Pokemon Go developer Niantic is elevating in-game costs in sure territories starting Oct. 5, the studio introduced Tuesday. The rise is available in response to the Apple App Retailer value hike taking impact in most of Europe and different territories.
“We all know that modifications to pricing and foreign money are impactful to our neighborhood throughout all Niantic video games — Pokemon Go, Ingress and Pikmin Bloom — and we needed to offer proactive discover that some gamers will expertise a rise in in-game foreign money costs beginning as early as Oct. 5,” Niantic mentioned in a message on its assist web site.
We all know modifications to pricing and foreign money are impactful to our neighborhood, and we need to present proactive discover that some gamers will expertise elevated in-game foreign money costs beginning as early as Oct. 5 attributable to modifications in App Retailer value tiers. https://t.co/AWRzIhRd7P
— Niantic Help (@NianticHelp) October 3, 2022
The pricing improve will have an effect on the identical areas being impacted by the App Retailer hike: Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam and all locations that use the euro.
Furthermore, regardless of being spurred by Apple’s pricing improve, the change is not going to simply be restricted to the iPhone; Niantic says it can “additionally make related modifications on different cell platforms.”
Now in its sixth yr, Pokemon Go continues to be the studio’s most worthwhile title, surpassing greater than $6 billion in lifetime participant spending in accordance with Sensor Tower. Pokemon Go just lately kicked off its Season of Gentle, with a number of in-game occasions lined up for October.
Past Pokemon Go, Niantic just lately partnered with Nintendo on the cell strolling tracker Pikmin Bloom. The studio has a few new tasks within the pipeline as properly, together with Marvel World of Heroes and the augment-reality digital pet recreation Peridot.
