And so Niantic has discovered that with great popularity comes significant backlash when something you do to a favorite game just doesn’t work right.
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A US Senator has written an official letter addressed to Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go game, to express concerns over the wildly popular game. Here are monster-hunting basics for those interested in trying Pokemon Go. Yes it’s as simple as that! This time, the update fixes an issue that locked out players who registered with a Pokémon Trainer Club account. During setup on iOS devices, the game initially requested full access to the user’s Google account, a surprisingly intrusive demand that would allow Niantic to see and modify almost all Google account information.
While this game is meant to be social, users can go their whole lives playing without ever having to interact with another person. You can do this by catching Pokemons, evolving them, hatching them, and much more. This is in addition to Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. which got it last week.
According to WSJ, sources close to the game made the statement, but no definitive confirmation could be obtained. Today, a new update for the game has been released for iOS platform.
“You can now download Pokemon Go in Germany from the App Store”.
Q: Why has this game become such a hit?
Superdata Research estimates Pokemon Go is generating around US$1.6 million (NZ$2.2mil) a day in the United States via Apple’s iOS platform and another US$700,000 (NZ$962,000) from Android.
Shares in Nintendo fell almost 6% in Tokyo early on Wednesday, after a three-day surge on the successful USA launch of the augmented reality game last week added 1.2 trillion yen (US$11 billion) to the company’s market value. On Wednesday, it became the biggest mobile game in US history. Unlike the original game, which was played on millions of Nintendo GameBoys, Pokemon Go calls for players to go outside and physically search for and catch their Pokemon quarries so they can train them.
The game world is essentially the real world, with landmarks set as “Gyms”.
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Players win by controlling gyms and collecting Pokemon. It’s very easy to find the basic items you need, eggs and Pokemon are abundant, and it isn’t festooned with ads.
