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Pokemon GO Fest's livestream is absolutely must-see
- Thread starter evanmisha
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You'd be fucking angry too in their situation.
Maintenance
Member
Looks like she's playing Tap Tap Revolution
Amazing.
HAHAHA The challenge screen just popped back up and it's reset? All bars are almost empty. No progress on bronze anymore at all. Oh, man
This doesn't really compare to that :x
Yeah I understand that too, but I'm 120% sure that Niantic is doing all they can in that situation. Having thousands of people in a "small" space connecting to the same servers, the mobile network just can't handle it, there are only so many antennas. Sucks, a lot, but was expected.
But yeah, they can boo all they want, just, don't expect for it to go smoothly or that booing is going to fix anything.
Also didn't know you had to pay for the event, thought it was a more "open" thing.
Challenge window 2 has started without any fanfare on the stream and it looks like the progress has all been reset. All the individual bars are almost if not completely empty.
At least the fake the numbers, I mean, god damn. Like... you have to know that's gonna piss people off.
EDIT: Fire bar magically shoots up to where it was. Bronze ticks up a bit.
At least the fake the numbers, I mean, god damn. Like... you have to know that's gonna piss people off.
EDIT: Fire bar magically shoots up to where it was. Bronze ticks up a bit.
Yoshimitsu126
Member
Damn there is only around 2 hours left for that challenge window too.
Cloggerdude
Member
The problem isn't so much that they're trying really hard to fix it now, but more so that they never should have had these issues to begin with. Sounds like the majority of the problems are on their side for some reason. This was a really big event and they just kind of blew it.
This is the second window, so there's 24 minutes left. Barring the extension.
It was expected that it wouldn't work? Nah, you plan and expect for these things. With how much the game STILL grosses, they should have a bit of money to make these experiences go fairly smoothly...
Doomshroom
Member
i was out for the first window but now i just dont care. I dontt think it matters what we do atm.
If it does matter and has mattered, it hasn't made any damn difference, so you might as well give up, really.
Progress bars pulled and we're back to splash screen.
Lucky Seven
Banned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFVhn7ARy4g&t=36s
Disclaimer: I made this clip. There are also tons of clips on twitch.tv with the highlights mentioned itt
Disclaimer: I made this clip. There are also tons of clips on twitch.tv with the highlights mentioned itt
dark_chris
Gold Member
They actually had plenty of time to fix all these issues but didn't. They should have anticipated everything that was gonna happen
I really wish they would've done this. Having ONE event in all of North America is crazy. Europe gets 7 cities for their safari event...
A few weeks ago I went to a festival with 80,000 people contained on a rather compact space. They worked together with telco's and increased network capacity by a lot and the connection was spotless. If you expect to have a great number of people trying to play an online game on their smartphones, you could have foreseen this stuff.
Of course. You don't release a "legendary" trailer on YT and an event to unlock legendaries to then not release them. (But well, it's Niantic, can happen)
Bucket-o-roadkill
Member
Wow. I know it's pokemon go and the game festival is a train wreck but come on.
The next time something you're interested in messes up for reasons out of your control I hope someone is close by to mock you and say you're a man-child, lol fuck off
This will probably happen in the future.
When world events happen in Ingress, there are usually four events happening simultaneously in different locations throughout the country and world, with their scores all being shared to determine the outcome of the storyline. I imagine that'll be Niantic's goal once PoGo starts having events on a regular basis.
Aruarian Reflection
Chauffeur de la gdlk
The catch rate for legendaries is apparently 2% so yeah... tune in later today because a lot of unhappy people will not catch it
ooooooooo god, that means thousands will be furious......especially after paying for a ticket......this is going to be brutal.
Double ouch :/
Tbf GAF doesn't get tired of saying nobody plays this game anymore in every Pokemon GO thread.
So maybe they took advice from GAF and didn't expect so many people.
This is an absolute travesty.
Niantic are even damaging the Pokémon brand with this.
People in lines for hours, even still now, 3 hours after opening. People being unable to connect to the game.
I very nearly went. It would have cost me over £1000. I am so glad I didn't
I'm also not buying the server excuse. The servers are fine for me and most people away from the event itself. This is them not planning to get enough mobile signal boosters and alternative Wi-Fi methods and they're passing the buck
Niantic are even damaging the Pokémon brand with this.
People in lines for hours, even still now, 3 hours after opening. People being unable to connect to the game.
I very nearly went. It would have cost me over £1000. I am so glad I didn't
I'm also not buying the server excuse. The servers are fine for me and most people away from the event itself. This is them not planning to get enough mobile signal boosters and alternative Wi-Fi methods and they're passing the buck
Permanently A
Junior Member
Nintendo should have been more hands-on with Pokemon Go.
Tbf GAF doesn't get tired of saying nobody plays this game anymore in every Pokemon GO thread.
So maybe they took advice from GAF and didn't expect so many people.
(In another thread I got dog-piled when I said that I believe that more people just play at home and spoof than actually go outside to do it, but that also translated to "no one plays". Not that I doubt that people still go out, but more a rarity in comparison...)
Shadow Broker
Banned
What time is the legendary suppose to appear? I'll tune in then.
Japanmanx3
Member
Woof...
http://www.mmoserverstatus.com/pokemon_go
Note: The servers are fine.
Niantic just didn't properly plan for the event which is ridiculous when there was a finite amount of tickets
Note: The servers are fine.
Niantic just didn't properly plan for the event which is ridiculous when there was a finite amount of tickets
This is so uncomfortable to watch. Kinda feel bad for everybody there.
But this should be expected when lots of people use cell phones at one small place. Don't really think those are server issues.
Ouch... Also stinks that they essentially cut the stream in a "nothing to see here!!" kind of gesture (quite literally in this case, though
)They're not. They're just using that as a catchment saying so people "understand". Servers are 100% fine
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Apparently there are huge lines to even escape the event. Which means their emergency planning was null too.
Its exactly what I was thinking of as time goes by. LOL
Shadow Broker
Banned
Where are you guys watching? I'm on Youtube and just see the Pokémon go screen with the final evo of Kanto starters.
Aruarian Reflection
Chauffeur de la gdlk
From reddit, there is now a long line to leave the event
"We can't play" chants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbGQPJkkN4
"We can't play" chants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbGQPJkkN4