I don’t want to get told off, so am wondering if we can talk about the announcement? I am wondering what this will mean for the community and beyond.
Was just coming here to ask how this affects Wayfarer. Go is going to Scopely, but Ingress is staying with Niantic. So where does that leave us?
Edit. Nvm. Saw in the linked Scopely post: Scopely to acquire Niantic games business, which includes “Pokémon GO,” one of the most successful mobile games of all time
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Yes. It affects wayfarer and the community.
Just keep things respectful etc etc
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I do have questions about how it will affect Ingress players, and how they will interact with Wayfarer and Pogo players moving forward. Ingress players play an important part to helping ensuring the quality of Wayspots are maintained… and I say this as a Pogo player.
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I will do my best to keep it civil, and I hope there will be more information shared with us soon.
I think it is appropriate to ask questions and raise concerns I doubt that there will be more info right now but who knows.
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I suspect that the Niantic Staff won’t be able to say too much outside the official announcements, which is fair enough. It would be a shame if the Ingress players are no longer part of this community moving forward.
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Good question
They recently lowered the level to submit in Ingress and I am pretty sure that was after we got wind of this deal in the works, so I wouldn’t think they would go to all that trouble just to cut Ingress out of Wayfarer. But it is a concern, for sure.
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Speculation time…
Niantic will create Wayfarer Mark 2 for Ingress and other Niantic products. They will do a 1 time sync with Scopely at the time of seperation. All new Ingress submissions will be in Wayfarer Mark 2 and Pogo players won’t see the new Wayspots.
Alternatively, the status quo with there being a fee of some sort in order share Wayspots between Ingress and Scopely games.
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I just can’t cope with another thing that is a huge part of my life changing right now. I am going to go mourn a bit for the rest of the day. And hopefully come back to some answers. Right now, I don’t see the point in continuing as if nothing has changed.
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I’m sure you will be ok… it’s not as if we will be losing you to a different Wayfarer style community… Right?!
I know how you feel
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As soon as we hear more we will pass it along. I will make sure to go through the thread a few times a day and compile questions to pass along as well.
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The main question I have is whether Ingress players will still be part of this Wayfarer Community or whether we should have a divorce party with a pillow fight…
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I dont get why niantic sells off wayfarer as its database is closely linked to lightship & scaniverse for scans etc… i just dont get it
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I’m sure Niantic will find a way to make their products work without Wayfarer. I guess it’s a question of whether Wayfarer will feed into a Niantic DB or whether Wayfarer will maintain it’s own DB.
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Assuming “Wayfarer” does not mean “Lightship” I would be assuming that there would be some sort of data sharing agreement between the 2 initially
Seems like Niantic would be back to being a data and mapping company with a bit of gaming, and passing on ownership of the bulk of the gaming.
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Just adding Ingress’ post in here.
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