Saturday, May 06, 2017

When moronicity strikes back

The weekend event turned out to include six hour lures as well. So all is fine and well.

Almost.

Very recently Niantic took action against bots in a not so very well designed way.

Fast forward to today. Twenty degrees celcius, a Saturday in the sun, and Pokemon Go players gathering in parks with high pokestop density.

It took until late afternoon before the first complaints about softbans were heard, and those complaints are from players who belong to a community where this kind of information is passed along.

Families and other casual players don't. After a sunny day with lures everywhere they suddenly run into the game suddenly ceasing to function.

This is when moronicity strikes back.

Niantic produces games. It's depressingly obvious that they don't understand how gamers work.

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