To the surprise of
absolutely no one, The Pokémon Company and Niantic's Pokémon Go has so far been
a runaway success, with smartphone owners downloading the free-to-play hit in
their droves. This overwhelming popularity seems to have had an unwanted knock-on
effect however, as the game's servers seem to have struggled to contain the
vast quantities of budding Pokémon trainers.
The
augmented reality-take on Nintendo's popular catch-em-all RPG has been offline
several times over the course of its staggered global launch, with players
greeted with the following message when logging in with either a Google or
Pokémon Trainer Club account: "Our servers are experiencing issues. Please
come back later."
Users
wondering if the game is offline can now check via a (unofficial) website
called 'Pokémon Go Server Status', which you can find here.
At the time of writing the game is "Offline! (or very unstable)"
based on player feedback.
Currently Pokémon Go is only officially
available in Australia, New Zealand and parts of North America, with
Niantic stating that the GPS-powered app will be available for iPhone, iPad and
Android devices "soon" in Canada, Europe and South America. The game
is free to download from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, however
there are in-app purchases within that app that range from £0.79 to £79.99 in the upcoming
UK release.
Despite the limited roll-out, eager fans in other regions have
been downloading the game from
third-party app stores to
get their hands on the game early. Whether or not this is effecting the
stability of the game's servers is hard to tell, although it is more likely
down to the sheer number of players logging-in, especially considering the game
sits at the top of most of the download charts in the official release regions.
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Source: IBT
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