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Not surprising given the incredible overwhelming number of people trying to play the game. I knew it would be huge, I never imagined it would be the phenomenon
by Falcon9 10y ago
Not surprising given the incredible overwhelming number of people trying to play the game. I knew it would be huge, I never imagined it would be the phenomenon it is. (Go to a park at lunch or after work if you don't know what I'm talking about. Any park in the country.)
- cocotino 10y agoBeing a semi-Google company, maybe the server code is written in Python, that's why the servers are always overloaded 8-)
- TeMPOraL 10y agoBeing the guys who wrote Ingress, I'm betting they still host their stuff on Google App Engine... ;).
- TeMPOraL 10y agoEspecially that they launched US-only (?), but the whole world is playing anyway thanks to game's APK being spread on-line. I'm writing this from Poland, coming straight from 2 hours walk from work, catching Pokemon and leveling up on the way :).
- illumin8 10y agoSeems like this would be very easy for them to block since they know your GPS coordinates. They could just pop up a message saying "Pokemon Go is not yet available in your region," although, the good will demonstrated by allowing customers in other countries to play would probably be better than arbitrarily blocking them.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThey could. If they did, they'd probably kill the game on the spot, or at least significantly curtail its popularity. As it is right now, the game is a global phenomenon, and it's getting immensely popular worldwide.
- Daneel_ 10y agoIt first launched in Australia, and is available in a few countries right now (Australia/New Zealand/USA). I believe the rollout to the UK/Asia/other countries is on hold due to issues with the huge volume of traffic overwhelming Niantic's servers.