I put 50 hours into this game in five days before I stopped on Friday. I felt, and possibly still feel, burnt out. I think I was overwhelmed with how easy it is to perfect IVs, reason be is that so many people will probably dedicate their time to doing it - despite it being such a long process - that I won't be able to keep up.
I was looking forward to actually battling online, training anything and everything, but with the prospect of perfect IVs so easily obtainable, I feel left out. I put the game down and asked myself whether it was worth putting so much time into each one of my teammates to perfect their stats for online play.
What also does not help is the lackluster postgame. If multiplayer and the metagame are so daunting, then there should be a longer single player, but there is not.
I really don't know what to do. On one hand, the game has distracted me from my responsibilities, but I had so much fun doing it at the time. On the other hand, I feel burnt out. Shit...
It is definitely the quickest I have ever picked up a pokemon game and put it down after beating it. I am struggling to find a reason to continue. I will literally be outclassed by the very last thing there is to do, and that is play the metagame after ultimately training to 100. Damn it.