The game was never about random chance. The footstep tracker was a feature in the game to tell players where to find pokemon. Since that feature was broken (now removed), third party sites essentially fixed that broken aspect of the game.

Totally agree. When I put in the 50 or so pokemon I DON’T have into pokevision, I would sometimes see 1-2 of them in my city (Cleveland). Sometimes none. Now, with no way to track them, there’s essentially no way to “catch them all” without spending my whole life playing this game and getting absurdly lucky. No…

Through Niantic's catastrophic lack of communication, we currently don't know if the nearby feature will ever be fixed. We're only assuming that they'll fix or replace it.

that doesn’t mean it’s fixed, it means probably they know it’s bugged and have removed it until it’s fixed

They fixed the footprint thing by removing the feature.

“Pokevision made the game fun”

I’ve never even used those apps/sites for tracking sooooo.....I agree though they have to fix the footprint thing ASAP

I live in a rural area. Finding any Pokémon to begin with is a chore.

Pokevision made the game fun. I could actually track and hunt down desirable mon instead of waiting through a sea of pidgeys.

So no in-game tracking OR tracking websites. What the flying fuck?