how Niantic is sneakily rolling back all the “advantages” they gave us during the Covid-19 pandemic?

It started with the incense. It’s totally overrated and useless now (except perhaps if you walk using one). I calculated that, being stationary, a pokémon now appears every 13 minutes using an incense. That’s about 4 per hour!

And it continued with the Community Day! We’re now back to a duration of only 3 hours for the event. From 14h00 to 17h00 local time. Why?

When the event was 6-hour long, at least we had the option to chose WHEN to play.

Now, we’re slaves to their imposed and restrictive time-table. What about if you’re busy between 14h00 and 17h00? What are our alternatives?

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**Author:** ![NotanotherKangaskhan](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8edcca/32.png) [@NotanotherKangaskhan](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/u/NotanotherKangaskhan)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/t/niantic-rolling-back-all-the-advantages/27643/2 "2022-04-30T01:08:14Z")

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I think we’ve al noticed.  
The changes where good QoL changes in general not just for Covid.  
Incense was useless before change, became useful and now back to useless again.  
The 6 hour CD window back to 3 is also a giant step backwards I agree.

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**Author:** ![Jormdeworm](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/user_avatar/forum.pokemongohub.net/jormdeworm/32/34621_2.png) [@Jormdeworm](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/u/Jormdeworm)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/t/niantic-rolling-back-all-the-advantages/27643/3 "2022-04-30T10:14:39Z")

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Pokemon GO was back at its peak with the start of covid. Now covid is slowly backing away the game is going increasingly downwards indeed.

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**Author:** ![Jye](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/user_avatar/forum.pokemongohub.net/jye/32/41082_2.png) [@Jye](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/u/Jye)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/t/niantic-rolling-back-all-the-advantages/27643/4 "2022-09-18T23:13:54Z")

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The stay @ home features were amazing, it brought lots of remote players to the game. Even players who couldn’t go outside.

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**Author:** ![vorgriff3](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/user_avatar/forum.pokemongohub.net/vorgriff3/32/31150_2.png) [@vorgriff3](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/u/vorgriff3)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.pokemongohub.net/t/niantic-rolling-back-all-the-advantages/27643/5 "2022-09-24T16:39:58Z")

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(flaming rant regretted and withdrawn)