Pokemon GO has been the latest gaming sensation, peaking at over 25 million users, but developer Niantic has done a horrible job at everything a dev's meant to do - fixing bugs, providing updates to the players on their plans, and responding to support requests. The infamous "3 step glitch", which Niantic actually caused by turning off to preserve their servers, so they could continue to roll out to new countries (and theoretically make more money), was reacted to by removing the feature altogether, along with simultaneously taking down fan-made scanners that allowed us to play the game as intended. Their PR team is nonexistent, and they have communicated nothing to the players along the entire course of the game, and to top it off, all emails for support go directly to an unmonitored mailbox, a direct violation of Google's developer terms.



This is not their first game, and the last game, Ingress, was plagued by the same issues, from a sheer lack of PR to many game-breaking bugs, and this shows that they will not change their ways. I am making this petition to the Nintendo Corporation to pull the licensing from Niantic, shut down the game, and rebuild it again either in-house with a partnership with Google, or with another developer with a better track record. You're better than this, Nintendo, and I'm asking you to act like it.



Thanks for your time, everyone.