Pokemon Unite Hides The Score To Prevent People From “Giving Up” Early

A Pokemon Unite producer has revealed why you can’t see a match’s score until the game is over.

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Pokemon Unite’s creators have revealed there’s a very valid reason why players aren’t aware of how well or badly they’ve performed until a match is over.

Pokemon Unite has enjoyed an incredibly successful first few months since its launch. Now that the MOBA is available on both Switch and mobile, it has already surpassed 25 million downloads. It’s far from perfect, of course, as TiMi Studios continues to make tweaks and add to Unite all the time.

There is one thing Unite isn’t going to get any time soon no matter how many of you question why it isn’t there, and that’s an in-game scoreboard. Unite will not reveal how well or how poorly a team has performed until that match has come to an end. TiMi recently revealed to Kotaku that this isn’t an oversight, nor is it something it is working on a fix for.

The lack of a live scoreboard during a match is by design. According to Unite’s devs, the purpose of its omission is to prevent losing players from leaving matches early. “We wanted people to play without giving up to the very end,” Unite’s producer Masaaki Hoshino explains. The technique appears to be working too, as very few people actually quit Unite matches before they finish.

The idea is obviously that if people aren’t aware that they are so far behind that they have no hope of winning the match, they’ll keep fighting through hope they will make a comeback. There are obviously indicators of how you are doing all around. Whether they be how you feel your team is working as a whole, and the announcements being made throughout matches. Those announcements are very vague though and can be flipped pretty quickly, especially once Zapdos arrives.

While you might not be able to see the scoreboard in Unite mid-game via any incoming updates, there are exciting changes coming. Unite’s first big event takes place over Halloween and will add new Holowear and another playable Pokemon to the roster, Greedent. Speaking of Holowear, player complaints that $40 is far too much for one virtual outfit appear to have fallen on deaf ears as TiMi added a second expensive outfit to the game last week.

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