Niantic, which develops Pokemon GO, has decided to end the development of 'AR version Catan that can fight for land in the real world'



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CATAN-World Explorers ' modeled on 'Katan ', which was developed by Niantic, which develops AR games such as ' Pokémon GO ', ' Ingress ', and 'Harry Potter: Magic Alliance ', has been discontinued. Has been decided. Distribution of the application has already been stopped, and migration measures for billing items have been announced.

CATAN – World Explorers is shutting down — CATAN – World Explorers
https://community.catanworldexplorers.com/discussion/1811/catan-world-explorers-is-shutting-down/

Pokémon Go maker Niantic is shutting down its AR Catan game --Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
https://www.protocol.com/pokemon-go-maker-niantic-is-shutting-down-its-ar-catan-game

'CATAN-World Explorers' is an AR game modeled after the popular German-born board game 'Catan', and was said to be a game that allows you to build roads and settlements by using the entire globe as a huge Catan board.

Popular board game 'Pioneers of Catan' becomes AR game with Pokemon GO's Niantic technology --GIGAZINE



Beta testing of 'CATAN – World Explorers' started in multiple regions from July 2020, but even if more than a year has passed since the beta test started, regions such as Japan and the United States are still within the test range. It was excluded.




Then, on September 17, 2021, it was announced at the official forum of 'CATAN – World Explorers' that the service will be stopped at 16:00 on November 18, 2021 Japan time. The development team commented on the reason for the discontinuation: 'The development team initially set out to develop a game that would turn the earth into a Catan board. We introduced a season system into the game to carry out in-game buildings and transactions. We had the vision of resetting every month, but adapting a well-designed board game like Catan to a global location-based MMO game was a daunting task. I'm very proud of the game I made, but it's a bit more complicated than the original Catan, and it's a bit farther away. '

According to the development team, distribution of 'CATAN-World Explorers' has already stopped. In addition, the price of billing items will be reduced until the end of the service on November 18, and the final season will be lively for existing users. In addition, the desired user can convert the in-game currency obtained by charging into the in-game currency of Pokemon GO.

In the announcement, the development team said, 'The work and knowledge learned in this game will not be lost. We are working on more games for the future!' We are showing an attitude of continuing to work on.

In addition, Niantic has announced the development of AR games based on Transformers and Pikmin , and we are accepting pre-registration for each.

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