That's some massive balls. I'll go this year if I can get tickets this time. Last year's sold out crazy fast.
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Niantic are trying again - Pokémon GO Fest to hit Chicago on July 14th/15th
- Thread starter Serebii
- Start date
Jontron is a racist, talking about non-caucasian immigrants diluting America's gene-pool and shit. Full on Nazi rethoric. Kind of surprised there are still people who missed this.
Good. Can't wait to see how they screw up this time. I noped the hell out of Pokemon Go in less than a day, buggy mess. But I love what it accomplished.
Lincoln Park is pretty far away from downtown so hopefully all the L lines will be okay. (Except the red line RIP)
Also only a mile from my apartment so I might walk down and see the mess second-hand.
I assumed because you post pictures of him you know about him. He's a popular youtuber and when it turned out he's a racist it blew up on forums. I'm not saying you had to know, I was just assuming you did. All good.
I see... I guess it's a local issue then, since I haven't seen anyone play the game here since at least 2016. But to be fair, people here were never as into it as people in the US were (judging by various reports)
Way to derail the thread.
Next time stick to PM if you want to say something to a member.
IGN has an interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about what they learned from last year's event and how this year is going to be different. To summarize:
- change of venue; Lincoln Park is a lot larger than Grant Park and there will be some kind of walking route intended to get people moving around the park; partially this is to spread network traffic across a larger geographical area
- much closer coordination with cellular providers, based on lessons Niantic picked up from subsequent events in Japan and Europe
- taking a cue from last year's semi-spontaneous post-event festivities and building in the possibility of expanding event spawns outside the Lincoln Park area, both as a spillover mechanism and just as part of the event/post-event stuff (last year, after the official event ended, Niantic turned on extra spawns and I think Lugia raids across the city, and people who seemed disappointed by the main event said the after-event stuff was a lot more fun)
I and the person I talked with were the only ones so far talking about it, 2 messages each (me actually 3). How is that a derail? But yeah, you're right, PM would have been better.
There is no way those towers can handle that traffic........ok, Tmobile by now is probably ready due to the fact they can allow more bandwidth per user compared to the other companies.....but holy shit, last year was a SHIT show. My buddy said it was one of the worst events he went to.
Hopefully they figured it out by now........but they have even more systems in play compared to last year. Lets see if it holds.
Hopefully they figured it out by now........but they have even more systems in play compared to last year. Lets see if it holds.
See you folks in Chicago, this is a great time of year to visit.
Sounds familiar.
That was two years ago. Pokemon GO has something like 65 MAU now.
Sounds familiar.
Michael Pachter said:
That was two years ago. Pokemon GO has something like 65 MAU now.
Seems like about 4 people out of 15-20 in my local discord who tried to get them were able to get them. I lucked out, but they screwed up again this year. They said they were going to tie tickets to usernames, which is true. HOWEVER, you don't input that until two weeks later, meaning you could relatively easily resell your tickets. So it basically did nothing to stop scalping.
IT will either be a respunding success due to how much planning they put it
Or somehow another complete failure. Damn it was painful to watch last time
Or somehow another complete failure. Damn it was painful to watch last time
Missed out on tickets even though my wife and i were both on the site the moment they went live. I just wanted to take my son.