This has spent important weeks in the Pokemon Go community, and in the past few days, it has really reached its peak.
We are accustomed to seeing fan anger in video games-as we all know, it does not take much time to irritate certain gamers-but it is rarely seen in a developer with a solid foundation. Coordinated frustration and disappointment. The logic behind.
So first of all, congratulations to Niantic-for making such a generally annoying decision that it has almost united the entire fan base against it, from YouTubers to website owners, media owners to voice players on social media-almost every Individuals are either crazy or disappointed. However, you may not pay attention to it-so let me explain what happened.
At the beginning of the global pandemic, Niantic and The Pokemon Company faced difficult choices. Pokemon Go is of course a game about getting out of the house, walking around, and interacting with people and places. At a certain point in time, all these things are undesirable. Niantic took measures to adjust game elements to deal with this situation-these measures are actually very good. Now, Niantic is taking most of them.
The elimination of a popular change particularly angered fans—increasing the distance between players and PokeStops and Gyms, these small discs are essential to the game flow of Pokemon Go. In the pandemic measures, the “interaction distance” has been increased from 40 meters to 80 meters-this means that you can interact with these elements of the real world from farther away, but you must still be geographically close to the point of interest and Interaction, but still had to move from one to the other.
This change is particularly clever because it helps prevent Pokemon Go trainers from gathering in a small place when we should all be socially distanced-but it actually improves Pokemon Go in many other ways.
This is an important reason why fans are so angry. Forget that companies like Niantic and The Pokemon Company shouldn’t act like the pandemic is over, and in many countries in the world, it is decisively not over-this is resuming a change that has improved playing Pokemon Go Comprehensiveness.
It is being restored because… well, maybe because they think it will increase game time, participation, and thus spending, because people are encouraged to go a little bit more and devote more time to each Pokestop , Gym or other place you. It is worth noting that other changes made for the pandemic, such as long-range raids that encourage players to purchase special raid passes to participate in special battles from a distance, will continue to exist for the foreseeable future.
in a United Community Letter Almost every Pokemon Go website and important influencers have posted, and fans have made strong arguments as to why this change should be retained forever. In addition, the 80-meter interaction distance is more suitable for players with disabilities, players with children, and generally improves safety by eliminating the need to cross dangerous roads, enter unsafe areas, or leave shelters.
They also pointed out shrewdly that this is an easy way to solve the annoying problem of Pokemon Go-that is, as the distance increases, you are less likely to gather a group of players in a city center or a park. This may cause inconvenience to others and block trails, sidewalks or corporate entrances-all of which were even covered by mainstream news during the first exciting summer of Pokemon Go.
In addition to the respectful and coordinated open letter, unfortunately, there are some idiots who personalize it for Pokemon Go developers. These people are idiots. But the fan letter is so cruel and straightforward that it feels like an insurmountable argument. There really is no good reason to restore this feature-even if you delete any arguments related to the pandemic. It improves the game. Eighty meters means that Pokemon Go is still a game where you have to go out and walk around—just slightly less convenient.
As far as Niantic is concerned, it quickly responded with its own open letter and issued a formal response.
“We thank you for your letter and all feedback. We heard it. We are humbled by your response,” it chatted. “Not every game has such a passionate global player base. We are fortunate to have such a base.”
This letter continues to basically explain what fans already know-the distance change is disappearing, returning to 40 meters from the United States and New Zealand. It continues to acknowledge fan complaints and promises to have mobilized a “working group” to study this issue and will share the findings before the start of the next Pokemon Go season, which is scheduled for September 1.
But honestly, I don’t understand. These are like the words of a weasel to me. Of course, there are always more specific concerns internally, but from the outside, I don’t know what this working group has to look at—except for how changes affect revenue, and how serious the fans resist their resistance. With this statement, Niantic has basically bought it for three weeks. For all the wording, the statement provides almost no other content.
However, fans seem to have noticed. A common topic among fans on Twitter seems to be that Niantic’s “hearing” fans are not good enough-the company needs to listen too. Others are less charitable and just call it, well, BS.
In fact, Niantic knows what it needs to do-it should roll back this epidemic measure and make it permanent. This is a simple question, and it can be proven that it will not disrupt the balance of the game. You don’t need to set up a working group for this; it’s just common sense.
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