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Niantic is known for running new Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> events and adding content multiple times per month. But over the last year or so, players have been concerned about how the devs are removing or changing certain features that were made available during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>

These changes bring certain features back to the way they were pre-pandemic in 2020, such as players using Incense only encountering a Pok\u00e9mon every five minutes instead of every 30 seconds when they are stationary and a reduction for Community Day events<\/a> back to their original three-hour time frame.<\/p>

This has been met with a lot of community backlash<\/a>, but Niantic maintains that this was always the plan. The developers positioned some of these updates to be temporarily available as a way to allow players to continue playing Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>safely from home if needed.\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cOver the course of the last two years, we definitely did everything that we could to meet players where they were, and where they were forced to be because of the pandemic,\u201d Niantic director Michael Steranka said. \u201cWe always stated from the beginning that those [changes] were intended to be temporary measures because Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>is really about getting outside and exploring the world together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>

But the team thinks that with those changes that the community viewed as quality-of-life features, things swung too far when it came to players being able to get the entire Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>experience from their couch\u2014which is not what Niantic wants the game\u2019s experience to be.\u00a0<\/p>

From the start, Niantic wanted Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>to involve players interacting with each other face-to-face while getting some exercise in and enjoying themselves with a unique Pok\u00e9mon <\/em>experience. And even though some players view the reversions to certain features as a negative, the developers see it as somewhat of a return to their core focuses.\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cI think the pendulum swung a little bit too far in favor of having the complete Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>experience from the comfort of your couch, and that\u2019s just not where we want to be as a product,\u201d Steranka said. \u201cNiantic is a very mission-driven company, and something that we all truly value and believe in here is the importance of leveraging technology to get people out in the real world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>

Despite what the community might think of that decision and any other changes that are made over the next several months, Steranka also confirmed that moving forward, Niantic will be looking to implement new ways to encourage players to explore rather than \u201ccontinuing to diminish the experience anyone has from home.\u201d <\/p>

Steranka specifically mentioned features that were implemented during the pandemic period, such as no longer needing to walk a set distance to complete Go Battle League sets, daily\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon spawns and Field Research tasks, and Remote Raids as core mechanics that have been retained. And while more changes are still to come, Niantic\u2019s entire goal is simply maintaining Pok\u00e9mon Go\u2019s <\/em>identity as an experience that rewards players for exploring the world around them in new ways.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"