Even Pokémon Go's director is overwhelmed by all the ticketed monetization options

I mean if they’re really overwhelmed by the ticketed monetazation they’d do something about it until then IMO this is just advertising/propaganda.

“But we’ve also come to this understanding that there are players out there that who deeply care about this game and want to invest more into this game, and we want to give them that value to invest in.”

This reads so disingenuous as to sound willfully ignorant. When you hook a whale on FOMO and they blow $200 on a single event, that’s not an investment. The average person has NO desire to spend this money, but a certain kind of person can be fooled into it. There’s no value add, it doesn’t improve the experience, you’re simply given chores and then an option to pay real world money to skip them.

There’s no longevity in paying to not play the game.

Kicking this game was a great choice

I mean... what do people expect? It's a gambling and collecting game.

the base game is still very robust for a free-to-play title and that what is usually offered for paid tickets are extra items or Shiny Pokémon

They are 100% correct, but what they've missed is that they've de-valued Shiny Pokemon. If I can just pay for it, what value does it have? Plus, you're not paying for exclusives just early access.

Any amount is the same abuse, just gentler or rougher. Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.