Pokémon Go holds a makeup event to let players in without tickets, let players in without tickets

It’s now officially a trademark movement for developer Niantic. Last month Pokémon Go players were accidentally admitted free of charge to the ticket Kanto tournament. To make up for it, Niantic announced there would be a special bonus opportunity for those who paid. It started today, and guess what: they let in people who did not pay.

During February’s celebration of Pokémon‘s 25th year of existence, Pokémon Go hosted a fairly expensive special event. Cethe monsters’ original homeland, the Kanto region, dominates charged a hefty $ 12 to play. So when people found that they could participate without buying a ticket, others became dissatisfied.

Niantic responded quickly with apologies, announcing that it would include a special bonus search chain to make it up. It started yesterday in Australia and New Zealand, and with just perfect text writing-as Eurogamer reports-It was briefly available to people who did not pay.

You have to think that whoever was responsible for turning on the event was sitting at a computer with 80 different sticky notes sitting right around their monitor and desk saying, “DON’T OPEN IT EVERYONE”, while different colleagues and bosses go around the door to say, ‘Remember, do not open it to everyone!’ When it comes to the moment, they just go in pieces.

This is not exactly unprecedented. Just last year, Niantic performed a similar farce series of pratfalls after that year’s GO Fest, when technical problems means that the rotating cast of appeasing Pokémon could not work properly. To apologize, they held a make-up meeting, during which … technical problems meant that many players could not participate properly. Amazing, they held a make-up event for that makeup event, though limited to players in the Asia-Pacific region.

Whether today’s disaster will mean the same remains to be seen – the problem was rectified before the launch time of the event spread outside Australia. Niantic is usually very quick to fix errors Twitter—Did not acknowledge the problem, although it only caught up apologize for breaking the game’s news feed yesterday.