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7/31/2016 5:25:20 PM
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Niantic shuts down Third Party programs instead of fixing their own.

So, it's been a couple weeks since the infamous "Three Step Glitch" surfaced. This glitch made it nigh impossible for people to catch pokémon, so people began turning to third party sources such as "Pokévision." Recently, Niantic expressed their distaste for sites akin to Pokévision (even stating directly that they disapprove of pokévision). Soon after the interview released, the sites that they disliked went down. Not that this was unusual, but they never went back up. All this does is show where Niantic's head is. They don't care about you. They prioritized a deleting a medium which people utilized to make catching pokémon even feasible while they fixed their broken application. So, instead of fixing their system, they remove the system entirely and shut down third party sites that assisted with finding pokémon. Yes, it can be argued that these sites are "cheating" or that they "go against their ToS." I'm not refuting either of these things. The point here is that Niantic has deliberately ignored and spat on it's community by taking this course of actions. Pokévision alone had more than 1/5 of the Pokémon go population on the site within the FIRST FEW DAYS, so it isn't as if this will only affect a select few players. It's almost insulting that they care so little about their game and fanbase.

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  • I never used Pokevision because it needed a laptop to use and it just seemed like a chore to use it. That being said with as -blam!-ed up as the tracking is in the actual game it was the best option. Now with the site down and the tracking essentially shut off in the game there isn't a reliable tracking for anyone which is really stupid. Niantic should have fixed their shit before shutting down something the community created to fix a broken system.

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