Niantic Campfire

the app is nice for the map and to communicate but the raid team ups and searching for a party takess foreverrrr says people is infront of me sometimes but never load in makes me thinks theres bots lol

I was introduced to this app by attending a PokemonGo Fest back in 2023. I do appreciate having a messaging platform to connect others without having the need to give out my other personal information. It seems it has some aspects of the layout of Discord, like the groups. When I leave groups, there’s no way to remove them from my lists. I had to uninstall, restart device, and reinstall the app to remove them. Finding raids with others through the app is definitely more miss than hits. I chose the option to join a raid, it automatically puts me in one, but no option to choose whether it is one I want to join and no telling what pokemon I’m raiding for. Joining is easier than hosting. When I try to host, it shows how many in the queue, but it takes a long time waiting for others. I believe a notification should be sent to others in the area as an option to in choosing to raid it. Not sure if it waits until I have the max amount of participants or I can choose to start. I never get the whole group of 5 extra players. Not sure if it’s possible, but I noticed that players can have this option to join or RSVP through the PoGo app already. Wish this worked though if they want this app to work.

I uploaded a picture of me hunting on campfire. Literally just hunting. This is a picture that I’ve posted literally everywhere with no issues and yet I get banned on here. I now see why this app has such bad reviews. Don’t post, type or read anything in this app unless you want to get banned. It’s disgusting really, I’ve done nothing wrong and yet I get banned for something so simples that isn’t even wrong and when I appealed the just gave me an AI message saying again that I’ve violated their stupid policy.

Won’t connect to any raids just searches for ever

the flame

It’s great for normal raids, but with the game adding new Gigantimax and Shadow Raids the app needs to be updated to accommodate that.

A Niantic app does not have a login option using Niantic Pokemon trainer id, feels like a joke

edit: coming back a few months later to update this but it’s even worse than how I originally posted this. This is now a completely unusable and impractical app. It’s practically impossible to ever find a raid I’ll sometimes be stuck in waiting queue for an hour +. This app is really bad and it’s clear they’ve given up a long time ago with this. In theory this is a really amazing idea for an app especially for people like myself in areas with not a lot of pokestops or gyms. The reasons I’m rating this app so low is because it’s simply not as optimized as it could be the only thing you can do is join or host regular raids which limits you from shadow raids and dynamax raids. You also have no way to search what target you’re wanting to raid and have to rely on someone else hosting that raid for you to join. The frequent bugs and glitches this app has is also really annoying. You guys are multi million dollar corporation and can do better.

Love the app and its features. Deserves a 4 star since you can’t host shadow raids but I’m confident you guys will add that feature soon. When will that be?

This app needs a makeover, it’s hard to use and messaging is a joke.