Pokémon Go fans worried about the future of the game under a new property have launched a campaign that highlights the need to protect the application and its community from the addition of predatory monetization practices.
Yesterday, a Bloomberg report stated that Pokémon Go developer, Niantic, was looking to sell its games to policly, the mobile editor backed by Saudites behind Monopoly Go.
The news sent shock waves through the Pokémon Go community, and generated fears that the measure would be deeply negative for the long -term future of the game and its players.
Because? Well, although criticizing the Pokémon Go Niantic developer is a common hobby time for many of the game fans, it did not take long that the players of other escort games sound the alarm that things would probably worse a lot.
“For those strangers, Scopey is known by games like Marvel Strike Force and Star Trek Fleet Command,” reads a thread of the Tetrylene user in Top Pokémon Go Gray Reddit Browsilphroad. “Many of these communities have expressed concern about openly aggressive monetization tactics, including payment walls and payment mechanics to win. I know that this potential change fills me personally with fear.”
“Oh … dear …” He wrote to Pokémon Go Misskass, responding to the initial report that Niantic’s games were on sale. “I play another school game (Marvel Strike Force) and the quality is decreasing year after year. Pokemon Go is effectively free to play, but Strike Force pays powerfully to win. As, there is no access to any of the best characters for 6+ months After they release some payment to win.
Another fan pointed a position in the Marvel Strike Force Reddit five years ago, warning in a similar way to fans of that game what would probably change based on how he had previously taken in Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem and squeezed the screws of the monetization
“He came here to say exactly the same,” said Reddit User Todd999430. “I played Marvel Strike Force before acquiring the game and then a year or two later. Marvel Strike Force went from a game so that light speakers compete to ‘Unless you are going down $ 500 a month, you can’t be in an alliance superior ‘. ”
For Pokémon GO players, many of whom play the game as part of the communities of the real world composed of friends and acquaintances gathered in the last nine years, the idea of changing the property of the game is a real concern.
“Beyond being the only real game that I play, it serves as a great duct for me and my socially friends to connect and gather me,” continues the publication of Tetrylene. “I run a local group with them, and the idea of the group eventually decreases as people are alienated (instead of growing slowly and gradually as it is now) it is really gloomy to think.
“I am sure that it is the same for many of you here: the game is a great reason why many of us have been motivated to exercise, do friends and explore new places. I know I don’t want to lose that to a face without Group of members of the Board of Investment Funds “.
In response, the Pokémon Go community is encouraged to publicize its feelings by the Pokémon company: the general owner of the franchise, which will undoubtedly have an opinion on which company acquires the game still lucrative and high profile.
“The world of Warcraft and the Runescape communities of the old school have demonstrated several times that it is worth kicking the uproar for negative changes. These communities have managed to redirect the course of their respective games several times,” Tetrylene continued.
“Yes, try to exert some influence on such large -scale commercial offers between entities such as these may seem discouraging, but we have to try. Annotated in discussions.
Tetrylene’s thread encourages Pokémon Go players to send messages to the Pokémon company to express the need to preserve the integrity of the game without additional monetization characteristics, highlight the nature of the group driven by the community and mark the potential damage to the Pokémon company brand should allow you to play what has already done to others.
Eurogamer has contacted the Pokémon company to comment on the potential sale, but did not receive an answer. A Niantic spokesman declined to comment.
