Next week, at long last, they\u2019re opening the submission process to Pok\u00e9mon GO players around the world.<\/p>\n
Called Niantic Wayfarer<\/a>, the submission system will be largely user-driven. One player nominates a location, submitting a photo of the location and answering a handful of questions to help determine eligibility. Other high-level players will review these submissions, helping to filter out the ones that are inaccurate, offensive or just not right for the game.<\/p>\n Niantic had previously opened up location submissions in select regions, including much of Central and South America and parts of Asia. With the launch next week, the submission system goes worldwide.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is going to be launched for Pok\u00e9mon GO players next week,\u201d Niantic CEO John Hanke told a handful of reporters at a press gathering yesterday. \u201cSo worldwide people will be able to submit and rate and review these locations. That\u2019s for GO now, and it\u2019ll be in other games in the future. You can imagine that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, and other games as they come online, will also share this capability.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve been following Niantic for a while, the Wayfarer system might seem familiar. It\u2019s effectively a polished up, rebranded version of the \u201cPortal Recon\u201d system originally built into Niantic\u2019s first game, Ingress. Niantic tells us that they\u2019ve seen 27 million waypoint locations submitted by users so far, with 26 million having been reviewed, and 9.4 million approved and in-game. Even in these early stages, the company says it\u2019s seeing about 1 million nominations per week.<\/p>\n One catch: At least initially, you\u2019ll need to be level 40 (the highest level in Pok\u00e9mon GO) to submit or review potential new stops. The company tells me you\u2019ll also have to take a little quiz to confirm that you\u2019ve got a good understanding of what makes for a good Pok\u00e9stop.<\/p>\n A common (constant?) complaint from Pok\u00e9mon GO fans has been that players in rural areas are at a massive disadvantage compared to players in major cities \u2014 a portion of which, at least, boils down to rural areas having considerably fewer stops, gyms, etc. Opening the player submission system doesn\u2019t completely fix the gameplay challenges in rural areas, but it should at least be a big step in the right direction.<\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pok\u00e9mon GO and games like it can\u2019t exist without waypoints \u2014 the in-game locations that correlate to real-world points of interest, acting as the Pok\u00e9stops, gyms, etc. The more waypoints they have around the world, the better the game becomes. But building up these databases of waypoints is tough. A company can\u2019t do it alone;… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/p>\n