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The fact that it is even POSSIBLE to sink tons of money into the Prize Machine only to have all of your progress reset the next day is downright evil. I think that the Poke Balls spent with gems should be a special variant that removes the daily reset for whatever item it was thrown at.

Absolutely a scam. The good prizes are inpossible for f2p and heavily luck based for paid players. Super easy fix is making it take more days for the gauges to reset or to either make the balls recharge faster or let more be stored at a time

free to play players see this as their worst nightmare as you only get 4 balls for free and the cheapest[?] is 6. it would be good if it was executed correctly i believe

Playerbase: wants events that gives holowear and items for free Timi: best I can do is 40-50 dollar price tag on individual items

It wouldn't be too bad if the prizes didn't reset every day. However, unless you get really lucky and get all 10s, you HAVE to spend 20+ dollars on the prize machine if you want something from it. The best way this could be salvaged in some way is if they had you gain balls doing daily missions and the prizes reset weekly. Also imo the odds need to be slightly increased. At the end of the day it's just a massive letdown. Something that could have been cool ended up like... this.

My biggest issue is the Prize Machine feels extremely in bad faith. I did the math on the chance to get the rewards without reducing cooldown on the first day, if something was worth 3 points, you would immediately go to a 34% chance just for a single 2-pointer to show up. On the first the lowest valued item as 9 points for a portrait background, which has a 0.1% chance with 2 pokeballs because it is more likely for you to roll 1 10-pointer than 2 5-pointers. (Edit: you can't even guarantee an emblem even if you optimized to get 4 pokeballs in one rotation) To me this was never intended to give anybody a bit of charity, it just a way for another way to obscure greed and to milk more money out of people who open their wallet at any opportunity to spend money. I would be a whole lot more fine with the situation if they just put a price tag on the items and called it a day.

I first saw it and was like "wow they're actually doing something nice for everyone!" Then realized if you're f2p you're just gonna get boost emblems. They fumbled hard af. I'm not even opening it up and throwing the balls, this is just a blatant slap to the face and should never happen again.

Pokemon Unite Never Disappoint in Disappointing Us🗿

I think the fact that not only is it misleading, but that misleadingness of it can lead to spending upwards of fifty dollars and getting NOTHING definitely classifies it as predatory.

The prize machine is an exact representation of the games new director. The very first thing it does seems genuinely nice, the free blissy emblem and the way the director said they would never force people to buy skins with gemlocked releases, and then it turns out it's just drug dealer tactics giving the first hit free. This is a disgusting direction for the game to go in and they aren't even trying to hide it.

This is absolutely disgusting on behalf of the developers

Now talk about the horrible puzzle pieces scam. If you have the Eevees already you only get 100 tickets, no more coins for dupes anymore. Classic tencent moment

I can’t even access it! Belgium has a law against anything resembling loot boxes so it was never implemented here. Kinda happy to see this video, as I thought I’d miss out on cool holowear! 😅

What I don't get is why a pre battle background that lags and you only see for about 30 seconds to a minute is $10 more expensive than a legendary skin that you see whenever you see that pokemon. Why?

you can't imagine how much it costs overseas without gem localization prices............. this game is too overwhelming

It's absolutely impressing how EVERY SINGLE FREAKING event on this cursed game has a lot of RNG involved or some kind of locked up progress in general. You start the event already getting yourself a calculator and trying to figure out if it's even possible for you to achieve a certain price. The recent events come up with tons of speculations, such as the Eevee puzzle boxes. This company truly loves to make this game a gatcha machine, unfortunately

Spragels at his best to defend his employer (TiMi)

Remember when events used to give us holowear? Pepperidge farm, something something.

miscommunicated on purpose, i feel bad for all the people who spent gems on day 1 thinking it will stay

That A9 skin was the beginning of the end 😂. I was very hopeful when I just started playing unite seeing that I could luck out and get the coolest skin in the game (at the time) for free which was the Talon one, and I have. Seeing the Garchomp stakeout skin get added to energy rewards was also really cool too, it made me think they would continuously add skins you can get for free but now I have a ton of holo tickets idk what to do with. 😬

I would love to hear Jake's thoughts on the Pokemon Unite as a whole. The way the devs have been balancing and monetizing lately and just his opinion on the general direction of the game right now.

Jake, I can appreciate that as a content creator (and as a fan of the game), its not right to 100% say monetization is scummy. Buuuut, you have to admit that between the current state of the meta, the changes to the start of the ranked season, matchmaking, etc PLUS the $40 pricetags on pure cosmetics that the game is in a rough place at best and on its way out the door at worst. If TiMi/tencent truly cared about player morale and brand approval they would've balanced the meta more, fixed bugs and issues in the game earlier, and lowered their monetization so f2p players are spending the price of a new console game for a cosmetic skin on ONE pokemon. They don't care about the morale of its users, they've made it clear their focus is to suck as much $$ out of their whales as they can before the game dies out.

8:36 Spargels: "You really don´t pay for something that is completely unbalanced." (cough) Zacian (cough)

I didn't expect them to have a really low cooldown... but at the very least allow players to complete challenges/missions to reduce the cool down. That way people could grind or pay. The fact that they make people pay 120 gems for just the opportunity to potentially get something is insane to me as well.

items should not reset if you go for it, thats just extremely toxic by them..

This is a perfect illustration of how consumer protections are like 30 years behind technology. Buying gems and using them to throw pokeballs at something is a form of gambling. These sort of transactions have just sort of snuck up on us and become "normal" when it really shouldn't be.

They should've made quests that if you complete them give you more throws, so you also play more

The developers have became so so greedy. Earlier if u had a license already and exchanged the puzzle pieces for same they used to give u coins , but they are giving aeos tickets . A BIG SCAM ...people put their time and effort in these events and all they get is scammed.

Remember when they said they were gonna remove the 1week gem lock on new mons?

imo the main issue with the prize machine is that even when you go for the very lowest prize you can't even get it without some luck.

I thought it would be like how they brought back the Pirate Cinderace and Space Gengar holowear for those who missed the battle passes. Now that was great because I think all you had to do is collect stuff to get them easily. Now in come this prize machine with it's predatory setup. And I don't believe ppl missed when it said the prizes would reset. It's literally a way to get whales to spend on it. I understand the game needs money to survive but dang. Thought the store holowear, BP, memberships and gem locks were enough.

its not really a prize if you have to pay for it

if what the stats shown by unite for every throw at 3:14 is correct then the expected point for every throw is around 1.4, so for 40 points: total 29 throws ->25*120 = 3000 gems 30 points: total 22 throws ->18*120 = 2160 gems 15 points: total 11 throws-> 7*120 = 840 gems 9 points: total 6 throws-> 2*120 = 240 gems the fact that mobile games or gacha style games all do it should not be a measure for this being a normal practice, giving you a sense of half progress on items you want in game and generating a sense of using real money to complete that progress is where i would draw the line for monetization but having everything reset, even the paid pokeballs is a very high level of predatory practice imo.

I think it's very scammy due to it reseting in particular (while being absurd in price/chance to get in the first place as well but I wouldn't consider those predatory/scammy since buying something such as with a very high price label is at least straight forward and you'd actuallyget something). The biggest issue that I have with it is that people who spend on it and don't go all the way basically just wasted money getting nothing with it also being misleading to a good amount of people to where it received backlash. It ends up being more expensive than the most expensive holowears in the shop to actually get the prizes on average. If it didn't reset (at least for the people who spent money) it'd at least be fine as opposed to taking people's money to give them nothing unless they spend a silly amount of money relative to their holowear prices/merchandise and going all the way in one day

People are frustrated not only cuz they are extremely focused on milking the money out of us but other reasons too imbalance in meta , zacian running haywire, matchmaking issues & holowear & fashion tickets are nothing but joke since season 2/3 !! Lot of players left this game for a reason jake Personally I have seen this game at it's best but as of now it's at it's absolute worst 😑

Excuse me, did you say u started with 5k gems? And ended with 2k gems? .......that isn't healthy at all 😭 and to say the community recently defended the game against the pay to win conspiracy that was around a while back and then they do this and has been starving us from free pokemon and good events. It also said when the prize changed, but I got back the same prize when it rotated, so technically, the prize didn't change, but the gauge still reset .

i was really excited to get Sylvie's holowear but Nevermind 🙃

I planned to get the emblems only because the number is not big and I always knew the skins is impossible. But It just goes back to 0 after choosing that exact "prize" you want, and I didn't bother to open the "prize machine" again and pretend it didn't exist.

It's no doubt a scam in my view. Resetting the progress is not great and if people want the Holowear, they should compromise to have till a month to get them.

I played Pokemon Unite every day since release. I haven't logged in a single time when this scam of a feature released. It's so predatory.

1:23 ''first off, yee-haw'' funniest thing i've heard this morning

Would be a nice system if the amount of pokeballs didn't reset on the item, or that f2p players could get the skins (I really would like that Sylveon skin) but its so expensive that its better to wait for a cool skin and get the battle pass instead of that thing

big scam, even if you put money into it. Its still scummy cause you dont get anything if your luck didnt pay off

I think this system just adds salt to the wound tbh Rn the game has a very unbalanced gameplay and terrible event rewards, feels almost like it's pointless to login everyday or even try to complete events It would be sort of ok for them to have very expensive cosmetics if they at least gave us something every now and then like season skins, permanent cosmetic rewards from events, more cosmetics you can buy with coins etc

I haven't even accessed it since like the 3rd day. I have no chance of getting the Eevee background, which is the only thing I don't already have, and I figure maybe not accessing the page at all is the best way to "protest"

I did notice the notes that the prize changes daily and that the gauge will reset along with it the first time I use it. Then I noticed that the chance are very small, and that you can only throw 4 balls a day. That's when I decided to ignore that machine as it only makes me sad.

I bet that one day they will unlock shiny skins. And it would be obtainable only through gems. And THAT would be their smartest yet meanest move!

10:48 to the people who think that "it's just cosmetics, so who cares" ah... they put boost emblems in this system, and it's already a gacha to get them, so it's just making a second p2w mechanic, sadly

The Pokeball cooldowns should be every 2 hours

If the prizes didn't reset it will be way better

I feel like this could become the new gachapon system, at least for items and not emblems. Just change the pokeballs into the energy reward and make the items reset once a week and bam, affordable but still profitable system.

I was super excited when I read through the update, then as I realized how it actually worked… resigned myself to never getting anything out of it. But I mean, at least the gold Chansey was a thing. I hate it, but not a _total_ loss, I suppose. If they didn’t reset the gauges on each rotation I’d be way more happy with it. The option to pay in would be there, but you could still actually use if you didn’t want to or couldn’t pay.

one way i would ''fix'' this would be just to not reset the gauges. they daily switch up with items is fine. then u wont be able to throw all of the balls to one thing but still get a sligtly higer chance to get the item u want. resetting the gauges is just straight up evil. sure they have to make money but this is not the way to do so

They should also add good rewards for events aswell 20 - 40 tickets and a time limited skin or hat and bag??? Seriously (most of them are available to players already)

Huge scam lmao

Like I wrote on twitter, this is basically a reverse loot box. The idea that you know what you want, but it all depends on how much you want to literally throw at it. Now if the gem cojst was fewer, you could hit the higher rolls more often or you could get both throws back rather than one at a time, then maybe it could be a touch more toerable, but to spend $50 on just the card itself? Now that is just all kinds of stupid. People think spending $20 on a skin in Overwatch is bad? Unite might have actually taken the cake away from them on that.

it took me one throw to realise theres nothing you can get for free. havent done it since. im not mad, they didnt tale anything away from us, but it could have been implemented so much better

I play this game, but I have never, will never spend a single penny on it. They are so blatant with their greed it makes me mad. Stop buying things for this game, they need to learn a lesson. BTW, they don't explain it on purpose so that they can eat that money.

If TIMI reduce the cooldown 12hr to 8 hr then this machine worth i think, cause free player might get background and frame for free or they can also get the normal holowear of greninja, charizard and the other pokemon but still getting sylveon legendary holowear is next to impossible. Thats my opinion.

I was excited at first, i saw the sylveon holowear and i reallt wanted it, im a free to play player so i taught that was neat, i do think they should've explained the reset thing, its a big bummer But it does make me wonder, does it mean old holowear can and could come back? Like Delphox's for example, if it does and it is something similar, sorry pokemon unite, as much as i love Delphox and its holowear, i will not pay for it this way

Haven’t played unite in a while, but it’s interesting to see this is what they are doing next, adding an actual gacha. The thing t at makes unite better than other f2p games is that you don’t have to spend a dime to get a new character, unlike most gacha that have you do so. In return, the game gets its money from other means, and this is what they have decided to do, which honestly surprises me that they lasted this long without adding a proper gacha. As none of the items in it are required at all, it really is probably made for those with disposable income or “whales”. Though if they wanted this to look better or appeal to f2p players, they should let you lock down on 1 item to not get changed during resets, so you can keep at it. On one hand it lets you keep working at it for free, but on the other hand it prevents you from trying to get any other thing the gacha might have that you want cause now you are trying to work towards one specific thing. It nah not be the most fair, but this is probably something they could do to make it seem more “fair”.

I haven't drawn a single price yet... I already have all the skins, the frame etc (bcs battle pass) and therefore I only need the coins, but bruh... At first I thought to myself "that's a cool idea" but only until I noticed the next morning that my progress was reseted. The chance of getting one price is lower than well... anything that happens outside the game 💀💀💀

Unite cosmetics is ridiculously expensive for what effect they have,its not a surprise anymore to me that they pull something like this as someone who play since the release,the only thing i bought from this game is like 2 or 3 battlepass i think so far, right now im not even interested on the current new scizor battlepass skin even though i love playing scizor,im at the point where im not even interested anymore in cosmetics i just want to play a good match,all i want is to have unite finally punish players who are reported for obviously doesnt even trying to win in ranked game

You deserve credit for doing this for the fans

Probably the worst thing about this prize system is that they make you THINK you can get stuff for free but realistically you're not getting anything without spending gems.

If the pulls didnt reset id actually eouldve thought ita a cool daily login concept but yeah. I just kinda wish they would be more slightly generous w skins towards f2p players. The only thing i remember wss the anniversary i think with the 5 free unit liscenses and skins

Technically you can get the sylveon skin/eevee background free! It’s just a literal 1/1000000000000 chance

Ah yes 22 hours till reset and 11 hours till a new aeos ball Got love tens..... oh wait

I'm an absol main who joined the game right after season 2 and there is nothing in the game i want more that dark suit absol. When I saw that this sytem brought back old battle pass holowear I was hopeful I would finally get a chance to get it. I know it would be impossible to get without spending money, but would've willing to spend a couple hundred gems on resets in order to get it. That was until i did some vague math and realise how truly expensive this machine was (and this was before this video told me that you had to pay for each reset individually). 3000 gems is far more than anyone would realistically have to spend on a normal battle pass holowear. What i think is the biggest problem is that pokemon unite is a game that is much more targeted at kids due to its branding. It's one thing to slap a $60 price tag on a holowear in the store, but this system puts random numbers on a progress bar and has a relatively low cost on the reset. Kids are gonna see the number go up and think that 120 gems is not a lot to bring it higher, until they run out of gems and then have all that progress be wiped the next day. It's such an easy way to trick kids into spending their aeos gems and then have it be wasted. If grown adults cant even figure out how the thing works right away them kids definately wont. The best fix I can think of is have the prize pools change every week and lineups every day, then have the gauges change at the end of the week with the prize pool. Theoretically that's 28 throws a week but it's impossible to get 4 throws every day since the reset is 12 hours and 2 resets would be 24. Still, that at least gives you a sense of progression, and you'll be able to look at your gauges at the end of the week and decide if it's worth it to spend gems on the remaining cost. That's just my immediate, uneducated suggestion though, im sure there are far better solutions, but point is, this system needs to be a lot more friendly to kids who are more likely to play this game compared to other mobass

If it had manual resets(maybe capped at one per day) instead of automatic resets, it would fix the main problem here.

I was three away from greninja without paying then it ended up resetting😭i was guttered i almost had it for my greninja

Tencent showing its true color now

They are kinda shitting on us tbh, especially for us that play a lot. No use for holo wear and fashion ticket. Energy rewards besiddes emblems havent been update for almost 2 years in 3 months (except for the bulbasaur fashion). Emblem dublicates are a pain, they should creat a dust system or something to make bronze emblems. Also OP released pokemon pretty often.

I had the same experience as most people, the moment I realized the gauge resets the next day I don't even bother to open it again. Even if you're not a F2P player, the prize machine would still be a losing game

I sank 400 gems into the sylveon holowear. Only to have it reset the next day. I was confused till I read others on reddit having the same experience. This is a SCAM!!!

I was a bit excited about this, but alas I fell for the same hype as many. I suppose it is just cosmetics in the end, even if the realization it is impossible to get anything but emblems I already have still hurt.

prize machine is pretty much you can pay $2000 for an old skin thats unobtainable

Just came back on the game again,just my monthly schedule to check the game to see if the game gets better and to also get the bonus of return players. When I saw this, i was super hype until i saw that it resets. Ive been playing the game since mobile launch and very sad that the game is at this point. This game has soo much potential but developers are just soo greedy. 8:26 ye this is one of the "nice" f2p games compared to other games but i know i shouldn't compare different games but Brawlstars is so f2p friendly in terms of cosmetics and progress that I support the game and spent more money in Brawlstars than Pokémon unite. I do think Brawlstars is one of an example of how can a game balance both spenders and f2p and thats why I support the game more😊

To be fair this game is one of the least predatory free games I looked at recently. You can clearly play it for free and the only problem is that you can't unlock all the pokémons you could want. The cosmetics are super expensive yes, but they don't really matter and you can enjoy the game just fine without them. If you buy them it's cause you choose to, so don't get pressured into buying it, the same way you would not buy the most expensive cloths irl if you are not rich. As for this machine, I just take it as free emblems so it's better than nothing and menu background is really not that important with how little time I spend in main menu.

I think they should find a way to reward long term free to play players, as someone whose been a free to play player since season 1. If they want people to keep playing on the long term they should reward players for playing on the long term. Maybe you can get a legendary skin if youve been playing for 1 year. Sky Children has something similar called Traveling Spirits, where if you keep playing the game you will be rewarded with a returning spirit.

We have to claim these items until the gauge resets that’s not right

If they'd release more holowear more often and reduce the prices, I'd 100% spend 30$ for a t5 skin, but it being like 50 dollars is just a bit ridiculous.

Winning the actual lottery has better chances then getting some holowear in this game. Like Wow; the odds are better. The devs knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they tuned this.

The battle pass is like 10 dollars for the Sylveon and greninja holowear, the clothes, trainer card bg and frame plus way more and if you missed out on it and for some reason really want all those things you have to pay like 100+ dollars?!? The mark up is insane....

I can't even access the prize machine (I'm assuming due to gambling laws in Belgium not allowing it)...but of course I still get notifications about it as if I can access it...

It's like NFTs that you can't sell

Something being common practice doesn't make it right. I've always been really happy with how fair Pokemon Unite is with it's profit system compared to other apps. I think we've been trained to accept scammy practices as normal way too often, and that's what made Unite such a breath of fresh air. The prize machine totally caught me off guard. I really hope they get rid of this. Improving it would be ok, but still predatory. Why? Something my friend said when I tried introducing them to Unite: "I don't want something I'm supposed to be doing for fun feel like a job I have to go to every day, just to be able to fully experience it." And if you feel like the words "scam" and "predatory" get overused, it's because we're overexposed to those tactics from a young age. Best we can do is not participate in the prize machine. Companies can be sorta like toddlers; you get the behavior you allow.

I basically only play Pikachu and I wasn't playing at the time that Band Style: Pikachu was available and I've REALLY wanted that skin ever since I started playing. it came up in my prize machine, ended up spending $35 to get it and I'm totally ok with that, considering that the most expensive skins in the shop are ~$40. I got about 26-28 1's 4-5 2's and a single 3 in rolling for it. I also waited until I had 2 free rolls to start off with and I got the double bonus of buying gems for the first time at two price points. Looking at the prize pool there is literally nothing else I want and I do think that the boost emblems need to be at 4. Having got the 1 thing I want I probably wont even look at the prize machine again.

Thank you! Someone else has finally said it, Unite ISN'T "pay to win," like so many people think. You're not paying to have an advantage over other players. The only way to get currency to increase the level of your held items is by playing the game and claiming your daily login rewards. Unite never asks you to pay real money for that! Which is one of the few things this game does right. My biggest gripe with the Prize Machine is promising that you can play at no cost to get new items and old one's players (new and old) might've missed out on. But it purposefully resets your progress and that could tempt people into blowing absurd amounts of money to get what they want. (FOMO) Which comes across as scummy and predatory, when some of these items were in a Battle Pass. That costs about ten dollars. But in order to get the Holowear you want without relying on dumb luck? You're going to be spending twice as much. Not to mention this is a game with the demographic of kids (and teenagers) in mind, making this whole thing even worse.

Just found this video after sinking 12 balls into a 40 cost skin netting 20 points of progress. I am beyond ticked that the progress resets.

I thought this was really cool....that is until I logged in the next day and realized it reset. I think if it didn't reset I'd be happier that I can at least get something, but this is just way too much

The Devs of this game are greediest I have ever seen . They are mad for money they want to fetch it in every possible way they can . If the present Trend continues many players will be leaving this in near future.

the first prize you "won" was a bait to start the scammapalooza

Are we gonna ignore the fact that those who doesn’t pay and/or use Aeos gems only able to use 2 poke balls while everyone else spends all their gems? Now I haven’t been able to claim a reward do to this going

It says prize lineup for so many days so my first thought was they reset when the prize lineup changes because even for me when the prizes change they don't actually change they are all the same maybe the emblem will change just like everything else in this game they made it to trick people into spending gems if you notice you can spend gems in the store to buy tickets if you need to now when you try to buy something with gems and you don't have enough it says you need more gems when you buy something with tickets and you don't have enough it doesn't stop you it says you're going to spend gems to buy the rest of the tickets but it says a bunch of stuff everytime you spend tickets so you stop paying attention until one day you realize you have been slowly losing gems somehow

Honestly, one of the worst "event" designs i ever seen on a game, once you figure out how it works it SCREAMS scam! As a F2p player, it's not worth even opening this menu, even for the emblems! You can get emblems easily with the Aos energy reactor thing (Sorry, forgoth the name of it) without the anxiety and annoyances of having to plan your whole day to throw the second pair of balls before the rotation, and even then, having the chance of miss.

What im seeing from this and recent updates is that pokemon unite is trying to convince more players into buying the unite membership. like you would get gems daily meaning you get more throws with the prize machine. Not to mention that replays normaly can only be saved for a hour unless you have membership, with membership you can save them forever.

There was a pose that I REALLY wanted from the prize machine, and the gauge was 10. I thought it would be relatively easy. Turns out just to full 3 spaces on the gauge, its a 3.3 PERCENT CHANCE. Absolutely impossible, they never fail to dissapoint us.

Pokemon unite is changing more to a money making machine. Not only with the prize machine but also in the shop. Pokemon unite licenses are becoming more expensives most Pokemon are now around 14k while it used to be mostly 10-12k which was more achievable even though still expensive. Same for the outfit and holowear shop they have not been updated for f2p players for a while now. From the holowears decidueye was the last pokemon to get an holowear that was achievable to the f2p community and for the shop i think the last f2p outfit added was the Cinderace or duralodon one. All these things are just costmetics and obviously don't effect the game but they are showing how the game is changing. At first they did some small things for the f2p people and now they completely stopped doing it which in my opinion is just rather sad.