The Team Rocket Event Has Vanished In Pokemon GO

After lots of complaints about how the Team Rocket Event was playing out in Pokemon GO, the dastardly team appear to have vanished.

After the Team Rocket Event began this week in Pokemon GO, some players got to experience the fun of finding a Rocket Stop. There they fought a Grunt to try and catch a Shadow Pokemon. Unfortunately, lots of players had several issues. Some were unable to interact with the Rocket Stops, while others didn’t find any at all.

Initially many figured out that the Rocket Stops just had a slim chance of showing up. These slim chances made them extremely hard to find in more rural areas. There have been reports from players on Reddit indicate that even in busy locations, the Rocket Stops were incredibly rare. Now, a new twist has gone into the tale with a tweet from the official Pokemon GO Twitter.

Professor Willow has noticed that sightings of discolored PokéStops and Pokémon enshrouded in a shadowy aura have…suddenly stopped? ? ? Hmm… This phenomenon keeps getting more troubling the more we investigate it. ?

— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) July 23, 2019

The majority of people, myself included, are merely reading this as a narrative spin on the fact that the Team Rocket Event wasn’t playing out very well. Now, maybe I am wrong, and this was the plan all along? Perhaps the Grunts were living up to their name? The idea could be that Team Rocket decided to send in some bigger guns to carry out whatever plan it is they are working on at the moment.

Truthfully, I think the event had some flaws. Niantic may have pulled back, and someone had the idea of trying to explain it away as a narrative thing. This method is better than just saying the event is on hold until some of the issues they are attempting to fix. Either way, we’ll be keeping on eye on any updates about the game, and when it might return.