Pokemon Go!

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I have been playing it for four days and I have these main issues about the game. The GPS doesn't always work. The location gets stuck on my phone or it says I am in the wrong spot because I am not in the spot but the GPS says I am, the game sometimes freezes and I have to reset the game, I am even getting kicked out of the game now I have to reload it. I don't know if this is normal stuff or if my husband just needs a new phone because maybe it doesn't fully support the game. I am still trying it though and if it gets too bad, delete.

Its awesome interacting with a ton of people in the real world, catching pokemon in the real world

I hope battling gets more strategy to make it not so repetitive and wish you could level up your pokemon instead of throwing them away to get a stronger version

Pokemon Go people can be real "lurkers".

I was walking past one of those stations that Pokemon people collect goodies. The only reason I know about this spot is my son told me about it on a previous walk. The station, (nothing more than a point where an urban pathway through a greenbelt meets a road) holds no real attractions so the most likely reason for the cars parked there with the occupants noses buried in their phones would be people picking up Pokemon goodies. As I walked past they drove off which made me think they probably have a set circuit of these stations to pick up lots of stuff. I think Pokemon people can pick up more stuff from a station every 30 minutes or so.

Considering that they were driving, it wasn't like they were getting much exercise so I felt somewhat superior walking briskly past, with no mobile phone, just walking in pure physical non-augmented reality.

The whole experience honestly depends a LOT on your location, also.

People in rural areas theoretically can have a pretty bad time with it, never finding Poke-stops or Gyms, finding few areas with Pokemon in them....

I say "theoretically" because I'm in a rural area, but there's an absolutely baffling 18 Poke-stops and 3 Gyms in the small park that's a distance of less than a block from my house. Every conceivable object in the place is marked as a Stop. It's not like a huge park either, it's mid-sized and completely flat and open. A few sports fields, overall the place is mostly grass. But if I try to go to many other areas around here, there are no Stops. Though I did find another one under a big clock thing that's attached to a particular building for no discernable reason. According to the entire internet though, a concentration of Stops simply doesnt happen in areas like mine. But there it is.

After a bit of time with the game though, I can see where the appeal comes from. It has a similar appeal to the central Pokemon games; the "catch-em-all!" idea, of filling out 100% of the Pokedex. ALOT of games do things like this, offering Achievements and various unlocks, giving players a chance to get 100% of whatever in the given game. For whatever reason, this really resonates pretty hard with tons of people. Which I suppose is similar to people that like to collect things in various hobbies. Having those things doesnt always serve a practical purpose, but they want them badly anyway. The sense of exploration and discovery are there too.

Yet actual gameplay is nearly non-existent. There's JUST the collection stuff, for the most part. So the whole thing really capitalizes on general psychology to create the effect it does. I wouldnt expect any more depth or strategy to the battling/leveling to appear, though. Nintendo has the chance to lure new people into the Pokemon franchise in general, and are likely to make absolutely bloody certain that the focus of actual gameplay aspects is kept squarely on the handheld games in the main series.

I've not seen anything in my area aside from Weedles, Pidgeys, ten squillion Rattatas, and one Eevee. I'm in the US, myself. This was when travelling to the more populated zone around here.

One problem with the game though is it's HORRIBLE tutorial: AKA, the nearly complete lack of one. The game has alot of mechanics working, but almost NONE of them are actually explained. This is actually a problem, because not knowing these things can frustrate players.

For example, the whole CP thing. Your level determines what CP ranges of Pokemon will appear, that much is known; you will not find Pokemon (not even spot them) with a CP level higher than what your level determines. It's speculated that each Pokemon species has a MINIMUM CP level (maybe?), which basically means that at low levels, you're literally unable to find anything aside from the weakest species. Others just wont even show up for you (or maybe they're more rare?). But nobody is ENTIRELY sure about how this works, because the damn game doesnt bother explaining it. Not good design in any game, that.

Not knowing about that can cause frustration if the player just thinks "there's nothing but Pidgeys around here! Why should I even bother?".

Though, again, with no real explanation nobody is truly sure how any of it works.

I had a good day with this, today. Husband and I went out together to our local park, which I've discovered is Charmander central!

Also four Pokestops and a gym. I guess this must be why there aren't many others around - they've all been concentrated there! We walked around playing alongside everyone else, which was an interesting experience - everywhere I'd been before today, I'd been the only person playing.

Then we set up near a Pokestop, I set a lure down and whilst we played, a boy of roughly 11 came over to ask if it was our lure, said thanks and then sat down to chat Pokemon with us. After the lure ran out, we ended up all taking over the gym together as he turned out to be on our team.

I didn't think I'd enjoy playing it somewhere a bit busier, but it made for a nice change. Still, we're going on another walk tomorrow to a much quieter park.

I wonder what this game is like in small towns that are in the middle of nowhere and what this game would be like in my old home town where there are small cities nearby.

There has to be a way to get a Pokeman Go into the hands of each member of ISIS.

Get them hooked, so they become oblivious to military duty, and so they will start to walk off cliffs, into trafffic, accidently shoot each other, and start to get pissed off at and start to deliberately shoot each other.

I saw in a video that criminals are using Pokemon stops to find victims. Be careful everyone when playing it at night.

I love POKEMON Go.
I'm already addicted to it and I've always liked it since my first game pokemon yellow version.
I'd like to meet aspies with the same interest

Some people take this game pretty seriously.



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So, I just got back from an anime convention in Iowa, which is called "Anime Iowa", but I've been calling it PokeCon after the fact that this game was EVERYWHERE and everyone was obsessing over it.

The thing about this convention for alot of people is that there's *alot* of walking to be done. It's a huge, open area... not an urban one, but instead has alot of fields and farms nearby... but there's a big cluster of hotels and such with the focus on the major hotel (a Mariott) and it's convention center. But the Mariott's lot is HUGE. It's essentially "across the street" from the hotel I stayed at, but it's still like a 15-minute walk there. Usually in boiling heat.

But this meant that people had that many more chances to go after Pokemon in the game. And then this often led to even more walking... I've been to this place many times now over the years, and only this time do I discover something like a big nature trail behind the hotel, which then also attaches to a metal walkway over some water that then leads back to the hotel itself. Pretty unique experience... walking around that in full costume, frequently stopping to catch something in-game or use one of the many Pokestops that were there. So that added motivation led to the discovery of that, which seemed to be the case with alot of con-goers.

As the game goes, led to many catches. 90 Pokemon caught in total so far, and 30 registered in the Pokedex. I'm guessing that people were using lures as there were spots where I could stand there and it'd take like 10 minutes to drain the spot of everything that was available.

Also of note is the bit where in the morning I randomly checked the game, and without getting out of bed, caught a Drowzee. How fitting.

Interesting though overall to see just how many people were obsessing over it. SO many phones out and clearly running the game.

On the downside, I'm really sore now. Everything hurts. WAY too much of the walking.