In Pokémon GO, there will be server maintenance for several hours in June. Players are wondering: What could this mean?
When will the servers go offline? As Niantic announced on Twitter, the servers will go offline on Monday, June 1, 2020, for seven hours. In Germany, the time frame will be from 8:00 PM to 3:00 AM the next morning.
Trainers, Pokémon GO will be experiencing global downtime for seven hours on Monday, June 1, 2020. From around 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. PDT, the game will be undergoing server maintenance and will be inaccessible to all Trainers. We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause. pic.twitter.com/mdIeQiaCI5
— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) May 21, 2020
The downtime will be due to maintenance. The game will be inaccessible to all Trainers for seven hours.
A downtime of this length is quite unusual for Pokémon GO, and announcements about maintenance are also rare in the game. Niantic remained silent about the reasons for the maintenance in the announcement. This leaves players guessing.
Why is Pokémon GO going offline for 7 hours?
Community is guessing: In the Subreddit for Pokémon GO, Trainers seem quite puzzled by the announcement. What could the downtime mean for the game?
In many games, longer server maintenance is associated with larger updates. However, Pokémon GO rarely needed downtimes for updates. Therefore, speculations are flying in all directions.
- “Honestly, this could simply mean that they are swapping out the server platforms,” speculates user RedJayRioting (via reddit) about infrastructure work.
- “I hope for a Pokémon Home integration,” says user jacobseagall (via reddit). The cloud service currently connects several Pokémon games and allows players to trade their monsters. However, Pokémon GO is still missing in Pokémon Home.
- Several users simply suspect corrections of current bugs and possibly improvements to existing features.
Whether the downtime will actually change something in the game or bring something new will be revealed at the latest on June 2.
Until then, current events like the Nostalgia Challenge are still ongoing. Next up is the big Sinnoh event.
