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Yes except almost nobody plays Ingress and this game hasn't been out a month and it's about to pass Twitter in popularity...

by jolux 10y ago

wmccullough 10y ago
Pokemon popularity != Twitter popularity. You wouldn't go around comparing the popularity of Doom to Facebook right? This comparison needs to disappear.
- Larrikin 10y ago
  Facebook is obviously more popular than Doom, but the article is comparing two Android apps which is a fair comparison
- treehau5 10y ago
  We are comparing popularity of things people waste time on. In my eyes, they are all the same. It's the past-time market.
- Spivak 10y ago
  Because of how people, including myself, are using the game I think comparison to social networks is more than fair. I have never seen more people out downtown wandering around and talking to strangers.
distantsounds 10y ago
I'd love to see where you get your numbers from considering Niantic doesn't publish active player stats for Ingress.
- jolux 10y ago
  well it's purely anecdotal I'll say but everyone I know is playing Pokémon Go right now and before only my really really "nerdy" friends played Ingress.
- jolux 10y ago
  if Ingress were anywhere near as popular their servers would have been down constantly and we would have heard about it being so popular...
  - distantsounds 10y ago
    I take it you've never played Ingress before? Because they've had outages before, particularly during some of the larger events. Just because something doesn't get widespread news doesn't mean it's unpopular. Sure, Go is massively popular in its own right and to scale beats out Ingress but it's not like Ingress was some 2-bit game that nobody played. Half the mechanics of Go came from there, if Ingress sucked and was a failure they a) wouldn't have put the same features in Go, and b) probably wouldn't have even made Go. tl;dr Please stop shitting on something you have zero experience with.
    - jolux 10y ago
      Look I'm not shitting on it. It's not orthogonal that you both saw large numbers of people playing it and that it wasn't as popular as Pokémon Go. I'm not saying it's a technological failure, I'm saying it didn't capture as many people's attention in the same way that Go did.

Yes except almost nobody plays Ingress and this game hasn't been out a month and it's about to pass Twitter in popularity...

by jolux 10y ago

Yes except almost nobody plays Ingress and this game hasn't been out a month and it's about to pass Twitter in popularity...

wmccullough 10y ago

Pokemon popularity != Twitter popularity. You wouldn't go around comparing the popularity of Doom to Facebook right? This comparison needs to disappear.

Larrikin 10y ago
Facebook is obviously more popular than Doom, but the article is comparing two Android apps which is a fair comparison
treehau5 10y ago
We are comparing popularity of things people waste time on. In my eyes, they are all the same. It's the past-time market.
Spivak 10y ago
Because of how people, including myself, are using the game I think comparison to social networks is more than fair. I have never seen more people out downtown wandering around and talking to strangers.

distantsounds 10y ago

I'd love to see where you get your numbers from considering Niantic doesn't publish active player stats for Ingress.

jolux 10y ago
well it's purely anecdotal I'll say but everyone I know is playing Pokémon Go right now and before only my really really "nerdy" friends played Ingress.
jolux 10y ago
if Ingress were anywhere near as popular their servers would have been down constantly and we would have heard about it being so popular...
- distantsounds 10y ago
  I take it you've never played Ingress before? Because they've had outages before, particularly during some of the larger events. Just because something doesn't get widespread news doesn't mean it's unpopular. Sure, Go is massively popular in its own right and to scale beats out Ingress but it's not like Ingress was some 2-bit game that nobody played. Half the mechanics of Go came from there, if Ingress sucked and was a failure they a) wouldn't have put the same features in Go, and b) probably wouldn't have even made Go. tl;dr Please stop shitting on something you have zero experience with.
  - jolux 10y ago
    Look I'm not shitting on it. It's not orthogonal that you both saw large numbers of people playing it and that it wasn't as popular as Pokémon Go. I'm not saying it's a technological failure, I'm saying it didn't capture as many people's attention in the same way that Go did.