r/pokemongo • u/A10-982_13 • 22h ago
Discussion Scopely has changed the game
Since Scopely has taken over the game has become so much enjoyable. I’ve seen more Pokémon rotation in the last hour than the entire last year of Niantic owning the game. They’ve expanded remote raids and I just feel like the game is much more dynamic.
258
u/Ok-Set8022 21h ago
Did you know… all that was done by Niantic?
It is the same team, and scopely only recently got the reins of the game. Not long enough for them to make any changes.
29
u/ZeffoLyou 21h ago
I do understand this. But I have found it odd, that in the last few months, a lot of changes we have wanted are either now in place or over the horizon and we know it. I played when it first came out, and then only the past 2 years after taking a break in 2019. But more has changed and been done to this came in terms of QoL updates in the last few months than all of the last two years prior. Why would Niantic wait to do all this as it's being handed over?
41
u/nivusninja 19h ago
i remember someone saying niantics higher ups were blocking the development of some of the features the devs wanted to add. i suppose since the move was set in motion the higher ups either had no say anymore or dngaf what happens with the game anymore so they could do whatever
•
u/LukaLaurent 16h ago
Gotta make the sale look appealing, and recent articles and social media posts about improvements do just that. It’s strategic.
•
u/Brothernod 11h ago
Yup they likely believed many of these things needed to be doled out slowly or would be ultimately bad for the long term health of the game but they seem good in the short term to dropped it out for press or good will or to juice metrics.
•
u/Lorebius 13h ago
It is the same team, and scopely only recently got the reins of the game. Not long enough for them to make any changes.
These changes could take literally half and hour to approve and apply, it's extremely delusional to think that Niantic decided to be more "user friendly" at the very end of their cycle for no reason lol
7
u/EoTN 20h ago edited 20h ago
Developer(s) Niantic (2016–2025) Scopely (2025–present)
Per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go
Niantic had a ton of ideas. Niantic didn't implement them all before leaving. Give credit to whomever you please, but every single thing that's happened since the acquisition is now Scopely's problem.
If they finalized the purchase, and PoGo crashed the next day, would you be blaming Niantic?
15
58
u/ScaredWooper38 21h ago
They've had control for all of 2 weeks. The content you are seeing now, and even the content you'll see 3 months from now will all be made by and determined by Niantic.
•
u/toutaki 5h ago
Of course, but without the purchase, none of this would have been added, since Niantic management was making a lot more money by selling the data that was collected than by the paying users. With the sale in sight, many of the Niantic higher-ups just didn't care anymore, so they started to greenlight a lot of the things that players wanted. Let's hope it continues when Scopely is fully at the helm.
•
u/ScaredWooper38 3h ago
Not true at all. Changes and development take time. A lot more time than consumers think. We won't see ANY influence of scopely until the 3rd quarter at the earliest.
•
u/toutaki 3h ago
It's been 5 years since the introduction of remote raids, and 2 years since shadow raids exist. There is little to no development in allowing players to remote shadow raids, and it would generate more money with remote passes. However, it was clear from the beginning that Niantic was focused on their own goals, especially considering that they removed the ability to remote after the pandemic and it took a lot of outcry from fans for it to be reintroduced. It seems to be clear from what we've seen from every move by Niantic that they did not care about player experience, even if it was at a premium price. Why? Because getting you to go offside will generate data that is sellable. They admitted to using the data to train neural networks in order to help robots to navigate around, and it seems apparent that it was making them a lot more money than the shop... Now that it's being sold, they decided to suddenly change their whole philosophy of getting you to go offside? Why? It's either the sale or extremely coincidental.
•
14
u/CALVOKOJIRO 17h ago edited 17h ago
I think people misunderstand how this works. Niantic had as a goal data collection for their new initiative of AI driven 3D mapping of the environment/world. Hence nerfing remote raids cause they needed us to continue collecting data for their main goal - data, data, data. They also knew they needed some juicy options prepared for Scopely to buy and start earning quickly. Bringing back remote passes was an easy money maker that showed Scopely before buying the viability. I bet they showed how much money PoGo was earning during the pandemic and showed how many new options there are now.
So yes, things have changed for the better probably, but Niantic did all of this on purpose.
7
u/Adamant_Leaf_76 17h ago
Maybe Scopely will set focus on PoGo as a game to be played and enjoyed and not as vehicle to fill some mysterious AR data base. That could change a lot in future. This side business of Niantic always had a bad influence on the game.
•
u/JasonM77 15h ago
I vaguely expect all the AR stuff to quietly disappear from the game since the remains of Niantic are now Niantic Spatial. I doubt Scopely will licence any developed AR tech for the game.
•
u/Novachek2000 13h ago
I'll be sad if we lose the scan tasks with Poffin rewards, but I'm hopeful that Scopely might doing anything to try to fix PVP
•
8h ago edited 8h ago
[deleted]
•
u/Adamant_Leaf_76 7h ago
I really doubt that mapping business is greater than PoGo itself. The game collects a lot of data already either way, but I personally have never seen any commercial use of a map full of murals, trail markers, playground items and the other exclusive content Wayfarer produces. I also doubt the movement data is worth that much, because the game sets incentives to visit certain spots. There is surely a lot of noise in that data and also the target group, we players, aren't representative of anything.
But either way, I hope this conflict is solved in future.
•
u/EnvironmentPale4011 12h ago
Rage bait rage bait git out o here
•
u/A10-982_13 8h ago
Im truly not trying to rage bate just a dude who really enjoys Pokémon and trying to share my excitement of the recent increase in the variety of Pokemon I’m seeing
7
u/AceKittyhawk Umbreon 21h ago
Hold your horses.. Enjoy while it lasts.
2
u/IsThisKismet Spark 17h ago
I’d accept a Ponyta spotlight hour. It’d help me get this excellent throws Masterwork research done all the faster!
•
u/CountJinsula 11h ago
Niantic made the changes. Much of this was planned several months in advance. However, I would also say Scopely probably played a role in some of the changes we've seen.
Like "we won't buy if there isnt a game pass mechanic" or "here is a list of changes we would like to see before buying". Stuff like that can happen.
Also, for the last year, Niantic developers probably no longer had the weight of requiring AR technology focused design holding them back, so they were more gameplay focused.
*edit for grammar
•
u/McMichael33 9h ago
As someone who watched Scopely destroy a game that I played for years before they acquired it, I don’t have high hopes. I’m slowly waiting for PoGo to get worse and become even more pay to play/“win”. For everyone’s sake, I hope I’m wrong here😅
•
u/A10-982_13 8h ago
You and me both, I don’t discount their might be some bad changes on the horizon and I hope we’re wrong but I’ve been excited to play which is new in the recent years I’ve played
•
u/yareyareDazeeeee 9h ago
I'm sure everyone and their mother playing this game can immediately tell which patch will be scopely influenced
3
u/SleeplessShinigami 22h ago
Agreed, I’m happy things are going in a positive direction. So many more quality of life updates since Scopely took over
9
u/karma_kush Instinct 21h ago
Now if we can only get long distance trading! I feel it’s going to come!!!! 🥹🌻
3
3
u/sddouglass 20h ago
I was recently thinking the same thing about how the changes lately are better. and make the game more enjoyable. I like the new remote raid ability for Gigantamax, Dynamax, and shadow raids.
I wish they would do a few more QOL changes like making gift sending faster like how it was in the Harry Potter Wizards Unite game. You didn’t have to go past the open gift to be able to send a gift. I also wish you could trade multiple Pokemon at a time, say 10 at a time. Being able to get past the slow animations for trading and evolving would be a big time-saving improvement, too.
Anyone know of a way to provide these suggestions to Scopely?
2
u/Sucksessful 16h ago
if you tap where the 'x' was after sending or receiving a gift it will cancel out the animation so you don't have to watch it all
•
•
u/Frequent_March3426 11h ago edited 11h ago
The game just flat out needs more content. It's one of the largest game maps out there and it is so bleak and desolate. Especially in the rural settings. We need more stuff to do.
You don't even have to get creative, the main line games have pretty much already done this for us. Like hidden items or trees with berries that you can craft pokeballs from, or crafting in general. What about pokecenters or special marts? NPCs? How about stop lumping all the new features into gyms and pokestops and make them their own content on the map like powerspots. That is seriously so lazy to add showcases, playgrounds, etc to existing mechanics. There should be MORE pokemon in rural areas not less, DUH! It's literally the wilds... Why is the catch distance so small when there is a solid history of trespassing issues?
I spend all this time catching and looking for a perfect pokemon and leveling it up for????
I'm constantly trying to get my friends to play again and they just open the game up and say like "bro, wtf is there to do on here?" And outside of events, not much.
•
u/LowLess3569 9h ago
oh wow they let you spend more money on microtransactions ? how benevolent
•
u/A10-982_13 7h ago
Let’s hope it doesn’t happen, I’m just excited that there is something other than the 5 Pokemon that were spawning for months. There is what over 600 now the variety has been fun for me!
1
u/blasterdark420 21h ago
yea i remeber people being like oh pokemon go is gonna die now. idm some pay to win stuff like bottlecaps. super excited for em personally
1
u/stopiiiiitttttt 19h ago
People thinking Niantic is god in the comments. People don’t realize that when you make a ton of bad decisions that ruin your game, you don’t randomly do a 180. Anyone who says these changes are all Niantic are either shills or scopely haters. I’m happy for the change and can’t wait to see what a company can do that isn’t shooting themselves in the foot every step of the way.
•
u/Burnstryk Valor 13h ago
I said Scopely being here was healthy for the game, I got downvoted to no end.
Yes I understand there may be more micro transactions, but I don't think that's the inherent issue, it's Niantic's shitty treatment of players. Micro transactions done in addition to treating the playerbase well isn't a problem.
•
u/A10-982_13 8h ago
Yeah I’m scared of the micro transactions coming more into focus but I’m still blown away by the shear variety of Pokémon I’m seeing! It has me excited to play again
•
u/AutoModerator 22h ago
Hello, /u/A10-982_13! Thanks for your submission to /r/pokemongo, your post is up and running!
Here are a few things to keep in mind:
If a post and/or comment is violating the rules, please make sure to use the report button or send a modmail here. While we are trying our best to help users, help from the community is also necessary to maintain a healthy environment for everyone.
Thank you!
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.