While some players just want to play Pokémon Go from the comfort of their couch, for disabled players and those who live in rural or less urban areas that might lack PokéStops and gyms, this will fundamentally change how or if they can play the game moving forward, as many of them relied on remote raids to play battles they can’t reach themselves.

As the video game accessibility website Can I Play That points out, the increase in prices for Remote Raid passes essentially raises an already established tax on disabled players who have only been able to get the most out of Pokémon Go by using these features over the past three years.

“It is just sad to see features that have an overwhelmingly positive impact on accessibility be reverted for the sake of a vision,” says Can I Play That writer Marijn. “A vision on gameplay that seemingly does not consider disabled players as equals.”

Speaking as someone who once lived in the very rural south, Pokémon Go was something I ended up not playing as much as I would have liked because I didn’t have many of PokéStops or gyms near me. If I still lived there, Remote Raids would have made it viable in a way it never was before. But now, these limitations are going to undermine people’s choices in how they play. I know they make Pokémon Go a much different experience than the one Niantic launched in 2016, but the world is a much different place, too, in a lot of ways. Even then, the struggles of disabled and rural players to be part of Pokémon Go’s community has always been a challenge, and it’s a real shame to see Niantic doubling down on making it harder.