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Niantic and Pokemon Go are one of the biggest examples of fumbling the bag and missing the mark. What people really want is a truly open world Pokemon game. Wh
by grumple 4y ago
Niantic and Pokemon Go are one of the biggest examples of fumbling the bag and missing the mark.
What people really want is a truly open world Pokemon game. Where you can train pokemon, battle strangers, win prizes. Pokemon Go had the open world, random Pokemon appearing, even an interesting capture mechanic... but no battling, no training, no story, too many microtransactions for little benefit. It could have been so much more and so much better. Nintendo's closest to this was Sword and Shield, but I'm not sure Nintendo has the internal will to really take Pokemon to that next level of WoW-like open world content.
- aiilns 4y agoIt's because Pokémon Go was a product designed for manipulating people. One of the first attempts at mass behavioral modification. Most Google products make sense when you think in data extraction terms & behavioral modification. Its products must either gather data from the users, use that data for better manipulating (personalized ads, "ads" for bars in the case of Go etc) or facilitate those two functions. That's Google's business, not game development. And from that point of view, Pokémon Go was a huge success.
- cykros 4y agoOne need only look to the lore of Ingress to see the real aims here. Niantic, or, the NIA, has always had intel and manipulation in mind (you could almost say they aspire to be "shapers").