Niantic, the studio behind Pokémon Go, has responded to player criticism and threats of a boycott after proposed changes to some of the game’s rules in the USA and New Zealand did not go down very well.
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In response, Niantic has explained that the rule changes have only been introduced in New Zealand and the US given the current health advice in those countries. In New Zealand, where there practically is no Covid, that’s fine, but in the US, as we’ve explained, things are not as fine as they could be.
The volume of player criticism has thus forced a rethink of these social distancing plans, and Niantic now says that they’re forming a “task force” to look at rule changes going forwards that consider the feelings of the game’s playerbase, and not just standard health advice:
