Pokemon Go features like Trading and PvP were delayed because of the Niantic app’s overwhelming launch.Pokemon Go’s popularity meant that Niantic had to rebuild the online infrastructure instead of working on new features. Niantic CEO John Hanke admits that the company is about six months behind schedule.Speaking to The Verge, he said: “We lost probably six months on our schedule because of the success of the game.
“Really all the way through November and December, from launch onward we were rebuilding and rewiring infrastructure just to keep the game running at the scale that we were running at.”We were fortunate to have a massive launch, a massive success, and many, many more users than we had planned for. But we had to redirect a substantial portion of the engineering team to [work on] infrastructure versus new features.”With Niantic recently extending Gym functionality and adding Raids, it looks like other new features won’t be far behind.
“That switched off things like extending gyms, it pushed out things we still want to have, like player-versus-player and trading. I’d say we’re about six months behind where we thought we would be.”On the plus side, Hanke said that there were other things that came about sooner than expected.
He continued: “On the other hand, we did Pokémon Go Plus, which was something we took on kind of late in the cycle. But it was fun to get that experience with a hardware add-on.”We [added generation three pokémon], we’ve staffed up our live operations team, and I think players have really enjoyed the events we’ve been able to do. There are some things we did that we weren’t necessarily planning, and others we haven’t quite gotten to yet.”
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Pokemon Go New Bigger Plans For 2018
Pokemon Go the most famous AR game of era has seen alot of rising in active player timing since the launch of its Generation 3.And while these updates are set to continue in 2018, it appears that Niantic has a lot of other new ideas for the game.Having seen a list of additional features launched this year, it would seem likely that the development team already have a few projects underway for 2018.
We know that Niantic is trying to work out a way to implement a trading system, as well as add new PvP options to Pokemon Go.When reputed media company recently spoke to members of the team, Niantic developer Matt Slemon spoke about what new things will be added.He mentioned that they’ve been getting ideas from their team, as well as from fan feedback and the Pokemon Company.“We do have a long list of features that we do want to get too eventually,” he explained.“Many are community asks, and a lot of them are team ideas, or suggestions from the Pokemon Company.”
As you can imagine, adding Gen 3 Pokemon from the Ruby and Sapphire games made including the new Weather Effects especially fitting, as those were the first titles where conditions started to play a role in the battle.“Building AR games is at the core of what our company is trying to do, especially with Pokemon Go,” Slemon says.
“As we move forward, We can continue to expect us to choose features that both provide a good tie-in with Augmented Reality, as well as being strong on Pokemon features.”There was no talk of what the next big feature will be, although we can expect that any big updates launched in early 2018 will likely come with a few Gen 3 Pokemon as well.
Niantic recently rolled out a new update that’s sure to help all Pokemon Go Gen 3 trackers.The development team has confirmed plans to release a new wave of Gym and Pokestop locations.This is being done using Niantic’s older AR title, Ingress. Ingress Agents are able to submit new locations via the Operation Portal Recon program.
This also happens to affect Pokemon Go, with Niantic confirming that new locations will be popping up this week.“With the help of Ingress Agents around the world using Operation Portal Recon, we’ve identified interesting new locations to play our games,” a message from the Niantic support team explains.“We’re happy to say that many of these locations will also be added to @PokemonGoApp over the next few days.”
This could prove a huge boost to Gen 3 collectors and Raid players, especially in rural areas.Other Pokemon Go news this week suggests that a big update could…
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