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Frankly I’d have turned it the location based aspect too if I could have. I don’t want to go places to play a video game, I just want to play it wherever I am.
by nkrisc 4y ago
Frankly I’d have turned it the location based aspect too if I could have. I don’t want to go places to play a video game, I just want to play it wherever I am. Obviously that wasn’t the point of the game, but it turned me off to the game after a few days. Never mind how repetitive it was.
- ryderdini 4y agoWouldn’t it be better to just play the regular Pokémon games at that point?
- nkrisc 4y agoNot on my phone.
- faeriechangling 4y agoHopefully after this all blows over they will eventually make the obvious sequel to Pokémon Go. Pokéstop!
- recursive 4y agoWell then you could just play literally any other game. I'm very intrigued by the possibilities of a physical-location-based multiplayer game. I got into Ingress, but there wasn't significance to decisions in that game for my taste. I hope one day someone produces another GPS-based game that has more interesting strategy.
- mattnewton 4y agoAh, but you couldn’t play Pokémon on your mobile phone, (side-loading emulators on android nonwithstanding). I’d bet that was a sizable chunk of the appeal, especially since ingress did not have anywhere near the success.
- silisili 4y agoIt's not my kind of game either, but was definitely interesting and to me a good thing because it got people out of house. I used to walk my local park daily for years, only ever saw a few people. Seemingly out of nowhere, the park seemed always packed...kids, adults, you name it. It was kind of jarring to me, to be honest. I mentioned it in passing to my brother, kinda complaining about the sudden crowds but later describing it down to details...how people seemed to be taking pics of the ground for no reason...he said "they're playing pokemon go, dummy." I had no idea such a thing existed and thought I was going nuts. But ultimately what I saw was a lot of people venturing out and about, enjoying the day, having fun solo or in groups... and thought it was a net positive to society, for once, unlike most modern apps and games.
- perardi 4y agoI agree. Or…that’s how it used to be. COVID neutered quite a lot of that. Though in retrospect it was a bit silly to be that scared of being outside…let’s not go there… But more so, Niantic’s responses really killed in-person gameplay. You had Remote Raids, where you could be invited to join a raid at a gym from a friend. A good idea, but one they never really weaned the player base off of, because it was way easier for players to stay on the couch. (Well, and Niantic made fat bundles of cash off the Remote Raid Passes IAP.) They also made totally sensible changes to interaction distances—which is to say, they doubled (was it doubled…whatever, a non-trivial increase) the distance you could be away from a Pokéstop or a Gym to interact with it. A really nice change, and one that I think made the game better even outside the pandemic. And they rolled it back, right when Omicron took hold. And they barely spoke a word about any of the changes. It felt fickle. Arbitrary.
- silisili 4y agoThanks for taking the time to explain. That just sounds like misstep after misstep. I'm not familiar enough to say what they should have done, but whatever they were doing early on was clearly working better.
- xuki 4y agoI think they panicked when the pandemic arrived and did not consider the long term ramifications of the changes. Without those changes many players would quit the game.