Summary
A recentPokemon GOupdate introduced a glitch in which the skin and hair colors of some players’ avatars completely changed.Pokemon GOis among the most popular mobile games in the world, but fans have not been satisfied with essentially all recent changes to their avatars.
Back on April 17, Niantic released aPokemon GOupdate that changed players’ avatars. While the update was marketed as a way to “modernize” the game, the community’s reception was hugely negative, as most people considered the update to be a downgrade in visuals.
Now, a newPokemon GOupdate has introduced even more problems with the appearance of its players’ avatars. MultiplePokemon GOplayers have reportedly opened their apps and discovered that their characters have completely changed their skin and hair colors, which even led some of them to believe that their accounts may have been hacked. In a post shared by aPokemon GOplayer, it’s possible to see how drastic these changes were. In the first picture, their avatar has white hair and a light skin tone, while after the glitch happened, they had brown hair and dark skin, looking like a completely different character. Niantic will hopefully issue a hotfix soon, but no official statement regarding this problem has been released yet.
New Pokemon Go Update Changed The Skin and Hair Color of Some Players
This is just the latest event in the long controversy that started back in April with the avatar changes. Soon after the update was implemented,rumors that thePokemon GOavatar’s update was rushedsurfaced, leading many players to speculate about the reasons why the updated characters looked so bad when compared to models that were devised years ago.
Soon after the change,Niantic was also criticized for misleading marketing inPokemon GO, as the studio kept using the old avatar models for advertising paid clothing items. This was deemed as a “shady move” by some players, who saw this as an admission that even Niantic knew the new avatars looked worse than the previous ones.
All this controversy led toPokemon GObeing review bombedon online mobile stores, with many fans giving it 1-star reviews. At the moment, however,Pokemon GOstands at 3.9/5 on the App Store, and 4.2/5 on Google Play, meaning it has somehow withstood the review bombing well enough.
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