Pokémon Go developer Niantic has said it will act to improve the game’s quality levels, after a recent snafu left players spending time and money hunting rare Shiny Pokémon with far lower-than-expected odds.
The bug, which Niantic previously told Eurogamer was an “unfortunate technical error”, was eventually fixed by the developer only after fans worked to crowdsource data and diagnose the problem for themselves.
It was the latest in a string of issues which seem to regularly affect the hugely-successful mobile app, with the release of Pokémon and the launch of in-game events frequently marred by some problem or other – particularly in early timezones such as New Zealand and Australia, where it is now a running joke in the game’s community that players act as unofficial beta testers.
