Niantic finishes adjusting the changes that were already being applied so as not to leave home and adds the incursions to the list of intervened activities.
Niantic has taken new steps to allow and encourage the ability to play Pokémon GO from home during the coronavirus. After increasing the appearance of wild creatures in the user's radius, canceling events and facilitating the League Fights GO online without having to walk, now comes the request that the community has been waiting for weeks: to be able to play raids with friends without going outside.
In a lengthy statement released by John Hanke, CEO of Niantic, speaking for all of the company's video games (Ingress, Harry Potter: Wizzards Unite and Pokémon), he expands the plan to temporarily modify some of the key points of the equation. DNA of your experiences: exercise, socialization, exploration and live events.
As soon as they make the change in their servers and location services – they have not specified what day – it will be possible to use the Sync Adventure function without leaving home; The exercise we do at home will count for this function, including treadmills if someone has one, for example.
Pokémon GO Raid Passes
Likewise, "We are improving our virtual social functions in-game to allow players to be in contact even if they are not seeing each other in real life", an unprecedented case because, precisely, the Raids were necessarily always face-to-face and simultaneous. "It will soon be possible to team up with friends and join Raids together on Pokémon GO from the comfort of home." Even, Hanke indicates in the statement, they are studying how the events of Pokémon GO Fest that have been unfortunately canceled or suspended by the times of the pandemic will take place.
Do not leave home: state of alarm in Spain
The Pokémon GO community, which has tens of thousands of players in Spain, has welcomed the news, although there are also voices that point to a certain delay in a decision that arrives on the last day of March and not in the middle of this month. , when the Government of Pedro Sánchez established in the Council of Ministers the state of alarm in Spain on March 14. Italy had even been confined a week before.
In any case, it is unknown when the possibility of playing Pokémon GO Raids from home will begin to apply and until when the measure will remain in force. What is certain is that in our country the state of alarm lasts until April 11.
