It is possible to track, most people just... welp... needs handholding, console, dumbed down, kids, non pcmasterrace etc, you get it.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Pokemon Go Loses More Than 15 Million Daily Users in a Month
- Thread starter Poetic.Injustice
- Start date
It is possible to track, most people just... welp... needs handholding, console, dumbed down, kids, non pcmasterrace etc, you get it.
Baron_Calamity
Member
It's not really surprising. I live in a rural area and the only things I got were route 1 trash like Rattata, Pidgey, Caterpie and the occasional Eevee. There's really no hope for me to get my favorite gen 1 mons like Alakazam and Gengar - I only caught one Abra and could never find a Gastly.
The gyms here were just who had the best Eevee evolution competition. Pokestops too few and far between and in odd places (one of them in my town is next to a dumpster behind a Target).
The gym battles also fucking sucked, it was just a competition of who could mash their phone the fastest.
After that, there isn't much else to do! No trading, no direct battling, no point.
Someone done fucked up. Either Pokemon Company for not wanting actual features in fear of a creep on mainline titles sales or Niantic for just being in over their heads.
Maybe Nintendo will get their shit together, tell Niantic to fuck off, and release Pokemon Go 2 in Summer 2018 with more gens and more features.
The gyms here were just who had the best Eevee evolution competition. Pokestops too few and far between and in odd places (one of them in my town is next to a dumpster behind a Target).
The gym battles also fucking sucked, it was just a competition of who could mash their phone the fastest.
After that, there isn't much else to do! No trading, no direct battling, no point.
Someone done fucked up. Either Pokemon Company for not wanting actual features in fear of a creep on mainline titles sales or Niantic for just being in over their heads.
Maybe Nintendo will get their shit together, tell Niantic to fuck off, and release Pokemon Go 2 in Summer 2018 with more gens and more features.
Valkerionseven
Member
The game appeal wore out fast and their lack of features like trading and battling between friends outside a gym were the killer retention functions needed asap.
What was once a let's walk around and play I'd just.... Eh might as well turn it on while walking down the strret. Lower the encounters of freaking pidgey and rattata and make it more interesting with other pokemon. Last exciting thing that happened for me and !y friends was hunting down a venasaur in our street.
Have a feeling g it will spike when they add gens or features til then it will be a glorified pedometer.
What was once a let's walk around and play I'd just.... Eh might as well turn it on while walking down the strret. Lower the encounters of freaking pidgey and rattata and make it more interesting with other pokemon. Last exciting thing that happened for me and !y friends was hunting down a venasaur in our street.
Have a feeling g it will spike when they add gens or features til then it will be a glorified pedometer.
KingJ2002
Member
Here in Singapore the fad died down way faster than time spent to wait for the local launch (1 month). Everyone is still holding the phone but it's now back to Facebook or Whatsapp.
As for me I had unlimited supply of pokeballs since I live near 2 pokestops but grew sick of endless Rattata and Pidgey at lv18 lol
As for me I had unlimited supply of pokeballs since I live near 2 pokestops but grew sick of endless Rattata and Pidgey at lv18 lol
adamantypants
Member
The barrier to entry is too high now. They fucked it up.
That first week, you had the footprint system and rustling leaves to indicate where to find Pokemon. My friends who jumped in on the fad and have since dropped couldn't really articulate why they lost interest. I'm willing to bet its because it's that much harder to find pokemon. Nowadays, you fire it up and hope that something is near you because tracking pokemon any other way is just frustrating.
That first week, you had the footprint system and rustling leaves to indicate where to find Pokemon. My friends who jumped in on the fad and have since dropped couldn't really articulate why they lost interest. I'm willing to bet its because it's that much harder to find pokemon. Nowadays, you fire it up and hope that something is near you because tracking pokemon any other way is just frustrating.
Trogdor1123
Member
I'm still playing it lots, it's fun but the amount people played it was crazy too much
It's possible to go after what appeared in your sightings. It's impossible to track a specific Pokémon you need or want.
hydragonwarrior
Member
Well deserved drop. Pretty much mirrors what happened with TwitchPlaysPokemon - no idea how to deal with the popularity, and more so how to retain it, and dooooown it goes.
Plus, any person in the world would tire of finding pidgies, and only more devoted ppl would chase after the perfect pidgey via IV's or use a pidgey calc or even just try to take over a gym. That isn't something a casual player would do.... they want something simple and some semblance of variety and challenge which is kinda provided in other super casual games like Temple Run.
Plus, any person in the world would tire of finding pidgies, and only more devoted ppl would chase after the perfect pidgey via IV's or use a pidgey calc or even just try to take over a gym. That isn't something a casual player would do.... they want something simple and some semblance of variety and challenge which is kinda provided in other super casual games like Temple Run.
psynergylover
Member
More gyms for me to take over >
RavageDark
Member
Apparently, Pokemon Go is Nintendooned.
/s
/s
The Abominable Snowman
Member
What? That's pretty fricking impressive for a post-launch with no major cross promotions yet nor any additional content.
And? Thats how it should work?
Monocle
Member
WTF do they expect when they release a barebones game and then screw with its already barely functional tracking system?
I enjoy Go well enough but it obviously needs:
- deeper mechanics (PvP and trading, for a start)
- a reliable and accessible tracking system
- a much more diverse distribution of Pokemon (making the same five or so types show up constantly was a huge mistake)
- actual reasons to play in rural areas
- ways for lower level players to interact with gyms (right now they're dominated by high level players who must spend a lot of their time downtown)
- more ways to earn Pokecoins and obtain special items, because no, I'm not going to shell out real money to enhance the super shallow gameplay
I enjoy Go well enough but it obviously needs:
- deeper mechanics (PvP and trading, for a start)
- a reliable and accessible tracking system
- a much more diverse distribution of Pokemon (making the same five or so types show up constantly was a huge mistake)
- actual reasons to play in rural areas
- ways for lower level players to interact with gyms (right now they're dominated by high level players who must spend a lot of their time downtown)
- more ways to earn Pokecoins and obtain special items, because no, I'm not going to shell out real money to enhance the super shallow gameplay
And it frustrates whoever wants to have a competitive team for gyms and the casuals that want a Pikachu/Charizard or whatever. They damage all their audiences at the same time.
You probably are ignorant to the fact that millions of people used Poke Vision. People want to know where their Pokémons are.
viewtiful_dru
Member
So to summarize:
did I miss anything?
- typical mobile game usage dropoff over time
- updates that broke functionality in the game drove some away
- rural and some suburban players not seeing incentive to play because of lack of monster variety
- developer banned a significant number of bot accounts
- many children are back or are going back to school and have less time to play
did I miss anything?
And millions of people want to use wallhack to know where their enemies are if they knew they had really small chance to get banned.
Of course some people want everything to be as easy as possible.
The problem is, the game isn't fun enough to put that much effort into it. It had a perfectly good tracking ability built in and they removed it due to "reasons", now the game is dead.
I believe there was another article about this that mentioned how the game is retaining users over time at a much higher degree than other huge mobile games like Candy Crush did.
Still seems to be huge. They really do need to hit us with some decent updates soon enough though. Get the legendary birds into the game.
Still seems to be huge. They really do need to hit us with some decent updates soon enough though. Get the legendary birds into the game.
You must not have played the game when it first launched. The answer is no, that's not how it should work at all. The game is fundamentally broken.
I did and there is very small difference, only if they fixed so pokemons were in right order who is closest etc that would be fine.
Edit: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214777707&postcount=19081
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Actually the curve isn't that bad.
More titles would kill for that level of engagement and retention than would "be too worried" about it
panama chief
Member
They thought people would stick around long after being mistreated? Nothing new in weeks. I can't even catch Pokemon in my area. I wish them luck going forward.
Astral Dog
Member
Pokemon is dead 💀
Seriously. No game could continue the pace they set... How much is this fucking game making a day? It's doing just fine.
thiscoldblack
Unconfirmed Member
Niantic messed it all up. It's all going downhill from here onwards. They should've listened to the community.
Interesting...
spazchicken
Member
Count me as one of them. I haven't uninstalled but I haven't booted it up either.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
The novelty wears off INCREDIBLY quickly.
I deleted it off my phone yesterday, having not even opened it for weeks.
There's nothing to really do in the game and that's where it's biggest downfall lies. It had a good month, but it doesn't have staying power.
I deleted it off my phone yesterday, having not even opened it for weeks.
There's nothing to really do in the game and that's where it's biggest downfall lies. It had a good month, but it doesn't have staying power.
If I do this it won't let me log in. If I log into the game with the correct date then go back into the settings and change the date it logs me out and won't me log back in.
funkystudent
Member
Have they still not fixed that "gltich" that turned the catch rate to crap?