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Pokemon Go Loses More Than 15 Million Daily Users in a Month

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Skiesofwonder

Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
This thread is absolutely hilarious.

Just in this very thread it has been stated that 30 million users are still actively playing, even after school starting back. It's also the top app in over 50 countries, and has a better than normal user-retention rate. Yet people are too busy screaming "told ya so" and falling for the baited title to even notice. This thing is still a phenomenon beyond even Niantic and Nintendo's wildest dreams.

And some anecdotal evidence:

I still can go the local strip mall at 10 PM on a Monday (when everything is closed) and see close to 100 players roaming around catching Pokemon. In this day and age with everything fighting for our attention, that's absolutely insane.
 
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Lucky Seven

Banned
I stopped playing at level seven because I had nobody to play with and I did not live a big city. I looked like a loser playing GO on my own when walking out on the sidewalk, it was not a phenomenon in my area at all. I feel like I missed out, kind of sucks the game won't pick up again. At least I can laugh at the game's defenders, who will always try to tell you it's going strong and that "pokemania is back!".
 
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Nori Chan

Member
kiguel182 said:
It's a shallow ass game. Not surprising.
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Dishwalla

Banned
Skiesofwonder said:
I still can go the local strip mall at 10 PM on a Monday (when everything is closed) and see close to 100 players roaming around catching Pokemon. In this day and age with everything fighting for our attention, that's absolutely insane.
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I too still see lots of people playing, I go out every couple of days on my bike to popular hot spots and see crowds of people playing it. Last week I was out at the park playing when it began to pour down rain and only a few people of many dispersed, most people(including me) stuck around despite the rain.
 
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sibarraz

Banned
People in this thread talk like the game is at the verge of being removed from the app store. The drop looks normal to me since this game attracted lots of people who don't even know what a pokemon is, but joined anyway since it was the hot game of the season. Other people didn't liked the game and moved on. The decline will continue until they release more gens when will rise and fall again

Isn't like miitomo which really lost almost all of his userbase very quickly.
 
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RionaaM

Unconfirmed Member
Some of my friends are still playing, but I dropped it after 10 days or so. I just got tired of finding the same old trash mons. I could only catch so many Pidgeys and Rattatas before it became frustrating.
 
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KelpPlankton

Member
Makes sense. Instead of supporting it post-launch with additional content they removed features and replaced them with worse ones, and never addressed the issues players in rural areas are facing with being unable to play.

It's still doing really well, obviously, but they're going to have a hard time getting player retention numbers to rise or even stabilize when there's basically nothing left to do in the game. Particularly for newer players, they can't even compete with any existing gyms at this point.
 
LoveCake

LoveCake

Member
I have never played Pokémon Go, isn't the issue that there simply isn't enough content to keep people playing?
 
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Starfish Hero

Member
Sounded bad until I looked at the graph. The decline seems to be leveling off and it will probably settling comfortably above 20 million daily users through the end of the year. That's not bad.

I personally don't play anymore and I knew this high wouldn't last forever, but it's not doing bad.
 
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Cromat

Member
There's really not much to do in the game after you've caught a lot of different monsters. You just see the same Pokemon over and over again.

It they could just make a normal Pokemon game with the AR mechanics it would rock. Instead of mindlessly throwing balls you would battle wild Pokemon, train them, breed them, battle other players. The mechanics of the original games are really simple so without any plot I think the game would still work for a mass audience.
 
Acerac

Acerac

Banned
Oh wow, I thought that was going to be nearly all of the playerbase until I saw how many were playing at peak.
 
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ggx2ac

Member
Oh, I thought this was worse than I thought. Reading the article it seems that investors of other mobile apps were breathing a sigh of relief because Pokémon Go was taking up people's time from Facebook or Twitter.

To those that think it's over for Pokémon Go or AR mobile games, it's not. There will definitely be competitors that will want a piece of the Pokémon Go pie creating their own AR games. The problem is if they don't understand what drove the userbase to increase since it's not only brand power.
 
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Kodaman

Member
Skiesofwonder said:
This thread is absolutely hilarious.

Just in this very thread it has been stated that 30 million users are still actively playing, even after school starting back. It's also the top app in over 50 countries, and has a better than normal user-retention rate. Yet people are too busy screaming "told ya so" and falling for the baited title to even notice. This thing is still a phenomenon beyond even Niantic and Nintendo's wildest dreams.
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Maxinas

Member
Skiesofwonder said:
This thread is absolutely hilarious.

Just in this very thread it has been stated that 30 million users are still actively playing, even after school starting back. It's also the top app in over 50 countries, and has a better than normal user-retention rate. Yet people are too busy screaming "told ya so" and falling for the baited title to even notice. This thing is still a phenomenon beyond even Niantic and Nintendo's wildest dreams.

And some anecdotal evidence:

I still can go the local strip mall at 10 PM on a Monday (when everything is closed) and see close to 100 players roaming around catching Pokemon. In this day and age with everything fighting for our attention, that's absolutely insane.
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Absolutely this. 15M user drop is huge, but considering it still has 30M active users, that's not something a good chunk of mobile games can compete with. I'm sure when big updates hit, such as new pokemon being added, the userbase will go up again, but it's reached its peak for sure.
 
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DeuceGamer

Member
cyba89 said:
People in here act as if this was Miitomo-dead yet PoGo still has 30 million daily active users.
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Yea, it's far from a Miitomo situation. I expect it's made several times it's investment at this point. Is it still the top grossing app in all/most regions?
 
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EatinOlives

Member
They didn't capitalize on the success. We should've been seeing a major content patch already with useful fixes and some Gen 2 Pokemon being rolled out.
 
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NolbertoS

Member
The excitement around my neck of the woods has died down abit, but it hasn't staggering like the article claims. When it came out in Canada, there was like 300 people in 1 pokestop playing, now more like 100ish, still substantial but obviously not as bad. I haven't player in a couple of weeks due to work issues, but me and a buddy managed to play around and catch. Also there are apps now that twll you where to find rare Pokemons in your neck of the woodS. We caught a Charizard within 12 minute drive and there were tons of cars looking for that Pokemon too. I wouldn't say its dead, more like your typical mobile game, its lukewarn now with people, but atill making enough dough to make money.
 
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Raw64life

Member
School starting, weather about to get worse, game runs out of steam after a while.

I've been playing it rather slowly. 90% of the time it's during my lunch break at work. I recently hit level 15 and you have to catch an awful lot of Pokemon to get to the next level. I rarely see anything not already in my Pokedex anymore. It's starting to get old.
 
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Spyder_Monkey

Banned
It was never that good to begin with. A good idea that I want to see integrated in better games sure but Pokemon Go itself, especially at the beginning was a buggy, unpolished mess.
 
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Shiggy

Member
The dropoff probably isn't larger as they launched in new regions. When my friends from HK and Singapore recently told me about it, I was just like "uhh, ya, it was big here too...a month ago or so".

Blaming Niantic's changes for the dropoff is a bit too simple. The game simply lacks game mechanics that lead to high user retention. There's simply not a lot to do, and what you do isn't really rewarding.

Adding more generations also won't help too much. The big hype was at launch, simply adding more Pokemon won't do much, especially as only Gen 1 is really well known. Adding some new game mechanics could make users return though.
 
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CMojicaAce

Member
There's no question that it's still immensely popular. I personally got bored of it and haven't opened the app for two weeks now.
 
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Biske

Member
Seems fairly obvious having played the game, also being human.

First of all inside the fad nature of it, it being sooo crazy popular of course some people are gonna catch on, play it a bit then oh well that's enough of that.

Second it's in actually a pretty empty shitty game. I love it and play it a ton, but yeah, pure grind can only really be played in bits and those bits heavily depend on where you are. So at some point unless you create new goals for your self the game is boring as hell and really not a game at all.




But just going outside and playing myself the game is still quite popular, but of course it was destined to lose its luster.


Would be cool if there was a Pokemon game built inside of it and I could use the Pokemon I've caught to play it. So the game would basically be a mainline came but all the Pokemon are caught in go, but it has a story and etc. It's nice to have dreams
 
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Wagram

Member
It's a basic and shallow experience (that's me being kind btw) so it's not surprising. It'll be interesting to see what the upswing or downswing will be in the coming months with Pokemon 3DS releasing and new updates to the game.
 
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maniac-kun

Member
Well the gameplay has no depth at all. There is nothing that would keep me playing. The Pokegym fights suck. Pokemon catching dosnt involve fights... So... Whats the point in playing this?
 
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