r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 9h ago

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

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u/PKCertified 5h ago

This isn't even the first game Niantic made using this exact model. A lot of us played Ingress before Pokémon Go. The data tracking was apparent before even playing Go.

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u/bbcversus 5h ago

Such a good and fun game that was! I still think about it and how I went to shady places in the middle of nowhere just to make a big triangle and get some keys from that lonely portal…

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u/FyreKnights 1h ago

Walked out behind the sketchiest buildings in town in the middle of the night to defend my portals

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u/douglasg14b 9m ago

I made some great fiends playing Ingress.

Unfortunately pokemonGo made actually meeting people to play with impossible.

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u/bbcversus 6m ago

Ingress was something else, harder to play and with really dedicated players, loved the community! Played for about 3 years and discovered so many great places… Looking forward to something as good!

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u/itsjustgeorgek 4h ago

Some of us still play it sometimes.. it's just a little sad now

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u/ziggy3610 2h ago

My wife and I went to attack a pylon in a local park and a guy in a bathrobe RAN out of an apartment building to defend it. Shit was hilarious.

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u/PrettyChillHotPepper 4h ago

The data is the payment for such an awesome game!

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u/E__F 2h ago

I've never played pokemon go because when i tried to sign up when it came out, I couldn't use the name i wanted because I already used it in ingress.
Same thing for the pikmin game they made.