How would you feel if Community Advocates recieved a Free Hat?
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A few weeks ago, NianticCasey made a post discussing the possibility of a Community Advocate program similar to Ingress's Vanguards or XM Ambassadors, and received quite a bit of feedback from members of the Wayfarer community.
Though not much has come from it yet, I figured I'd get the ball rolling on our own thoughts and speculation on it. Specifically, if a CA program was set up for Wayfarer, what are your thoughts about CAs receiving a Free Hat as part of their perks?
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Other: I think CAs should receive a tamed squirrel, not a hat.
On a more serious note, I'd be sceptical to anyone who'd change their interest for applying based on wether they receive some random swag for it.
If @52cucumbers-ING want a tamed squirrel, than I want a tamed owl. For Hogwarts purposes.
I think whatever merch Niantic decides to give away to CAs comes second to the Wayfarer authorizations provided to CAs.
I remember Google Local Guides got these nice little colourful socks just for being a Local Guide. Then I realised they didn't send any to Australia. As if the country didn't even exist.
A "free" hat means arbitrary shipping costs, and would only probably be sent to Wayfarer Advocates within the United States only. Like how they're trying their luck again into getting Ingress merch back out into the foray, but right now can only send to the US only. Like, it just can't afforded for very the shipping!
If they did make a hat though, it would probably look like this:
XM Ambassadors and Vanguards don't get free merchandise, so why would Wayfarer Community Advocates?
If a hat makes people desiring to be a Community Advocate even more, then that shows that their interest in the program is not for pure interest, but rather personal gain and that's dangerous territory.
Additionally, as HaramDingo above said, the recent debacles with Ingress merchandise has shown Niantic completely inept at being able to handle merchandise (anymore) and for something that would probably cost a few cents to produce would come with a hefty price tag plus a huge shipping cost (especially to those not in USA).
Also, whats about free ingame Items like a WF hoodie etc. I am still sad that WF has nothing in PGO, even though there are tons of different clothes.
For ING maybe an WF shaped avatar would also be cool.
In general, I think that Niantic isnt showing WF in any way to the community. They really could.
Niantic volunteers do sometimes get swag. I'm not sure what drawer it's hiding in but somewhere around here I have a special challenge coin from them. I invested a few hundred hours of my life to earn it... obviously I was just in it for the swag. (-:
let's goooooooo
You mean like the Avatar top that says "Platinum Review Badge - Pff. Real Wayfarers get Ingress Onyx", which you can only get if you do have an Ingress Onyx badge. Double Ingress Onyx gets you the matching trousers, and triple Onyx, then you get the avatar hat !
Or jusr perhaps a top that says "See, I told you your submission was ineligible!".
I almost got Onyx x2 (19.900 agreements) and PGO platinum x11
But I cant flex with the x11 plat in PGO :C
GIVE ME MY HAT! xD
I'm not bald. I don't need hats.
And looking at my gene pool called family, the chances are good, that my hair will stay 😎
A real life Gyarados hat!
Since I didn't reach level 40 on time to get the legacy player Gyarados hat and I have to wear a Magikarp hat instead, I'd love to troll my raid group showing up (*) for the raid wearing a real Gyarados hat.
(*) Once in person raids resume 😥
I came here because I heard there was talk of a new exclusive costume Pikachu wearing a Wayfarer hat?
Sign me up.
A hat? You know there are women who want this role, right? A lot of us don't wear hats. All humans have to wear shirts...
Only if the hat can be glitchy with glasses.
Considering he amount of stuff on the internet, I'm surprised someone is not making real-life Garydos and Magicarp Hats already. Any chance of a licencing deal for stuff like this please Niantic?
I still want a selection of beard avatars for PoGo please, we are not all 12.
Oh people are definitely making them - I’ve got crochet patterns for both. Made one for a friend a couple years ago, intended to make more but haven’t gotten around to it.
I second the motion of beards for the avatars!
Are those patterns online? I'd much appreciate where to find them!
Oh I didn't even think about getting hats on avatars in game. I'd absolutely love it if I got a hat for my buttered toast or giant honking van.
The Lvl 50 jacket should be editible. Choose your own patches, and then there should be a wayfarer patch xD
I would feel like posting the Simpson meme of smithers saying "but she's got a new hat"
Other: I want Niantic staff to personally review a selected waypoint submission.
https://shop.nianticlabs.com/products/wayspots-cap
Here is your hat.
👀
I no longer want a free hat
I want on, but FREE xD
That one looks used, i want a new one.
I think for all their hard work their hats should also be turned into a wayspot.
Hat - "temporary or seasonal display"........ 🤣