Finale Fireworker
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Same here. This is what usually happens to me.
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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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Same here. This is what usually happens to me.
clarkision
Member
I've spent more battery power trying to log in today than I have actually playing. That's saying something!
Icyflamez96
Member
Just got this alert on my phone? Hippowdon confirmed?
Complistic
Member
It's probably your only chance to get him. I'd totally go out and wander around aimlessly.
Pops Maellard
Member
I've been waiting all day to go on a Pokèmon ride and take my mind of everything going on in my life, and the servers are still down. I'm so frustrated with everything.
Geminosity
Member
Been reading about the 'nearby' tracking system with the 3 feet and came across someone saying it was still broken in some important ways back when it did 'work':
It might also explain why when I first logged in I'd only have about 3 on the list but after a bit of wandering it almost always seemed to be the full 9 most of the time.
Anyone know if this was true? It might explain why I could never find that eevee back when the 3 steps did work
It might also explain why when I first logged in I'd only have about 3 on the list but after a bit of wandering it almost always seemed to be the full 9 most of the time.
Nose Master
Member
Not even giving me a fail to authenticate message. Just boots me back to the title screen. :<
the_log_ride
Member
seveer have been straight shit for me for like 4 hours, and the few times I was signed in it was to slow to do anything! and then this happened:
so I was coming out of my local grocery store after doing some shopping an banking and saw this....
so I said fuck, let me try to catch it, and lo and behold:
it was 246CP but I'm not complaning, so I berry it up and start chucking all my ultra balls at it. So I get a "great" catch it shakes twice and then all of a fucking sudden the game just glitches out! I got that blue arrow directions as if I was playing in ar mode and the ball just stops.....I quit ans try to log back in and I couldn't....
just fuck you Niantic....just fuck you
damn straight I'm salty
Damn. My heart aches for you. Hopefully, it's in your inventory when you sign back in.
Icyflamez96
Member
Congrats
Lee Chaolan
Member
wootz finally back in
Waylon Drums
Member
It's sad how much money they've been given for a product that's so absolutely broken.
Doctor West
Member
Just got in.
Complistic
Member
You must be the chosen one, the one the legends foretold of.
Been reading about and came across someone saying it was still broken in some important ways back when it did 'work':
Anyone know if this was true? It might explain why I could never find that eevee back when the 3 steps did work
I feel like the nearby screen worked fine when the game first came out. If a rare was one step away, and then no steps, it WOULD spawn right away. Someone told me if you click on it or on the screen, it would make it pop immediately. I feel like that actually worked, a couple times. Ever since the patch though, this sounds right. Would explain a lot of the issues.
MisterHero
Super Member
That's not GO's fault. It's F2P's
I should make a sign out of that, "The End is Nigh"-style
MvmntInGrn
Member
I've never had the game be down this late in the day here. I'm starting to think this is basically a planned downtime instead of an overloaded server issue.
Downtime is fine. Not telling the player base it was coming though is insane. Can't prove it of course and at this point we know the policy is silence. The lack of communication is jarring but I have to imagine it is Nintendo that is at fault for it.
edit: and of course now it's up
Finale Fireworker
Member
I will say that I get my "Failed to login" and "failed to get player information from the server" much, much more quickly that I have been all week. I appreciate it isn't taking as long for the door to slam in my face.
Fox Mulder
Member
Same with Nintendo. Insane stock bump for a broken game they didn't even make.
Geminosity
Member
Yeah, I agree if you could get them down to 2 steps or less it seemed to work fine, but I did find a situation where I just couldn't seem to get closer to a 3 foot eevee. It may be possible that I'd passed it at some point but it'd never gotten pushed off so I was hunting for something that wasn't even in the 3 foot range
psynergylover
Member
just logged in...no Dragonite......
All this technical issue shit with no communication WILL start wearing on people. ESPECIALLY the casuals which are the masses. My girlfriend today said she's done with it. She can only get in like 20% of the times she tries. She's out of Pokeballs and can never get in to get Pokestops when we're around them, and she just dropped her only lure at dinner and got kicked 2 minutes into it.
Whatever they need to do on the technical side, they need to fucking do it. I understand that's tough, but I hope they understand this is a once in a generation type of event that they are killing slowly and are doing everything they possibly can.
But the communication side is fucking absurd. SFV had better communication than this at launch. SAY SOMETHING.
Whatever they need to do on the technical side, they need to fucking do it. I understand that's tough, but I hope they understand this is a once in a generation type of event that they are killing slowly and are doing everything they possibly can.
But the communication side is fucking absurd. SFV had better communication than this at launch. SAY SOMETHING.
This down time has to be eating into their immediate (people can't buy now), and future revenue (people will be wary of buying and using lures, for example, when it's back online).
I think today will be a serious catalyst to improvement. Potentially a reprioritization of stability over expansion.
Edit: apparently on-point with the post above
I think today will be a serious catalyst to improvement. Potentially a reprioritization of stability over expansion.
Edit: apparently on-point with the post above
Its like...why even walk. Why do i even have legs if not for pokemon go.
Doctor West
Member
The lack of communication is pretty insane. I can't wrap my head around that one and they've had more than enough time to hire somebody to deal with the community by now.
PSFan
Member
So for Dragonite, Charizard and other big and rare Pokemon like that, are the better balls required to catch them or is it possible to catch them in regular Pokeballs? I'm only level 10 currently and if I come across one, I'd like to think I had at least a small chance to catch them by throwing regular balls at it.
panthapanda
Member
I finally didn't get hit with that stupid humbled servers screen.
Now I'm onto the next boss fight, the Gyarados screen.
Edit: Won that battle too!
Now I'm onto the next boss fight, the Gyarados screen.
Edit: Won that battle too!
Finale Fireworker
Member
When Pokémon GO doesn't work, I wish I was never born.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Where you at? Just got the same alert in Chandler, AZ.
FleetingFlowAir
Member
Managed to hatch my 2 km egg and got a Bulbasaur. Worth the repeated attempts at connecting.
panthapanda
Member
I don't know about you guys, but I sort of have this habit in the regular Pokémon games where I use strictly regular PokeBalls and Premier Balls (mostly Premier because they're cooler) and I find myself doing the same thing in Pokémon Go.
Maybe I just enjoy suffering...
Edit: 4 hrs left and I'm still holding 3 gyms. Been holding those gyms from 2 days now. Surprising. 3 more gyms and I can get a bag upgrade!
Maybe I just enjoy suffering...
Edit: 4 hrs left and I'm still holding 3 gyms. Been holding those gyms from 2 days now. Surprising. 3 more gyms and I can get a bag upgrade!
MisterHero
Super Member
I think catchability depends on CP. But that doesn't explain why low CP mons get harder to catch later on...
lmao
Doctor West
Member
They'll let you tweet when they launch in a new country.
Maybe because it's getting later for some time zones. I feel like the nocturnal fanbase of going out at midnight-2 am grew out of the original bad servers from the beginning, when the nighttime would be the only stable time.
Pilgrimzero
Member
I can't even get passed the log in. This is my prime hunting time! Argh!
Fox Mulder
Member
It has to be turning people away. Shame theyre killing it.
At least we'll all have memories for a magical social app that captivated the world for a few days in the summer of '16.
psynergylover
Member
I guess I'll just hatch some eggs.....
panthapanda
Member
LMAO. I was scared to attempting catching Pokémon but I gave it a chance. Clicked on one and saw nothing but black. I was scared but then I realized that my AR was on. So used to having it off.
Geminosity
Member
Not to jynx it but US and EU peeps using google logins should be able to get in and play now I think
PSFan
Member
20 million people is hardly the whole "world". It's only a small fraction of the world's population.
There is no japanese launch today, it was all bullshit.
Icyflamez96
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SoCal
Doctor West
Member
I'm the same way when I first get back in. I'm hesistant to do anything unless a really awesome Pokemon pops up. I don't want to freeze myself out of the app over a 156 Venonat.
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