It's also missing what I consider to be easily the most important feature for a game like this: no battles! All you get, at best, are Gyms. Why they thought it was a good idea to not allow people to battle eachother right from release date blows my mind.

The most important feature for games is to have features, Pokemon GO is lacking in those. Though it's much less buggy now.

The most important feature for games is a skinner box. Obviously Pokemon Go's problem is that the Skinner Box isn't Skinnery enough. They need to make outcomes more inexplicable, and add more microtransactions.

There are lots of problems in the game. Having a Pokemon's power being limited by your level cap, until level 30, makes literally everything you find until level 30 pointless. Level 30 is hard to hit without spending money, I'm level 25 and not even halfway there in pure volume, because xp increase is roughly exponential.

Then, you can only power up a Pokemon by catching more Pokemon of the same type. So not only are the best Pokemon super rare, if you don't find one that starts powerful or are low level, it's probably worthless. Not only that, players who cheated are much more likely to have a bunch, and most of them did not get banned for cheating.

Also, gyms are literally impossible to defend since, you're only allowed one Pokemon to make a friendly gym stronger and you earn less points, whereas you can attack with multiple people, 6 Pokemon in a lineup, and take away big chunks. So even the cheaters with big Pokemon can be taken down with a few players working together.

So, if your dream game is a frustrating mess where you collect the same, boring Pokemon for no purpose at all other than to grind the absurd amount of experience to rarely get decent Pokemon that you need alot of to be competitive, it's for you.

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any big popular thing will have quite a few people who jump in because they get swept up in the excitement and do the "i'll check this thing out"

then with the issues, the app rapes battery life, the app requires it to be actively running and raping your battery life to hatch the stupid eggs, battery saver simply doesn't work on any phone without a gyro sensor and even some with the appropriate sensor the feature is buggy/outright broken, battery saver mode apparently doesn't do that much even when it works, the whole ****storm surrounding the tracking feature

i imagine the big drop-off is not going to be a trend... it's just the people who were only casually interested and the rage-quitters leaving... i imagine the trading update and the gen 2 update will bring back some of those people

I doubt it.

I've just reverted to playing the actual games on a 3DS. Bah, mobile cell games.