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Google launched Ingress in November 2012, in closed beta mode. To join the game, you need to leave your contact information on the project's website and download the app from Google Play. Ingress is played all over the world. In Russia today, there are already more than 5,000 players, of which about 1,000 are active and 5,000 portals are in Moscow. Depending on the points they earn, players receive levels from one to eight. To reach level eight, you need to earn 1.2 million experience points. In Europe, there are several players with more than 20 million points, in Minsk there is one player with 10 million. In Moscow, the maximum is 7 million experience points - Zordin.

To the question "Why do you need it?" Andrey Zordin Fedoseyev, known to Moscow players in the city quest"Fight", answers without hesitation: “People generally like to play. Ingress is the same MMORPG as, say, “World of dj email database list Warcraft”, but with an important component - physical presence on the spot. Since I started playing, I have visited places that I never knew about before. I went to a city that is located where the Earth no longer ends, but the shell of a Turtle, and you can see Whales. Now I play less. Niantic are certainly great, but I’m already a little tired of it - nothing new. Although there are more and more players in Moscow, competition is growing. For many, the daily commute from home to work and back has become noticeably longer - you need to kill enemy portals on the way, collect the energy scattered around them. The only thing that interests me is meeting new people. But you have to crawl out at least sometimes, otherwise these devils sometimes say phrases like “some Zordin” .

Not in the eyebrow, but in Glass
Another interesting question is why Google needs this project. “It’s a difficult question, ” says Andrey. “ Niantic themselves wrote that they were making a social network. And judging by the changes they made to the game balance, they are doing a great job of it. People have to meet and communicate, since it’s already extremely difficult to play alone. Even when Ingress first appeared, there were many assumptions. The main one was that this was the first ARG for Google Glass. However, Glass appeared, but the game on it is not so good.”

And yet, how does Ingress fit into Google's overall strategy? Of course, the game is very well made and it was not for nothing that it was cited as an example to developers at the last Google I/O conference. But it is hard to believe that the company created a game just for the sake of playing it.