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Pokemon Go Loses More Than 15 Million Daily Users in a Month
- Thread starter Poetic.Injustice
- Start date
Just like the regular games then.
Wyndstryker
Member
If 30 million active users is dead. Then 99% of all mobile games are dead.
Definitely. It's not like it was gonna last. Nothing on the crapstores do
SinCityAssassin
Member
When the remaining 30 million users drop off in 2 months, he will be right.
Yeah the heatwave cut the time i play significantly.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
A lot of terribly bad armchair analysts in this thread tripping all over each other to prove how right they were. It's hilarious.
"Well of course, I could have told you it would die like this, in fact here's the exact reason why"
While ya know, there's still 30 million daily players, above average retention, and it's still the number 1 free app (or at least free game) in marketplaces worldwide. Nothing about this data means "the fad is dead" at this time. It just means it has passed its absolute peak. We need much more data to determine if this is going to continue as a trend, or if we're just seeing the game level out to a more reasonable and sustainable level of activity.
"Well of course, I could have told you it would die like this, in fact here's the exact reason why"
While ya know, there's still 30 million daily players, above average retention, and it's still the number 1 free app (or at least free game) in marketplaces worldwide. Nothing about this data means "the fad is dead" at this time. It just means it has passed its absolute peak. We need much more data to determine if this is going to continue as a trend, or if we're just seeing the game level out to a more reasonable and sustainable level of activity.
Corronchilejano
Member
lwilliams3
Member
The title makes it sound a lot worse than it is. Look at the graph.
Got to about 120 caught, now have no reliable way to track anything I might need, bags are all full with Ultra balls, stuck at level 23 with no Lucky Eggs.
Yeah there's really nothing left for me to do. I guess I could fight at gyms but there's really no incentive for me to do so.
Maybe I'll come back to it one day but I'm done for now.
Yeah there's really nothing left for me to do. I guess I could fight at gyms but there's really no incentive for me to do so.
Maybe I'll come back to it one day but I'm done for now.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
If having a third of your peak userbase stop playing after a month classifies you as a fad, then I guess almost every single game ever made could be called a fad.
Vital Tundra
Member
At least main Pokemon games are getting more attention, thats all I care about. Sun and Moon are going to sell like mad. Also isn't this like every other app?
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
No one cares. They just want to drive by with how they called it months ago and Niantic's terrible/Nintendo is doomed/mobile gamers have no attention span/the game was a bad fad/etc..
Edit: lol, phone autocorrected fad to GAF.
Papacheeks
Banned
That's not what he said, he said there would be significant drop off, and it's been just over a month. He also said wait around 4 months, so lets see how much more it drops.
But I knew it content wise wouldn't be able to sustain itself.
MrLuvvaLuvva
Member
It's funny, I wrote a blog post posing the question "Is it a fad?" and came into a lot of flack from friends and work mates IRL for having the audacity of even asking! It was bizarre because I don't ever say "its a fad" in my post - I was merely posing the question to inspire some dialogue about the game's strengths and weaknesses. The post is here if you'd like to read it .
It's far from over for Pokemon GO of course, there are plenty of ways it can be reinvigorated (if a game with 30 million players really needs it) and turned into a lasting experience!
It's far from over for Pokemon GO of course, there are plenty of ways it can be reinvigorated (if a game with 30 million players really needs it) and turned into a lasting experience!
theepicoftyler
Member
Pokemon Go was taking the place of my nightly bike rides. Pokemon Go was killing my cardio game.
mangochutney
Member
School starting? Not in Europe, buddy. The drop off is actually in line with school finishing in most of Europe.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
you guys 30 million people isn't even that much, it's like barely the population of medium sized country
*strokes boner*
*strokes boner*
Wouldn't they play even more considering they can hang out with their friends at school during breaks as well as after school? That's what happens here at least.
SinCityAssassin
Member
It would really depend on if the schools have Pokestops. The primary schools and highschools near me only have one each, and they're usually far from the areas kids would spend break time.
That said, more updates need to add that other 90% of content they want if they want to plateau their user base above 30 million.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Not just mobile games, but 99% of console, PC, TV shows, movies, books, basically every piece of medium ever released is a dead fad now. Glad Gaf figured it out!
I thought Nianitc was making an effort to remove stops from all schools barring universities to avoid distracting kids (have no problem with this)
Pilgrimzero
Member
In playing it less because all I find are Pidgys and rats.
They need to fix or change the spawning algorithm.
They need to fix or change the spawning algorithm.
CrunchyFrog
Member
Niantic is really bungling the post launch support. Even disregarding the huge success, they still should have had some kind of content pipeline in place to keep people going because as it is all the casual stuff is dried up as the hardcore 24/7 players have taken the gyms and you have to be seriously lucky or in just the right spot to get some of the rarer Pokémon. It's frustrating because it doesn't take a genius to see that this game could easily be something more.
Fox Mulder
Member
Itll be real fun when they dump in gen 2 and dilute the spawn pool. The entire game is built on harvesting repeat pokemon for candy to power up and evolve.
Agent Unknown
Member
They still haven't fixed the convenient "glitch" which has made Ratatas and Pidgeys hard to catch, that alone has caused me to stop playing regularly, a friend of mine who is at least level 23 has stopped completely. I'm sure there still would have been a drop but you'd think they could have stemmed it at least a bit with more updates, better communication and not coming down so hard on locator programs.
RaptorGTA
Member
mangochutney
Member
1. You would still go on to see if there were any good Pokemon spawned around during your breaks.
2. You would still play it after or before school, as you walk home, drive home however you get there.
3. As I posted above school is out for a fair few weeks yet in Europe. They break for summer mid-late July until September in most parts, the USA isn't the world.
Corronchilejano
Member
Since everyone is anecdoting the shit out of the thread:
Literally every acquaintance I meet from the moment I wake up to the moment I sit down to work is playing Pokemon Go. Family, friends, coworkers.
Literally every acquaintance I meet from the moment I wake up to the moment I sit down to work is playing Pokemon Go. Family, friends, coworkers.
SinCityAssassin
Member
I never mentioned anything about worldwide school activity.
This is also interesting (and more accurate than the thread title here. They lost much more than 15 mio users)
https://arc.applause.com/2016/08/23/pokemon-go-retention-rates-monetization/
https://arc.applause.com/2016/08/23/pokemon-go-retention-rates-monetization/
malboroking
Banned
I'm sorry, this couldn't be further from th truth. The main games are packed with content and the battle system has loads of depth.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Yeah, if they don't add fresher content soon, it's gonna plateau at a lower percentage.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
After Ash lost, I mean, what's the fuckin point of Pokemon?
cookie-monster
Member
And what percentage of those lost users were whales? The only number that actually matters.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
I think if you look at how many hours the average player puts into these games, if even a fraction actually finish it, you'll see a similar drop off with the same retention with the same smaller hardcore group.
SinCityAssassin
Member
At this point, it really isn't. There's no hard, direct correlation between the drop of daily users and the removal of the old tracking feature, only heresy (and the deletion of a whole lot of bots).
GregLombardi
Member
Nintendo is doomed unless their crappy half baked software makes them infinite money into the forever.
Davey Cakes
Member
It wasn't really fun past the first few weeks for me.
They need to add more features and Gen 2 ASAP. People won't continue to be engaged otherwise.
I still won't stick around. Got other games to play that are more worth my while. It was a fun experiment but not something that could go long term for me.
Mostly I wanted to fill the dex and move on, but searching for Pokemon stopped being fun. Why continue playing? The whole gym dynamic sucked.
They need to add more features and Gen 2 ASAP. People won't continue to be engaged otherwise.
I still won't stick around. Got other games to play that are more worth my while. It was a fun experiment but not something that could go long term for me.
Mostly I wanted to fill the dex and move on, but searching for Pokemon stopped being fun. Why continue playing? The whole gym dynamic sucked.
Lol okay. They took out the only thing that made the game fun and people stopped playing because ?????
SinCityAssassin
Member
Because of literally everything else they need to fix. As well as more content. The way the app engages you is incredibly finite and light on things to do.