Is Pokemon Go down on Friday evening? Thousands of players said yes, and many saw a Network Error 2 message when they tried to launch Pokémon GO. By 6:20pm EDT, more than 13,000 reports had piled up, pointing to a broad problem rather than a handful of isolated complaints.
Down Detector showed over 6000 Pokémon GO players reporting issues before that total climbed further. The most common breakdown was blunt: close to 62% said the game failed to launch, 23% said they could not log in, and about 13% said they were dealing with server issues.
Network Error 2 on Pokémon GO
Network Error 2 is a generic error message that appears when the game struggles with server connection. For players, that meant the problem was not just a bad screen or a slow menu. It blocked launch attempts, login attempts, and in some cases the connection needed to get into the game at all.
That pattern matched what players posted on social media, where some said other apps were working well while Pokémon GO was showing a network error. One player wrote, "PoryPro will have some out of date timing on rates, because the game has gone down" — a sign that even users trying to plan around the outage were running into a moving target.
Down Detector and US reports
The spike also showed up in the US outage graph over the last 24 hours, which gives the reports a time stamp and a rough scale without proving the cause. Scopely owns Pokémon GO, but the game had not responded to the reported outage as of the article, so players were left with the error message and no fix notice.
Another player message captured the frustration more directly: "Pokemon Go with the painful Network Error "30 mins ago, what’s the longest downtime window since launch?" The practical takeaway is simple for affected players. If the app is failing at launch or login, the issue is on the game side, not a local setup problem, and the only immediate step is to wait for service to recover.
Pokémon GO outage reports
The unanswered question is the one that matters most to anyone locked out: when the outage will clear. Reports had already crossed 13,000 by 6:20pm EDT, and until the game starts accepting launches and logins again, the error message remains the only signal players have.
