First of all, calculating distance between two points on Earth doesn’t require you to use Google Maps API, it’s pretty simple calculation, so I’m sure it’s not the issue. They removed footprints to reduce number of calls to their own API, since the server was overloaded. Unfortunately, disabling footprints caused…

[...]why the fuck did you pick to live somewhere rural?!

I never used Pokévision. However, I won’t deny that the game became less interesting once the built-in tracker stopped working. I tracked down my first—and only—geodude using it. It’s only fun to catch whatever pops up after the first few days of playing. Now, that itch to catch’em all has me scouring the internet for…

Surprise, Az, United States. Literally half of my city is a retirement home. Sun city ever heard? It was fun when the three steps worked. Hell it was even fun for a couple days after it didn’t. But don’t rope the users who used a app so they wouldn’t have to walk miles in the Sun to find a god damned Drowzy in with…

My daughter and I would sit at the computer using PokéVision. We would check various parks, museums and other locations to see what spawned there.

If it gave me an arrow and even a warm or cold, I would be happy. In fact I think that would be an amazing improvement. The current systems doesn’t work, the near by feature can show a Pokemon that might not even be near by. You could be hunting a red haring.

You are correct, customers aren't always right, but developers aren't always right either. And this seems to lean towards the latter.

I doubt that the traffic generated by Pokevision alone would have been a problem. The bigger issue is the traffic that is generated by all different scanners and bots combined. Pokevision didn’t stop because Niantic wanted Pokevision to be gone specifically, but because they made some changes to their API and servers…

honestly even with ads they were probably still losing money. 50 million unique visitors isn’t cheap. That’s a lot of bandwidth and requests.

I was using it because it takes longer to open the app to check if there’s anything in my office/work than it did to run the browser to see first.

In your situation . . . shit. I can’t PM on here. But look into other Pokemon trackers. Some of the big names are gone, but I have one on my phone right now that still works. Keep looking, and good luck!

It’s unique visitors, so it could be repeat people on different devices/ip addresses.

You are bad at both math and reading comprehension

Ideally, I’d like to open the ‘nearby pokemon’ tab, select one, and be given an arrow or cone in the general direction of it. The distance to target from the announcement trailer would be a bonus.

Mobile games are ultimately driven by metrics. DAU, MAU, ARPU, minutes played per day, number of times played per day, etc.

serving millions of page views to millions of daily users isnt cheap, they were probably spending easily hundreds of dollars a day for infrastructure to support all of those users

I think you're looking at different numbers then.

I’m disabled. Not having a tracker means that I can’t really play the game in a manner that’s feasible and fun. The three step system was fine and when it stopped working, I stopped playing, until I found Poke vision. Since it was shut down, I haven’t touched it. I simply cannot walk aimlessly for miles to run down…

I don’t think Pokevision should have been allowed to continue operating in the long-term...but I think Niantic/Nintendo ABSOLUTELY should have turned a blind eye to the app until they fixed the functionality in their own goddamn game. I am 100% behind the developer of the app on this one.

Maybe if Pokévision didn’t have ads, which no doubt generated its owners some money, then maybe Niantic wouldn’t have a problem with it?