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Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I played when it first came out, then again around 2018. Felt like a huge waste of potential to me. Unless there's some legal reason, I absolutely cannot comprehend why a normal pokemon battling system wasn't included.

Unless doing something besides just reskinning their other game (Ingress?) was too much work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm not surprised that something carrying the Pokémon brand is somehow both extremely lucrative but also unwilling to dedicate the minimal effort necessary to add obvious features