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Pokémon GO Servers Are Fried In Australia And People Are Freaking Out

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Australian’s are stressing this morning, as they wake up to massive outages to the new Pokémon Go game way of life. Huge uptake of the app has caused the company’s servers to crash as a result of soaring demand.

I myself am one of those disgruntled Pokémon masters in the making, having walked five kilometres in to work specifically to incubate my eggs. The constant dropouts resulted in only a kilometre being credited – yes – these are the priority issues in my life RN.

Pokemon Go Server Crash

The game has quickly grown to have more active users than both Tinder and Twitter in Australia. To date it’s only available in the US, Australia and New Zealand and some people are accusing other countries, predominantly the UK, of trying to use VPN’s to access the Australian version of the game. If this is the case, it’s likely this could be one of the key reasons the infrastructure here can’t keep up.

While Pokemon are yet to release an official statement, the issues are fairly widespread.

As expected, masters in the making have taken to twitter to share their frustration with the app.

https://twitter.com/PokeballsGo/status/752596143008276480

https://twitter.com/Nero/status/752604912052150273