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Is Pokémon GO down? Thousands report ‘network error 2’ amid widespread outages
Pokémon GO is facing a major outage, with over 6,000 players reporting issues. Most users are seeing “Network Error 2” and trouble launching or logging in.
Thousands of players of the wildly popular Pokémon game, Pokémon GO, are reporting network error with the game on Friday evening.
According to Down Detector, a platform that tracks internet outages based on users' reports, showed that over 6000 Pokémon Go players are reporting issues with the app. As of 6:20pm EDT, more than 13,000 are reporting issues with the game.
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. 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.
Network Error 2 is a generic “Network Error” message that appears when the game struggles with server connection. It can prevent players from launching the game, logging in, or connecting.
As of now, the game, owned by the mobile publisher Scopely, has not responded to the reported outage.
Below is the graph showing Pokemon GO outages in the last 24 hours in the US.
Gamers Complain Of 'Network Error 2' Outage
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“PoryPro will have some out of date timing on rates, because the game has gone down,” a popular Pokemon GO streamer wrote.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?"
“Is PoGo down for anyone can’t get back in got the Network error?" asked one.
“Pokemon Go Error. Can't login: Network error (2). Meanwhile connections work well for other apps. Seems like this is worldwide for 4g, 5g and WIFI,” wrote another facing issues.
This story is being updated.
