Trainers, there seems to be a problem with Poke Ball gifts from Great Buddy since the beginning of the Seedot CD day. It seems like the Great Buddy bonus is bugged and players aren’t getting any Poke Balls.
Seedot Community Day has begun (May 24, from 11 AM to 5 PM local time) featuring shiny Seedot, Bullet Seed as the exclusive move, Seeing Double Special Research, 3x Catch XP, and 3-hour Incense. In addition, Buddy Pokemon with a Buddy Level of Great Buddy or higher will bring you helpful items, such as Poke Balls, throughout the event.
Players are reporting of not getting any Poke Balls and one player contacted Niantic for the lack of Poke Ball gifts from his Great Buddy.
Now, he was lucky enough and instantly got 300 Poke Balls on his account.
He shared his “story” on the official TSR Reddit and got a lot of attention from the community. Check it out below.
Complained via in game support chat about the lack of Pokeball gifts from my Buddy. Niantic added 300 pokeballs to my acc on the spot. from r/TheSilphRoad
Do you have the same problem? We would like to hear from you, so please let us know in the comment section below.
No extra balls here. Other family members have gotten them.
I also didn’t get poker balls from my buddy but I also didn’t get poker balls from my friends gifts so I had to buy some with my coins
I had my buddy going and never got any gifts…I don’t know much about him.
No pokeballs here either.
My buddy was playing with me but I wasn’t getting any gifts.
Not only no gifts but hardly any shinies I got 2 wife got 11
Yea I’m not getting pokeballs ether this is kinda sucky
I also had issues receing my gifts
Significant delay receiving buddy balls which cost me shinys a few times
Didn’t work for me and also tasks are mentioned, no tasks for me at all.
The tasks that are referenced are for if you bought the ticket for .99c in the shop
I did not get bullet seed when i evolved my pokemon. I got pokeballs the last 2 hours of the event.
Pokémon didn’t collect gifts, didn’t get poke balls from gifts and it’s funny how they added stuff to his account because the other day I had to drop 10 revives but the game glitches and ended dropped it twice when I contacted support they legit told me that they are sorry that, that happened but they can not add items to an account.
Same here no poke balls from my buddy and barely any other gifts from buddy either todat
My buddy hasnt gave me no gifts. I only gir a couple balls from pokie stops today. Not right.
I’m sorry to hear that guys. Many players didn’t get any Poke Balls, and some didn’t even catch Shiny Seedot.
Played for almost 3 hours straight, took a break, played another hour or so, and didn’t receive any gifts from my buddy the entire time. Had fed my buddy berries and later a Poffin. Another player with me received gifts from his buddy every half hour or so. Very disappointing. Had to leave home and go out to Pokestops. Defeats the purpose of being able to do a Community Day at home and not having to venture out when you aren’t resupplied with pokeballs.
Same issue didn’t receive any gifts
I have not received any pokeballs it gifts from my buddy either. I tried feeding him multiple times, but it did not change anything. He is also not even showing up next to me as he usually does.
I didnt receive any pokeballs from my buddy during the community day event today. I ran out of pokeballs with an hour left on my lucky egg. So disappointing.
I played the whole 7 hours and didn’t receive 1 gift from my great buddy. Everyone else around me kept getting them and I didn’t.
I didnt receive any either..the game was VERY glitchy today as well!!
No pokeballs thought I was having bad luck…..
I also didn’t get any poke balls from my buddy
I only got the extra pokeballs once and itbquit
I never got any gifts from him either
The game froze several times during the event so I kept restarting the game. I was not able to get the full benefit of the incense and lucky egg I used.
I had the same problems.
Nothing for me. Even tried switching buddies.
There are five of us in my house who play. Initially no one received balls. All contacted customer support. All received balls except me. I used 600 balls and never received a single ball from my buddy. Customer support just repeatedly kept sending the same reply asking me to choose an option from a list, but the list never popped up. Very frustrating!
I did not receive any pokéballs from my Ultra Buddy on my main account. I did, however, receive some on my second account with my Best Buddy. My friend with me received hers every 30 minutes. I messaged the app support at 3:30 and again at 5:00 pm. We missed out on 600 hundred balls (50 every 30 minutes for 6 hours).
Same problem. No balls from buddy.
My problem is totally different. My incense isn’t working. I dont get any pokemon while using it. The pokemon come and just disappears in a second. I dont get a chance to even tap on it.
Same problem here. Walked 4km and no pokeballs during that time during the event.
I didn’t receive anything either
I didn’t get buddy gifts either. In fact I had to buy pokeballs.
Def did NOT work.
I never got my poke balls from my buddy at all yesterday
I didn’t get any poke balls from my buddy either
I didn’t get any poke balls yesterday either
I didn’t receive my poke balls neither my user is 767201244510
my whole family place we do not have any issues thank you very much for a great event caught 12 shinies official start of summer
Got none here either
I didnt get my pokeballs either yesterday my user is :sheino86
Totally disappointing , no pokeballs no buddy gifts . My whole family waited for this event, not sure we’ll do the next one .
No pokeballs or gifts. I was jipped!
Ran out of balls faster than expected. Didn’t get replenished.