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I loved Ingress! Of course after spinning off Niantic (the team behind Ingress), that spinoff went on to develop the highly successful Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go co
by flor1s 9y ago
I loved Ingress! Of course after spinning off Niantic (the team behind Ingress), that spinoff went on to develop the highly successful Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go contains many of the gameplay elements of Ingress, but the packaging is a lot better. It seems like Google spun off Niantic because under Google they did not have the opportunity to make licensing deals with companies like Nintendo. Some of the motivation behind selling Niantic can be found here: https://www.recode.net/2016/7/12/12153722/google-niantic-pokemon-go-spin-out https://www.recode.net/2016/7/12/12153722/google-niantic-pok...
- RubyPinch 9y agoThe thing is, Niantic learnt one bad thing from Google: The habit of near-zero community interaction and support. The player base for Pokemon Go felt very frustrated at multiple times (especially anyone who had a rooted phone, completely disallowed to play, but that didn't stop cheaters!) They only very recently added PR members to the probably largest PokemonGo forum around, https://redd.it/68nxzx https://redd.it/68nxzx