Agreed. I did more refreshes than reviews, and when the system finally seemed to be working yesterday it was just spam, fake nominations, and manipulative edits in Mexico and Brazil.
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Note the announcement article name:
Apparently, Apple charges a fee whenever a promo code is redeemed in-game, so it actually affects many apps, not just Niantic ones. Apple see these promo code redemptions as purchases, and if redeemed in-app, the company that runs it will be charged, not the user. Thus, iOS users have had to redeem codes through the web store for Niantic to avoid these fees.
I get it, as we just did free work for Niantic, and they don’t want to spend extra money to give out prizes, and then have to consider raising prices for just iOS users vs. Andreid users.
Great… using the web store blocks my card as my card provider thinks its a fraudulent website
12k reviews not agreements.
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No payment method is needed to redeem codes in the web store. I have never purchased from the web store, only redeemed codes, and haven’t had an issue.
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Yes, but it honestly makes me very apprehensive about even opening the site if the card provider views it so negatively
I buy all my coins in game and rely on the Google rewards to make it less bad of a deal.
oh sorry, my bad. 12K reviews, hooow???
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I know right? I was thinking the same thing.
@KooNasu I’d like to congratulate you too …
Getting over 12K reviews done was truly amazing.
I’m sure the competition the 2 of you were having on your own spurred each other on. over 24.7K between the 2 of you is truly remarkable.
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And I just do 50…
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Thanks.
Sorry, I’m awful at gift opening 
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You are. You’re good at sending though
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Those of you who were in the top or are in the top on reviewing can I ask what your review grade is? Just curious as others say the more you review your grade goes down. I have always been Great, went down during these reviews slightly to Good but then right back up to Great a little later. I was kind of bummed over the refresh because I was hoping for more reviews than I got but 12,000 DANG THAT IS GREAT!!!
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12,000+ reviews in just 7 days, that’s 3 reviews a minute for 10 hours a day.
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I don’t see how they could be quality, well thought out reviews with those numbers, especially with having to translate.
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Yeah… My 550 was a whole lot harder to achieve than during the last challenge! It was definitely frustrating.
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I’m pretty sure Trollfarer was convinced he would spontaneously combust if he only got second place and KooNasu was determined to beat him.
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I’m actually missing the edit reviews right now. There are pretty easy to do, and since the challenge ended, I’ve gotten 1 title edit to review.
In 2024, I placed 2nd in the world in my first wayfarer challenge. I was very close to @Tollfarer, the world’s best reviewer, but I’m grateful that I had so much fun participating.
I had been in contact with him through DM on X, and we were always close behind each other, so I paid attention to him.
At the first interim announcement, I was surprised and motivated to be ranked 1st in the world.
Although it only took about 10 minutes, my rating went down by one, but other than that I was able to maintain the highest Wayfinder rating, which means that I was doing the right review after completing 12,000 reviews. believe.
If I have an opportunity like this again, I would like to participate. Thank you everyone.
2024年、最初のwayfarerチャレンジで世界2位になりました。世界一の@Tollfarer とReviewで僅差でしたがとても楽しく参加できたことに感謝いたします。
彼とはXでのDMでもコンタクトを取っていて、互いに常に僅差だったので注目していました。
1回目の中間発表で、暫定世界1位になったのは驚き、やる気が出ました。
ほんの10分ぐらいですが、評価が1つ下がりましたが、それ以外はずっと一番高いWayfinder評価はキープし続けることができたということは、12000Reviewをこなした中で、正しい審査をしていたと信じています。
またこのような機会がありましたら、参加したいと思います。皆様ありがとうございました。
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Hope they give out community tier 4 rewards to everyone - as a compensation for bugs
last few challenges those numbers was easily breached. This time despite everyone’s best efforts we are where we are because of the bugs and delays
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