Pokemon GO announces the saddest in-game event to date

For just one weekend, Pokemon GO will offer some extra perks.

It’s just about time for Pokemon GO to announce another in-game event, so Niantic did today.

From May 5 to May 8, grass Pokemon will appear more frequently in the game in what Niantic is calling a “worldwide bloom.”

Pokemon GO‘s official Twitter account also confirmed that lures placed on PokeStops will last for six hours instead of the usual 30 minutes throughout the duration of the event.

And that’s it.

You read right. That’s the entirety of the event that Pokemon GO is offering this time around.

For those keeping track, Pokemon GO has implemented a limited-time event around once a month for the past several months. It started with a couple major events that revolved around Halloween and the holidays, and has since been events generally lasting around one week.

These events have felt like the only thing keeping players mildly satiated while they continue the wait for a slew of features that Pokemon GO has promised will come but still have not delivered. At various points in time, Niantic Labs has stated that they are working on better battle mechanics, battling between players and player-to-player trading and yet none of these things have surfaced yet.

So those devoted to Pokemon GO spend their time trundling along from event to event, desperately hoping that Niantic gives them something to get excited about, something to break up the tediousness.

And what Niantic decided to give players in May was an event not even lasting a week, but just three days.

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Some suspect that this mini-event is a sign that Pokemon GO is attempting to try something new, that instead of just the usual week-long event once a month, the game will try its hand at both longer and shorter events.

Let’s hope that this is the case, that with this weekend only event Pokemon GO is actually planning more in-game events in the future rather than scaling them back.