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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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It's now impossible to find Pokemon in small towns. It used to be before I could walk around town with a few friends for a day and find a few rare Pokemon and catch a lot of common Pokemon as well. After the 3 step glitch though it became a lot harder to find Pokemon. I went out with friends a few more times but we could never find anything, if we got really lucky we could find something good but mostly it was drowzees pidgeys and the occasional Jynx. So our strategy after that? We'd go to the one place in town with multiple pokestops, you could reach 3 of them from standing in one place so we'd stand there with all 3 lured up and check pokevision for rare Pokemon. It became a lot more boring but at least we still had fun and levelled up easily. Now I'm just sitting on a street with lures. So much fun, so interesting. There's no Pokemon hunt anymore, I spend my day evolving my 100 pidgeys and 50 drowzees.
