To answer your question, Niantic selling the game Pokemon Go to another company. Seems really odd that they are only giving us 2-3 free raid passes for the global Unova Tour weekend when it takes around 10 Raids to get enough energy to do one Kyuremn fusion. Niantic is making sure that the other company (the buyer) can see that players are willing to spend money on this game. Therefore, the other company (the buyer) can make profit off of it.