HIgh Level Accounts Disappearing

[jhameia]

High Level 'Pokemon Go' Accounts are Disappearing

For months, a few Pokemon Go players have claimed that their high level accounts have disappeared without warning with little explanation or assurances that their account will be recovered.We've seen a few reports of this occurring on Reddit or Twitter, all with similar stories. Players will get a "Failed to game data from the server" error and will be locked out of the game entirely. When they contact Niantic Support, Niantic will either respond that the account doesn't exist, or that they're aware of the issue and are trying to resolve it.

Although it seemed like a handful of isolated incidents at first, the problem has grown large enough to attract the attention of /r/TheSilphRoad, one of the largest Pokemon Go communities on the Internet. Today, players started sharing information about the bug and discovered that, in addition to locking players out of their accounts, this bug also affects any gym that has a Pokemon from an account that disappeared. Attempting to interact any gym that has a Pokemon connected to one of these bugged accounts will cause the game to crash, effectively blocking the gym out of the game.

Yikes!

Comments

[kaberett]

... welp that's horrifying!

[inkstone]

Oh dear

[ayebydan]

That is horrible. :(

But nothing I personally need to worry about *forever lv 30*

[raisedbymoogles]

aaaaaaa. Not interacting with any gyms for the foreseeable future!

[jack]

Disappearing due to a glitch... We all know they're being secretly recruited to fight for earth!

[silveradept]

That's very interesting to note. And makes me wonder what's going on there that their getting rid of the high level players.

[ephemera]

There's a theory that it's less high-level accounts, and more older accounts (which are more likely to be high-level), but either way, it's a scary thought! There are some reports, though, that it's getting fixed - it looks like "from backups" so people have lost a day or two of play (plus the time they were locked out) rather than their whole accounts but still - not great!

[shirou]

It is getting fixed, but some people have missed LOTS of gameplay. A player in one of my communities had her account repaired today, Jan 19, after being locked out since Dec 20 (!).