Niantic has taken to their official blog to address the reason why they decided to block third-party trackers for Pokemon GO. The company says that they removed them because they took up server resources and also hindered the game’s rollout. Here’s what they had to say. “As some of you may have noticed we recently rolled out Pokemon GO to Latin America including Brazil. We were very excited to finally be able to take this step. We were delayed in doing that due to aggressive efforts by third parties to access our servers outside of the Pokemon GO game client and our terms of service. We blocked some more of those attempts yesterday. Since there has been some public discussion about this, we wanted to shed some more light on why we did this and why these seemingly innocuous sites and apps actually hurt our ability to deliver the game to new and existing players. The chart below shows the drop in server resources consumed when we blocked scrapers. Freeing those resources allowed us to proceed with the Latin America launch.” “Of course, there are also outright hackers out there attempting to break into systems, hijack social media accounts, and even bring down the service. Some of them have posted publicly about their attempts.” What do you think of Niantic doing this ?
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