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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was 3.6 years after? And it was pretty dead at that point. Like it was popular with a core group who were making Niantic and TPC tons of money, but the phenomenon was dead by the anniversary.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

It died in my area when they dropped the amount of spawn nodes to the point where you couldn't really walk around. You had to drive pretty far at that point, and that kill let most people's enthusiasm.

I don't know if it was complaints by local businesses or what, but after that I never saw large groups walking around again.