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Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B

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Pokémon GO maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B | TechCrunch

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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?
- 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.
- 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
- 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!
- 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.
- Definitely heard of both of them. Stumble Guys was pretty popular around when it launched, I didn't play it though. I remember them doing a lot of YouTube sponsorships. Monopoly Go I only know about because the Google Play Store seems to keep advertising it.
As a PoGo player, I fully expect the game to get even worse. Maybe to the point where it starts damaging the pokemon brand.
- From my point of view it already damaged it. Every time i mention pokemon to anyone they think i mean pogo instead of the literal 20 or 30 or how many there are now games. Also if you live next to a larger metro area counter to what a lot of people say, it is kinda fun to log on for a few mins each day and a catch a few mons. Also, as a pretty serious pokemon collector, its much easier to get rare mons in pogo compared to mainline games.
- it's been a common sentiment in my local group too, but amidst these fears i feel it's important to remember that pokemon co is still going to maintain ultimate control over the game.

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