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Do not remove Challenges & Adventures! A lot us use these features to motivate us and connect. My kids are able to connect and do challenges with their friends too.
Massively backwards step removing the challenges, normal app development and progression would be to enhance / add more features …not remove them. This will only have one result loosing customer loyalty - is that not obvious!
I absolutely love doing loads of challenges against my family/friends and am totally gutted they are going. PLEASE do not do this! If anything we need more varieties of challenges to help continue to motivate us all. I definitely won’t be subscribing to premium after this news - no point. Might as well go back to my cheap step tracker I used previously
Please keep the challenges. Research has shown that this kind of "games" features encourage people to stay active. It has worked for me.
I hate when companies talk about "enhancing" their services by removing features. I am not the only customer who is tired of this doublespeak. Be prepared for many membership cancellations thanks to this "enhancement". The cost of maintaining this feature and/or migrating it to Google technology cannot be significant.
It's stupid to take features away that everyone likes instead of removing them they should be adding features and more challenges so that you have a variety to choose from. I feel like Google is doing this and is hoping users will buy a Google watch but instead of that happening people are going to go to Apple, Samsung or another company except for Google and fitbit. Hope they learn that the Customer is always Right especially in this case.
The Fitbit challenges keep my family & friends motivated & challenge each other. We all look forward to seeing who wins the Workweek Hustle!! Very disappointed that Fitbit are removing this feature.
Stop cancellation. At this point majority should get it. who wouldn't want the challenge? It makes it even more challenging and helpful for families and work partners. Challenges have help so far in communication, so many recommendation and data at in it..... Tt motivates so it should stay.
I held off reading the email you sent until today, I was very upset. I use the challenges to compete with coworkers and friends, it keeps us moving. I am on my third Fitbit watch in 7 years and love them. The community is a big thing for me.. your merge with Google was a horrible mistake and your company is not going to make it when you take the major things your customers.. the people who pay your salary the things we love about a product. It’s not broke, don’t fix it. And the email you sent out basically says we don’t care if you stay or go, we don’t care what you think. Thanks
Just to be honest with you that if challenges are really going away, my next watch will be apple or Garmin. It will never be Fitbit or pixel watch. Challenges with families and friends is the only thing that keeps me here.
Please don't get rid of the challenges and badges! I find them fantastic and they help me be motivated to be more active. It was one of the main reasons I chose to get a FitBit in the first place. I was thinking of upgrading to a PixelWatch but will now be reconsidering now that this feature will be removed.
Very disappointed. The challenges are the reason why I purchased the device. Myself and a group of friends enjoy competing against one another and earning badges, it’s very encouraging.
I'm not going to be purchasing another Fitbit product if they proceed with this.
I literally was just telling people a few weeks ago that the challenges and Fitbit bingo are what makes Fitbits superior for making fitness fun than smart watches like Apple Watch (and I’m a lover of apple products). Take those away and the motivational tools I enjoy are gone and I have little reason to stick with Fitbit as a fitness tracker and just get an Apple Watch.
This is the only reason many of my family, friends, and myself went to fitbit in the first place. I have an Apple Watch but choose to stick with and continue to use a fitbit for workweek and weekend challenges. You are destroying the single functionality that made your product different. Not only will this push me to never buy your products again, I will sell all stock holdings that I have placed into your company. This is the worst decision you could have made.
Please! If this goes away, you will lose another customer. This really motivated me to keep walking and running and just moving to get to winning challenges for myself!
I like everyone else commenting here love the challenges. I recently bought another fitbit after my old one stopped recording my sleep. If I had thought I would lose all my friends in the challenges etc I would have bought a different smart watch. There are plenty on the marker that cost the same and do much more. But I love seeing my friends from all over the world. They motivate me and keep me going. They make me happy. Taking away this feature makes fitbit the same as every other smart watch on the market. If you think I need more videos and healthy food options I can get all that for free of YouTube. I don't need fitbit. I don't know if you've noticed but there's this thing called the internet and it shows workout videos and people cooking for free it also has free meditation videos. Do better. We don't have to pay for stuff we can literally get for free everywhere.
This is the worst thing Google has done to Fitbit. The challenges kept a sense of community. This ruins, everything and people are leaving by the droves. I will never buy another Fitbit device after this. I’m on my third Fitbit and I’m sorry I bought what I did now. I still can’t believe you’re ruining everything.
A friend gave me a new app to download since Fitbit doesn’t care if we leave or not.. Stridekick. It syncs Fitbit and apple.. which means more people to add to challenges. Enjoy 🥳
This is why I got the premium. Well, one of the reasons. but if you take that away then you better be prepared for people asking or rather demanding you lower the price for premium. Judging by this section of the feature suggestion will see if you keep your word and follow through with posts that have the most votes. Also, google need to just butt out and be sent to the corner for stupidity. They just jealous of fitbit.
You know I counted on the first page alone there is 288,967 up votes on every topic that talks about this.
Or they better lower the price. Because they about to become as stupid as google when making a a choice and not consulting the people that it matters to most.
I am so disappointed that Challenges are being terminated and will no longer be a part of FitBit. These have been a fun way to encourage and be encouraged by friends and family who also wear FitBit devices. Please reconsider and keep Challenges as part of the FitBit app.
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