Can we have a genuine discussion about Pokemon Go?

Can we have a genuine discussion about Pokemon Go?

I haven't played since like August of 2016, but the sheer magnitude of its popularity was fucking incredible at the time. No matter where you went, there were people playing it in droves. I had a group of four people with me, and we saw more of the town I've lived in in that month and a half than in the entire six years I've lived here. Whether you loved it or hated it, you can't deny that it was a huge deal for a minute.

So, with that in mind, what does that tell us about our beloved vidya? Is it better for games to have mass appeal if it means a larger playerbase for you to interact with? What did you think of the game? Do you think anything will ever top it in terms of number of players?

Also, share your stories from when you were playing.

I've had a cap on my data so I never got into it when it was huge

It strangely didn't use a ton of data. At the time, I was using my phone as a hotspot and between me and two people who used my data, I only went through about .6gb in a month.

What is there to say? You walk around, throw pokeballs at pokemon and turn them into dust. There is nothing to do in this game, its a completely missed opportunity

PRESS F TO SPIT IN ITS GRAVE

i still play, almost every day since launch
i like the new additions to the game but i wish they would stop fucking with the item spawns. i have hundreds of useless berries and i almost never get useful items like pokeballs
raid battles will be shit until they make it so it renders only your pokemon in 3d and cut down on the particle effects, and fix the dodging-but-didn't-really-dodge issue that plagues the entire point of the game
still no pvp or trading yet either for some inane reason

otherwise, is good

Dropped it because I don't live in a big city
shit sucked

I was more referring to the way that it got a shit ton of people to play it and player interaction in common locations inadvertently became a core gameplay mechanic, however briefly. I thought that part was neat, and I wish that we'd see it happen again even though that's fuckin' unlikely.

I haven't played in forever, but I'm not really willing to give it a shot without a huge playerbase. Going places and meeting other players while still accomplishing goals within the game was the appeal, and I think that's dead and gone unfortunately. How do you remain interested?

Our city isn't huge, but there was still plenty of shit to see/do with it. How many people are in your town?

>How do you remain interested?
i'm a sucker for pokemon, been a fan since gen 3 was on the not so distant horizon
i like spoofing around to big cities because i too live in a rural shit hole
getting my first mewtwo was exhilarating for a solid few seconds

>Going places and meeting other players while still accomplishing goals within the game was the appeal, and I think that's dead and gone unfortunately.

With the way new Pokemon are being introduced, that is still happening to this day. Not in droves of people kind of numbers but a good handful, most certainly. Just like when the game launched, rural players are still fucked, so this might not happen in your area.

also, it motivates me to take walks when i'm not being a dirty cheater

It would benefit from a player battle system for sure. I am in the .001% but I think catching multiples of pokemon to find a better level and move set, coupled with the ability to swipe and dodge and choose between light and heavy attacks was actually kind of neat.

I just use it as a motivator to get out and walk a bit to get candy for pokemon and hatch eggs.

they should've made it so areas with less people = more pokemon and more rarer pokemon. that would've actually been interesting

I lost interest when they killed the apps that showed you where Pokemon were. Plus the battling system was ass.

It's nice that it got people to walk around and see their cities, but at the end of the day it was just another piece of shit, microtransaction, skinner box like all mobile games.

That too. It was really useful, you could just head in the place where the pokemon you want sits and likely get him.

They fucked up with
>tracking until they fixed it a long time after
>no battles between players outside of gyms which is only just fucking tapping
>servers were absolute ASS for a month or so
>game generally ran pretty bad
>overall lack of content being added at the peak of the popularity

I started out in GENWUN, but I've loved pretty much every iteration except SuMo. One of my roommates still plays, and she spoofs around while she's at work, and I guess that does add an element of excitement. I thought they cracked down on that shit, but apparently if you stay within a certain radius, I hear it's pretty safe. I would've loved to get a Mewtwo, especially with the nostalgia I have for how big of a deal he was in Red/Blue. Though, I do miss the exercise portion of the game.

Yeah, but the droves of people were the appeal. During the first two weeks, my group went to a cemetery in the middle of fucking nowhere and used an incense on a pokestop that was there. Within ten minutes, three other cars pulled up, and a total of like 12 people were running all over a graveyard in the middle of the night, convinced we were going to find a Ghastly. That's the sort of shit that I miss, and I don't think that's a circumstance that'll ever come back.

Honestly, I didn't even mind the battle system or catching multiples thing. A player battle system and trading would revamp it a little bit, but I don't know how much appeal it'd personally have for me at this point.

That's exactly when I quit, too. When they spent resources and time fucking over third party tracking over fixing their own tracking system, it showed me that they didn't give a fuck about the people playing. Sadly, I'd already given them some of my hard earned shekels.

It was, but again, the major appeal was the people and crowds involved in playing it. I met a bunch of people and went places I never otherwise would've, and that made the shallow skinnerbox bullshit worthwhile. It did teach me that there's potential for actual value in something that's not super complicated or complex, even if it's unintentional.

There were SO many fucking issues to start out, dude. And it was infuriating because they were making money hand over fucking fist for the first month or so, there was absolutely no excuse for the length of time it took to make shit stable.

Is Pokemon Go the single greatest example of developer incompetence in video game history? To have something so huge with such mass appeal and to sit on it and let the craze die out before trying to introduce new features at which point a large portion of the player base have already left.

Honestly, it HAS to be. It fucking shattered expectations and records and shit, only to bleed down to minimal users within a year. I can't find a daily active user count for it that's up to date (last one was in mid-2017 with 5 million worldwide)

It's a town of 30,000 but the spawns and pokestops are sparse
There's one spot downtown that had 3 pokestops within 20 meters of each other and it was a very popular hangout spot during the week of popularity it had
I did have fun with people but it was far too tedious to restock pokeballs or look for spawns

It had a shitload of potential, but I wish they kept it in development for a while longer so they could actually implement the features it needed. It's still missing key features that made Pokémon Pokémon, like trading and battling.

It's up there in the top alright. They had a monumental cash cow on their hands and blew it entirely. Niantic doesn't have any idea how to make games from what I've heard from Ingress.

I loved it at the peak of popularity and it was amazing to see spots that I usually visit just filled with people sitting around playing Pokemon Go. People brought chairs and food with them and just sat at popular spots it was amazing to see.

I just wish the game didn't ran like shit, I can't even log in nowadays.

We got super lucky since we have a college campus nearby. We would drive through and hit all of the pokestops from the safety of our car. I also got yelled a lot by my group for playing while driving, but fuck the police. Pic related.

This. It felt like a fucking beta, and I would've been forgiving if there'd been a wipe/if I had a good reason to believe that it wasn't just negligence.

>Still no trainer battles
>Still no trading
It's fucking trash

They fucked up big when they stopped allowing rooted users. Let alone those amazing websites that showed you the location of every pokemon

fuck the gators

not complicating shit up with battles and trading is why it got popular in the first place
no one really like battling in pokemon except smogon autists

You'll get no argument from me. Try fucking driving here during a game, it's insanity. But goddamn if it wasn't good for pokestops. Also, they ship in new 18 year old girls ever year like clockwork. There're some perks, that's all I'm saying.

Yeah, that infuriated me. I don't know if they ever turned around on that, but I had to flash the phone I was using at the time back to a stock image.

It was awesome for a little bit. I honestly haven't even tried to log in in months, but I imagine it's still buggy and shitty, and with nobody playing anymore there's not a whole lot of appeal.

Pokemon Go is literally just a reskin of Ingress.

It's still active where I live. Especially during raids.

Yeah, first noticed it when I saw pokestops were placed exactly where the wormhole things used to be.

but what it was reskinned into is what matters.
There used to be fucking Pokemon SHAVING KITS, came with a can of cream and one disposable razor.
I remember shaving with one, before.
It's a huge goddamn lien of merch.

Why the fuck does everybody want trading? It makes zero sense.

stop bumping the thread you retards. the thread's done

Obviously not if people are still bumping it

>why does a series built on the concept of collecting and trading have fans who want trade?

Because it takes the entire point of the game out of the equation.

Annoyingly, it's actually good for a phone game now.
It was garbage, the gyms were broken, pokemon were scarce servers were trash.

Now, the gyms are far better, battling is vastly improved, pokemon are pretty commonly available, raids are great with people, legendaries are exciting and servers are solid.

Just today, I went into a raid with 11 other people and beat a Rayquaza. I didn't manage to catch it, but shit was legit.
There's an event this weekend where there's gonna be tonnes of Dratini, which I desperately need so the game is good, but the population fell off a cliff

This man killed it. He doesn't have a clue.

I played it for like the first month, and yeah OP, that was one crazy month. After that it died. They got extremely greedy and raised the difficulty level of catching Pokemon. That ended it for me.

$1 million a day wasn't enough for them and their staff of 15 people and shitty servers.

Don't think we'll ever see this again and it's sad. Maybe when AR glasses come around? It's over. Most of us are heading toward our 30s and we'll be too old for this shit. Summer of 2016 was our last bang of our long over drawn childhood. We need to take responsibility and fix our parents problems and start taking ahold of the world as they start to die off and leave it a better place.

This. Pokemon Go seriously needs these 2 features really badly.

I still play (not now because it’s too cold to be outside, but when it gets warm again I’ll be back out) and I like the battle events and gyms. It actually gives you something to do with your Pokemon other than catch em.

The game came 20 years too late for me.

The entire point of the game was to fight one another with said Pokemon with a system that doesn't fucking work .

It was stupid without a proper battle system. I still don't know what they were thinking. The concept was awesome and I enjoyed walking around my neighbourhood and surrounding areas when I was bored getting fresh air and exercise.
But ultimately it was stupid. They should have had a proper Pokémon battle system and could vs people in the vicinity.
Ah well

Shit man, that got serious.

I know it might sound weird to you but there's actually a board dedicated to Pokemon and they even have a Pokemon Go General going all the time. So please go away and never come back.

I actually got out and met people thanks to that game. There was one pokestop in my area that was basically 3 right next to each other. It was pretty much a gathering spot for the local community. It had people hanging out at it 24/7, actually met a friend I still hang out with to this day there. That being said, about 2 weeks into the game I realized I could cheat and just load up an android emulator at home and be able to walk around my entire city from my PC and hit every stop. This led to alot of captures and a really leveled trainer. I was trainer level 21 when most people were at 11. I was never banned for this either, I think it was because I was smart enough to stay away from gyms while I was doing that. Once I realized the game was going nowhere and being that leveled wasn't rewarding I stopped playing. Very fun while it lasted and I doubt another game will get that level of hype ever again.

For what? What's the point of fighting other players? There's absolutely none. The whole game is gotta catch em all mentality.

Do you even know what the fuck is Pokemon about ? Have you not watched any show or played any game at all ?

Socially inept friendless loser detected.

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man hooking up 2 gameboys at school with this clunky ass cable was awesome

They were scared of any interactions between players because pedos I think.

>do my fist battle
>oh shit I wonder what moves I have
>fucking tapfest
>don't know what's happening
>KO

Why don't you go play pokemon sun or moon then if that's what you want?
I live in a rural fuck town and all that trading will do is make me not play until I visit my family in the city once a year and trade them a bunch of pidgys for the pokemon i need. It makes no sense for this game.

>"I can't have fun so others should be able to have fun either!"

>pokemon are region locked by continent
>no way to trade
I don't think they understand the point of exclusive pokemon

I've been playing Ingress for 5 years now and Pokemon for I dunno, 10 probably.

Luckily I got immune to getting hyped by the time it was announced, so I dealt with the fact that it's utter shit pretty easily.

Well you picked the wrong franchise to complain about .

All they had to do was port in the Pokemon game mechanics but you have to walk around IRL to find, capture, trade and battle other people's pokemon.

I can't believe they fucked something up so simple.

It proves augmented reality games can be successful and I think that's pretty exciting.
I like the idea of a future where every one is wearing google glasses or lenses type deals and experiencing reality differently. Having avatars that other players see you as, battling or teaming up to perform quests in your city. A little ready player one/sword art/ pokemon go. I'd be happy if that type of thing came true and gamers left the house.

I'd hate to disrupt the Cred Forums and lefty/pol/ shitposting by having a thread about a video game on Cred Forums.

I appreciate and agree with the general spirit of your sentiment, except I just turned 30 and I have every intention of being a degenerate vidya manchild well into this decade of my life. But, I do fucking hate that we'll never see this level of hype with a game again. I'm so fucking sad to see this kind of an opportunity missed by these greedy pieces of shit.

I was in pretty much the same boat. I was level 26 by the time I quit in mid august, which was intense at the time. My group would set alarms and wake up early to go out playing together for the first few weeks, and we spent upwards of 12+ hours a day playing. My girlfriend quit her job so that we had more time to play (she hated the gig anyway). I hope that we somehow miraculously get something at least similar within our lifetime.

While I agree with you, and it was a fucking low bar, the interaction and shit made it worthwhile. I was impressed that there was an unintentionally awesome mechanic created an utterly inept developer.

It was honestly really incredible. It wasn’t even about the game on its own, but the imacact it had. The parks in my city were always filled during that summer. I ended up seeing many of my friends, including ones I hadn’t seen since high school, roaming the streets whenever they could. Everything felt so alive and connected. They captured lightning in a bottle, and I’m glad I was apart of this retarded fad while it lasted.

*impact
ffs

I still play a whole damn lot every day and I'm on the verge of hitting level 35 soon. I initially went out for a Slakoth about 30min ago or so and dropped two of my guys down at the local post office which is also a gym which was thankfully shot down by Instinct bros and I shot down a local closeby gym on my way back before I got back home a couple minutes ago and it might rain soon it started turning awfully windy out while I was out there before I headed and got back inside

I don't have an issue with a game becoming a large mainstream success. My issue is when game companies explicitly develop an existing game towards the appeal of a larger market (see: overwatch, or WoW) and change an existing game in ways that the current players tend to dislike.

Pokemon go was a mobile game, and it was never going to be a full fledged pokemon experience, no one expected it to be, it was announced to just be an ingress skin not long after it's announcement.

BUT.
It took them WAY too long to get big events out of the gate, there were none and no real updates to speak of even in late 2016, leading to many people stopping playing.
They REMOVED features instead of adding them in the few updates they did have, namely the tracker, leaving people totally clueless as to what pokemon were in their area (after they shut down the sites that used the api to reveal that info)
And not taking care of hackers pissed off the few actual interested teens in my town because they couldn't beat shit against people with perfect IV dragonites who just spoofed everywhere.

That said, it's not even anywhere near the biggest deal in vidya we've ever seen. It had a lot more normie appeal and because it's a phone game you see it in the open. But there were more people browsing newgrounds' porn section in the early 2000s than the amount of people that have ever played pokemon go. That's not even an exaggeration.

Dumb phone posters with their autocorrect and shit games, proofread your shit you nigger and emulate a real game or something don't just stand there and play pokemon go.

>But there were more people browsing newgrounds' porn section in the early 2000s than the amount of people that have ever played pokemon go. That's not even an exaggeration.

Now i've done both and I don't remember THAT much of a community on newgrounds even back when it said "the problems of the future, today"

>touching this normalfag trash
>even once
anyone who played pokemon GO should be put dwn and shot for the betterment of humanity
this planet must be purged

I didn't have a smartphone when the game came out. And now I don't have 4G internet.

Yay.

>t. Introverted shut-in fatass

Shut up, you're not missing anything good.

>i'm an extrovert i play lame gatcha games and pay money for it
Just go on a walk you zipper

I walk a lot though

It was kind of fun to get into after a long break during that week gyms and raids were retooled but largely it's a monument to taking a possibly good thing and doing nothing with it.

(And still making money.)

>moved to Vegas
>left all of my friends in California so out here alone
>went for a walk one day
>thank god I live in a nice area
>notice there's a nice looking walking trail near my house
>before I start, reinstall and open Pokemon Go
>holy fuck
>shitload of Pokemon
>like 10 or so stops and 3 gyms along the entire trail
>nice


Its still a bit lonely but I see people occasionally walking in groups playing, and we chat a bit. Mostly because of the current ongoing back and forth of gym stealing. Ive been getting a lot of coins, since it seems people usually only take the gym back every couple of days or so. So i guess the game still makes you have to at least get up and go places in order to really get into it. Defending gyms and getting stronger Pokemon is fun in a weird way, even more so when you interact with others while playing.

Actually met a cute guy at a board game cafe, told him about the trail, says he'd be down to walk it with me and catch Pokemon together.

Good on you, don't got to waste your brain on that cookie clicker.

>cookie clicker

Here is the only review you need:
>What went right?
The game used new, innovative AR technology on the most successful platform in our time, the mobile phone, and coupled it with one of the most recognizable series in video games, pokemon, which is old enough to have a demographic spanning several decades. Perfect.
>What went wrong?
Absolutely everything else.

It was a gimmick shit they died fire good reason

>different pokemon encounters on release were horrible
>battle system is still a joke
>gym system trash and the gym just got instantly retook
>still can't trade with other people
>still can't battle other people
>experience gain and item drops were so slow and shit at later levels that it forced you into the cash stop
>required full permissions to your phone, something not even Facebook did

It's like wanting a trade feature in every Pokemon off-shoot game. I hope trading isn't implemented in this game because spoofers have all their 100% IV Pokemon easy and they can just give 'em to people. You know how broken that is.

It's called travelling user. Or spoofing if you're that butthurt.

>traveling to different continents for Pokemon
Stop posting
I can understand if every 20-50 miles had a different set, but I'm not going to fuck off across the ocean every time they release a new pokemon.

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I hear you, as depressing as your post was
I don't think taking responsibility and reliving parts of childhoot are mutually exclusive.

Also the boomer generation are the worst. They're overly entitled, expect to hire the best and pay them like the worst, blame the world's problems on lazy kids, hoard jobs, houses, money, anything of value and the bitch and moan that their kids aren't buying diamonds and their mom and pop conglomerate store isn't making them millionaires.
Fuck baby boomers, they fucked the world and won't acknowledge it. They try to blame us instead.

It got me to walk to work for that summer, it was nice but living outside of a city I never really had any social interaction.

I picked it up again recently thinking nobody played it and I could claim all the gyms but I got one and it was mine for 10 hours before it was taken back so I guess there's still normies playing it around. Gameplay is still garbage so I uninstalled and won't pick it up again. Plus my ten other bot accounts full of 2-3000 hand picked pokemon from around the world are still banned. Gay.

Holy shit, I didn't notice the image or the filename before. You got me good, user.