Lured Up Podcast 337: Not Like That

In one of the most shocking bits of news to ever come out on Pokémon GO, Bloomberg has reported that Niantic is nearing a deal to sell their games division to Scopely, a Saudi Arabian Publishing house, backed by a Saudi sovereign fund. The article cites no confirmed sources and is as vague as it gets outside of the price tag of 3.5 Billion dollars. There is so much to unpack.

We start off with our weekly recap including Hoopa Unbound Raid Day and Scattered To The Winds. Ken played IRL while Adam played remote, which brought some balance to the world, although Adam felt a bit icky having to pay to play. The Shiny Scatterbug chase has reignited friends lists and people are finally opening their gifts!

We skim through some newly released event details for Unova Tour as well as the announcement of Totodile Community Day Classic. It’s wild to think that Unova Tour info is somewhat of an afterthought in this week’s news cycle. Not surprisingly, the event will be split into Black and White Special Research paths, and will feature new music from Junichi Masuda.

Digging into the Scopely news we would be remiss if we didn’t reiterate that the article does not cite any source. We look to GO Hub who shares some background on the rumored buyer as well as some hot takes on what their community is like. It appears that Scopely games are notorious for being exceptionally micro transaction heavy, with an ad-forward model.This is something that all PGO Trainers should be nervous about. 

So what can we do? Not much. We know from experience that Niantic doesn’t comment on anything, let alone rumors of this magnitude. It will be a difficult task to not think the worst, or to not lose motivation to play. Some online have been calling for Niantic to sell PGO for years, but after looking at Scopely’s reputation, they may have got it all wrong. 

This is just the tip of the iceberg for this conversation, but we don’t even know the next time we may get an update on it.

Hoopa Unbound Raid Day: https://bit.ly/LU335Hoopa 

Scattered To The Winds: https://bit.ly/LU335Scattered 

New Unova Tour Info: https://bit.ly/LU337Unova 

Totodile Community Day Classic: https://bit.ly/LU337Totodile 

Niantic deal with Scopely: https://yhoo.it/40Yy58c 

Scopely: https://bit.ly/LU337Scopely 

GO Hub Scopely: https://bit.ly/LU337GOHub 

Monopoly GO Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monopoly_GO/

Marvel Strike Force Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelStrikeForce/

Star Trek Fleet Command Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrekfleetcommand/ 

Pokemon GO Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/ 

JRE Reaction: https://bit.ly/LU337JRE 

Mystic7 Reaction: https://bit.ly/LU337Mystic7 

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Hosts

Ken Pescatore

Adam Tuttle

Writer and Producer

Ken Pescatore

Executive Producer 

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Show music provided by GameChops and licensed through Creative Commons

Intro Music

Lake Verity (Drum & Bass Remix) 

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Break Music

National Park

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Outro Music

Vast Poni Canyon

CG5 & GlitchxCity (Future Bass Remix)

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