Tumbleweed and the dusty road...
Silence everywhere. Awww! Is there anyone alive? Administrator? Moderator of this forum? Are you guys still alive? How is Brian doing there and are there any surviving employees? How is the last programmer doing, and do you have someone responsible for the plot in the game?
Is anyone actually keeping an eye on this whole sad situation?
The forum of the once great game is empty. No more than a few dozen players meet there for periodic communication. The gaming base and online are decreasing everywhere you look.
There is a dominance of bots all around, farming resources, recharging resonators, and so on. And many other problems!
Nobody wants to listen to the players, and therefore they leave the game en masse. And many are simply tired of the game without interesting updates.
Niantic staff! I am creating this topic for you!!! So that you can finally take a look at how sad the state of your game is! Read the forum, chat with players! At least make some bug fixes or a bot detection system. I'm not talking about new functionality or plot. Please pay attention to your dying game!!!
This message will be sent to all official communication channels from the Niantic company. I ask all concerned agents to help in drawing the attention of company employees to the problems of the game.
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We have like zero insight in what niantic is doing or thinking sadly, no blog posts or updates what lies ahead of year 11 and forward... total silence from the company. For a tech company they sure are quiet about upcoming features or whatever.
Like how is core going, did the bump in price help anything for the team ? whats next to expect any new scanning features or ?
I can see the points but did they ever share things like this before, such as how well CORE is doing?
We do have some sight of what’s coming (https://ingress.com/news/2023-q4-events/) (https://ingress.com/news/2024-mission-day/) and even a global event going on now for Discoverie.
Whilst I agree that there could be more/any communication via the forums, I think it’s unfair to say there’s been no communication about what we have coming up.
I would think we will get Q1 events announced in a few weeks too.
A good question here is what do we as players want to hear. Myself I'd like to see more mini events for everyone to participate in. I'd like to see the news tab used to promote the mini events. And give us additional scoreboards for things like AP gained and portals owned. Will Niantic even attempt anything new? We will see.
I've all but quit playing this game in the past several months. I have some big things going on in my personal life that I need to focus on, but also, there was just less and less joy in playing Ingress, so it made sense to cut it out almost entirely. The only time I play at this point is when I'm on the road for work and have downtime or just out driving. It was a mix of in-game reasons, but also just a lack of trust that the Ingress team was going to actually put the effort needed to make this game something worth playing. It's been a series of events that all point to the bare minimum effort.
Apologies and communication go a heck of a long way for me and I think, most people. There has been almost none of that the past several years. Some random bits and pieces, but mostly silence and little effort. It's crazy how far an AMA with Brian went each time he did them. The forums were buzzing, telegram, twitter, etc. All from 30 minutes of his time where he vaguely answered questions that weren't even "hard" questions, lol. I think he's done a couple in the past 3-4 years.
Yet, he's also got on here and asked the community to step up for the game and to invite our friends to play, to leave 5 star ratings to boost search results, etc. Wait, you won't give us the time of day until you're asking for something from us.....lol That's an interesting way to engage with the community. But hey, at this point, some of y'all refuse to let go and that's cool. If Brian can keep tricking you into a CORE membership, but not actually provide anything new in Ingress, just the hopes of 3D models and a task system, then, that's on you...
Me, if I've got time to play a game, I'd rather play something where the developers seem excited about the game, offer actual updates, seem engaged with the community and that any money I do spend on it, is actually doing something besides keeping it afloat. Also, hundreds of other mobile games I can play where I'm not harassed, followed around and/or accused of dirty play. Nothing like walking around a park building some triangles only to tell my wife we're being watching from a vehicle and it's time to leave.
Most players aren't aware of the forums, or do not wish to chat on the forums.
No point when there is no ingress staff reading them.
@NianticBrian was reading the forum for a while up until it seems,maybe February of 2023.
I've lost interest in every other Niantic game, even MHN, I have been playing Ingress casually for last several years, but still able to Recurse a couple of times. Though local players believe I'm a "hardcore" player.
He still seems to log in, says he was active today
(sticks head in sand)
"Niantic is silent but doing so great with ingress!"
lots of bugs to track
Any bugs to be fixed though? Still waiting on those FitRep rewards and the nominations showing up on the map when I go to nominate something.
Dead game is dead
not sure but its only there he is replying forever now
There is a tonne of bugs that need fixing
Some of these require next to zero coding effort
I'm still waiting for you to delete your account.
So Monster Hunter Now survives? And Truffel?
Anyone remember Truffel? No, didn't think so
Field Trip didn't work out either
It's technically still alive as we can use its API.
It predated ingress
They do market Truffel as a “re-imagined” Field Trip so history repeating I guess.
Here's all the Updates that XMAs have:
Can't break an NDA if you never get told anything.
There’s a secret code in here right? Must be some kind of hidden message where you’re telling us all about when AgentOps launches!
Yep only a few of the hard-core players left. Most others are just contactable but don't play. Afraid I'll be the same soon.
History repeats again as Truffel/re-imagined Field Trip seems to have closed silently.
I am sure coming as a surprise to nobody but seems Truffel is dead.
www.truffel.com just takes you back to the Niantic site and it is not listed as a product
I believe it was jusanother one of those products that were culled last year, after Niantic realised that they do not advertise any other products other than pgo.
A lot of talented people lost their jobs because of over investing with no marketing.
Whatever energy they used for it...they kept it closed beta and only for Austin.
Guess which players are leaders of all the org chats and own the keys to the castle socially?
It's like letting people resign as CEO but still be the ones in charge of the company, which only come out and complain when someone does something they don't like.
Interesting dynamics happen when new games get introduced by Niantic. Very quickly there's power struggles to become the prevailing social channels everyone uses.
The shepherds' flock has decreased so much that the very authority of these shepherds has been shaken. Who needs a church without parishioners, or a political party without an electorate?
The issue is - without influx of players - there is no player turnover. In the past 'leaders' would come and go and there was fresh blood at the top of local sandcastle more regularly. (Yeah it wasn't ideal then).
Now - with no new player influx - only the crustiest "out of my cold dead hands" leaders are left and things are, if anything more tightly controlled, or, not controlled at all. (Yes I'm a crusty "out of my cold dead hands" type, but at least I realise the situations bad).
I wish Niantic would just shut the game down tbh.
I wish Niantic would just shut the game down tbh.
Have I got a thread for you:
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21490/a-case-for-shutting-down-the-game/p1
Cant get in new players if they dont advertise the game