Dude lives in San Diego. He can literally take the bus/trolley to the border and spin Mexico pokestops from the US side.

Do you, or don't you, wanna be the very best like no one ever was?

I mean, doesnt that just mean the series closed out? Time to go to the next region poke-trainer!

Im still confused by how they developed a gps based game that was on very high demand, yet never applied the same logic to make a similar concept not requiring gps to pull more than double their original playerbase to play it all day lmao

Alternative title: GPS based game doesn't match real life borders.

I can see why they didn't go for that.

Onwards to Hueco Mundo!

Sounds like someone doesn’t have what it takes to be a pokemon master….

He lives in San Diego, right across the border. I’m near the border of Canada and the game picks up my location as Canada sometimes when I’m still on the US side. Of course that doesn’t show up til the end of the article.

Except that Pokémon go has region exclusive Pokémon and do care about borders.

Yes that's what this article is about, well done.

The article is about a Mexico specific Pokémon and the person lives in the US. The game does match real life borders.

Maybe you should read it. It's not very long:

>However, trainers quickly pointed out that Baroque1750 may live close enough to the US/Mexico border for the game to think they live in that region. “Most of the boundaries in the game are square blocks. The border is not a straight line. Southern California and southern parts of Texas may show as Mexico. Northern Mexico May show as USA.”

They probably live close enough to the border that the game mistakenly thought they were in Mexico and gave them a Mexico exclusive research.

Pokemon Go has jumped into the political debate: no wall!

Seems like the quest only appears if you're near Mexico?

I live in Mexico so i had 0 problems complete it and the rewards are ok, not exclusive content or something you might feel you're missing out

No, this time research is only available in Mexico or places close enough to Mexico that they could be mistaken for Mexico.

I am not in Mexico and didn't get the quest.

It is supposed to be centered around the Pokemon Hawlucha, which is new to Pokemon go and supposed to be a region exclusive for Mexico.

Really hate when news articles are pulled straight off Reddit…

Saw this guy in r/pokemongo earlier today

Ha ha! Glad I stopped playing. Friggin 3 hour research task only to get 2 star piece of crap Pokemon I can't even use. Sooo dumb.

I’d be surprised if they coded in the entire border. Instead just go with an approximation radius.

Sounds like the article is just hype.

I feel like I'm in 2016 again

Isn't there a way to spoof your GPS? I remember reading a whole thread about how to get away with it.

My pokemon game led me into an active warzone...

Edit: into an active volcano*

I really hate the region exclusives. Been playing this game for years and I'm super upset I'll never get the chance to get some of these pokemon because you have to go to like Egypt or something. Like it'd be a cool trip, but just to get a single pokemon? Can't even trade unless you're relatively close to the person. It's no wonder people spoof their locations.

Eh, the dedicated games more than make up for it; Pokemon Go was fun for a bit to go outside and walk a bit but weirdly the stopping to do battles / etc slowed down the actual exercise portion of the thing.

I would much rather it just simply tracked where I went and then I could replay Pokemon encounters when I got home that I could just slowly churn through.

Still encourages folks to go outside, but now you don't have to stand around somewhere to wait for an encounter to pop up.

I admit I only played a little bit when it released, but man that would really defeat the purpose for me. It already felt like a game with no gameplay. The “go explore and discover Pokémon” was quite literally the only little bit of fun I was able to find, and you are proposing you get rid of that entirely.

I’m obviously not the target audience as I stopped playing pretty quickly. But I really don’t know what the point of the game would be at that point of exploring to find Pokémon wasn’t part of it.

Isekais are getting whackier huh?

Initially yeah, I generally agree with you; but at some point you start using tools to target and farm what you actually need and that exploration feeling largely gets lost pretty quickly once you start tapping into Pokemon Go Nest maps and such.

Then you start studying how spawning works, tap into some glitches there, etc.

Pokemon Go has like 700+ Pokemon... so you aren't going to catch them all by simply just walking around your town; in fact at some point all you get is your regional spawns until you actually fly abroad or utilize and tap into events.

Then you'll generally start using Bluestacks and some GPS mock tool to get whatever you need in different countries.

Thats the point of my comment, they knew people are using tools to play the game after a while and haven't even considered tapping into that market in the slightest.

Like, imagine a fully open world mmo pokemon game. Theres absolutely a market for this, but the only thing even close to it is PoGo on emulators or Minecraft mods. Nothing official

Hard to really call Pokemon Go an "MMO" it's a lite version for sure but I agree that a fully fledged Pokemon MMO is an untapped market.

The older Pokemon games had some great mechanics where at least duo'ing could easily be a thing for PvE content and obviously the whole PvP aspect would simply be what we have today (except wandering the world).

I think what? TemTem is the only real one in this space? I haven't played it so I don't know how good it is but perhaps Nintendo might one day partner-up to offer a spin-off if their engine is decent enough.

What did Ash do when the Johto League called? Did he say "but Johhto is over the border"? No, he just went. Trainers these days.

Is it that strange, though? I live near the Dutch-Belgian border, and had to cross the border on a few times. And I don't even live in the mess called Baarle-Nassau.