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      While true, I felt (if misguided) more comfortable with my data under California data protection laws than Saudi Arabia.

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        Yeah, but we can’t have real data privacy laws in the US. Won’t you think of the shareholders?

        They’ve gotten rich off of spying on you wholesale and selling the information to anybody with cash.

        It would be rude and un-American to ask them to stop profiting off of morally bankrupt practices. Plus, they’d just say no and they own the government too.

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    Pikmin Bloom too

    Booooo. That sucks.

    I was never into Pokemon before this app but this game was fun just finding new discoveries even in my own city.

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    I can’t believe Saudi Arabia are nationalising Pokemon Go when the UK won’t even nationalise regional water monopolies. Honestly these things were never great for privacy and given the state of things I’m not sure I’m more concerned about a Saudi entity tracking me than a US one.

    Not good news for gay Pokemon fans in that country though.

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    Jokes on them i’ve been cheating on this game with my location as some random places for a decade and lot of people have been doing this too.

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    It’s been fun. Once this is official I guess it’s over for me.

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      It was a rip off from the start…

      I must confess, I was into it as well, but the game design was it to be so omnipresent that it hindered me on other tasks, so that I had to stop. I can’t play this game casually 😆 either all in or nothing, lol

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        You give them too much credit on this one. This decision was likely spearheaded by some nepo appointment who is out to diversify in the worst way. When your send cousin Johnny to college in the West, you’re still not getting the best and brightest when he comes back. Whole structure of their investment fund is graft and bad decisions.

        Compare Saudis system to Norway’s sovereign fund. Instead of being politically neutral, like everything in the house of Saud it’s a patronage system. They do big headline buys like this to convince everybody above them they’re actually doing something to diversify from oil market shocks. But in this case they’re buying a dry well that’s already had it’s data sold to those who wanted it and is burdened to IP licensing that likely drains much of its micro transaction potential while also being able to be revoked if the parent company stops liking what they’re doing. They’re not going to get much from a state security standpoint from it that they couldn’t get in ways that would cost several billion less and they’re not going to get much of a return of investment on it either. But since patronage rewards are front loaded they do stupid buys like this.

        If they just wanted the data, they could’ve gotten it for much less than 3.8 billion. They likely could’ve gotten it for 3.7 billion less at least. Or just send some guys to steal it like they did with Twitter back in the day. Much cheaper.

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        Sure but they’re just buying a licensed property with a declining player base and leaving Niantic with the base tech and the drive to innovate. It’s a dead end road where they’re buying the “secure” part of the company but it’s actually incredibly high risk because of how licensing agreements work. That’s why I call it dead tech. They’re not going to build anything out of it. It’ll just decline. Perhaps quite catastrophically at that.

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      they need to branch out from thier dying, single industry, oil. they have been lapping up sports teams all over. turns out the desert is not a good place to live with little to no natural resources outside of oil. also being desert theres little to no arable land.