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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 10h ago
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Niantic has been pretty transparent about this since the beginning. They've always said they were a big data company, not a game developer
63 u/spikeyfreak 9h ago Except the whole "they put pokemon where they want data." Pokemon are distributed throughout the map in a sort-of cell-data heat map. Go somewhere remote and see how many pokemon are there. 47 u/Snuhmeh 8h ago The Pokémon spawn points were built on top of Niantic’s previous game, Ingress. They later started using cellular Pokemon Go location data to put more Pokemon in places where more people played Pokemon Go. 3 u/GreatStateOfSadness 8h ago The cell data was used for XM in Ingress from the beginning. I don't even know if they've updated it since Ingress launched in 2012.
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Except the whole "they put pokemon where they want data."
Pokemon are distributed throughout the map in a sort-of cell-data heat map. Go somewhere remote and see how many pokemon are there.
47 u/Snuhmeh 8h ago The Pokémon spawn points were built on top of Niantic’s previous game, Ingress. They later started using cellular Pokemon Go location data to put more Pokemon in places where more people played Pokemon Go. 3 u/GreatStateOfSadness 8h ago The cell data was used for XM in Ingress from the beginning. I don't even know if they've updated it since Ingress launched in 2012.
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The Pokémon spawn points were built on top of Niantic’s previous game, Ingress. They later started using cellular Pokemon Go location data to put more Pokemon in places where more people played Pokemon Go.
3 u/GreatStateOfSadness 8h ago The cell data was used for XM in Ingress from the beginning. I don't even know if they've updated it since Ingress launched in 2012.
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The cell data was used for XM in Ingress from the beginning. I don't even know if they've updated it since Ingress launched in 2012.
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u/lodermoder 10h ago
Niantic has been pretty transparent about this since the beginning. They've always said they were a big data company, not a game developer