Important facts:
Fact 1 - I went to the open letter page and did a search for “bandwidth” and nothing came up, which leads me to conclude that Pokevision’s creator did not consider that their connection to the Pokemon Go servers was absolutely killing Niantic’s bandwidth budget.

This is part of what I’ve been telling everyone. It’s the increased server load and the fact that the developer comments I’ve seen is that it’s logging in as a user to get the data and that may very well be against the API’s ToS. That, or, there’s a rate limit that was being exceeded. I’d say that 50M unique visitors…

They couldn’t turn a blind eye.

So over half the user base was using an API that, in theory, doubled or more the amount of server resources and calls to Google Map (which costs Niantic money). Remember, it didn’t just note that stuff for you, it called for everything it could in your area then uploaded it to a database.
And yeah, if Niantic hadn’t…

They didn’t close the third part sites just because difference of opinion. First it’s against their terms and services, but the most important it’s because it gets in the way of the servers. Even MMO Server Status confirmed that already. So while a bunch of people was having fun using those sites the rest of the…

It’s not like they blocked off the Brooklyn Bridge so a few people could grab some Dratinis. The Düssel is not a huge river, and there are a shitload of crossings,

The servers likely spawn pokémon based on some sort of base algorithm that would become considerably more complex if it were to take into consideration each restricted/inaccessible/unsafe area in the world.

You can’t interrupt Düsseldorf’s traffic with people on the streets. All you need is beer o’clock and a single sunray to fill the place with meat bags.

Roads are frequently shut down in Germany for use in fairs, seasonal markets, and festivals. There are also a crapload of crossings in Dusseldorf, the river is much smaller than something like the Ohio or Mississippi. It’s unlikely this cost the municipality anything significant in the way of time or resources, and…

You forgot the ‘ : ‘ in Düsseldorf, mate.

Should of went with

As much as I dislike the art style, that’s not the main thing that’s going to keep me from buying the game. It’s also not just the fact that it is nowhere near the metroid handheld experience I wanted (still waiting for that Fusion sequel) but one simple reason: it’s Multiplayer. The last time Nintendo did 3ds…

The future!

Oh wow, viewing that 3D screenshot on a phone let’s you look around by moving your phone. When did that become a thing? o.o

I think it’s probably less a case of stemming piracy and more a case of trying to stop malware infected versions of the game from spreading too far. Since that has been somewhat of a problem: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/07/11/how…

The pokestops are added from their other game Ingress from what I understand, so it’s not something they manually did. They used what was built from the functionality of Ingress and mapped Pokemon GO over the top of it.

I see it the same as you. One sentence like “Vulkan is a open api that can be used by every graphics card manufacturare to increase performance and compatibility.” or something like that would clear everything up.

There is actually a really simple explanation for this. Poke-Stops and Gyms are actually Portals from Niantic’s other game, Ingress.