Pokemon GO players slam Niantic for trying to “kill the game”

Pokemon GO players are getting fed up with Niantic’s monetization and think the company is purposefully trying to kill the game.

Pokemon GO recently announced its upcoming Road to Sinnoh, which will lead up to the Pokemon GO Tour: Sinnoh – Global event.

Part of this announcement revealed that players must pay real money to enjoy everything the event has to offer.

This news, along with a string of recent monetization choices, makes players think Niantic may be trying to kill the game.

Pokemon GO players rail against Niantic for letting the game die

The conversation began over on the Pokemon GO subreddit in a post titled: “How it feels lately.”

The post contained an edited image of the game’s title art, complete with the word “Spend” added onto it to make “Pokemon Go Spend.”

It is a clear dig at the monetization of the game, and this was largely brought on by the event announcement. (A screenshot of the post features below):

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“This because of the Road to Sinnoh thing charging $10 to fully experience the event?” one user asks, before lamenting that the amount of things you can buy is going up when the game quality “isn’t rising with it.”

Other fans took the time to voice their frustrations with Niantic, with one user saying: “It almost feels like they want to kill the game and move on to something diff that’s fully AR…”

It’s clear that there is a lot of anger with how the game has shifted towards monetizing some of its biggest events, like Raids.

Another comment reads, “It’s insane, it used to be $0.83 for a raid, now it’s $2.35 for a single raid. There’s literally no new content, except new bugs. I uninstalled a couple months ago.”

Some other users are pointing out that this is just the nature of the game being mobile, and that if these people have an issue, they should just stop playing.

Regardless of the game’s current state, the Road to Sinnoh event is bound to bring a good amount of players back to Pokemon GO.