Last month Niantic sparked a backlash within the Pokémon Go group when it introduced plans to reverse a number of the modifications it made final yr to make the sport extra playable whereas staying at house. The firm mentioned it will arrange a “task force” to determine one of the best ways to maneuver ahead and would announce its findings by in the present day, September 1st.

As introduced final week, the primary predominant level of motion is that Niantic will maintain the 80-meter interplay distance for pokéstops and gymnasiums in all places around the globe, after first saying it’d revert to the pre-pandemic 40-meter distance first within the US and New Zealand. Niantic now says it realizes that altering mechanics like this in a real-time, region-specific method is impractical, and can apply options in the identical method throughout the globe going ahead.

“We went through a rough learning experience recently when we had to adjust the game settings for New Zealand quickly in response to their lockdown,” govt producer Steve Wang says in an announcement. “This experience taught us that we are not going to be able to effectively adjust the experience on a country-by-country basis in real-time.”

Wang says that whereas the elevated interplay distance will keep, the crew nonetheless believes that discovering issues in the actual world is a crucial a part of Pokémon Go and plans to “develop new ways that motivate and reward Trainers for exploring and exercising in the real world.”

The different predominant discovering of the duty power was that Niantic “has a lot of room to grow when it comes to communication with our players.” To that finish, the corporate says it’ll submit bi-monthly developer diaries to “share the latest priorities, events, and features,” and can interact in “regular conversations with community leaders.”

Niantic isn’t giving a complete lot of latest, concrete data right here, nevertheless it’s fairly uncommon for a gaming firm to name itself out like this. What will finally matter most, after all, is the way it handles comparable conditions sooner or later.