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Pokemon Go News - Last weekend, Pokemon Go fans gathered in Chicago for the inaugural "Fest" event and were met with a slew of issues making the game unplayable for nearly the entirety of the event. According to the suit's organizer, Chicago attorney Thomas Zimmerman, many fans would like to have travel costs reimbursed after coming to the event from out of state or even out of the country. So far, plaintiffs number "20 or 30" according to Zimmerman, a number that is likely to grow as news of the suit spreads.
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https://nianticlabs.com/blog/gofestupdate072517/
This is akin to suing Metallica because their agent booked a concert at the local event arena, only to have the event arena's equipment fail the night of the event.
If that were true, why did Niantic create the event in the first place? They shouldn't pass the buck and realize they messed up when they decided to hold a big event for a mobile game then not think through how all those people in one place will get on their network. It's an utter failure of Niantic to think things through. That makes it their responsibility.
I see they did plan the event with local providers. Looks like they did bring mobile towers but not enough. I thought they would because everyone who lives and works in the area is also affected plus they have a lot of festivals going on at the same time so even more congestion.
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Niantic organized and sold you tickets to Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago, so you can sue them for "failing to ensure that their event area had enough mobile bandwidth for online portion of the event".
Your mobile operator built a mobile network that covers up most of the country and sold you mobile broadband access for months or years depending on your agreement. It's much harder to sue them for not doing their job because "On day X of month Y they did not temporary have enough mobile capacity in a single park and this problem lasted for less than a day". Your mobile operator is not responsible for delivering your 100% trouble free uptime no matter where you are, the tech isn't that good and reliable.
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EDIT- I should say that assumes Niantic offered some sort of payment to the network providers for providing adequat capacity.