There is a feeling that Mewtwo is being milked too exhausting, as Pokémon Go continues to capitalize on the creature’s reputation and monetization potential.
The announcement of but extra Mewtwo coming to Pokémon Go later this yr is being greeted with stunning apathy by followers, following a disappointing finish of summer season occasion this previous weekend marred by but extra technical points.
Mewtwo raids returned to Pokémon Go this summer season after an prolonged absence, fuelling FOMO forward of the long-awaited Mega Mewtwo X and Y launch at Go Fest occasions in Might, June, and July. Mega Mewtwo was additionally the star of the sport’s controversial New York anniversary occasion, disquiet over which preceded all gamers being gifted a singular 100% stat Mewtwo.
Go Fest World in July, the sport’s largest annual occasion, was primarily a Mega Mewtwo raid weekend for all gamers, which was superb — aside from technical glitches that noticed raiding impacted over a sequence of timezones the world over. A make-up occasion then passed off in late July with extra Mega Mewtwo provided.
All of which brings us to this previous weekend, Go Fest: Mega Finale. There was some new content material right here — the addition of Mega Chesnaught, Mega Delphox, and Mega Greninja — however gamers may solely purchase one of many three. In any other case, the occasion was centered round (you guessed it) extra Mewtwo. Mega Mewtwo X and Y returned but once more, alongside the creature’s distinctive Armored Mewtwo model final seen in 2020.
Forward of this weekend, Pokémon Go developer Scopely Discover acknowledged that Armored Mewtwo would characteristic, however not but be obtainable in its Shiny model. Now, the developer has launched an Avengers: Doomsday-style teaser video promising Armored Mewtwo might be again but once more later this yr — which is when gamers broadly anticipate its Shiny model to lastly arrive, requiring extra raiding to attempt to chase.
Armored Mewtwo isn’t performed but. Maintain a watch to the sky for its return later this yr. pic.twitter.com/at0UMAWEkB
— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) September 7, 2026
For gamers who might have spent the weekend raiding many Armored Mewtwo whereas it was obtainable, the announcement will probably be again once more so quickly is being seen as hasty at greatest, as accusations mount that the sport is turning into too grasping, and in opposition to a backdrop of extra complaints about technical points.
Scopely Discover has acknowleged that raiding was impacted yesterday attributable to a “quick community disruption that affected raids within the Americas,” and gifted two raid passes as compensation. However whereas the corporate mentioned it was persevering with to observe the problem, it additionally started directing additional requires recompense to its buyer assist workforce, with blended studies of success.
“Armored Mewtwo will return in: give us extra money,” reads one response to the above teaser on prime Pokémon Go fan reddit Silph Highway. “Doing no matter it takes to take advantage of the gamers left and proper,” reads one other reply. “They’ve thrown a lot Mewtwo at everybody that persons are sick of it now,” reads a 3rd.
And the truth that yet one more large Pokémon Go occasion has skilled technical points has renewed requires the sport to alter the way it deducts raid passes from gamers’ accounts, which differs from newer in-game battle currencies akin to Max Particles and Hyperlink Costs. When a participant begins a raid battle, their entry go (free or paid) is taken as quickly because the battle begins, which implies it have to be manually claimed again from the sport’s buyer assist workforce if the battle fails attributable to technical errors. For newer currencies, these are solely deducted on the profitable completion of a battle, which means gamers do not lose out if one thing goes awry.
In one other prolonged Silph Highway thread, there are rising requires this to lastly change, and raid passes to solely be deducted when the sport detects a battle has efficiently been accomplished. “This predatory apply by Niantic after which Scopely must cease,” wrote one fan. “In the present day’s debacle nonetheless would have resulted in a waste of individuals’s time, which is unacceptable, however not less than individuals’s raid passes and cash wouldn’t have been stolen by this widespread glitch. There is no such thing as a player-friendly motive for raid passes to be consumed only for getting into the raid.”
IGN beforehand raised this problem with Pokémon Go senior producer John Funtanilla, who acknowledged that Max Particles and Hyperlink Costs had been constructed to be consumed following battles as a studying from raids — although there was no suggestion this is able to retroactively change for raid passes sooner or later.
“We actually pushed for Max Particles not being consumed till you win,” Funantilla mentioned earlier this yr. “Raid passes, in the meantime, are utilized to the fitness center or Energy Spot once you be part of the battle and meaning till you win, you possibly can maintain making an attempt. Max Particles and Hyperlink Costs [work similarly], so these might be consumed on the finish of the battle when you win. That is a key studying that we needed to hold ahead.
“We’re continually speaking with the participant expertise workforce for raiders, they usually’re gamers making an attempt to know what issues are coming in. So we see that rather a lot and we attempt to construct methods to reimburse if there is a crash, issues like that. I perceive it is not the perfect system, however we’re making an attempt to enhance it with all the things that we put within the sport.”