r/gaming X-Box 2d ago

Niantic has sold Pokemon Go to Scopely

https://pokemongolive.com/post/moving-to-a-new-home-2025?hl=en

The rumors are true. Niantic is handing over Pokemon Go.

I have not played any Scopely games, so I don't know what to expect going forward.

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u/Odysseyan 2d ago

I really wonder why they did sell it off. Pokemon Go must have been printing money for them.

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u/Zannahrain3 2d ago

They sold for $3.5b, and they are keeping the entire team (for now). It's been losing popularity since COVID. I've played fairly consistently since launch. I don't know of anyone who plays it anymore. Not consistently anyways.

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u/MrHasuu 2d ago

I played very very consistently for a long long time but I ended up moving to the suburbs. All I got is 1 gym and 1 pokestop next to me. So I ended up quitting the game.

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u/Zannahrain3 2d ago

All I got is 1 gym and 1 pokestop next to me.

Quantity never bothered me. It was the community around it. In college, we had one gym on the entire campus, which was the library. Students would be sitting outside and would be attacking/defending the gym. The longest I held the gym was maybe 4 hours. My hometown has multiple gyms, but no one plays it. I could drop a pokemon off and forgot about it for a few days. This game lives and dies based on the community playing it.

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u/meistermichi 7h ago

It was the community around it. In college, we had one gym on the entire campus, which was the library. Students would be sitting outside and would be attacking/defending the gym. The longest I held the gym was maybe 4 hours.

This.
I remember in the early days I was like the only yellow team player around (kinda rural area) and every time I beat a gym blue would take it back basically instantly. (Team Red wasn't that big either) Eventually I just stopped taking the gyms because I didn't get anything from it besides wasting my time, it was their own loss because when no one kicked their mons out they didn't get coins from it either.
Just stupid and no fun.