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1. Heavy Monetization While Underdelivering
Over the years, extensive feedback from Pokémon UNITE players suggests the game incorporates numerous predatory practices and gambling-like mechanics that may pressure and exploit vulnerable users, including children. While monetization is a common aspect of modern gaming, what's especially concerning here is the aggressive, unbalanced nature of it paired with a failure to deliver a fair, satisfying gameplay experience. It's a deceptive setup that many players may not even realize they're caught in.
2. Suspiciously Abnormal Performance & Lag
Pokémon Unite Players around the world repeatedly experience delayed input processing, and ongoing lags and delays and responsiveness issues, especially on mobile. Many players believe that these are artificial slowdowns, intentional lag compensations and manipulations, performance throttling. There are suspicions that the developers could be using these artificial delays to sabotage gameplay and influence game outcomes and giving edges to certain players based on these underlying algorithms, and also potentially as a way to encourage players to spend more money on in-game purchases microtransactions to alleviate the frustration.
The game reels people in because we all love Pokémon, but its optimization is bizarrely terrible and worse than any other game I play. The game seems to have awful programming, netcoding issues, etc. I personally believe it is intentional and I believe many want to dismiss, deflect and surpress these complaints and do not want these issues talked about.
3. Security & integrity Problems
There's a consistent flow of player complaints, reports, and shared experiences pointing to suspected cheating and malicious hacking as widespread issues in Pokémon Unite. In addition there have been documented cases of cyberstalking, severe bullying, and targeted harassment. These concerns paint a worrying picture of the game's overall security and player safety infrastructure.
4. Anti-LGBTQ+
TiMi Studio Group, a subsidiary of Tencent Games, has faced criticism for posting anti-LGBTQ+ tweets and replies.
Tencent's systematic censorship and erasure of LGBTQ+ content including the removal of accounts, blocking of search terms, deletion of communities, suppression of media portrayals, and dismantling of digital spaces has led many to view the company as complicit in the broader marginalization and silencing of LGBTQ+ individuals. These actions, carried out across platforms like WeChat, QQ, and Tencent Video, have restricted freedom of expression and contributed to the invisibility and undermining of LGBTQ+ rights and representation in both online and cultural spaces.
5. Privacy Red Flags
Pokémon Unite has faced criticism over its extensive data collection practices and potential data privacy issues. The game's terms permit the collection of various personal and behavioral data, leading to concerns about surveillance-like monitoring and ambiguous data usage policies, particularly due to Tencent's involvement through its subsidiary TiMi Studio Group.
6. Non-support
Players go to Pokémon UNITE support for reasons all the time — whether it's account problems, critical bugs and technical failures, transaction issues, or reporting severe player misconduct. What they usually get in return is a non-support system that is dismissive, typically automated, disrespectful, and neglectful with responses that help nothing at all. And no transparency. And many times, when players follow up, they are threatened or even blocked by support altogether. It seems they don't care at all and there's no real support.
Over the years, extensive feedback from Pokémon UNITE players suggests the game incorporates numerous predatory practices and gambling-like mechanics that may pressure and exploit vulnerable users, including children. While monetization is a common aspect of modern gaming, what's especially concerning here is the aggressive, unbalanced nature of it paired with a failure to deliver a fair, satisfying gameplay experience. It's a deceptive setup that many players may not even realize they're caught in.
2. Suspiciously Abnormal Performance & Lag
Pokémon Unite Players around the world repeatedly experience delayed input processing, and ongoing lags and delays and responsiveness issues, especially on mobile. Many players believe that these are artificial slowdowns, intentional lag compensations and manipulations, performance throttling. There are suspicions that the developers could be using these artificial delays to sabotage gameplay and influence game outcomes and giving edges to certain players based on these underlying algorithms, and also potentially as a way to encourage players to spend more money on in-game purchases microtransactions to alleviate the frustration.
The game reels people in because we all love Pokémon, but its optimization is bizarrely terrible and worse than any other game I play. The game seems to have awful programming, netcoding issues, etc. I personally believe it is intentional and I believe many want to dismiss, deflect and surpress these complaints and do not want these issues talked about.
3. Security & integrity Problems
There's a consistent flow of player complaints, reports, and shared experiences pointing to suspected cheating and malicious hacking as widespread issues in Pokémon Unite. In addition there have been documented cases of cyberstalking, severe bullying, and targeted harassment. These concerns paint a worrying picture of the game's overall security and player safety infrastructure.
4. Anti-LGBTQ+
TiMi Studio Group, a subsidiary of Tencent Games, has faced criticism for posting anti-LGBTQ+ tweets and replies.
Tencent's systematic censorship and erasure of LGBTQ+ content including the removal of accounts, blocking of search terms, deletion of communities, suppression of media portrayals, and dismantling of digital spaces has led many to view the company as complicit in the broader marginalization and silencing of LGBTQ+ individuals. These actions, carried out across platforms like WeChat, QQ, and Tencent Video, have restricted freedom of expression and contributed to the invisibility and undermining of LGBTQ+ rights and representation in both online and cultural spaces.
5. Privacy Red Flags
Pokémon Unite has faced criticism over its extensive data collection practices and potential data privacy issues. The game's terms permit the collection of various personal and behavioral data, leading to concerns about surveillance-like monitoring and ambiguous data usage policies, particularly due to Tencent's involvement through its subsidiary TiMi Studio Group.
6. Non-support
Players go to Pokémon UNITE support for reasons all the time — whether it's account problems, critical bugs and technical failures, transaction issues, or reporting severe player misconduct. What they usually get in return is a non-support system that is dismissive, typically automated, disrespectful, and neglectful with responses that help nothing at all. And no transparency. And many times, when players follow up, they are threatened or even blocked by support altogether. It seems they don't care at all and there's no real support.