{"id":19188,"date":"2021-08-06T19:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/niantic-responds-to-pokemon-go-boycott-threats\/"},"modified":"2022-05-19T21:58:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T21:58:43","slug":"niantic-responds-to-pokemon-go-boycott-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/pokemon\/niantic-responds-to-pokemon-go-boycott-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Niantic Responds to Pokemon GO Boycott Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/niantic-responds-to-pokemon-go-boycott-threats_6286bd9334e34.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/niantic-responds-to-pokemon-go-boycott-threats_6286bd9334e34.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/niantic-responds-to-pokemon-go-boycott-threats_6286bd9334e34-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_48hmcm-o_O-style_dx59f4\" data-mm-id=\"_jxdxkce02\">Players have not been happy about this decision, rushing to social media with attempts to persuade the company to keep the 80 meter interaction distance with threats of a boycott. In a <a class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1x6hgip\" href=\"https:\/\/nianticlabs.com\/blog\/pgo-exploration-bonus-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> published Thursday on their official website, Niantic responded to these criticisms. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbltap.com\/posts\/niantic-responds-to-pokemon-go-boycott-threats-01fce74a4ga6?utm_source=RSS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niantic Responds to Pokemon GO Boycott Threats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":19189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19191,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions\/19191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}