After having just lately entered right into a take care of Niantic to accumulate its recreation growth enterprise, Scopely has seemingly no plans to herald obstructive additions to titles like Pokémon Go to additional enhance income. Talking to Polygon, Pokémon Go senior product director Michael Steranka mentioned that the studio doesn’t wish to change what made the sport a hit to start with.
When requested whether or not video games like Pokémon Go will see issues like ads or obstructive recreation mechanics, like an power bar that drains each time the sport is performed, with extra power being out there for buy, Steranka mentioned no. For context, these sorts of issues are current in lots of smartphone video games, particularly in the event that they’re free-to-play.
“If there’s one takeaway that I’d love for individuals to have from this dialog, it’s that definitively no, that isn’t occurring in Pokémon Go – not now, not ever,” Steranka mentioned.
“Once more, Scopely actually recognises how distinctive this recreation is, they usually’ve advised us themselves that they might be silly to attempt to change the recipe of what’s made this such an enormous hit and a hit. So yeah, completely not. We is not going to be constructing into our video games any sort of obtrusive advertisements or something like that.”
“I simply actually wish to reiterate Scopely as an organization, the way in which that they function is they offer all of their groups the company to make the selections that’s proper for his or her video games. And that isn’t one thing that we really feel would ever be proper for Pokémon Go.”
Steranka additionally mentioned that, whereas Scopely will likely be operating the event workforce for Pokémon Go, the sport is not going to be promoting any of the information it collects from gamers to 3rd events. He reiterates that the one cause Pokémon Go wants a participant’s location information is to be sure that the sport runs correctly.
“We don’t promote participant information to 3rd events, full cease,” mentioned Steranka. “We solely leverage location information to function the sport, and we retailer any location information wanted to function the sport on US-based servers, and we comply with the entire extremely strict regulatory finest practices to guard that information as finest as we are able to.”
Scopely’s acquisition of the event workforce behind Pokémon Go, together with the groups engaged on Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now, was introduced earlier this month. Alongside the event groups, Scopely has additionally acquired the licenses to run these titles.
As for Niantic itself, the corporate plans on proceed operating its personal AR video games, specifically Ingress Prime and Peridot. The corporate plans to spin off its technology-based holdings into a brand new firm dubbed Niantic Spatial Inc. This firm will likely be helmed by Niantic founder and CEO John Hanke.
In a press release launched alongside the announcement of the acquisition, Scopely advised Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now gamers that it admires the viewers that the titles have constructed up, and that Scopely needs to proceed supporting the builders in making the video games how they need.
“We imagine our partnership with the Niantic video games workforce – who will all be a part of Scopely by means of this acquisition – will additional allow them to realize their thrilling long-term objectives, that are designed initially with you in thoughts,” mentioned the corporate.
