It looks like the Gym feature in Pokémon GO is due for a major fix. Developer Niantic admits that in-game Gyms “need a lot more work” and assures fans that it is trying to improve the feature. “The gym portion [of Pokémon Go] needs a lot more work, and we are trying to improve it and make a bigger change to how the system works,” senior product manager Tatsuo Nomura told Polygon during Game Developers Conference 2017. “Overall, I think we need a little bit more time to think through how we do it.
“We needed to define [gyms] in a way that works in a mobile game,” he said. “For example, we didn’t have … there’s no non-playable characters. That’s not how the game works. We’re an MMO, and we expect people to play with other people.We expected more people to play that portion, and a lot of that is game balancing and just mechanics-wise, there’s some part of that that needs refinement. There is very limited gameplay in the gyms,” he said. “They simply do not work as well as we would wish. We will revise this aspect of the game, so that there’s more teamwork and people participating have more incentives and rewards.”
Source: Polygon
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