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‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Nears $3.5 Billion Deal to Sell Games Unit (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(Bloomberg) -- Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Representatives of Niantic and Scopely declined to comment. Scopely is owned by Savvy Games Group, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Can't wait for the one free pokestop spin a day and one free Pokémon in a gym a day. Better hope multiple Pokémon don't come home at once, you'll be charged to let them come back and still won't get any extra coins for it. Coins from gym are put into escrow until your watch ten ads.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc.

Are they buying it for the business opportunity or the massive amounts of geolocation data to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

Gotta catch 'em all. Pokémon!

The plot is right in the catch phrase.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

I will travel across the land Searching far and wide

They even specified their tenaciousness

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I missed "Go" and thought they meant Game Freak and I was quite shocked lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh fuck no.

They ruined Stumble Guys, don't let them ruin Pokémon GO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That sounds bad. I like Pokemon Go. What kind of ruining are we talking about?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They turned Stumble Guys p2w, not to mention that when you open the game you get like 4 pop-ups for real life money stuff

There are emotes that can punch or kick a player to get them eliminated, and these are OP and locked behind the battle pass

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Some people say Pokemon Go is already P2W. But as long as Community Days/shinies are still as available as they are with F2P, then I'll stick around and even give them some of my Google Play money, lol