Pokemon Go Ultra Research Day Was Better Than Go Fest

thegamer.com:

I was immensely disappointed by Go Fest, and I’ve got the lack of shinies to prove it. I didn’t really want to write another article about my embarrassing weekend haul (not a single monster shone for me all weekend), but after Adventure Week culminated with a spectacular Ultra Research Day, I couldn’t help it.

I’ve been over my problems with Go Fest already. So has my colleague Eric Switzer. Twice. With that in mind, I’m going to keep this article more positive, and focus on what made the Ultra Research Day so good. And it wasn’t just the fact I got some shinies. I did, though. Just want to point that out.

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Niantic director Michael Steranka told Dot Esports last week that having too many shiny Pokemon degrades their value. As spicy a take as that is for a senior Niantic developer, I do agree with him to some extent. I felt annoyed when Swablu Community Day was announced, because my shiny Swablu suddenly became nowhere near as rare. Everyone can get a shiny on Community Day, but very few people had a shiny Swablu before that. I remember the very place I caught it, I was half cut on the way home from the pub in Brighton when I saw the golden sparkles. What a moment. That memory hasn’t lost any value because of Community Day, but I can’t remember which of my Swablu was that particular one. They all blend into one golden cloud, ready to unleash a downpour of piss on my parade.

Steranka continued by saying, “Ideally, the totality of the content of a given event makes you feel like the event is a good value [sic]” That was a bigger problem for me in Go Fest, though, that the rest of the event didn’t make up for the lack of shinies. The Special Research with