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As someone who played a lot of Ingress: I _really_ wish a competent company would enter the AR market!

Yes, Niantic had success with Ingress amd PoGo but literally everything they ever did they did in the most stupid and brain-dead way.

I would still play Ingress today but after 3 years I am beyond frustrated with that company and lost any drive to invest any more time and energy.

What makes me sad is the fact that Ingress still has so much untapped potential but at the same time I know that Niantic is unable to do anything with that potential.

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I wish Niantic would realize they suck at making games, but have a treasure of data. They could license that data to more creative game devs and everyone would benefit... They could be a platform instead of a game company.

And the same could be said of PoGo.

Every since the last patch there has been a bug where if person A of one team takes down a gym and puts in a pokemon, person B of the same team has to wait half an hour before they can put in their pokemon, getting a "The gym is under attack!" error message before those ~30 minutes. The one core gameplay feature, taking down gyms together with one or more friends, has been broken for almost two weeks. The incompetence is staggering.

There are workarounds (everyone have to insert their pokemon at the exact same time), but that's besides the point.

I agree that's very annoying, but it's:

A) Only 5 or 10 minutes, definitely not 30

B) If both/all team members are present in the fight, they all have "claim" to the gym afterwards, and this works. I've tested both cases.

I don't know about A, I just know it's far too long to just hang around and wait, but regarding B: I'm certain that when my brother and I have taken over a gym together, both present in the fight, and one have put in a pokemon before the other, the other can't insert a pokemon because "The gym is under attack".

Ok, I specifically tested this with my wife the other day, and it worked. But the game has seen a fair share of bugs, so I can't say I'm surprised.

Agreed, Niantic makes horrible software. PoekmonGo is still after a year of updates very unstable and absolutely devastating on your battery

Google Maps also burns through battery at a crazy rate. Seems like phone GPS usage is just power intensive.

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