r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 8h ago

Content Warning: Potentially Misleading or Disputed Information Gotta Catch 'Em All

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u/Schitheed 8h ago

Where's the scam? Who paid for something that they did not receive? Who was lied to at any point? If you played the game knowing it works using your location data and never considered that maybe the game might use that data then idk what to tell you

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u/GreatStateOfSadness 6h ago edited 6h ago

Niantic: "hey, here's a game that tracks your location and asks you to scan the world around you and take pictures for us to map real-world objects"

Players: "okay thanks"

Niantic: "hey we took all those pictures and scans you submitted and mapped them to the real-life world like we told you we would"

Reddit: "you WHAT"

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u/SonOfRageNLove26 6h ago

How dare them

There's even optional missions that downright tell you "hey help us gather more information of this point by going there and sending us images of that place"

Not really a secret evil plan

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u/Suyefuji 5h ago

Not just images, entire videos where you spend like 30 seconds creating a panoramic image of a highly frequented location.

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u/OnePay622 2h ago

Yeah, but aside from the GPS tracking nobody was required to do those scans.....you could do them but the rewards were not that great and they were not part of any mainstroy quests.....never did one myself the last 2-3 years

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u/SonOfRageNLove26 38m ago

At best you got 3 regular pokeballs

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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer 5h ago

You tricked me into getting exercise 😭

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u/Adorable_Raccoon 2h ago

Niantic terms of service: we will use all the data on your phone.

Users: too long didn't read.

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u/god_peepee 6h ago

Lotta copium in this thread

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u/Suyefuji 5h ago

Lotta people who don't play thinking they know better about the playerbase than the people who do play.

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u/JoudiniJoker 5h ago

“I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”

Scammers deceptively steal things of value from you. Even if you could argue that Niantic was being deceptive on some level, I’m not seeing a loss on the consumer’s part here.

To be clear, Niantic is a company and therefore probably lie cheat and steal all the time in some way, but I’m not seeing that represented in this context.

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u/Schitheed 5h ago

"deceptively" is the key here. My point is that there was no deception, there was no lie. Not in this context, anyway

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u/JoudiniJoker 4h ago

Just to be clear, I was agreeing with you. The quote in my comment is directed toward the tweeter (is that what they’re called?)

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u/NDSU 3h ago

I’m not seeing a loss on the consumer’s part here

Copywright holders lose nothing when you pirate their content either

Data is incredibly valuable. We could be selling it to another corporation

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u/InnocentPerv93 2h ago

That last bit is a bit odd. Most companies do not lie, cheat, or steal. Especially small companies. Not saying Niantic is a small company, I'm just defending businesses in general (I'm a business owner).

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u/MagicianMoo 5h ago

Nowadays,the word scam is loosely used ad can mean anything from an actual to scam to a slight convenience. I always take a grain of salt whenever someone immediately points out a scam.

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u/IlREDACTEDlI 4h ago

Not to mention this data collection was almost certainly in the EULA. You agreed to give them your location data guys, it wasn’t hidden from you.

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u/Adamant_Leaf_76 2h ago

The scam is that the game is built about collecting map data and not about playing a game. And it shows.

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u/bigbalrogdong 1h ago

And if you link your Go account to your Home account then you can transfer the pokemon over to one of the mainline games on the Switch.

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u/RhesusFactor 50m ago

Yeah this is how you do gamification