Over the weekend, Niantic released a big Pokemon Go update for iPhone and Android that brings various new features and improvements to the game. In a Facebook post, the USA company said it removed the indicator showing how far Pokemon were because it was “confusing and did not meet our underlying product goals”. Niantic’s post concludes by saying it plans to keep players updated more frequently going forward.
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Users playing Pokemon Go roam the physical world searching for virtual Pokemon creatures. And we aren’t done yet!
The Niantic team is also working hard on releasing the game in countries where Pokemon GO is not available yet.
“We have read your posts and emails and we hear the frustration from folks in places where we haven’t launched yet, and from those of you who miss these features”, according to the fb post.
Furthermore, Niantic blocked a number of third-party apps created to help players track down Pokemon – including the hugely popular Pokevision, which showed exactly where Pokemon were and for how long.
Niantic did however promise to try and keep better communication lines open with players and would try and bring the game to every territory in the near future, specifically targeting Brazil. The augmented reality game has recently received a big update that deletes footprints of nearby Pokémon and adds avatar re-customization. Besides knocking on his door, Marder watched as players congregated outside his home, phones in hand, looking to catch wild Pokemon.
“We made Pokevision not to ‘cheat.’ We made it so that we can have a temporary relief to the in-game tracker that we were told was broken”, he wrote. He is suing The Pokemon Company and Nintendo, both of which co-own Pokemon Go’s developer, Niantic Labs. They said that because of the “third party services” there servers faced the problem of overloading and other stability issues.
In the absence of the tracking feature, many people turned to third-party apps.
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Along with this Company used this platform to ensure the users as well that they are still working on the plans to come up with this game in the other territories too.
