Niantic announced it would be shutting down its AR Catan game after its disappointing result compared to its pocket monster counterpart

Back in 2019, Niantic announced it would be releasing an AR game based on the classic board game Settlers of Catan, titled Catan: World Explorers. It finally became available to certain countries in 2020 as Early Access, yet it will now never go beyond that as the game will be shut down after its disappointing engagement.

The game’s developers, famous for their other AR games such as Pokemon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, announced last Friday the game will be no more after November 18, 2021.

Catan: World Explorers

Catan: World Explorers was Niantic’s latest attempt at recreating Pokemon GO where players could harvest, trade, and build in the real world as cities and landmarks transform into settlements where you can collect resources, construct buildings, and score points for your faction, yet it seemed to be missing that Pokemon GO magic and hasn’t gotten the success Niantic hoped to have and took it “a little too far from the original game”.

We had a vision for trading, harvesting and building up the world in seasonal play and resetting the board each month, just like you do for each new game you play at home, but trying to adapt such a well-designed board game to a global, location-based Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game was a tough challenge. – The Catan: World Explorers Team.

The game has already been taken down from relevant app stores and any in-game money purchases have been removed from the shop.

The team behind Catan: World Explorers have said they want to have some final fun in their last few seasons and have increased the game’s rewards and bonuses for the players that have continued to stick around.

Hopefully, Niantic will learn from their mistakes here with their upcoming Transformers AR game, partnered with companies Hasbro and Tomy, Transformers: Heavy Metal. The game will be trying to capture the Pokemon GO charm once again. The press release said, “players will join the Guardian Network, a group of humans who have banded together with the Autobots in a war against the Decepticons as players will uncover hidden regions across Earth to find resources and battle Decepticons in turn-based battles, either solo or with friends.”

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The popular AR game has recently had its settings reversed back to what it was pre-covid times and players are disappointed.

Niantic Labs, the developers behind Pokemon GO, have now decreased their interaction distances for their Pokestops and gyms, causing a lot of distress for players online after pushing for the interaction distance to become permanent.

Pokemon GO’s Interactive Distance

We all had to adapt when COVID-19 struck around the globe and affected so many of us, and this included things such as the games we would play. Pokemon GO, the AR game that revolves around travelling outside to be able to catch Pokemon, collect items at Pokestops and battle other players at Gyms, relied on constant interaction and the developers Niantic Labs had to change the way the game was operated.

Niantic introduced new interaction distances to allow players to still be able to use Pokemon GO at a safe distance and received praise for how much it improved the gameplay. However, since some countries are lessening in the number of cases, Niantic decided to decrease the interaction distance and even repealed the changes from countries such as the United States and New Zealand completely.

Players took to Twitter and Reddit to show their outrage at this decision, summarising why the interaction distances were the best changes to the game in years and how even though cases have dropped in some countries, COVID-19 is still very present and dangerous. They also said how the increased distances made it easier to interact with Gyms and eliminated issues like finicky positioning for GPS drift and allow players with health or accessibility issues to gain access to Gyms they couldn’t reach before.

https://twitter.com/KratosPogo/status/1421776514698383360?s=20

Okay, y'all know how much I LOVE @PokemonGoApp, but it's over 100°F outside and COVID is still a thing and something @NianticLabs could've easily left in the game has been removed. I used to spin 4 stops from my bed… now I'm lucky to hit 1. Time for change. @NianticHelp https://t.co/anPFHDiFxI

— Wild Dorkachu (@WildDorkachu) August 1, 2021

Players even started a petition on Change.org to keep the increased interaction distances for Pokemon GO and it has reached over 130,000 signatures.

Hopefully, Niantic will listen to players that have started to boycott the game due to the reversal of the interaction distances, as some have been pushing for the interaction distances to stay permanent before they were changed back, so this reversal makes some feel like the developers are not listening to the players’ pleas.

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