Pokémon Go: Developer Niantic responds to recent fan criticisms

2 Aug 2016

Steve Wright

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has taken to the game’s Facebook page to explain its latest big update.

In the post, Niantic explains the reasoning for removing the Nearby footstep functionality, promising an improved feature in the future.

The post also apologises for the slow global rollout, using Brazil as a prime example. Brazil — Rio, specifically — is currently hosting the Olympic Games.

We’ll have more on Pokémon Go as it comes to light.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.