Well yeah it's been shit for a while now, it was in a terrible state before the pandemic but it was at least somewhat enjoyable to load up every so often. This past year it's become basically unplayable, even the addicted whales have been dropping it in droves.

I've been boycotting the game since the remote raid price increases but caved for a few hours during Go Fest (without the ticket) I couldn't believe how bad it's actually gotten.

I live in a city and the spawn rate even during Go Fest is now attroucious, a handful of Pokémon every half a mile, it used to have 100s of spawns. The city centre now is almost as bad as the little remote village I lived in when the game first came out.

No one was raiding locally either, there was never a raid scene here but you could atleast do some during Go Fest in previous years.

The Gyms were full of people who'd been in them for well over two weeks at zero health, right in the centre of the city, last year they changed hands really regularly, even though our scene was relatively small. The two gyms at the top of the road where I live had people in them for over a month, all low level players when it used to be a us long term players who'd take them from each other. They used to change hands multiple times a day as there on a busy high street, so I could always get my coin's, now I couldn't even farm for the ridiculously priced remotes even if I wanted to.

It's way worse than it was even a year ago.