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Not necessarily downtime, but why they "killed" a very popular third-party tool to show real-time locations of Pokemon.
by oddevan 10y ago
Not necessarily downtime, but why they "killed" a very popular third-party tool to show real-time locations of Pokemon.
- brianwawok 10y agoI mean the tool basically defeated the point of the game.
- nix0n 10y agoReally? You think wandering around was the point of the game, as opposed to actually catching the Pokémon?
- ohnomrbill 10y agoDepends on how you look at the game. The point of the game for users is to catch pokemon. The point of the game for Niantic is to have users wander around, so they can make money via sponsored locations. A winning strategy must accommodate both.
- brianwawok 10y agoI mean, if you reverse engineer an api for "where is pokemon X", you may as well just reverse engineer your GPS device for "where am I standing" to move your in game character to right where the pokemon is. Then you can do a for loop and catch all the pokemon in 30 seconds. Actually catching the pokemon is a 0 skill item. Its literally dragging your finger across the screen. The entire game is the exploring the real world part.
- tvanantwerp 10y agoThe point of any game is enjoyment. I found Pokemon Go much more enjoyable with the aid of Pokevision than I do without, since at least then I could find interesting pokemon. Since the last update, I chose to stop playing entirely. It's just not very fun.
- manlike_chive 10y agoThe tools gained so much popularity because the in-game tracker stopped working. That was part of why players were upset with killing the third party tools too. There was then no way to track pokemon at all.