Anyone worried about the future of Pokemon GO?

[u/Old-Board1553]

I don't know about you guys, but lately this game is becoming a pain for rural players. I feel like everytime there is a event, Niantic or whoever is in control now shows you the middle finger all the time from the start of it.

I see people complain it will take a lot to max out their Eternatus. Like really? That's the major issue of this game and event for you? Put yourself in the spot of a rural player. You are basically forced to do Tier 5 raids, Tier 5 D-max raids or G-max raids in order to just get maybe a 2* or a floor IV. This type of raids are a complete nightmare for us, and they always forcing us to do it, and your only option is remote raids. Basically we are forced to spend at least 5400 coins on remote raids to get this Eternatus.

It's really sad that community don't support each other in this kind of situations, and demand changes in this game that helps rural players as well. Prices are high, and you are always and always forced to do this kind of raids. This game is not just about raiding, give people other stuff to do, I don't know catch 100 or 200 pokemons per day, something else, not just max out raids.

And I'm sure there will a be smartguy coming now saying, go make yourself a community, D-max can be done solo, or duo easily, sucks to be you a rural player, and so on.

[u/Elmodipus]

Pokemon was seeing a dip in mainstream popularity in the 2010s until Go thrust it back into the limelight. It helped bring back the fans from the 90s/2000s that had matured out of the Fandom.

PoGo isn't as popular now, but it is a big reason why so many people reconnected with the franchise.

[u/shinreialba → u/Elmodipus]

That's simply wrong. Just look at the sales numbers for gen 6 and 7. Pokemon was popular and that is why pogo was greenlit. The dip was around gen 5, but that's because gen 5 was a bad gen. It sold miserably, not due to dip in popularity but just because people didn't like it. And sure pokemon go did bring back into the fray some of the older former fans, but this demographic had poor retention.

If you want to talk about what is a major factor in the current boom of pokemon that is higher than ever before, the actual answer is covid with influencers and scalpers encouraging and motivating people into seeing pokemon cards as an investment. There is a reason the tcg and the merch are the two main income lines of pokemon by far, with the mobile games lagging behind, and the console games even further behind that