For a while, the game was more successful than even Twitter and Google Maps, according to SurveyMonkey, peaking at roughly 45 million daily users.
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As for now, here’s whats happening in the world of Pokemon Go while Indians wait for it to arrive in their country. When someone is lazy, it gets hard as to hatch an egg in “Pokemon GO”, one has to be up and about.
Meanwhile, Pokemon GO is also nowhere to be found on the Play Store in the fourth-largest gaming market in the world, South Korea. At the same time, a “Pokemon GO” player can buy an incubator at the game’s cash shop if they have enough PokeCoins. That’s the main reason many players discovered that they have been suddenly banhammered after using third-party apps that would offer them many advantages over other players. Players that were utilising these services were putting unrelenting strain on the servers, and so were automatically banned when the system rolled out.
The government wants to keep internet users from what they think could be unsafe for them.
France’s education minister has asked the company that makes Pokemon Go to keep its most valuable creatures out of French schools. The game developer started cutting off access to those third-party apps earlier this month, but for the past few weeks, it has been issuing permanent account bans aggressively, notes The Verge.
What is it about Pokemon Go that has had some players take it up and run with it (literally)?
In some cases, the less popular mapping tools collected data on the players and sent it to Niantic’s servers. The authorities decided that after many people came in areas where they were not allowed to.
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Niantic Labs have said in statement that they will lift ban on those gamers who may have used unauthorised apps without knowing what they actually do.
