On Monday 1st June, Pokémon GO will experience downtime for a number of hours. If you're concerned about your app not working as it should or any issues with your account, don't worry - everything will be up and running again soon.
The game is planned to be down globally for seven hours, meaning you'll be unable to play it as you normally would during that time. Below, you can see when Pokémon GO is planned to be offline in your area, as well as when it will be back online (thanks, Eurogamer):
- UK: 7pm to 2am (BST)
- Europe: 8pm to 3am (CEST)
- US: 11am to 6pm (PDT) / 2pm to 9pm (EDT)
- Australia: 4am to 11am on Tuesday, 2nd June (AEST)
As for why Pokémon GO is down? Developer Niantic has said that the game is being taken offline for “server maintenance," going on to apologise for the inconvenience caused and confirming that the downtime will "have no impact on your account".
What Niantic specifically means by "server maintenance" is unknown, although it has been theorised that the developer may be transferring the game to new servers altogether.
[source eurogamer.net]
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This is the longest planned downtime the game has had in its nearly four year history, so I would imagine the nature of the server maintenance is essential.
I'm hoping it's some sort of upgrade that will improve the player's experience playing the game, or laying down groundwork for future improvements.
For all we know they could be migrating to more capable servers, transforming and optimizing data for future features, who knows.
@RupeeClock they could be even using a new data center and would rather have moved them all instead of little at a time.
@RupeeClock Well we know Pokemon Home compatibility is planned for Go so I’m hoping some of the groundwork for that is involved in this maintenance. It would line up nicely with the Pokemon Sword & Shield news.
I logged in today though. And after 2 pm. I just logged in to check.
It's back up now. But it messed with me because I'm in Japan. I usually play on my way to work but since my Nintendo/Pokemon accounts date back to when I lived in the US they give me US announcements and the time was wrong.
Hopefully this means HOME integration not long from now. I have a few GO Shinies I want in my Sword.
Yea but you didn't really answer the question of why they were doing the maintenance just talked around and about (speculation) why you think they were doing it 🤔. Oh the hours you posted well for the us anyways were off as I was playing during those hours. Article should be titled: pokemon go is supposed to be down on June 1st for maintenance. We have no idea why they doing this maintenance but let us tell you what we think
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