{"id":870115,"date":"2025-12-18T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pokemon-go-director-discusses-avatar-backlash-and-a-course-correct-needed-on-the-slowdown-of-new-species"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:32:29","slug":"pokemon-go-director-discusses-avatar-backlash-and-a-course-correct-needed-on-the-slowdown-of-new-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/pokemon-go-director-discusses-avatar-backlash-and-a-course-correct-needed-on-the-slowdown-of-new-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Go director discusses avatar backlash, and a &#8220;course correct&#8221; needed on the slowdown of new species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pokemon-go-director-discusses-avatar-backlash-and-a-course-correct-needed-on-the-slowdown-of-new-species.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nEight years into Pok&eacute;mon Go&#8217;s life, and the game&#8217;s annual summer Go Fest events remain a firm fixture in the app&#8217;s event calendar. More than a dozen of these meetups have now taken place around the world, with the most recent this weekend in Madrid, where tens of thousands of Pok&eacute;fans braved the heat to catch an enticing array of species ahead of other players. <\/p>\n<p>\nGo Fest&#8217;s Global version, a Covid-era invention that remains a lucrative ongoing addition, offers similar rewards next month, but without that same experience of potentially travelling somewhere new, to be among crowds of fellow players. And in both Madrid&#8217;s Juan Carlos I Park and within the city&#8217;s narrow streets, there were Pok&eacute;fans everywhere. Not since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/three-years-on-pokemon-go-fest-proves-the-games-lingering-popularity\">its days back in Dortmund<\/a> has a city felt so dominated by people playing &#8211; from the parade of fans wearing merch or even full Pok&eacute;mon costumes despite the high temperatures, to the in-game experience where lured Pok&eacute;Stops and full raid lobbies stretched out as far as the eye could see. London, last year, had felt just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-joys-of-pokemon-go-fest-london\">too big a city for the Pok&eacute;mon crowds to have made it theirs<\/a>. Not so here. <\/p>\n<p>\nIt was also an oppurtunity for me to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-the-remote-pass-nerf-pokemon-go-moves-forward-with-shadow-raids\">catch up again<\/a> with Pok&eacute;mon Go director Michael Steranka, after what has been another busy period for the game. The past few months have seen a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pokemon-go-plans-to-introduce-item-sharing-within-parties\">useful quality-of-life features<\/a> land in the app, while the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/niantic-pokemon-go-healthy-and-growing-as-it-approaches-its-next-decade\">Go Tour Sinnoh event clearly moved the needle<\/a> in terms of player engagement. But, as ever, there have been criticisms too &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pokemon-go-developer-taking-feedback-after-avatar-update-backlash\">not least around the game&#8217;s avatar update<\/a>, which despite its good intentions felt decidedly rushed &#8211; and of a general slowdown in the number of Pok&eacute;mon species being added. I discuss these issues and much more with Steranka below.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pokemon-go-director-discusses-avatar-backlash-and-a-course-correct-needed-on-the-slowdown-of-new-species\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pokemon-go-director-discusses-avatar-backlash-and-a-course-correct-needed-on-the-slowdown-of-new-species\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years into Pok&eacute;mon Go&#8217;s life, and the game&#8217;s annual summer Go Fest events remain a firm fixture in the app&#8217;s event calendar. More than a dozen of these meetups have now taken place around the world, with the most recent this weekend in Madrid, where tens of thousands of Pok&eacute;fans braved the heat to catch an enticing array of species ahead of other players. Go Fest&#8217;s Global version, a Covid-era invention that remains a lucrative ongoing addition, offers similar rewards next month, but without that same experience of potentially travelling somewhere new, to be among crowds of fellow players. And in both Madrid&#8217;s Juan Carlos I Park and within the city&#8217;s narrow streets, there were Pok&eacute;fans everywhere. 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