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Title: Pokémon Go Fest 2018 made up for last year's disastrous debut Post by: HCK on July 19, 2018, 04:05:14 pm Pokémon Go Fest 2018 made up for last year's disastrous debut
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Last July, Niantic kicked off the first-ever Pokémon Go Fest in Chicago’s Grant Park—and things quickly spiraled out of control (https://www.macworld.com/article/3210484/gaming/pokemon-go-fest-could-have-been-great-instead-it-was-a-disaster.html). Both cellular networks and the game's servers struggled to keep up with the intense demand of 20,000 attendees bunched up and frantically refreshing their phones, and Pokémon Go was nigh-unusable for most of the day.</p><p>In the end, Niantic refunded ticket costs, provided $100 worth of in-game coins to attendees, and then later agreed to a $1.575 million class action settlement to reimburse travel expenses.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3290279/software-games/pokemon-go-fest-2018-made-up-for-last-years-disastrous-debut.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Pokémon Go Fest 2018 made up for last year's disastrous debut (https://www.macworld.com/article/3290279/software-games/pokemon-go-fest-2018-made-up-for-last-years-disastrous-debut.html#tk.rss_all) |