258. What A Disaster

Lured Up Podcast 258 Record Date - 3/14/23 Publish Date - 3/17/23   Where to begin! This last week was not positive for community sentiment! While the Festival of Colors event was well received, a disastrous Elite Raid showing diminished any positivity that the community at large had in them. Elite Raids were plagued by connection issues, bugs, glitches, and crashes. It was a stress and anxiety filled Raid event, and the majority of Trainers left feeling terrible about the game and their experience. Timing couldn’t have been worse for Niantic as they had just released a blog post confirming their commitment to real world play.    What will Niantic need to do in order to get out of this hole? For sure they will need to make good on the event, but also show us they can release a product that functions properly on a consistent basis. The optimist in us hopes that the Let’s GO and Team GO Rocket Takeover events go off without a hitch. They look to be VERY promising and cover the gamut of gameplay disciplines so every Trainer will have a chance to take part.   We wrap things up with a Lugia Raid Guide and Battle Party! While we have a little bit of time before Lugia arrives, it typically brings Raiders out to get down. Be prepared and put together a party with us!   Festival of Colors - https://bit.ly/LU256Colors  Elite Raids - https://bit.ly/LU257Elite Real World Play - https://bit.ly/LU258RealWorld  Let’s GO - https://bit.ly/LU258LetsGO  Lugia Battle Party - https://bit.ly/LU258Lugia  Support the show by bookmarking and shopping at TCGPlayer.com using this link - https://bit.ly/TCGPlayerAffiliate    Pokémon Professor Network Merch Store - https://bit.ly/PPNMerchStore    [email protected]     Voicemail, Text, and Picture Line - 732-835-8639    https://linktr.ee/PokemonProfessorNetwork    Hosts Ken Pescatore Adam Tuttle   Writer and Producer Ken Pescatore   Executive Producer  Paul Bhatt   Show music provided by GameChops and licensed through Creative Commons   ▾ FOLLOW GAMECHOPS ▾ http://instagram.com/GameChops http://twitter.com/GameChops http://soundcloud.com/GameChops http://facebook.com/GameChops http://youtube.com/GameChops http://www.gamechops.com   Intro Music Lake Verity (Drum & Bass Remix)  Tetracase GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/ https://soundcloud.com/tetracase  https://soundcloud.com/MegaFlare0   Break Music National Park Mikel & GameChops GameChops - Poké & Chill http://smarturl.it/pokechill https://twitter.com/mikel_beats   Outro Music Vast Poni Canyon CG5 & GlitchxCity (Future Bass Remix) GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/  http://soundcloud.com/cg5-beats https://soundcloud.com/glitchxcity Pokémon And All Respective Names are Trademark and © of Nintendo 1996-2021 Pokémon GO is Trademark and © of Niantic, Inc. Lured Up and the Pokémon Professor Network are not affiliated with Niantic Inc., The Pokémon Company, Game Freak or Nintendo.   #pokemon #pokemongo #podcast