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CEO of Niantic booed onstage at Pokemon Go Fest. App unplayable, many still in line
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Aye, and in my case it's nice to have a game that gives me something to do on the way to and from the same places. Doesn't require so much focusing like other games.
hydragonwarrior
Member
Yeah. Also the new gym update makes it even easier to get coins now. It reduced competition but i'm very territorial - if that gym ain't instinct, it's going down (except on weekends)
Jonneh3003
Banned
Nope it's still big.
At one event someone threw a bottle at the host, not a great look for the Pokémon fan base.
Ah yes, the old traditional attack and mock something that they don't understand tacit.
Pfft sad losers.
They're getting a refund plus $100 in Poké coins.
Considering that Niantic aren't able to get the game running at the basic level when it launched and still aren't, how can they be expected to handle trading and battling worldwide.
The whole idea of this event is also very inviting for DDOS trollers.
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Meanwhile in the Chester event:
Ah yes, the old traditional attack and mock something that they don't understand tacit.
Pfft sad losers.
They're getting a refund plus $100 in Poké coins.
Considering that Niantic aren't able to get the game running at the basic level when it launched and still aren't, how can they be expected to handle trading and battling worldwide.
At one event someone threw a bottle at the host, not a great look for the Pokémon fan base.
I wonder why games are still some kind of a taboo when all gamers are respectful and balanced people.
hydragonwarrior
Member
Hellz no, I'm still powering up my Perfect IV Electrode
And likely a gacha game is already in the works lol
That's not really a gamer thing. Most sport events, concerts, and others will end up with a lot more shit being thrown if it was a disaster like this.
Not condoning it all.
You say that as if the Pokémon fanbase is a certain smaller subset of gamers. That doesn't work when Pokémon is literally one of the biggest mainstream franchises in the world enjoyed by people across different ages.
I remember hearing something like this around 20 years ago
Still. She is a person and I'm pretty sure not responsible of the shit show of the fest. Throwing shit at her or anybody just because the fest is a wash? Where's respect?
Niantic has acted poorly but I don't think it justifies aggression.
I bet these guys played Pokemon Go a year agoMeanwhile in the Chester event:
Gaz Pwnage
Member
Why would anyone throw a bottle at Seltzer? She's literally just the host paid to be there, nothing more. Sad.
AlexFlame116
Member
Any improvements at all?
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Meanwhile in the Chester event:
Plenty of people like this on GAF.
I distinctly remember an amiibo thread where members were shitting on people for collecting amiibo. Don't y'all realize we're all a bunch of fucking nerds?
Ya I really don't know why 1 guy throwing a water bottle can taint the image of tens of millions of players. Chicago had at least dozens of people throwing shit at that Bartman guy and we don't act like all sports fans are violent lunatics.
It's extra silly when people on here do it. How can someone shit on someone else for being nerdy when you're both on a video game enthusiast forum.
HerroRygar
Member
That's actually my understanding of what happened. Concentrating a large number of people in a small area and telling them to use a data-intensive app flooded Verizon, who ran out of bandwidth which I expect resulted in people being throttled. It's always been my experience that internet access at music festivals becomes awful and doesn't work great, and since the app is apparently pretty sensitive to slow/intermittent access...yeah.
Partially speaking out of my ass here, but I think Niantic had the server capacity to handle the surge of traffic. Scaling is a really hard problem, you can get bitten by many different issues. Niantic definitely have to own this, but it's not like they're a bunch of doofuses who failed to learn the lessons from last time.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Top Grossing #2 game in UK ahead of Netflix, Clash of Clans, Candu Crush Saga and Clash Royale right now
What's it behind?
Keep normalizing this. "Becauze one does doesnt mean all of them does" Yeah, of course doesnt mean that at all but the fact someone is angry at a convention about a game and that person engaged aggression talks bad, believe it or not, at all of us who enjoy games.
Maybe you can't see it as a problem, but this is bad press and bad press is never good. When stuff like this happens you should say "Yeah, thats not cool" not "Well...is just one" because one then another one and you have multiple guys who will normalize it for others too.
Sighs, Why I even try.
LordOcidax
Member
But Gaf told me that this game was dead... Are those people being payed?
The whole idea of this event is also very inviting for DDOS trollers.
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Meanwhile in the Chester event:
"Have a pint* Yeah Losers go drink!...
Fox Mulder
Member
Yeah.
I was taking a lunch break at McDonald's awhile back and people came up asking for directions to a convention center. They were going to a mermaid convention. Sounded cool.
LordOcidax
Member
Disgusting...The whole idea of this event is also very inviting for DDOS trollers.
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Meanwhile in the Chester event:
Only reflects poorly if someone doesn't understand how press works. They aren't going to report on the married couple that plays pokemon go on their morning walk.
I don't see how me pointing this out will cause more people to do similar things.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Cause the event only just ended. And now all the stops nearby have the rare spawns and special eggs for event attendees.
I suspect those features would have made the game feel close to a mainline Pokemon title, and i bet Nintendo don't like that.
They've said trading is a feature they're working towards.
cool.
applesaucejaxon
Member
Well that explains all the Pokemon people when I stepped out for dinner at the Blackhawks Convention
Icyflamez96
Member
Only reason it's not in is because they want to deal with cheaters first, which seems like an endless task tbh. I suspect they'll put it in eventually but cheaters will always find a way to get around things.
What kind of cheaters would be a problem?
lmao what a load of crap. its not in because niantic are horrible at their job.
Icedburden
Member
I'm sure your hobbies are a benefit to humanity.
The Sum of Zero
Member
It's the same in Funko Pop threads, too.
Icyflamez96
Member
Spoofers.
LordOcidax
Member
WTF is this shit...
Why does that matter though? Back when I played spoofing was the only way I could catch more than like 10 different pokemon and not have to spend hundreds of dollars on pokeballs lol. If I was cheating then living in the city is also cheating.
PaulExcellent
Member
4chan is thataway, m8.
You gotta be older than 12 to post there too, tho.
To be fair I've seen far far worse at some music festivals and rock shows. I've seen used tampons and actual shit thrown at people on stage.
Velcro Fly
Member
It's too bad this was kinda hit or miss for people. I guess I'm glad I wasn't able to go.