Niantic first released Pokemon Go last week in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, but delayed an worldwide rollout until issues could be fixed with the game’s overwhelmed servers. He also expects the game to eventually be released in South Korea, although there are issues to overcome first.
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A hacking team called OurMine has spent the past several hours hitting Pokemon Go’s login servers with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, leaving some players frustrated and unable to log in to the game.
Either way, there have certainly been some downtime issues with Pokemon GO.
The online gaming industry has always been somewhat of a honey pot attracting hackers, with notable past attacks seen on the PS4 and Xbox live networks by the Lizard Squad hacking group.
Hoffman said the game also brings trainers at a certain place in search of Pokemon at Pokestops. Then just today, they added Canada as well to the list of countries where you can play the game and catch the monsters in your hood.
Pokemon Go surpassed Candy Crash Saga as the biggest mobile game of all time, having more active users than any other app in less than a week. We will keep updating you on the latest status of the game’s servers, so keep checking back. Pokemon Go has a wide variety of audiences of all ages and just telling users to “stay aware of [their] surroundings” is obviously not that effective.
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Plans are to continuously roll out the app throughout major markets before the end of July, so those still without shouldn’t be left in the dark much longer. The map gape coincides with the real world game and the system automatically seeds pokestops near the most prominent public areas – monuments, museums, etc.
