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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Edited by DirtyRandy: 7/31/2016 9:55:36 PMThis angers me as well. For someone living in a big city, where lots of people play the game, this might not be a huge problem. The game spawns Pokemon based on the amount of regular players in the area. This sucks though for people like me living in a medium to smaller size city or even town where not much ever spawn. Also not many people know this, but the reason the "3 Step Glitch" happened in the first place was due to the server not being able to handle everyone all at the same time. I'm not frustrated with the 3 footsteps being gone, as they did nothing at all. I'm pissed that they completely made it impossible to locate or find anything accurately with the removal of the third party sites. Also RIP PoGo's servers August 1st... Update Notes: [spoiler]So far the little updates I have noticed that are good and bad are: -Curveballs more curvy -Battle Screen and Catching more smooth -Character Customization -A few less bugs -Pokeballs look a little different -Some pokestops and gyms are gone, along with nearby nests... If you have anymore I'll add them[/spoiler]