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Serious question, as I am not a gamer: Why are they so successful? Why doesn’t someone just do the same real-world-including game style but with scalability? Ar
by jdminhbg 9y ago
Serious question, as I am not a gamer: Why are they so successful? Why doesn’t someone just do the same real-world-including game style but with scalability? Are they much better at game design than other people? Better at acquiring IP rights? Something else?
- Niksko 9y agoVery good question. Clearly they have brand recognition in the industry, I would speculate the this is the only thing they have going for them. It's only a matter of time before somebody cuts their lunch.
- on_and_off 9y agoThey got a lot of shit for scalability issues but their initial success just took them by surprise, like everyone else in the industry. IIRC they had at least an order of magnitude more users than their more optimistic estimations. It does not excuse everything but their initial scaling issues are pretty understandable
- empath75 9y agoTheir partnership with google and ingress gave them a massive geolocation database to work with. That’s a pretty big moat.