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Niantic Lays Off 230, Focuses on Pokémon Go, Cancels Marvel: World of Heroes and NBA-World | MMORPG.

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited June 2023 in News & Features Discussion

imageNiantic Lays Off 230, Focuses on Pokémon Go, Cancels Marvel: World of Heroes and NBA-World | MMORPG.com

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has laid off 230 people, shut its Los Angeles studio, canceled its previously announced Marvel: World of Heroes, and is closing down NBA All-World.

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  • ShinyFlygonShinyFlygon Member RarePosts: 611
    Guess they finally realized they can't just cram any old IP into their weak original framework from Ingress. Good.
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,060
    The bosses: Pokemon Go the fuck home.
  • UwakionnaUwakionna Member RarePosts: 1,139
    None of this really surprises me. They started spreading themselves thin. They already went through a similar loop with Wizards Unite.

    Part of the problem presented here with Go is that they are monetizing the same part of gameplay in multiple ways. It worked well in pandemic because peeps were at home.

    I get part of the price hike is incentive to engage the game in the 'traditional' manner of roaming around since it is a geogame, but they've opened the precedent of not having to do that and now charging people more for the privilege.

    If they'd developed separate game elements to monetize, it'd work better because they could let the two sides of things coexist, not compete with itself as it now is.
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