Probably a whoosh, but I find this meme funny because about a month before the reddit protest, the was a pokemon go protest.
Niantic pretty much ignored public outcry much like reddit. They demolished remote raiding, which became popular during covid. This forced people, including those with disabilities, to pretty much obtain legendary pokemon in person.
This can be a huge task for those in rural areas and of course the disabled. Many rural areas just do not have enough of a community, or gyms, to meaningfully upgrade said legendary pokemon. Instead, Niantic gave preference to (the $$$) people it could glean location data from, typically those in a city.
Many people, we’re very disappointed and left pokemon go as a result.
I wonder if the two companies worship the same evil deity or something, jeeze…
That was the general premise, but they definitely could have gone about it a different way. They cut everyone off, raised the price of passes, and keep adding more pay to play quests.
In my larger small town, even after this renewed push and the addition of campfire, there are still not enough people to successfully capture multiples of the most valuable pokemon.
Capturing the best pokemone requires at least 5 medium to high level players. Anytime we go into “town” to play, we just sit there staring at the screen waiting for even one more player to join in at any of handful of surrounding gyms. Very rarely (we could count on 1 hand) we happen across a group of people playing. By the time we get to the location they are supposed to be at, the group is long gone. I cant even imagine what disabled would have to go through to find other people. On top of this, it’s regularly over 100 degrees outside.
After the change, a whole bunch of new features that reward playing in person were added. They should have led with these features, gauged community engagement, and then consider moving away from remote participation. Instead, they went straight for all the ways they could alienate a large portion of their player base, while digging deep into the wallets of the ones who stayed.
It’s bizzare that they haven’t made raids act simply as “portals” to a match making system. That would somewhat solve the rural raiding issue while still encouraging people to get out.
I wonder if the two companies worship the same evil deity or something, jeeze…
All companies worship the same evil diety: Capital.
I’m not even joking. Unrestrained search for more capital is all that drives it. We’re at the point in capitalism where markets have been effectively “captured” and there is no more market to milk. The only way to further milk it is to “enshittify” it by increasingly bleeding the customers, in hopes that the customers you lose will be offset by your increased profits.
It will keep happening, but in the Fediverse, it will be moving to other instances instead. The fediverse will be a bunch of defederation/federation wars.
While this is true, if anyone uses a Lemmy instance that eventually goes away, it is likely they will have lost their post history forever. That kind of thing is pretty annoying. I get that their comments would still be out there, but it’s still not ideal.
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