Cook and Collect, Wherefore Art Thou?

It's been a long time since I've written up one of these "wherefore art thou?" posts, which is indicative that something has been missing in some realm of or related to Pokémon. This time, the concern is for Café Remix and one of its event types - or more appropriately, an element of certain events. As explained over a year ago, the Cook and Collect event type allows players to earn nifty rewards while collecting items from the playfield as one "cooks" by completing orders or stages. Yet since it first appeared, there has been a relative dearth of this event type, and now that prompts this post to be made.

Apart from the Gimmighoul one that continues to recur (as of this post, the most recent one was a few days ago), there have only been a couple editions of this event, sometimes in tandem with the above, one of them featuring a newly added puzzle element of watermelons. After those editions, there really have been no other editions of the event, making it seem that the event type has disappeared, except of course for the recurring Gimmighoul one. Thus, the question in the post title becomes pertinent. 

The reasons for this may be hard to determine, although players' preferences may be an indicator. Evidently, many players of Café Remix are ones who don't frequently log in to the game, so the iterations of Cook and Collect that weren't the Gimmighoul one didn't find favor with some of these players. Though Cook and Collect is progress-limited by day as is the case for the Gimmighoul event and different iterations may obviate this to certain degrees, having progress limited is very much a sticking point.

Now, aside from the Gimmighoul event, only time might tell if more Cook and Collect events will be instituted or if the event type is going to be a "stub". What might be a strong possibility is that multiple events of this type will run (perhaps all at once) in the far future in order to aid players to hire Pokémon they haven't hired one way or another... though this also has other implications for the game that is presently not up for discussion.

While it seems that the Gimmighoul event that is of this event type will see continuity up until the "inevitable", the possibility of other events of this type appearing is very much being questioned at present. Being a constantly updated game, Café Remix always has (and had) its surprises, so the one big surprise right now would be to have events of this type return. That could be as surprising as some of the possible results of the events.

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