Pokemon go live map start server crash7/23/2023 ![]() The state of the game before and after server crash. ![]() A successful event was immediately dismantled by the one problem the game can’t seem to get past. All this happened less than twenty minutes since the event started, and the servers would remain down for the next few hours. Group by group, players realized they weren’t going to be getting back in, and started to disperse to either actually try and enjoy the Pokémon-free outdoors, or to head home. You could feel the air being let out of the event like a balloon. This had been exactly what had happened the previous day when the game rolled out in Europe, an immediate collapse of the server ecosystem, despite claims that other launches were being paused to fix these problems. Most thought it was because too many people were playing at once, but I checked online and learned about the Canadian launch. Slowly, everyone got kicked out, and began staring at the infamous “quarter loaded” Gyarados screen that almost always means certain doom if it stays there longer than a few seconds. I tried again and found I couldn’t get in at all. I re-logged and found all landmarks wiped on my map. ![]() Some restarted and got back in, some couldn’t. Players caught Pokémon, then saw their games freeze. You could see it spread like a ripple across water. The event was a hit, the area a Poke-Utopia. Even after a week of this, that isn’t getting any less cool or strange. Everyone was shocked to see how many people had turned out, and it was just plain bizarre to see a group assemble like this outdoors that wasn’t protesting something or lining up to see a concert. I’m not an expert in counting crowds, but I would estimate about two thousand people were in the vicinity of the Bean, though I couldn’t tell you how many others were in the rest of Millennium Park, also playing Pokémon GO. Thousands more, most likely. Some fans wore Pokémon shirts, some wore Ash hats, and I saw someone in a full-on Pikachu costume. Mostly male, yes, but I’d say at least 35-40% female, and very much a full spectrum of every racial group. Yes, there were some parents with younger children, but overwhelmingly the most common age group was 16-25. You might ask who actually came to this thing, and the crowd I saw there (it wasn’t hard to pick out Pokémon players from the rest) was a very diverse group. Team Valor supporters were the largest group at the event.
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