Thousands of players of the wildly popular Pokémon game , Pokémon GO, are reporting network error with the game on Friday evening.
In fact, on Down Detector, close to 62% of the users said that their game failed to launch. 23% said they could not log in, while about 13% directly reported server issues.
Most users say that they are getting a “Network Error 2” issue as the servers fails to connect each time they try to launch the game. Many Pokémon GO players took to social media to reveal that they were getting the “Network Error 2” message when trying to launch the game. “PoryPro will have some out of date timing on rates, because the game has gone down,” a popular Pokemon GO streamer wrote . “Pokemon Go with the painful Network Error (2)”30 mins ago, what’s the longest downtime window since launch?”
A platform that tracks internet outages based on users’ reports, showed that over 6000 Pokémon Go players are reporting issues with the app, according to Down Detector . As of 6:20pm EDT, more than 13,000 are reporting issues with the game.
