Comment on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
It blows my mind people still play this game. It was great, in 2017.
It was great, in 2017
It hasn’t stopped being great.
We need better safe guards and checks so that some person can’t just delete France.
The map is updated millions of times per day. There are checks in place, but sometimes one is missed especially if it’s a minor contribution such as “this street has a bus stop”. Deleting France, yeah someone would notice that change and prevent it from taking place.
“I stopped liking this thing, why doesn’t everyone else agree with me?!?!”
They never really dealt with the games biggest issue though and that was the massive battery drain. Once they hype died down it was just a way to kill my phone faster when I’m out and about and will more likely need it before I can charge it again.
What’s France? All I see on the map is Spain, Germany, and Belgium.
What’s France?
“Wester Germany”
More pokemon makes the game objectively better, especially if you care about newer generations for any reason at all
and even if the game hasn’t evolved much, a cute game that encourages me and my partner to go on more walks together is a net positive in my life lol
It’s a game where you walk around and catch pokemon… why where there suddenly cease to be demand for that the premise is great. Not my thing but I get why people are into it.
Let’s be real, it was mid even back then.
Hard disagree. It got me walking around and exploring my town. It got me in contact with other Pokemon fans. It’s added an extra layer of reality on top of everywhere I go - vacations become rare opportunities for indiginous species hunting, which in turn become valuable trade offers.
Exercise is now a game, and I would otherwise be in front of a PC screen.
orgrinrt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Now hold on a moment, I think we need to at least discuss this whole removing France thing further…
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
It would be easy to accidentally wipe some other country instead of France. That’s why we need to verify data
orgrinrt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can now see the importance of safeguards!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yeah we need backup systems that automatically wipe out France