> At the end of March, Niantic nearly doubled the price of remote raid passes, an extremely popular in-app item. The company’s reasoning is that remote play options were essential during pandemic lockdowns, but they go against Niantic’s vision for the game, which is to get people outside to play together in person. Players don’t feel that way, though. Some even chose to boycott Pokémon GO in protest. While their protest may not have caught Niantic’s attention, its in-app purchase sales likely did.

Key point missing here, they also changed the limit from how many times you can use a remote raid pass daily from unlimited (however many raids you could fit in) to FIVE. https://pokemongolive.com/post/remote-raid-passes-update-202...

So the higher price looks more profitable to them if you completely ignore the fact that the set an upper limit on how many you'll be able to use daily.

I honestly despise much of the community dedicated to hating this game because half of the time the reasoning is the pandemic isn't over yet! The game sucks despite Niantic having a vision for it where people actually have to go outside and walk.