Summary
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Pokemon Go director Michael Stranka deals with the fans' concern in the midst of Scopely's acquisition and confirms intrusive ads will never be included.
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Niantic does not sell player data to third parties, which ensures strict protection practice.
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Pokemon Company fully supports Scopely's acquisition and promises continued authenticity in the game.
On the heels of Scopely's acquisition of Niantic's Games Division, Pokemon GoSenior Product Director Michael Stranka, who has worked with the game for eight years, has raised the main concern of the fandom for the takeover and how it will affect the mobile game. Pokemon Go Is an Augmented reality game that was first released in 2016, which allows coaches to hike their real places to catch, train and fight against virtual pokemon on the road.
Scopely is an American video game developer and publisher, who is known to be the second largest mobile game developer in the world. Launched Skop Monopoly 2023, which continued to become the largest mobile title for that year, and the developer may also be familiar to some for his work at Pikin bloom and Marvel Strike Force. The studio has also received the keys to Monster Hunter nowthat recently had a crossover with Monster Hunter Wilds To celebrate Capcom's launch and Pokemon Go Fans are understandably nervous to see that their beloved games are transferred to new creative.
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During an interview with Polygon, Stranka wanted to cancel the fans' concern after it was announced in early March 2025 that it Pokemon Go had been sold to shoe. Stranka confirmed that he did his due diligence on scary and decided that “they share as many of the same values as we have kept loved ones.” Niantic also has all confidence in Scopely's ability to “develop the game in the way we have always imagined to do.”
Stranka takes up the main elephant in the room that is about fans when it comes to talking about intrusive ads that will start to torment games, and nipped that rumor in the bud and says it doesn't happen in Pokémon Go – not now, not ever. ” Strank expanded, “We will not build into our games any kind of intrusive ads or something like that … It's not something we would ever think would be right for Pokémon Go.”
Pokemon Go director weighs the fans' concern in the midst
Pokemon Go Fans expressed several problems in the midst of Scopely's acquisitions, including another concern for the exposure of players' place and motion data for other organizations, which strank tackled. “We do not sell player data to third parties, full stop … We all follow all incredibly strict authority's best practice to protect this information as well as we can.” In addition, Stranka confirmed that Pokemon Company is “very supportive” of the scoping acquisition, and assured society that the organization will continue to be a valuable, practical partner to scarce in an attempt to create authentic Pokemon Go experiences.
While Niantic Devs is doing its best to get coaches aboard the acquisition, the developer also has to do with a faux pas that occurred in the AR game recently. Niantic can offer compensation to Pokemon Go Players after a Catch Mastery event glitch significantly prevented the player from capturing a shiny Omanyte or Shiny Kabuto. The coach was understandably frustrated when Niantic's promise of increased shiny spawn speed never came into effect, and unfortunately it increased the game base's ongoing contempt for the game's often bugs and crashes.
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July 6, 2016
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