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GeoGuesser now unplayable outside the Pro version.

Pete-MK (Elite Donator) posted this on Tuesday, 20th August 2019, 12:29

Really quite gutted about this one. I could very easily lose a couple of hours wandering around London and getting the location down to a few metres. The change happened quite recently with no announcement, so naturally, the silent fanbase has started to get very vocal about this on Reddit in particular.

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RE: GeoGuesser now unplayable outside the Pro version.

RJS (undefined) posted this on Wednesday, 21st August 2019, 08:12

What kind of game is it?


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[VIDEO] RE: GeoGuesser now unplayable outside the Pro version.

Pete-MK (Elite Donator) posted this on Thursday, 22nd August 2019, 10:50

It would dump you on a random point on the Google earth map in streetview mode, and you'd have to move around, picking up clues from your surroundings to try to figure out where you were, then making a guess on a pop-up map, scoring points up to 5000 on how close you were. 

A few months ago the ads started to get intrusive, stopping play for a few seconds while trying to hock you the pro version. While not expensive, it just seemed to be a cheeky ask for something that was free for the longest time.

There is a free version available, but instead of google, it uses mapillary, which is quite literally stills from a dashcam.

Best way to describe is to show. This is the guy who's just tried to walk across wales in a straight line..



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RE: [VIDEO] GeoGuesser now unplayable outside the Pro version.

Pete-MK (Elite Donator) posted this on Thursday, 22nd August 2019, 14:45

And as if by magic, the website's been altered to allow one play per day of a certain map. Give it a week and It'll probably be back to normal with the brains behind this atrocity looking for a new job :)

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RE: [VIDEO] GeoGuesser now unplayable outside the Pro version.

RJS (undefined) posted this on Thursday, 22nd August 2019, 14:51

Speaking from experience, they might be struggling for money to keep it going and throwing any idea they can in the hope that they save it. You may find it's gone completely after a while. :/


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RE: [VIDEO] GeoGuesser now unplayable outside the Pro version.

Pete-MK (Elite Donator) posted this on Thursday, 22nd August 2019, 15:24

May be something to with embedding Google. 

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