When will NIA respond to MD Submissions for Q3/4?
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NIA, hasn't yet closed or responded to MD submissions for 2019 Q3/4 in Europe a few MD's in the Americas has been announced. Please let us know when a response can be expected so we can keep communications with our partners, locations etc. "We submitted months ago, and are still waiting to hear" and "Soon(TIM)" doesn't make for good relationship management.
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I think we deserve some schedule in Europe at least for summer. July will be filled with NL+MD and anomaly but after that there is nothing yet in August and beyond.
FYI we got a reject today for q3
From the June AMA:
”Q: Faeryen - When will be MDs for European sites for second half of 2019 finally decided?
A: I have been informed that the only Mission Days for European cities will be the ones on the Sunday after an Anomaly. There will not be any standalone Mission Days.”
Wow. Why has this not been announced prior to opening Mission Day applications for Q3/4? All the work for nothing. Well almost nothing, keeping it for next year :|
I'm really angry against Niantic and their "event team". They rejected sunday my application without any reason and when we ask them why, they just not answer anymore...
While we've come to expect no explanations from NIA, for any decisions.. I'm disheartened, fed up, that their poor planning/resourcing will affect so many people (again). I assume the lack of EU MDs is related to the open event planner job position in Hamburg. But why ask for submissions Europe if this was the realistic outcome. Also talked to Dominick about MDs in Amsterdam, and there was no information then apart from the "We haven't looked at MD Submissions yet".
Mission Days are 99% run on volunteer hours, and are even less effort for NIA than Anomalies. For every MD submission rejected, 100s of hours are wasted. The relationships with partners that agreed to be part of the MD (as requested by the submission guidelines) will be impacted, the locations found for registration/after party etc lost. The relationship damaged. While we all knew it wasn't a go until it was approved by NIA, it's just crazy when it's multiplied to all the MD submissions for 2 quarters. Must be 1000s of hours.
On a personal note, I'm also angry that I don't get to get Onyx MD this year. Really the only medel that was resonable for me to achieve this year. And no fun travels, less anomalies and no MDs. Meeting up with the community is about the only thing keeping me in the game.