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However, as many players and developers have noticed, a vocal portion of the game\u2019s community views some of the changes as reductive to the overall experience for people who can\u2019t get out and play every day.\u00a0 For the developers at Niantic, a lot of these changes were always intended to be temporary, and they have been slowly rolled back as it becomes safer for players to return to playing the game outside of their homes.\u00a0 Amidst the community backlash for changes such as Incense only resulting in a Pok\u00e9mon every five minutes instead of every 30 seconds while stationary and Community Day events reverting back to their original three-hour duration, Niantic has made it clear that not everything is being removed.\u00a0 The developers have no plans to remove Remote Raids from Pok\u00e9mon Go, and other changes such as no longer needing to walk a set distance to complete Go Battle League sets or daily Pok\u00e9mon spawns and Field Research tasks won\u2019t be going away. 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As Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>continues to iterate on its various gameplay mechanics and add more content to the game, changes to older features are bound to happen. However, as many players and developers have noticed, a vocal portion of the game\u2019s community views some of the changes as reductive to the overall experience for people who can\u2019t get out and play every day. <\/p>

For the developers at Niantic, a lot of these changes were always intended to be temporary, and they have been slowly rolled back as it becomes safer for players to return to playing the game outside of their homes.\u00a0<\/p>

Amidst the community backlash<\/a> for changes such as Incense only resulting in a Pok\u00e9mon every five minutes instead of every 30 seconds while stationary and Community Day events reverting back to their original three-hour duration, Niantic has made it clear that not everything is being removed. <\/p>

The developers have no plans to remove Remote Raids<\/a> from Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>, and other changes such as no longer needing to walk a set distance to complete Go Battle League sets or daily Pok\u00e9mon spawns and Field Research tasks won\u2019t be going away. However, Niantic does think the \u201cpendulum swung too far\u201d toward playing from home<\/a>, which was detrimental to the team\u2019s goals for the game.\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cI think the biggest sort of litmus test for me is, are you able to fully play everything in Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> from your couch? And if that’s ever the case, then we’ve done something wrong, right?\u201d Niantic director Michael Steranka said to Dot Esports. \u201cI do think that that’s where the stationary Incense, in particular, became kind of a problem for us, because at that point you never had to leave your home in order to catch all the Pok\u00e9mon that were out there.\u201d<\/p>

While this may impact some players, Niantic\u2019s goal has always been to get people to enjoy Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>while on the move and interacting with their environment. Steranka specifically points out that there are other amazing games meant to be enjoyed from home, but that isn\u2019t Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>or Niantic\u2019s mission. <\/p>

Moving forward, Niantic will continue looking for more opportunities to get players to play together in person, but will \u201cgenerally\u201d be introducing new features to the game now that a majority of the temporary features have been reverted. And, with those changes done, the developers hope that players will understand that the goal isn\u2019t to take things away from the community, but rather to bring them closer through interaction.\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cIf you want to get the full [Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>] experience, you need to explore the world and interact with other people out there. We really believe that. It\u2019s the mission of our company, what we\u2019re founded on\u2014and we\u2019re never going to stray away from that,\u201d Steranka said. \u201cIt’s always hard to take some conveniences away from people, but you know, I hope people will start to realize that again that\u2019s where the true magic is in Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>

Steranka also teased that new features and other mechanics to encourage players to get out and make those real world connections are going to be added to the game in the future, with more details to be shared later. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"