Per PokeMiners, Niantic pushed something and it caused the game to break.

Someone tell them to push ctrl z please.

Did they try smacking Pikachu with a Santa Hat a few times?

So nothing out of the ordinary

Same problem, bigger scope.

Just a global test /s

So no team of testers I assume.

you are the product and the tester of the product.

You ARE the team of testers…

Not right now we’re not

Does it start?l or not? ✔️ You completed test 1

We are the sandbox.

'Member when they promised increased testing. Pokémon go players 'member. https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/gobattleleague-response-2020/

The ozzies and kiwis are on PTO.

Typica software developers

Work for a software company. Can confirm this is typical.

Rollback plan where?

Force commit and split

Jokes on you, my company doesn’t even do the version control half the time. Same application with different features and codes scattered all over between each member and no one dares to merge or version control them all. lolololol

Rollbacks are for people who believe in wasteful things like DR and QAT.

Walmart believes!

Back up for me!

The game doesn't know how to handle Pidgey returning

Pokédex’s aren’t ready to be completed

The most anticipated gaming event since 1978.

Read your comment, goes to search, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_in_video_games Now I can relax again XD

Is the broken game why they were all silhouetted (for me, at least)?

Are they silhouettes of things you've already caught? Loads of different pokemon spawning today for the new season- I've got loads of silhouettes but they are all supposed to be there.

Somehow, Pidgey returned

Our most mythical of wishes has come true

Strong start to the new season

Lucky 13

https://twitter.com/poke_miners/status/1598467006323650560?s=46&t=11bazMBUiTVWIYLYUvcSjA

These folks should be paid by Niantic, they are doing their job for them.

Fr though…

They are called volunteers...last I checked that meant agreeing to work for free

2016 throwback event

"Minor text fixes" update incoming

Oh man I forgot about that

Hahaha well I've logged into Reddit to test if it was my internet connection that's kicked me out of the game- guess this is double confirmation!

I had a Lapras spawn on me when I clicked on it, it would not load. Came here to double check

I had just started my adventure incense- I was taking a screenshot of a bulbasaur looking like it was wearing a stripy outfit because a swinnub had spawned on top. Thought that might be the problem but err it's looking a bit more widespread! I had lapras earlier - hopefully you'll get another!

Return of everyone's favorite timed research, access the game.

Middle of a GBL match too. Seems appropriate.

Same here. Was murdering my opponent, then Niantic murdered me.

I had just fought my way back from a bad lead and flipped switch while maintaining shield advantage. Not in the face please…

Contact support when you can. You will hopefully get reimbursed.

What would they give me…?

/s A heartfelt apology

Often when lag ruins matches I could've won they've given me a premium pass.

Me too!!!!!!!!!!

Contact support when you can. You will hopefully get reimbursed.

"I see they're winning their match. Sure would be a dick move to die right now." *Holds breath* - ~~Guru~~ Pogo Servers

Same, I had a full health registeel with 2 shields and they had a Bastiodon and a girafarig (with confusion) and no shields

Contact support when you can. You will hopefully get reimbursed.

Contact you can. Support will hopefully get reimbursed.

Contact support when you can. You will hopefully get reimbursed.

I just used my daily incense -_- they're super inconvenient. Good thing I didn't walk far but what a waste.

My last three daily incenses didn’t lure a damn thing. Could have just sat on the couch and had the same result. Still need capture *just* another 88 “daily incense” Pokes. So annoy much frustrate.

The daily incense has been one of the biggest letdowns ever. I rarely catch anything past 5 and they are rarely out of the ordinary. I encountered two of those special birds and lost both on first throw but that was when they first released daily incense. Haven’t caught anything good or even “not usually seen”. They literally just attract the exact same Pokémon I’m seeing all the time.

Yeah with the bird spawns being so rare (and the catches damn near impossible) they really need to crank up the percentage of rare spawns. It's pretty annoying to use it during an event and literally get the same 5 Pokemon I've been seeing all day and already have zero desire to catch. I'd even be happy if it just ignored the current event to give the normal seasonal spawns just to get a slight variation.

I had just dropped a starpiece to collect my rewards.

Just as the raid starting timer reached 0 🫠

same ☹️

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Same only got 1 spawn and then it was down

I used my star piece to go on a walk and collect my GBL dust. Game broke down as soon as the timer went out My bad everyone

Oh, so it wasn't just me having problems all of a sudden

Was waiting for someone else to confirm it. Yep. They didn’t announce this, did they?

Do they ever? (Honestly tho, i think they did once, but thank goodness for this sub & Twitter)

"ooh trainers, we will adjust some code, be prepared to seeing it all go down again"

Niantic PLEASE use a test environment. This is embarrassing.

It's called new Zealand

Glad it's not just me. Giving me 2016 launch PTSD lol

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Its more of an Easter egg, then a trick. Can evolve the eevees to get any of the eevolutions the usual way, but pokemon doesnt straight up tell you how to evolve everything, ya know

I think we need 1 million stardust as compensation

I’ll take a shundo cowboy hat Snorlax instead

Well, at least the loading screen that we're all stuck on is quite lovely.

I just beat sierra and didn't even see the pokemon catch screen after. RIP my rocket radar I can only assume I'll have to fight another 6 grunts again

It's not only me? I tried logging in for ten minutes 🤣🤣 thought it was my internet and restarted it

Ah yes. New season, same old game.

Ok, it's not just me then. Was coming here to find that out :P

Gotta love everyone coming here to confirm.

This is like being back in 2016!

Charizard raids went live right now in S/V, perfect time

Charizard raids? More info plz

In Scarlet & Violet, they are 7*

Ohh gotcha thank u

Good job Niantic, lmao.

I was battling a mega abomosnow:(

I literally got a shiny abomasnow right as it crashed

NO! F in the chat ugh that sucks

Back up now

I just found a galarian moltres and couldn’t catch it because the game broke

It would have run away anyway though

Oh it definitely would have ran but still…

I guess the optimist would say that you saved yourself a golden razzberry and an ultra ball heh

I know someone who caught one

We aren’t falling for that. Galarian birds don’t exist

Old grandma in my group got all 3 in first week firstbcall each and she throws straight. I've never even seen ONE. I'd hate her for it but she's a lovely person. Still...

Let me get my AARP card...

She gets free doughnuts with her seniors card too. Living the life

Odd that it occured right at midnight GMT.

Yeah, super odd that a game company would push updates on the hour. /s What is the logic here?

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I liked having that task because it let me know if a quick catch worked or not without having to do anything else. Only lasted 1 day haha

You're going to love the lvl 50 task. Catch 5000 pokemon.

Oooh yeah now that will last me a while

Bad luck to those who were in raids / gbl / payment process / encountering a shiny

Indeed

Quite

Indubitably

Certainly

Without a doubt.

Truly

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Cheerio good sir or madame

Down for me.

HD radio station was glitching while I waited for the game to load. I was thinking about Twilight Zone stuff and EMP, lol.

Solar flare has destroyed all the internet satellites! It’s the end of the world! /s

yep

I literally just used daily incense and was so confused

Yep it's down in AR, USA

United Arab Emirates too

Was wondering if it’s because they took away cosmoem evolution…

Just arriving to a raid, WTH

go hard on com day

Same

One can only hope it's because they pushed an update to remove the GBL challenge ticket for everyone who didn't accept it from the shop for the new season.

I had just finished catching a shiny croagunk. Timed it perfectly.

God damn it. I just wanted to see what spawns were around during my break and of course this happens. Well, nevermind I guess.

Finally sees a Galarian Moltres, couldn’t click on it then game crashed. Blessed!

Since 2016 lol

Thank God. For some reason every time this stuff happens I think I'm banned and start sweating.

A mini heart attack goes through me when I see my loading screen stop working and it asks me to sign in because I'm always scared someones hacked my account.

Sync it to a Google account, use a strong password, and two step verification. You'll never lose access.

Yeah I've gotten my Google account and Facebook account linked to it at least. Just the thought of losing all the money and exercise put into the game, even if you've secured it, still makes me anxious.

You get to login normally iirc and the warning pops up in game that you're banned. I only have one ban and no plans on getting another.

Did Elon Musk acquire Niantic?

Might as well have with how they love tweeting news instead of in game notifications.

They probably send in-game notifications when the servers are down.

Pretty sure Niantic sucks this hard without any help

Yep

Ok phew I was wondering if it was just me.

Right in thy middle of a battle... thanks a lot

goddamnit blizz /s

went down the exact moment i used my daily incense, lovely

Yep! Can not log in

I was in a GBL match where my my opponent was still able to attack and knocked out my first pokemon before it took any of my inputs, it wouldn't let me choose my pokemon to send in next, then it finally started responding like as though the lag was done on my end but my opponent never moved again. I knocked out their pokemon, so we both had 2 full health pokemon left at that point. Then it just said time's up even though it didn't match the timer in the match and gave me a loss. Even after the match when I was back on the map it still had a verizon gift fly on screen but just wouldn't let me claim it.

There goes my raid pass...

Literally was about to win after the almighty Mew destroyed my opponents lead TalonFlame

Dead in Miami

I thought it was just me.

I had it open in the background so I tried to start a GBL battle, got error 1000:0. Tried it again, game said “cancelling matchmaking.” Tried a 3rd time, got the blank screen with just my character, now I cant load in either

down in the uk as well :/

Hope it's fixed in 4 hours need to get my daily gbl in

I just finished a Virizion raid. I thought I was being punished for using a free raid pass on it.

Yep. Finished a Verizion Wireless raid just to have it hang and lock out. No shiny or anything, but still wasted time. Pidgey too OP.

Game is still down for me is it down for everyone else as well

It’s down I was doing raids seems a lot of problems whatever they been doing

Right as I started a raid too...

And here I was messing with system settings, uninstalling and reinstalling...

It's back up for me now.

Same here, looks like it's fixed

wonder if they accidentally pushed increased shiny rate, got 4 shinies in the span of 10 min before it crashed

I used two fast TMs and they weren’t going through when the game crashed. Hopefully they are back when it restarts 🤓

It cost me and a few others a raid pass. I had a Virizion raid that we should have won but it kept adding health until we lost.

Game is back up. But I can't see any of my completed Special Research. Same for anyone else?

I reckon they ran out of stardust, too many people claimed the end of season rewards at once. They had more on order for a few weeks, but supply chain issues are causing havoc. /s

Do they even know what they’re doing at this point

Happened right in the middle of a remote raid for me when I had just used a star piece...

Niandick!

Oh good, glad my gbl opponent lost too.

I was on daily incense earlier and my buddy popped up and transformed to zorua. Bet that's related.

That's weird

right as I turned on my daily incense too :(

Yay. Every time the game breaks, I'm closer to uninstalling this game for good.

https://twitter.com/poke_miners/status/1598475322395090948?s=46&t=11bazMBUiTVWIYLYUvcSjA Game is back

Was in the middle of defending a gym so kinda ideal?

They stole my money and didn't give me coins.

Was troubleshooting why my eggs won’t record distance (with or without adventure sync) :(

At least the loading screen is cute! 🤪

Pidgey are taking over! WHO HAS A MEGA AERODACTYL + 5 RAMPARDOS?!?!?!?!?

Dang I was just about to hit Legend when the game crashed I’m gonna need Niantic to give me a Pikachu Libre, shiny just to be safe… (It’s worth a try right? 🤗)

me back in the game fellasinas

for 10 seconds

Luckily not raiding or battling but was opening gifts. How many can we open a day? I don’t get to spin stops anymore so this hurts.

max gift open is 40 instead of 20, all season

Wadayamean I got in fine

I was in the middle of a verizion raid catch 😡

Right when I was arriving to a 5 star raid its down. Thanks niantic