Re:Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10M users
by calsy on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:41PM
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I don't know where you got the idea that 10M players left because maps were removed. Do you have proof of this?
The most reasonable explanation for the drop in users is simply a tapering off after one of the most hyped game releases of all time. Correct me if im wrong, but i'm pretty sure there are still some 30M+ users active in the game.
"But when people cry foul when their preferred method of 'following the rules' is removed, I don't have much pity for them."
...via 10M players leaving the game and putting the entire ecosystem at risk.
The thing is, you're looking at this activity like 'success' is measurable within the game's rules rather than how satisfied people feel about playing the game in real life.
This is a big difference between adults and children, by the way. All that prefrontal cortex development tends to push people into taking the value of their time into consideration even when they are playing games. They are not wrong to do so.