(noun) The act of promising something, and then changing your mind when there's intense
push-back from
people with a lot of
common sense, and then denying you ever said the first thing in the first place.
It was announced that the Ingress gameboard was going to be reset in
January 2018. After a ravenous outcry from players with
hard to reach portals, Ingress pulled a Niantic and said they were never going to reset the gameboard, players simply misunderstood what was said.
It was announced by Ingress in July 2018 that players attending Ingress events in
August would get access to the Ingress Prime beta test. Players that had travelled to the only Ingress event in
August in order to earn said beta test access were told that this wasn't the event that gives you access to the beta test. After an angry outcry form the
player base, Ingress pulled a Niantic and gave all event attendees access to the beta test, claiming that this was the plan all along and that players attending events misunderstood what was told to them.
