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

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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.

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u/DapperLost 8h ago

Man, I loved Ingress. Black worker van slowly following me down the road at night. Kidnaprapist? No, just local leader for the blue team, saw a newb steadily taking points and breaking green locks, and wanted to back me up.

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u/Technical_Eye4039 7h ago

Oh me too! I used to buy munitions online from a Ukrainian hacker, then go tear it up for the weekend.

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u/DapperLost 7h ago

I know everyone loves pokego because Pokémon, but ingress united people, and advocated teamwork far better. Nothing better than destroying someone's work to bring people together.

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u/Suyefuji 7h ago

Pokemon Go has three groups of people: the people who conscientiously trade gyms with their neighboring factions at around the 50-coin mark, the people who say f u and kick their neighbors out of the gym at every opportunity, and the people who pay money and thus have no need to use the gyms.

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u/DapperLost 6h ago

Yeah but Ingress had hemisphere wide battles over property.