BRocknRolla
Member
The whole idea of this event is also very inviting for DDOS trollers.
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Meanwhile in the Chester event:
Boy do people ever suck.
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CEO of Niantic booed onstage at Pokemon Go Fest. App unplayable, many still in line
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Boy do people ever suck.
That was my assumption- that they'd have a local secure bitchin wifi setup that would cover the park...
-because if they didn't it would be a total disaster.
Do they not have people that think of these things?
It's like they're a real life company run by underpants gnomes...
OfficerRaichu15
Member
Those people making fun of the people there are assholes.
Anyway Niantic really didn't think this through did they?
Anyway Niantic really didn't think this through did they?
DrROBschiz
Member
I mean
Isnt it technically out of their hands if Network providers have to handle the load?
Isnt it technically out of their hands if Network providers have to handle the load?
The whole idea of this event is also very inviting for DDOS trollers.
Edit:
Meanwhile in the Chester event:
Man, I hate it when people have fun. Get a life nerds!
BRocknRolla
Member
Depends on where the errors are happening. If they can't get internet because the providers are overloaded, then it's on the providers (Not infrequent at huge concerts and such). But if the errors hit when trying to get into the app, I'd say it's on Niantic.
Based on the article,it sort of sounds like the former. As a former Chicago resident, service like Sprint we're shit for me on the average day, so I imagine this just exacerbates it.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Nah mate they envisioned this sort of event for two years. So they had a year to not fuck up their ultimate dream.
Gotta be up there. No way it's lower than top 5 in gaming history. Niantic has to be run by a cat who fell asleep on a keyboard or something.
I'm not a tech guy but having thousands of people trying to get onto the servers in such a close proximity to each other is something that doesn't happen every day. They underestimated the server load, that's for sure. Estimating server load is super complicated though as far as I know.
Not that this excuses any of this. People paid money. Niantic/The Pokémon Company failed them.
aspiegamer
Member
I assumed this game would get long-term support after release. Like, say, expansions to tap into the content across all the titles! Hell, they could even charge for expansion packs but keep the starting f2p to bring new people in! With a couple friends any of us probably could have come up with a dozen clever ideas they could have brought in, both free and paid.
I was wrong. Nintendo/Niantic took a cash printing machine and left the tray empty. The original buzz was always going to wear off but there's sooooooooooooo much Pokemon content available to sample from. Of course, none of that means anything if the app still doesn't work correctly. It's baffling that they haven't pushed for better development. They're still incompetent. The great Switch launch has been a distraction but it's the Same Old Shit of the past several years everywhere else. Dammit, I -want- to give them my money, but I've never seen a company try to hard to push me off.
...Sorry for the rant.
I was wrong. Nintendo/Niantic took a cash printing machine and left the tray empty. The original buzz was always going to wear off but there's sooooooooooooo much Pokemon content available to sample from. Of course, none of that means anything if the app still doesn't work correctly. It's baffling that they haven't pushed for better development. They're still incompetent. The great Switch launch has been a distraction but it's the Same Old Shit of the past several years everywhere else. Dammit, I -want- to give them my money, but I've never seen a company try to hard to push me off.
...Sorry for the rant.
The whole idea of this event is also very inviting for DDOS trollers.
Edit:
Meanwhile in the Chester event:
Atleast they are havin fun unlike those negative morons from those tweets. It's ridiculous some people think people have to forever behave serious 24/7 after they hit adulthood.
Kinda why i like some of the japanese/asian like cultures cuz that stigma is not there and they just embrace it
That Damn Kid
Member
This is like the player haters ball...but with Pokemon involved
BRocknRolla
Member
The hypocrisy though is that one of them suggests going to a bar is somehow a more appropriate choice, as though that shouldn't be thought an equal waste of time.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Man, Niantic really fucked this one up.
dark_chris
Gold Member
It's insane people flew far for this event.
There was even a guy who flew from Sweden just for this event
There was even a guy who flew from Sweden just for this event
That Damn Kid
Member
LMAO they muted the chant
Yeah honestly people should just do/enjoy whatever they like to do, you only live once after all. (not anything law breaking ofc tho)
Edit: and without bashing/trolling/insulting each other to death even if they like things other won't like or is cringeworthy to them etc. So kinda havin respect for people no matter their interests.
Feels like we need to bring that pic in every Pokémon GO thread since people are so keen in their "the game's dead" bubble.
But yes, the Chicago event is a disaster. I've read that the allowed space is 0.5sq for hundreds, maybe thousands of people.
Not seen much "the game is dead" talk ITT. We can see by this event that plenty are still interested in it.
Doesn't mean it wasn't a huge missed opportunity though.
OfficerRaichu15
Member
Oh there is just a lot of people on twitter saying, " oh there's no one at a poke stop playing a game it must be dead!" Which is annoying as hell cause it's still a big game worldwide.
PunishedOkabe
Member
At the end of the day it will have made more money than pretty much any Pokémon game in the last 15 years.
If Go is a missed opportunity then so is pretty much every Pokémon game made this century.
People fly out for things they enjoy. I see no issues.
Ingress regularly hosts "XM Anomaly" events that involve a couple of thousand players taking over a significant portion of a city's downtown area. Even those events are logistically overwhelming for the players, local organizers, and the cellular network.
Trying to imagine that player count multiplied six or seven times sounds like madness.
Trying to imagine that player count multiplied six or seven times sounds like madness.
It's obviously a huge missed opportunity and a proof that Niantic is just not capable of handling such a big game. Ingress was a smaller-scale game with at best one million downloads, and they just thought they could use the same model for a Pokémon game.
I mean, they said trading would be in few weeks/months after launch. We're one year post-launch and there's still nothing. The way they introduced Gen 2 pokémons was baffling. The app in itself is still an unoptimized piece of garbage.
However, it's still one of the most popular games right now, and possibly ever made, and that kind of ignorant posts in every thread just shows that people have no idea what casual are playing :
This is the best thing.
And yes, it's sad to see the game like this now. All these raids and Legendary Pokémon should've come out a few months later, not a whole year after the game released. They should've spared no expenses for this event and make sure everyone had a smooth experience. But yeah, armchair decision maker so I dunno what could've been done exactly.
That's the duality of Pokemon though.
It plays it safe, but it also plays it smart.
They always do something new with it, but it's always too samey.
It's one of the most powerful brands in gaming, but has yet to ahcieve spin-off nirvana like Mario.
It's one of my favorite franchises, but I haven't beaten once since the GBA days.
Yep. Those people need to lighten up.
So... yes then?
And_Gignac
Member
Pokemon is way bigger and culturally relevant than Mario ever was.
AmethystEnd
Member
This is the best.
Bucket-o-roadkill
Member
NO FUN ALLOWED
While pokemon go isn't my favourite thing ever, each to their own. This select group of 'LADS LADS LADS' and their 'hilarious wit' is nothing to waste time over. There's a beautiful irony of people who only want to drink and get smashed in their free time complaining about others wasting theirs.
reelbigtink
Member
The whole idea of this event is also very inviting for DDOS trollers.
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Meanwhile in the Chester event:
God, these kinds of people make my blood boil
OfficerRaichu15
Member
That Blu guy pisses me off. Must not be a great father is he isn't mature to respect other people's hobbies.
Mysterious
Banned
Especially the one "gamer" dude who's talking shit lmao
I'm sure they've had words. The words were probably something like "So you're telling us that over a year after release the game is still pulling in numbers so high that cellular networks and the game servers are getting overwhelmed? We're going to have to get a new money bin."
This sucks a lot for the people who traveled for this event, but let's be real here. This isn't a sign of how poorly things are going for Pokemon Go, it's exactly the opposite.
Wow major fuck up if true. Hopefully all people there are refunded then.