Niantic Labs held a Pok\u00e9mon GO anniversary event, called Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest, in Chicago this past weekend, which did not go as planned.<\/p>\n
Technical problems plagued the event, with players unable to connect to the game\u2019s servers and participate.<\/p>\n
Niantic\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>it\u00a0encountered software and network problems which prevented many people from connecting to the game.<\/p>\n It said issues with the game software caused client crashes and interfered with gameplay for users. The gameplay issue was resolved with a server configuration change, and the crashes were addressed for many users.<\/p>\n \u201cA more protracted problem was caused by oversaturation of the mobile data networks of some network providers,\u201d said Niantic.<\/p>\n \u201cThis caused many attendees to be unable to access Pok\u00e9mon GO or other Internet services. Network congestion also led to a login issue which affected some users. This latency-related login issue was addressed with a second Niantic configuration change.\u201d<\/p>\n Niantic said its event partner worked with the major carriers to allow them to plan for coverage and throughput requirements, with certain carriers deploying additional capacity.<\/p>\n \u201cWi-Fi was enabled by one provider as a solution which helped some users, but not all. Sprint was onsite as an official partner, deployed a COW, and their network was busy, but held up well.\u201d<\/p>\n Niantic said it made a number of adjustments to the event plan, and offered refund tickets to those who requested them. It also gave all attendees $100 in\u00a0Pok\u00e9Coins.<\/p>\n Niantic said that from late Saturday to Sunday, players in Chicago participated in over 69,000 Raid Battles and captured more than 7.7 million Pok\u00e9mon \u2013 including 440,000 Legendary Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n Niantic Labs held a Pok\u00e9mon GO anniversary event, called Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest, in Chicago this past weekend, which did not go as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":100066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[24833,24831,20314],"class_list":["post-119359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-chicago","tag-fesstival","tag-pokemon-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Watch: Hundreds of Pok\u00e9mon GO players stampede park for rare catch<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"