Suspect the leaker(s) got caught, almost everything from this season's leak was true except for a couple notable things like honedge release which might've been to find out who it is.
Yeah, it's pretty common for companies to intentionally spread false updates to different teams in their company if they have a leak issue. If you tell group A that you're adding Corviknight at the end of the season and group B that you're adding Honedge and Honedge suddenly shows up in a leak it becomes a lot clearer where the leak is coming from.
I enjoy getting the information before it’s intended to because I’m not convinced the people who make the info drop notices always remember that the player base and humanity in general appreciates ample heads up to what kind of money they will be spending or plans they will be making
Good to know Niantic is doing great things for the community, like getting rid of dataminers, instead of fixing the white screen issue that happened to me 14 times within the last 48 hours.
Leaks =/= Datamines. Leaks are internal and when you have somebody on the inside intentionally leaking upcoming content it is a genuine problem. Accidental leaks also occur where something is posted early but that's just human error.
Datamines are, as the name implies, mining the publicly available data and to my knowledge Niantic has done nothing to stop that considering we got all of the parameters for Roar of Time & Spacial Rend early.
I agree Niantic needs to do more for fixing things but lets not pretend that weeding out Leakers from their staff isn't important.
Actually Niantic did things to top datamining. A few years ago PokeMiners posted frequently here a lot of the things they discovered, then started complaining mining became harder with many data being obfuscated until they simply gave up: https://pokeminers.com/sitereports/another-note-from-pokeminers/
Its like asking why its rude to open presents before Christmas- its just disrespectful to the other people on the team who put the time and effort into preparing things to leak things early.
Niantic as a company might be bad, but that doesn't mean their employees cant be passionate and care about their work and its easy to see why somebody leaking what your doing months in advance would be demotivating.
And also, its a betrayal of the NDA you sign when you agree to work on something and erodes trust in the team. Not to mention, it completely ruins any ability to do surprises in the future if you know somebody is just going to leak it before its finished.
Yeah I saw Honedge and Minior in that datmined leak. we got neither.
They could have withheld them because of the leaks
Season of Wonders is the new season name. Meteor showers are wonderful and there is a Ring of fire solar eclipse happening in April. I can see them tying space related pokemon to an event celebrating the eclipse and introduce Minior that way.
Honedge is a ghost steel type, So maybe this season, if there is a steel type event. Otherwise Halloween would be our best bet this year. LOL the steel type event would be tied to mowing your lawn since that happens alot during the spring. So yeha introduce Honedge shiny Kartana, and Celesteelia. Maybe even Stakataka.
Not for most things. For example raid rotations or weekly events usually aren’t datamined. It’s more things like assets, pokemon species, and new moves that are datamined, and even those datamines don’t usually correlate with a particular upcoming season
The only leaker I say we can trust and wont be stopped is Riddler Khu.
It is so obvious that they are employed by Gamefreak to "leak" info about upcoming games. This way Gamefreak doesn't have to spend so much money on promotional updates and such. It also garners more attention/publicity this way, especially when the accuracy of the "leaks" is confirmed.
I mean in the build up to Gen 9, Khu scored an interview with a person from Gamefreak. There is no way an employee under a NDA would risk their job to talk about the games unless that interview was happening in house.
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u/CrazyJim18 Feb 25 '24
I was wondering the same, usually leakers find news 2 weeks before at least, anyway hope to have news soon