Pokémon Go fans concerned about the game’s future under new ownership have launched a campaign highlighting the need to protect the app and its community from the addition of predatory monetisation practices.
Yesterday, a Bloomberg report stated that Pokémon Go developer Niantic was looking to sell its gaming portfolio to Scopely, the Saudi-backed mobile publisher behind Monopoly Go.
The news sent shockwaves through Pokémon Go’s community, and generated fears that the move would be a profoundly negative one for the game’s long-term future and its players.
Why? Well, while criticising Pokémon Go developer Niantic is a common past-time for many of the game’s fans, it didn’t take long for players of other Scopely games to sound the alarm that things were likely to get a whole lot worse.