>>53401816>>53401891>Trick new players with garbage >Players gain experience and realize they've been had>New player stops playing>Game slowly dies>The Pokémon Company pulls the plug>Ingress is Niantic's biggest game again >Pokemon Go 2 is launched with a company that cares>PoGo is actually goodThis is the ideal chain of events, but odds are good that executives will blame "userbase fatigue" instead of correctly identifying the shit management that caused us to stop caring. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that upcoming Home compatibility is the only think keeping the game afloat right now. Even the YouTube whales have been getting less and less views on their channels over the last year, and that's a pretty good metric for player investment.