Pokemon Go’s avatar clothing adverts slammed for using “misleading” designs

Pokemon Go players are complaining about the misleading adverts for the upcoming Go Fest, which uses character models that are no longer present in the game.

The Pokemon Go fanbase is up in arms about the changes made to the character avatars and the items, which have been viciously mocked for being incredibly ugly and unflattering.

These outfit changes have also been criticized for altering existing items or, in some cases, making them inaccessible. A few of these avatar items are ones that fans paid real money for and can’t afford anymore.

There’s now another issue at play, as the new avatar update only recently had its global rollout, and there are still adverts for upcoming events that use the old designs, as pointed out by users on the Pokemon Go Reddit.

Kind of misleading marketing to sell avatar items using the old models that don’t exist anymore. I wonder why they didn’t use the new models 🤔🤔🤔
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The upcoming Pokemon Go Fest 2024 website advertises avatar items using the old character models, despite them no longer existing in-game.

It seems at least the official social media accounts are up to date, as the Pokemon Go Twitter/X page now uses a new image that shows only the items, not the avatars. Still, as users online have pointed out, the use of this photo for an upcoming event is misleading.

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Hopefully, the website will soon be updated, and all future promo material will use the new avatars. We can also hope that the appearance of these character models in commercials will prompt Niantic to roll back the changes and give everyone their old trainer back.