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Pokémon GO recently announced a new program, Rewards Road, to offer special items to players who make in-game transactions this December. Seasonal events like this one are nothing new in Pokémon GO, but this is the first time it's instituted Rewards Road.
✕ Remove Ads Some players, like PosterityR, sat down to do the math. In the screenshots above, the maximum tier of Rewards Road requires the player to save up 3,000 points. This particular player heard that an item called an Eggspedition Ticket was one such qualifying purchase, and that each one cost $5 and rewarded 30 points. If all that is true, then a player might have to spend a total of $500 on Pokémon GO in the month of December in order to obtain everything in Rewards Road.
✕ Remove Ads Others, like vsmack, pointed out that rampant microtransactions could have the opposite of their intended effect, by causing players to actually spend less time and money on Pokémon GO. In most cases, even completionists will realize that Rewards Road isn't worth the cost pretty early on, and will give up on buying Eggspedition Tickets. In time, they'll discover that they don't have to participate in every single event, and FOMO will dissipate before long.
Our Take: Too Much Monetization Is Never Good Nothing Kills A Game Quicker If the rumors are true, then Rewards Road is a pretty poor excuse for a seasonal event that demands too much of its players. $500 is too much to spend on any single game, let alone one that's normally free-to-play. There's some value in rewarding players for spending money on a game, but this doesn't seem to be the right way to do it.
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