These are the biggest problems with 'Pokémon GO' right now

Despite taking the world by storm since its launch earlier this month, "Pokémon GO" has some serious issues. You wouldn't be entirely wrong to call the game "broken" on several counts.

It's a nod to how novel and fun the core premise of the game is that people are still obsessed with it despite these problems! But it won't be everybody's favorite game for much longer if these problems persist. I'm not even talking about the iffy server connection, which is to be expected with a game like this, even if it's disappointing.

Here are a few of the biggest issues with "Pokémon GO" that need to be fixed as soon as possible.

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Inaccurate GPS tracking

Obviously, a game that's based entirely on players walking around a GPS-enabled map of their surroundings needs to have accurate GPS tracking. "Pokémon GO" does not. 

If I'm walking on the sidewalk, it thinks I'm walking in a building. Sometimes I can access Pokéstops in the park across the street from my apartment while I'm sitting in my bedroom. Frankly, the game has an accurate idea of where I am less than half the time I'm playing it. 

Egg hatching is nonsensical

"Pokémon GO" is a game that doesn't explain itself to players, which isn't inherently a bad thing; discovery can be fun! However, the process of hatching eggs (which can contain rare, powerful Pokémon) should be self-explanatory, right? Just walk the distance under the egg and it'll hatch!

That's not entirely the case. Kotaku's Stephen Totilo ran well over 10 kilometers at a pace that he insists was slow enough for the game to count towards his egg distances and none of them hatched. The game measures distance using GPS rather than the motion of your phone like a pedometer, but with the GPS tracking being as poor as it is, the game short-changes you in the egg hatching process.

Can't touch this

I can't have the app open on my phone for more than a few minutes at a time before the touchscreen becomes completely unresponsive. That means if I'm walking by a Pokéstop or I see a Pokémon I want to catch, I need to hard reset the app. 

My colleagues insist this is tied to the game's battery-saving mode that darkens the screen when your phone is upside down, but this happens to me seemingly at random. A game isn't much fun if you can't, you know, play it.