Re:Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
by sangnoir on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @05:22AM
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> The problem as I saw it was that the game (as of a few years ago) rewarded taking territory, but not keeping it
I suspect that was intentional design. Niantic was born out of the Google Maps division, and IIRC, the whole point of Ingress (at least initially) was to crowd-source generation and verification of geo data for GMaps. You could think of it as Waze for pedestrians/bikes. So gameplay that encourages constant conflict == constant data stream.
I suspect that was intentional design. Niantic was born out of the Google Maps division, and IIRC, the whole point of Ingress (at least initially) was to crowd-source generation and verification of geo data for GMaps. You could think of it as Waze for pedestrians/bikes. So gameplay that encourages constant conflict == constant data stream.