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Niantic Tries To Address Recent Pokemon Go Complaints

With PokeMapper, he said, “Now I can see that one town over there’s this cool Pokemon I haven’t captured yet, so it’s worth me driving there over the weekend to try and capture them, or oh, I can see my friends in Vancouver have totally different water-type Pokemons that we don’t have here”. A recent update removed certain features and prevented third-party software from working.

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Pokemon Go is still in the news - like the Energizer Bunny, it keeps going and going and going. The full “Pokemon Go” 0.31 update and changelog can be viewed here. Numerous game’s fans who are posting so vigorously online would likely calm down a bit if they felt heard, and the developer’s inability to communicate effectively with the players is a failing that can be just as frustrating as the game’s technical flaws. That included the “footprints” issue which is better known to players as the “three-step” glitch. The title was recently released last month from developers Niantic and the video game quickly swept entire regions as gamers once again set out to become Pokemon masters. Even though I don’t play the thing.

Niantic’s full message, as posted on Facebook, follows below.

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In a lengthy statement posted up on the official Pokemon GO Facebook page, Niantic first explained that the Pokemon tracker mechanic was removed in order to “improve upon the underlying design” as the original feature was deemed to be “confusing” and did not meet the developer’s “underlying product goals”. It’s hard to miss the stories about Pokemon Go - even if they’re fake - but they’ve all been anecdotal at this point. Yes, that also means that you can say goodbye to tracking Pokemon through Pokevision.

They also mentioned that they have been “have been working insane hours to keep the game running” and even though they did not specifically mention a possible date for the re-launch of the tracking feature, one can definitely predict that it is on the horizon.

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