Niantic tries to explain the Pokémon Go Fest problems

[Joystiq]

On Saturday Pokémon Go players from around the world gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for a promised special anniversary event, but as we now know,

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. As Niantic Labs

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, the issues that tripped up

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were layered, starting with technical issues that caused the client to crash, before tweaks to the servers fixed that. Once the clients worked, network congestion and overloaded cell networks held up players from connecting and staying connected.

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