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Nintendo Stock Price Up 9% After Pokemon Go Launch (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Following the release of the location-based mobile game Pokemon Go, Nintendo's stock is up 9 percent on the Tokyo Exchange. VentureBeat reports: "The iOS and Android app debuted Wednesday evening in the United States, and it has fans outside walking around looking for digital creatures to catch on a GPS-powered world map. The free download shot to No. 1 on the top-grossing chart in less than a day. With that level of demand, developer Niantic is having trouble keeping its servers up, and players are complaining about outages and connection issues. It comes from The Pokemon Company International, which is a separate entity that Nintendo only owns one-third of in partnership with Pokemon developers Creature Inc. and Game Freak. Having even just a piece of the Pokemon Go party should mean significant revenue for Nintendo, but this also keeps the brand relevant."
Sadly, I never leave my house, so all I can capture is MissingNo.
Nah it's the game servers. I've been booted multiple times after successful login with my Google account. Sometimes you can even get into the game but it won't connect long enough to download the pokestop information and will just keep on trying to connect.
Its the Darwin award in action.
They'll handle it the way they have with Ingress the past 3 years. This isn't Niantic's first game, and all the shit in pokemon go is based on locations in Ingress.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
Yeah, Niantic may need to implement the speedlock/sandbox they have with Ingress, especially since several interactions require even more attention than "tap, hack". I can confidently hack portals in Ingress while driving (under 35 mph) with no fear of losing control. Needing to spin a pic at a Pokestop is slightly more involved. Needing to toss Pokeballs or battle at a gym is *way* too involved to do while driving...
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." --H.L. Mencken
The speed bubble is ~35 mph, with a 30 minute timeout. That being said, I've been on flights with wifi, locked into the departing airport, and it's taken an hour or more to get out of the sandbox. Sucked transferring at DIA to BWI and driving home. Jitter really shouldn't play into it for more than a couple of minutes with close portals. Cell tower drift, on the other hand, while helping with Trekker, can screw you on a desk portal for a while (I've drifted 10s of km away sometimes).
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." --H.L. Mencken
Maybe this will finally convert those heathen millennials.
(Score: -1, Stupid)