The PvP league of Pokémon GO has officially launched into the first Season. Numerous bugs have spoiled the fun for many trainers so far. In an interview, Niantic revealed how they are addressing this.
This was the interview: We from MeinMMO had the opportunity to speak with Matt Slemon before the start of the PvP league. He is the Lead Product Manager at Niantic and provided us with numerous insights into the development of the feature.
Part of our questions also related to the bugs that occurred in the league’s demo. He revealed that they are indeed working on them and have already made significant progress.
Bugs are known – Update has already fixed a lot
Here’s what he says about the problems: Slemon addresses the current quality of the league. He says: “We are aware of players coming from all corners of the world, all with different network connections. But we also know that the quality in the PvP league is good; otherwise, we wouldn’t have launched the first Season.”
This often refers to the poor connection in battles. However, Slemon and Niantic do not see this as a major problem. If it were indeed that big, they would have extended the testing phase.
Slemon also talks about the ongoing problems:
But we have also found that some players are still complaining about issues, and we are looking into that more closely. (…) We have a new update that was released a few days ago, which has resolved some of these issues. However, we know that this is not the solution for everyone, and we will continue to monitor it.
Matt Slemon
So are the bugs already history? There is still much to be done for Niantic. Matt Slemon emphasized this work in our interview. Nevertheless, some improvements have already been made with the past update.
However, it remains to be seen if Niantic will work on this further and what systems they might fundamentally improve.
Here there should be help for players: Slemon also talks about tools that are to be introduced in Pokémon GO in the future. These are intended to help trainers when choosing Pokémon so that they know which monsters are good or bad.
Slemon believes that they are looking into ways to give trainers more insight. They want trainers to understand why they may have lost. Slemon referred to this as the “Lose and Learn” strategy.
What’s next for the PvP league? The PvP league has just started. In our interview, Slemon also talked about the future of the league. To help you through the battles, we link some useful guides here:
