This meant that combining this with the blocking of third-party Pokemon GO services, it made it much harder for gamers to find and catch Pokemon around them, something which many gamers have since referred to as Niantic “breaking” the game. But along with a host of new updates, it also removed some of its central features: stopping people from actually tracking down Pokemon, by getting rid of both the in-app trackers and the websites that sprung up to replace it when it broke.
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A reddit thread full of Pokemon GO players seeking refunds on their in-app purchases shows no sign of slowing down.
Discussing its ongoing effort to launch the game in more territories, Niantic said it is “working insane hours to keep the game running as we continue to launch globally”.
“We wish we had some news for you”, Pokevision tweeted.
As many of you know, we recently made some changes to Pokémon GO.
“The original feature, although enjoyed by many, was also confusing and did not meet our underlying product goals”, it continued. The Pokemon Company and Niantic was silent of the matter up until now. Niantic, the game’s developer has finally broken silence on this move, explaining that it did not work as intended.
Other reported invasions of privacy took place at an Alabama cemetery and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, which told players that it was “extremely inappropriate” to play the game there.
While Pokemon Go isn’t officially available for a large part of the world, that hasn’t stopped the game from coming under the scanner from authorities.
In a post on the official Pokemon Go Facebook page, Niantic said the 3-Step display, which was created to give players a vague indication of how close a specific Pokemon was, had to be removed “in order to improve the underlying design”. But we’ll do our best going forward to keep you posted on what’s going on.
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Jeffrey Marder, of West Orange, says in the complaint filed Friday in California that Pokemon Go players have been hanging out near his property since the virtual phenomenon launched last month.
