Future Raid Battle Mechanics

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Raid-style multiplayer (or multi-trainer) battles are looking poised to become a pretty permanent, or at least long-standing, feature of the series. I’d be surprised if they took a mainline gen game off at this point.

I like them well enough, at least in concept, but I still personally don’t think they’ve quite nailed integrating them into the game experience in a way that feels seamless or compelling. As somebody who’s nearly totally ambivalent to them, they can seem a bit impenetrable at times and I can’t help but feel the games could be better about onboarding and making them feel like a worthwhile activity to seek out.

I have my own ideas about what they could do to fix this but, as previously stated, they aren’t really rooted in me being all that passionate about or experienced in this aspect of the games… so I feel like there’s a decent chance my understanding of what could constitute improvement might be a bit lopsided.

For that reason, I’m curious what others think could be done to improve or make this part of the games more fun, exciting, and dynamic!

Personally, I’d really like for them to try and tackle these as some kind of “roaming field boss” style encounter. Having large, immensely powerful Pokémon disrupting your exploration on the map, forcing you to either challenge them to a raid battle or find a way to avoid them, sounds fun and exciting to me!

What about you?

 

[ninazrdl]

No.
Unfortunately, it seems like GF wants to make the pokemon games into some old fashioned MMO-RPG. But I really hate the idea of raid as a main content. If you have raid, you can either have NPC teammates(who are stupid), or human teammates(who can be either stupid, or cheaters, or super slow, or using offensive names, or all of above. And you have to wait years til you can fill a team of 4 players). Raid is one of the top sources of stress when playing the game.
Where ever you have other players, you have cheaters, those who use pokemons named "freemon.net" something like that. and it seems like GF isn't even trying to fix it. There is no report button, not even a blacklist.
No.
I am fine if you have raid as an extra system. Like the mini games in 3DS. You can choose to have them, or ignore them, doesn't matter. You can have some extra exp candies/parameter drugs/ability stickers... but shiny buffs like the spices should be obtainable from solo playing.
But I really don't like more raids. The least thing I want is anything disrupting my hunt of shiny/my exploration. I don't need extra stress in my video games, I can get plenty of them in my real life. The wild ox or fishes ramming into me or the tiny bugs I hit in a traffic accident(which occurs every minute) are annoying enough, I don't need any more disturbing unwanted monsters.
No.
The best thing GF can do, is to sideline the raid system, make it something extra. Something like the battle towers/subways/manors, where you can choose to go but you don't have to. The best game is a solo game because all my problems stay there, all I can blame is myself, and I don't get problems from other people. With the other players, come the other problems. Those problems are not mine, I can't fix them, but I would be suffering from them.
NO.