POKEMON GO
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So I'm out there. I got my incense burning, my lucky egg running, leveled up quickly. Lures were damn near everywhere. Kid yells out, "There's a Charmeleon!" And sure enough it was. But now I'm stuck. My Charmander has a higher CP than the Charmeleon, but the moves....
Caught a Clefairy, Scyther, almost got a Haunter but the b*stard ran.
Caught a Clefairy, Scyther, almost got a Haunter but the b*stard ran.
Soooooooo they'd rather shut down Pokemon trackers (if this article is legit) instead of fixing their own trackers? The creators of Pokémon Go hint they'll be shutting down the game's most useful apps
John Hanke, the CEO of Pokémon Go developer Niantic, hinted in an interview with Forbes' Ryan Mac that popular fan-made tools like PokéVision, Poké Radar, and Poké Notify may not be long for this world.
Here's what Hanke has to say about those apps:
Yeah, I don't really like that. Not a fan. We have priorities right now but they might find in the future that those things may not work. People are only hurting themselves because it takes some fun out of the game. People are hacking around trying to take data out of our system and that's against our terms of service.
As Kotaku's Patricia Hernandez points out, lots of players are only turning to these tools — largely used to show, on a map, where Pokémon are appearing and when they'll vanish — because the game's own system for tracking Pokémon have been broken for about two weeks now.
But, as Hanke notes, those tools are very much against Niantic's terms of service, which every player agrees to when they create their Pokémon Go accounts. Niantic would be well within its rights to turn off those external services, if and when it chooses to.
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As for Hanke's argument that using those tools "takes some fun out of the game" — well, that's largely for players to decide on their own. But so long as systems like the Pokémon Nearby tracker aren't working, it'll keep driving people towards those unauthorized tools.
In the meanwhile, as Hanke says, Niantic has "priorities right now," likely referring to its push to bolster the game's servers to the point where the Pokémon tracker can start working reliably again. So it might be some time before Niantic has enough free time and manpower to start worrying about unauthorized apps.
i'm cool with them shutting them down if they'd fix their game first. shyt has been broken for like 2 weeks now.
i mean if those sites can get the data of the pokemon location then it can't be that hard for them to fix the three steps thing. the data is clearly in their systems.
i mean if those sites can get the data of the pokemon location then it can't be that hard for them to fix the three steps thing. the data is clearly in their systems.
Sounds like cheating. I got a pokedex of 95 the hard way
He Who Posts Well
Superstar
And it kind of ruins the fun of it
agreed
Sometimes. But you gotta curve your throw after using one cuz it will curve itself.
Brief Keef
Superstar
you're not guaranteed to catch said pokemon you're looking for so its not cheating and besides if they would fix their POS nearby system people wouldnt have to fukk with other shyt
Brief Keef
Superstar
i swear he only stays for like 30 seconds i gotta google it just to see because unless you're right there when he spawns u not catching that fukker or any other pokemon with a 30 second timer
If your looking for a specific pokemon than no it's not cheating
you get tired of running into the same pokemon over and over again
you yourself still have to put in the work of getting to the location
before the spawn time runs out
People wouldn't have to use pokevision if they would
if the nerby system.
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