"[Theory] Niantic's 'poor' Pokecoin test is purposefully bad, ala Epic Games"

#PokemonGO: You may have read the recent blog post about the Pokecoin test that will begin in Australia. The test goes that:-You now get 1 coin every half hour, instead of 10 minutes. It will take 25 hours to get 50 coins using a single gym, as opposed to 8 hours and 20 minutes now.-You can get an additional 5 coins (for a total of 55 daily coins) by doing multiple additional tasks.This is a clear attempt at reducing the viability of F2P. It is so blatant, in fact, that I've seen it somewhere before, and I know exactly what Niantic is trying.You see, a while back, Epic Games (which has a very, very bad history of ruining good games), bought a game called Rocket League. Upon purchase, they changed the entire way that prizes work, such that it became outrageously expensive. Epic Games did this on purpose. Why? Because they knew that, no matter how they tried to redo the system, they wanted it to make them more money, and they knew that gamers would know this and be angry. So, their tactic?Increase prices and reduce availability (to F2P) of prizes so drastically as to make angry headlines.Pretend to apologize.'Reduce' prices and 'give back' some of the F2P, and make things be the way Epic Games actually wanted them to be from the beginning.This way, fans will be angry, but they'll also be forgiving after the 'correction'. Hence, they will forget their anger toward them.When I learned how exactly they were changing it, and how outrageous the test makes it to play F2P compared to right now, I knew this was probably what was going on. via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/35CIJ7v