That’s going to be a long wait
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Now I have it all figured out. Tomorrow, instead of putting my hand on the mouse, I will give a shout out to India and Chile.
Shouldn’t an ambassador criticize Niantic when they offer us in-game rewards?
The rewards are very poor. Also missing for Ingress.
It’s early for me so I want to check I’ve understood this.
Are you saying that an Ambassador shouldn’t criticise Niantic when they give out (terrible) rewards?
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Are you saying that an Ambassador should criticise Niantic when they give out (terrible) rewards?
The Ambassadors aren’t robots or “yes men”.
There’s many times where I (and other Ambassadors, past and present) don’t agree with what Niantic says or does, and there’s a right way to raise that sentiment. I’ve been pretty clear on other topics about how I feel on these Challenges locked to one game, and have criticised (Ingress) rewards in Challenges where everyone does get to pitch in.
If you think they’re good or bad rewards, you’re welcome to share your view too.
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There will not be any. It’s only for Pokémon GO Wayfarers sadly.
Congratulations on the Wayfaer Challenge being held in India and Chile.
But it’s been almost 10 months since the global Wayfarer review challenge hasn’t been held. (24/5/15~21)
I don’t think the global editing challenge has changed as much as the review challenge.
(24/10/30~11/13)
I’m going to Wafarer every day to check the announcements and I’m just waiting for the global review challenge to open.
The Wayfarer Challenge in India and Chile was seen on the general discussion board, not the announcement…
Wayfarer-related challenges, which are designated only for those countries, are often in progress.
I hope you will also hold a review challenge for global users to participate in the screening.
Warm spring is coming now, and I’ll be waiting for good news.
An ambassador must be an example and not openly criticize Niantic, even if it is not necessarily the best event.
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Yeah…that’s not a thing. As then we would just be “yes men”.
Ambassadors can call out bad Niantic decisions and have their own opinions.
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I’m happy to have in-game rewards, whatever it is, it saves me from having to make purchases, thanks to Niantic
As many already pointed out, the rewards are bad. Basically all the stuff I have in excess, Pokemon Go keeps throwing incense and star pieces at me.
If there would have been incubators, the whole situation would be different.
Once again Niantic is just not giving out a meaningful reward for our time.
That’s fine if that’s your view on things. I’m not going to say you can’t have it, but will disagree they are good rewards.
If they didn’t, that’s a gross miscommunication between teams within the same company. Especially since this challenge is in wayfarer platform.
Not necessarily. The Pokemon Go Team are allowed to work independantly from the Wayfarer Team if they so wish.
I don’t know if the bonus location will be reset soon. I don’t know what time the challenge ends. Do you think this challenge will be successful in these situations?
Hello Explorers,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Wanted to hop into the chat and share a bit more regarding the Chile and India challenge currently taking place. Similar to the Brazil challenge from late last year, this is a collaboration between the Pokémon GO Team and the Wayfarer Team to bring Wayfarer awareness to these locations. In partnership with Pokémon GO, we host 2 Wayfarer webinars for the local group of community leaders. We walk them through the purpose of Wayfarer, how to nominate, and how to review. Our goal is to bring Wayfarer to these communities and leveraging the Pokémon GO events (Pokémon GO - City Safari) as the conduit.
Our hopes is to continue this level of partnership with Pokémon GO and we’re open to other games wanting to partner with us in this way. These efforts were led by the game team with support from our team to bring it to like.
Another question I hope to address is why wasn’t it open for all to participate. The simple answer here is the backlog. The backlog of these locations are rather small, the size for which a global reviewing community would resolve in a matter of hours. The intention here wasn’t exclusion but rather a tailored experience for the locals in these communities.
Lastly, as to why this wasn’t announced in the forum, I will own this. Without it being available to all I felt conflicted in sharing something majority of you all couldn’t participate in. Moving forward I do not mind sharing when we have these types of challenges if anything just for the awareness of it.
Hope this helps add some color to the situation.
- NianticTintino
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I like your thought about not announcing to the entire global Wayfarer forum when it was intended as a local PoGo event. I love that the PoGo team wants to encourage Wayfarer participation. I guess it was bound to be discussed here, though.
Those webinars sound awesome! What a great way to directly interact with the communities and get them on the right track.
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If it is a game wise challenge, I would like Niantic to do a challenge for cleaning-up the idiotic import-stops which are in India.
that would be a better use of the game-specific challenge.
This way ingress can also benefit from importing peer-reviewed wayspots