Pokémon Go players can help choose new locations with Niantic Wayfarer
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Even though it`s not live for them just yet, this will be of great interest to Pokémon Go trainers who want to help shape the game. What you need to know Niantic Wayfarer will allow people to nominate and review Wayspots in Niantic games. It was inspired by Operation Portal Recon in Ingress. Niantic expects to roll it out to Pokémon Go players before the end of 2019. Ever since Pokémon Go first launched, there`s been plenty of discussion and debate about which real world locations have been chosen by Niantic to become PokéStops and gyms in the game. The devs gave people the ability to petition to have places removed from Pokémon Go for various (often very legitimate) reasons, but the newly revealed Niantic Wayfarer is flipping the script in a very cool way and crowdsourcing points of interest for inclusion in Niantic`s AR titles. The video below explains how it works in more detail, but the high concept is that Niantic Wayfarer will allow anyone ...