Final week, Monopoly Go proprietor Scopely acquired of a bunch of video games headlined by Pokemon Go from Niantic, thereby creating some type of Saudi-backed terrifying Go-liath alliance. Naturally, there have been a lot of issues that left gamers of the Pokemon recreation that was as soon as completely unavoidable with some considerations, which one in all its execs has aimed to nip within the bud with a current interview.
Along with some justified discomfort about Niantic having offered as much as a writer owned by Saudia Arabia’s controversial Savvy Video games Group within the $3.5 billion deal, of us have been anxious it is perhaps the harbinger of modifications that’d convey a number of the questionable promoting and monetisation practices Scopely’s different video games are recognized for to Pokemon Go.
Pokemon Go’s senior vp Ed Wu tried to extingish any fears in Ninantic’s announcement of the deal, and extra of the identical has come from the sport’s senior product director Michael Steranka in a contemporary chat with Polygon.
Requested if there are any plans for the sport to have stuff like “intrusive advertisements that may interrupt gameplay” or playtime restrictions that might push of us in direction of paying to maintain going, Steranka’s reply was “definitively no, that’s not taking place in Pokemon Go — not now, not ever”. So, mainly the identical response you’d get for those who requested somebody in the event that they’d like to make use of the sport to make it appear like they have been giving Pikachu the finger.
The exec went on to re-iterate just about what Wu stated – Scopely good, Scopely thinks Pokemon Go good, Scopely not gonna mess up a very good factor. It is the message you are getting at this level, although it is as much as you for those who belief the corporate to stay to it.
In the meantime, primarily based on one in all Steranka’s different solutions, it appears like Pokemon Go could possibly be influencing some modifications to Scopely’s video games, quite than vice versa. “They’re actually all in favour of the truth that Pokémon Go is such a steady enterprise,” the exec stated of the writer, “however nearly greater than that, they’ve been actually to attempt to be taught from us and see what they’ll take from how we construct Pokemon Go and apply that to doubtlessly different video games of their portfolio and future video games to come back as properly.”
Will issues really play out that method within the long-term? It is early days but, so we’ll have to attend and see. One factor I do know is that Steranka at one level within the interview made a joke about Scopely not turning Pokemon Go into “Pokemon Keep at Residence” as a consequence of this deal, and that is perhaps the second the idea comedy died.
Sure, it’s totally wealthy of me – a infamous and unrelenting delivererer of totally s**t jokes – to say that, however I am doing it anyway.
