r/SubredditDrama • u/Snicket • Aug 10 '16

Slapfight A user in r/pokemongo offended other user by doubting Niantic's creativity

/r/pokemongo/comments/4x1vv3/_/d6bqyr1
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u/haxhaxhax1 Aug 10 '16

Green is not a creative color

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u/bitterred Aug 10 '16

I love how people have been super negative about Niantic ever fixing things, when a bunch of things have been fixed in the last two weeks.

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u/the_three_stans Aug 10 '16

I'd agree that they're definitely trying to improve, but their PR approach to all of it has been pretty awful, especially when your game is probably the most popular thing out right now.

Actually someone could write a great article about how the two biggest games have had some truly terrible messaging in the last few weeks (here's looking at you, No Man's Sky).

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u/KillerPotato_BMW Aug 10 '16

Niantic was creative enough to create Ingress, creative enough to come up with the idea of turning it into a Pokemon game, creative enough to make Pokemon Go.

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u/BolshevikMuppet Aug 10 '16

creative enough to come up with the idea of turning it into a Pokemon game,

Except that location-based Pokemon-like games had existed previously with only middling success.

Know what made this one popular? Pokemon.

Not Niantic, not what they did, solely the benefit of "we got the license to one of the most popular things in the world."

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u/KillerPotato_BMW Aug 10 '16

Except that location-based Pokemon-like games had existed previously with only middling success.

You mean like Ingress?

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u/BolshevikMuppet Aug 10 '16

Nope. We've had monster-catching games with geodata integration since around 2009. None of them hit it as big as Pokemon go, but that's because they didn't have Pokemon.

The creativity of "like other people's monster-catching games, but with this awesome license" is lacking.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '16 edited Aug 10 '16

To be fair, there's been a clamor for an MMO style Pokemon game for years, but no one can design a game around another company's IP without licensing first. Plus from an outsiders point of view, they just re-skinned an existing game and updated some.

I could be way out in left field, but that's how I interpret Pokemon Go.

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u/emmster Aug 10 '16

It's not 100% re-skinned. They did add some features (and remove some that PoGo didn't need.) I'm sure the bones are the same, and I know the locations are pulled straight from Ingress, but they did a pretty impressive amount of building to make it different.

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u/KillerPotato_BMW Aug 10 '16

Lots of people had the idea, they were the ones creative enough to make it. An existing game that they created. And they were the ones who licensed the IP from Nintendo or whoever owns the Pokemon IP.

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u/BolshevikMuppet Aug 10 '16

Lots of people had the idea, they were the ones creative enough to make it.

Well, no. They were the ones who benefitted enough from being originally part of Google that they were able to leverage a relationship between Google and Nintendo to get the license.

And they were the ones who licensed the IP from Nintendo or whoever owns the Pokemon IP

By your logic, if I buy a comic book and resell it to my neighbor I've engaged in a creative endeavor.

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u/DARIF Aug 10 '16

Making it didn't require that much creativity. All they did was copy paste the Pokemon in from Nintendo, the locations from Ingress and integrate a basic gym and evolution system. Creativity would be coming up with a new trading system or a fairer way to distribute Pokemon spawns.