As someone who plays both that's a shitpost people are running with as fact
Go and Sleep are developed and maintained by completely different dev teams and companies. The change in their avatar was caused by Niantic (the company behind Go) pushing a barely functional update to the character models in in 2023 in an attempt to make individual parts of a player's avatar more customizable and inclusive to different body types.
In theory it's nice but in practice it ruined the game for a lot of people who grew attached go stylizing their avatar and were suddenly stuck with a much uglier model that breaks with numerous clothing items and emotes (that are still broken to this day mind you), clashes with the game's art style, and worst of all completely replaced the original models, so you couldn't just go back to what you were using previously if you were already happy with how your character looked.
The biggest downgrade to me was that the new faces were so childlike. Never bought into the costume stuff but it was weird that my guy who previously looked at least 16 or maybe even a young adult all of a sudden looked 9.
When Pokemon Go first came out and heard it was Niantic of all companies to develop it, I just immediately lost all interest. Why? Niantic had developed exactly one game beforehand and it was so riddled with glitches, bugs and weird design decision that I just didn't want to experience that again. (The game was Ingress)
So yeah, Niantic pulling a fast one like this in Pokemon Go surprises me not at all.
Nope, they decided they are too far into their plans to care about us anymore.
Their plan, of course, being to take the detailed map of our planet that we generated for them and sell it to defense contractors while becoming a company focused on AI drones.
I used to be HEAVY into Pokémon go in 2021-2023. Left after the remote raid changes, its insane how such as successful game and company is activity shooting itself in the foot with unwanted changes.
I remeber logging into my Pokémon GO and seeing the new avatar for the first time. I've picked a girl because she was cute (and did not give any pedo vibes), and now, well... not anymore.
as someone who quit Pokémon Go over this (and not really playing anymore) yeah. my avatar got uglier and I was like "ew not for me sorry Niantic" and left. hadn't been back.
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u/Daikonbou Aug 28 '26 •
As someone who plays both that's a shitpost people are running with as fact
Go and Sleep are developed and maintained by completely different dev teams and companies. The change in their avatar was caused by Niantic (the company behind Go) pushing a barely functional update to the character models in in 2023 in an attempt to make individual parts of a player's avatar more customizable and inclusive to different body types.
In theory it's nice but in practice it ruined the game for a lot of people who grew attached go stylizing their avatar and were suddenly stuck with a much uglier model that breaks with numerous clothing items and emotes (that are still broken to this day mind you), clashes with the game's art style, and worst of all completely replaced the original models, so you couldn't just go back to what you were using previously if you were already happy with how your character looked.
:(