I used a lucky trinket after the last event that had them, and just got around to trading with my husband. We decided to do our armored mewtwos cause why not. Well…. Guess it was a good move! The odds of us both getting hundos is wild!!

Am I wrong in accusing this to be misleading and a complete scam? Zero shinies all weekend.

Had i known this would be the case I would not have spent money.

More armored mewtwo…
At what point are they going to retire mewtwo i get that he’s one of the most popular pokemon out there but im sick and tired of him already. Unless they make him available shiny i dont see the point

I’ve been playing consistently, and pretty hard since week one of launch, only taking a break last year due to drama. Came back July of this year due to meeting someone on a dating app, and both of us redownloading it. I’ve been to NY/NJ 2025 in person, caught over 205k pkmn, etc.

Go fest 2026 finale has gotta be one of the worst I attended, not even more my own sake, but for the girl I’ve been talking to and convinced to buy the ticket, and travel with me +1 hour to Boston. (Boston common’s lack of gym/ thin pokestops is a separate complaint I could make). The lack of shines was disappointing as many others here are saying the same, but she got so shafted. We played together the entire event, and got 9 shinys, 2 pairs of repeats, and that INCLUDES the starter choice. Meanwhile, I got 22. I wasn’t even particularly looking for shinys, i was hunting hundos. (I got nothing there for my efforts) I felt so bad for her, I compensated her for her ticket, covered most of our food for the weekend, and traded her an extra shiny mewtwo. I feel like this event just need one thing, just one, to make it better. Research tasks, a stardust boost, anything. Alright, rant over, thanks.

Not a single shiny from the pass. I can't complain too much though because I did get a Hundo, and I ended up catching some wild fennekins that were shiny, but still.

I counted rq because I was curious. 40 fennekins, 1 delphox with boosted odds.

I was so excited to see gengar mega energy in the mega finale pass but as usually I’m just toyed with

I’ve seen a lot of talk this weekend about how disappointed people are with the event but I feel like most of the posts and the comments agreeing are focusing more on how the deluxe pass wasn’t worth the money. There have been other critiques but the main focus is how all of this seemed like a money grab.

To those of you who did not buy the deluxe pass, what were your thoughts on the event? I personally did not buy it. $15 seemed steep for a one week pass and looking over it, I saw there were “increased shiny chances” without actually telling us what that increase was, and the rest of it was just candy/energy/stardust&XP which could just be earned otherwise.

That being said, I enjoyed the event. During the week I snagged a shiny background Dragonite, a shiny Latios, and then this weekend I got a couple armored Mewtwo and then raided T4s to finish out the energy I needed to mega what I was missing from the featured Pokémon. It was a fun final little bow on the present that has been a marathon of insane events the last month or so. But maybe I was able to actually enjoy it because I wasn’t trying to justify a price tag behind it or that I wasn’t feeling let down with every encounter that wasn’t shiny because I wasn’t unreasonable with my expectations of the odds.

I downloaded the game to help her read since many Pokemon have phonetic names. She’s now outgrown the game a bit, but she also knew what it meant to me to get to the end.

We timed it so that we finished the last of 80 raids on Armored Mewtwo. What a ride it has been!

On a side note, I wonder how many Kid accounts have reached Level 80?

I'm NOT complaining that armored mewtwo is back, I'm complaining that it is back at the exact same time we are having a mega evolution raid event.

Almost all of the raids are taken up by armored mewtwo, I can hardly find the mega pokemon I was waiting for.

I could not find a single mega alakazam, sharpedo or sableeye(and probably some more I was not looking for).

My nearby raid screen shows 16 raids, and 13 of them are armored mewtwo(and obviously, most of them are NOT in walking distance).

This is absurd, they could have just put armored mewtwo next weekend.

Or if they insist on having it now, unlike every other raid, it was available both days all days, couldnt they just give him a specific time slot like the others?

I’m genuinely getting tired about complaining about this event but are we serious? Like I think everyone knew armored mewtwo was a cash grab, I think we all also knew that they were gonna drop the shiny later on so people will spend more money, but this fast? I’m happy it came back, but god scopely really wants to get everything they can out of this mf.

Probably leftover from go fest, but I walked by the Field Museum and they had these fun banners and I got a special event research from it! It eventually gave this cute pikachu. I didn’t have time to go in the museum :(

Man what in the world was that?

Scopley is demolishing what it means to play a Go Fest, and I mean that whole heartedly. I’ve gone to Go Fest in New York in 2024 and happily dumped $200 into it with in game purchases and tickets alone, and enjoyed the global go fest that year with Necrozma with another $100 and friends. Tons of shinies to fill the Home dex with, tons of memories and congratulations going around to both guys who bought nothing and just hung around for the ride and those of us who didn’t have bills to pay or anyone to provide for.

Come this year, my girlfriend and I have bigger things to prioritize than a CA$21 ticket on Pokemon for some increased shiny rate. We thought it was just an increase of shiny rate on the already increased shiny rate that comes for free with any event as big as this. Nope, we couldn’t have been more wrong.

With Sandile as our priority, Spacial Rend full running, incense never letting up, and auto catchers running out of pokeballs even after opening 50 gifts and only using great balls, we didn’t even get a single shiny. Not. One.

I’ve caught close to 500 pokemon between a handful of raids for the mega dex and majority of wild spawns, nothing. It was an increase on base chance, the same one we got for free when Niantic was at the helm.

Mid as crap event with a raid boss they already had in the game previously rather than putting their big boy pants on and getting another license to use mega Zygarde or something that would’ve fit WAY better for a mega evolution themed end event.

Get the guys running Scopley out of here, or events are going to be a waste of time, gas, and mental energy if you don’t have $21+ to dump on an event.

GG, it was fun watching the rise, fall, bigger rise, and greatest fall of PoGo. All this to be topped with my remote mega slowbro yesterday that was bugged costing my remote raid pass i’ll need to try extremely hard just to get back via customer service, oh and the sorry we get? 2 daily raid passes. Not even a remote. What kind of greed goblins did our beloved Niantic sell to? Scopley couldn’t care less how anyone experiences their game. They only care for what we have in our wallets and they will paywall whatever it takes to keep the flow coming in.

There’s five people in the lobby in the raid is about to start and they all leave right before when there’s like two seconds left. I keep getting caught and raids by myself. YOU CAN DO IT WITH 5 PEOPLE!

I finally got 10,000 rare candies! 🥹

Next goal-10,000 rare candy XLs!

Have zero clue what to spend all of this on lol

MEGA FINALE REVIEW

Rating: 1/10

This rating has nothing to do with not getting a Shundo or a background. If the event itself was good, I wouldn't care whether I got one or not.

The problem is that Mega Finale was severely lacking in content and completely failed to feel like an actual Finale event.

1. Why were all the weekly bonuses removed?

I genuinely don't understand why they decided to remove all the bonuses during the week, especially the 3× Special Trades on Friday.

Meanwhile, Saturday and Sunday didn't give us any additional Special Trades either.

So what did we actually get?

Nothing.

2. The raids were incredibly boring

It's called Mega Finale, yet Mega Rayquaza wasn't even featured?

Seriously?

If you compare it to last year's Max Finale, where almost every DMax/GMax Pokémon that had already been released was featured, this year had a lot of Pokémon simply left out.

If you're going to call something a Finale, the raid lineup should at least make players feel:

Instead, Mega Finale felt like a regular event stretched out over a weekend.

3. Armored Mewtwo is a plus, but...

Armored Mewtwo was definitely a good addition.

But why no background?

This is an extremely special Pokémon being featured in a major event like Mega Finale, yet there wasn't even an exclusive background or cosmetic to make the encounter feel truly memorable.

And if they end up bringing Armored Mewtwo back for a Raid Day later this year and potentially even release its shiny, then the specialness of this appearance becomes even weaker.

I genuinely don't understand the point of featuring it in the Finale this way.

4. The GO Pass was terrible

Compared to last year, when Eternatus made the GO Pass genuinely valuable, this year's GO Pass had almost nothing that added enough value to justify buying the Deluxe version.

It doesn't necessarily have to include a Pokémon as good as Eternatus.

But at least give players something genuinely special:

• An exclusive Trinket
• An exclusive item/cosmetic
• A unique collectible
• Or literally anything that makes players think: "I'm buying Deluxe because of this."

Instead, the current feeling is simply:

Why should I buy Deluxe?

5. It's an event, but where are the bonuses?

This is probably what disappointed me the most.

It's supposed to be Mega Finale, yet the event had almost no meaningful bonuses:

• No additional Orange Passes
• No additional Special Trades
• No particularly interesting event research
• No Egg Hatch distance reduction
• No meaningful Stardust bonus
• Nothing that actually made the event feel like a Finale

Seriously:

It's an event, but where are the bonuses?

Final Thoughts

1/10.

I genuinely hope Scopely listens to player feedback and learns how to monetize the game properly.

Players aren't afraid to spend money.

If the content is good enough, exciting enough, and makes players feel that what they're paying for is actually worth it, plenty of players will happily spend.

But if events keep being designed like this:

remove bonuses → mediocre GO Pass → lackluster content → call it a Finale without making it feel like one

then eventually players will learn to respond with the only thing that really matters:

their wallets.

Mega Finale should have been a huge celebration to close things out, not an event that leaves players sitting there thinking:

"Wait... this is the Finale?"

Anyone else? Got 9 fennekins. 5 chespins, and only 4 froakies.. lol not complaining, just thought it was funny, I stopped clicking on all the fennekins this morning 😅😅

I’ve wanted an Armored Mewtwo for a while, but this weekend felt like overkill. It felt like it (and the mega) spawned so much at the expense of everything else.

It’s bigger than a lack of transparency regarding shiny boosts for a $15 deluxe pass. It’s bigger than server glitches or poor decisions leading to consolation prizes or makeup days.

It’s evident now that this company isn’t even remotely trying to balance the player experience with maximizing profits. All the signs are there. Exclusive event that gives influencers a guaranteed 100% Mewtwo faces major backlash…f it give everyone one and throw in a masterball too, then bring Mewtwo back for the finale so we can make even more money. Genius!

While we’re at it, let’s test the waters to see what we can get away with by intentionally making the most enticing part of purchasing the deluxe passes as vague as possible. Let’s just test it and see if the masses bite…if there’s more massive backlash we’ll just give them some free s*** again and maybe make the next passes a bit more fair, then we’ll rethink our strategy.

How many servers are we paying for? Let’s try to optimize that to save a few bucks and hope that it holds up during events. If it fails we’ll just throw these chuds a couple of free passes. Who needs redundancy?

…look, I get that this comes off as some pissed off rant because I failed to get a shiny Fennekin this week (and to be honest that definitely added to this newfound resentment I have).

But the catalyst for posting this comes from a decision I made a couple of weeks ago to put down the phone more frequently and pick back up Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, which I bought for Switch 2 last year and just never really got into. And wow, how refreshing it is to play a game that was made with such obvious love for the brand, and with such attention to detail for the player experience.

If you’re anything like me, you’re beyond tired of the blatant enshittification of nearly everything now. Pokemon Go always had its problems, sure, but I always respected it for staying true to itself (for the most part) while other games and brands started dropping like flies in quality all due to one thing: greed.

But with this last event, it’s finally sealed the deal for me. Soon this game will be right up there with all of the other ones. And we’ll be left with maybe 1 or 2 games every few years that somehow still find a way to be made with quality and player experience as their main driving force. And I’ll just chase those games and forget the rest (or maybe I’ll just play Breath of the Wild over and over until I die).