Pokemon Go allows you to capture Pokemon in a real world environment and is taking the region by storm. Players James Schukin of Upper Coomera and Ryan Korondy of Bundall on the hunt at Evandale. Picture Glenn Hampson

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Gold Coast trainers shattered after Pokemon Go servers crash blocking access to game

LEA EMERY, lea.emery@news.com.au, Gold Coast Bulletin

July 12, 2016 1:37am

THE Gold Coast Pokemon Go trainers have woken to disappointment this morning with widespread crashes affecting the hot new app.

Many trying to access the game were faced with an error message which said the “servers were experiencing issues”.

The message asks players to try again later.

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Pokemon Go players took to Facebook to express their frustration with one complaining of withdrawal symptoms.

Other players said they were putting off walking the dog and walking to the gym until they could play the game again.

Game developers Niantic have issued a short statement on their website.

“Due to the incredible number of Pokémon GO downloads, some Trainers are experiencing server connectivity issues,” the website reads.

“Don’t worry, our team is on it.”

There is no word when servers may be up again and trainers can go out and “catch ‘em all”.