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Recently Niantic sold their gaming department to Scopely, and thus Pokemon Go will now be under control of Scopely. What does this mean for players? Well, expect to potentially start paying more money for items and passes in the game. Scopely has been known to make games pay to win, so I suspect they will do the same thing to Pokemon Go too eventually. What are your thoughts on this?
https://pokemongolive.com/post/moving-t ... 025/?hl=en

Welp some dataminers recently went through the code of Pokemon Go. And it doesn't seem great. They've seen mentions of different ad platforms, so sadly I think Pokemon Go will end up like other Scopely games where there's going to be intrusive ads popping up left and right sometime in the future. This is what I was afraid of...

Yikes sounds like scopely might actually end up killing Pokemon Go! Let's hope that actually doesn't happen though!

Acquiring Niantic's gaming arm for about $3.5 billion is a staggering amount. I’m glad that Scopely has assured the diehard fans that the core experience of Pokemon Go will always be preserved

The mobile game still seems to be doing rather well, hopefully the new owners don't ruin anything.

Yeah thankfully I haven't noticed any ads or anything like that. They do have a tier system where you can earn extra items and Pokemon if you pay for it but you don't have to pay for anything if you don't want to. I was sure that Scopely was going to ruin the game but thankfully nothing has been done to the game to ruin it.

Ravenfreak wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 11:40 pm Yeah thankfully I haven't noticed any ads or anything like that. They do have a tier system where you can earn extra items and Pokemon if you pay for it but you don't have to pay for anything if you don't want to. I was sure that Scopely was going to ruin the game but thankfully nothing has been done to the game to ruin it.

I wouldn't hold your breath, they could be making planned changes to the system.

Demonskeith wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 6:40 am

Ravenfreak wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 11:40 pm Yeah thankfully I haven't noticed any ads or anything like that. They do have a tier system where you can earn extra items and Pokemon if you pay for it but you don't have to pay for anything if you don't want to. I was sure that Scopely was going to ruin the game but thankfully nothing has been done to the game to ruin it.

I wouldn't hold your breath, they could be making planned changes to the system.

I hope not lol. But I have heard bad things about Scopely so you could be right. :S

We got to hope they know better than to mess with a money making machine.