As a PoGo player, I fully expect the game to get even worse. Maybe to the point where it starts damaging the pokemon brand.
So they finally got all that sweet user location data they needed to create whatever their ultimate goal was. Probably some kind of population density map for military purposes.
Not even that. It could just replace GPS if mapped well enough. And there has been a lot of talk of stuff like that(GPS replacements). Part of my worry with TikTok which. I am naive and this is probably unfounded. But I worried if we got into a war China would flip a switch to expose just that using live data. Even if it’s anonomized. You know where hurts the most…
popular titles like “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Stumble Guys,”
Am I crazy or has nobody heard of these? Either way, this sale isn’t a bad thing. Niantic was not a good steward of the Pokemon IP
Both are incredibly popular mobile games which represent everything wrong with mobile gaming.
Ah ok, so it’s just my not paying attention to the space. Sounds like PoGo will just continue to be a whale wealth extractor then?
Yup, if not worse.
Interesting that the post in my feed after this one indicated the Monopoly Go was the most profitable game of 2024. Mobile gaming is just multiple sets of almost entirely separate cultures from each other and other gaming spaces.
I feel like any MMO is like that. A significant number of players focus on that game above playing any other, so those gaming communities become insular.
I’ve never met or heard from anyone that actually plays it, but they must be out there since it’s grossing huge sums of money.
I’ve played Stumble Guys cause there’s a PC port on steam for free.
It’s basically a knockoff of Fall Guys, if that wasn’t obvious. It’s not awful though, it could be a fun time-waster.
I’ve heard a few of them mentioned as guilty pleasures and/or something someone gets hooked on for a short time. In my anecdotal experience, have never seen someone pay for anything in them but apparently they’re still making bank!
https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/02/21/hasbro-2024-report-monopoly-go-112m-bg3-royalties
$112 million dollars in profit (profit, not revenue) for Monopoly Go, and got state that no-one’s heard about it?
It wasn’t on my radar, which is why I asked. I was clearly just uninformed
Oh shit, I read your comment incorrectly. Sorry for sounding rude!!
Could just be one Whale?
https://htxt.co.za/2025/03/monopoly-go-was-the-most-profitable-mobile-game-of-2024/
It was the most profitable mobile game in 2024.
Yes and I was jokingly implying one whale was the reason.
