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But- but! Players agreed to the terms!!!
- Niantic
I feel like, if they were being thorough, they would’ve mentioned the game that came out before PoGo, Ingress, that populated most of the initial points of interest.
Sure, but nobody knows what “an ingress” is but almost everyone has heard of Pokemon. I’d also assume the size of the player base is not comparable.
Not by a long shot even at Ingress’ peak.
Still, I think the location scanning isn’t as valuable as the pathing data they’ve been collecting. Besides, Google Maps has images of the majority of these scans anyway. But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths.
But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for
routing delivery pathscorralling civil unrest.FTFY. Crowd control.
Google maps has images of streets, they don’t have images of the middle of a park or the middle of a Hospital lobby.
Is there any source for this besides a jpeg?
I’m not going to trust news from a Textured Vegetable Protein site.
Technology under capitalism, in one paragraph.
As someone whose SO played the game for years and as a result has a friend group who also played it.
Fun fact: it’s not worth as much as they think it is.
Fucking no one does the scanning quests. You get one and let it sit there unfinished because they take too long too do.
We often advise not to do scan research in our local community bc in addition to how long it takes, the next research task you get will always be to scan another POI, and if anything has physically changed about the POI the chances are high it’ll be removed from the game.
As someone who stopped playing 2 months after release, what are scanning tasks?
When you get a field research task to scan a specified stop, they want you to go to that POI, select its stop in game and use one of the corner buttons on the disk spin screen to open your camera and slowly do a 360 walk around it with the POI in frame. You then have to upload the scan. This video outlines the process pretty well https://youtu.be/zL1dCwnd7Fc
Just learned these shouldn’t appear until you hit At least lvl 37
Oh joy, and here I thought that this was going to be about how they’re more perceptive of their own environment or that kind of thing, you know, something cool, something positive, but that’s what I get for not reading the community this is posted from first ;___;
Ender’sKetchum’s GameOh how I wish the West had not Pokémon Gone down the root of military-industrial fascism…
So many military drones bombing parks and malls in the suburbs.
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