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>If you have to cheat, spoof, or have played the game for years AND have the correct weather boost to complete a raid, then it's a complete, unmitigated disaster from the perspective of game design.Maybe this should be the angle that people should go after Niantic with. Seems like most of the backlash brought to Niantic has been centered around the idea that people need more people to complete these more desirable raids, rather than raids being too difficult in general, so Niantic ends up tuning everyone out while they try to work on ways to get more people playing the game. If the community were to focus more on the fact that the majority of the playerbase would rather play with only one or two other friends in-person at a time, maybe they could push Niantic to adapt the game to more of a playstyle that favors 2-3 players, rather than the dozen-or-so-player playstyle that the game used to be centered around.