Mostly good game
Thu Sep 21 2023 aenellaI would say overall that the game is fun. However there are some ways tbat I feel would make the game much better. For example when you catch pokemon, I feel like the rare candies should be able to be used on any pokemon like in the original game and not just when you win blank ones. I also feel like some of the challenges are completely crap. For example you get zero credit for the masterball challenge if you lose the raid or the battle. You can literally spend hours and days trying but get zero credit and fail the challenge regardless of the work you put in if you lose. That really is not fair at all to the users. Stardust should be in the shop for purchase and the absolute worst part of the game is when you trade a Pokémon and its stats change. In the original game this does not happen. You can send a 3 star pokemon to your friend and suddenly it become a 1 or even a 0 star. It takes all the fun of trading away when you spend months trying to find 3 stars and then the stats are tossed around if you try to share it. When you win a raid, you also should automatically get the pokemon. It shouldn’t be allowed to run away. If they would fix these issues I would happily change my rating but until then I will have to say that the issues I mention make it hard to want to play sometimes.
Pokémon go ideas
Sat Nov 04 2023 starpower...12345678910(Hey! I just wanted to start off by saying I LOVE this game and I recommend it to everyone who likes to travel and needs a family game! Pokémon introduces friends you can make online, a fun way to travel, and to bring back some childhood nostalgia! It has all the Pokémon including newer ones as well as the original! You can battle and do raids to get more Pokémon! But I do have some suggestions so please bare with me…
1. Can you add rest stops or Pokémon hospitals so that way we can heal our Pokémon other than revives? My idea is that when you become a level 34 or 35 they are able to plant a rest stop or hospital. But it takes a hour to heal the Pokémon and you can only have a few at a time. The reason I want this is because when you have no revives and you continue to do raids and battles and you continue to lose Pokémon as well as revives especially for new players you don’t know what to do. So if we do this idea it could make this game even better!
2. Can you also make it so when we leave Pokémon in gyms for more than eight hours can we continue to get coins? Five is fine but the reason I am implying this is because it takes a while to rack up in coins and you can’t use the Pokémon while they are in gyms and you only get 50 coins no matter how long they stay there. So thank you to anyone who read this review! And again please consider this it would mean a lot to me!
Thank you, 🥰
Niantic Is predatory
Sat Apr 01 2023 ZeusgobTruly Pokémon GO has been my #1 hoppy since early 2019. I came back to the game after launch, like many people did with the inclusion of raids and PVP making a full fledged game. Since that time Niantic has become more and more predatory with every “season” jacking up the prices of boxes and now the unforgivable sin of DOUBLING remote repaid passes and setting a restriction on the amount used per day. Never mind that there’s entire backlogs of bugs that have never been addressed and with each update new ones are introduced. Niantics vision is wrong and misguided, I understand the idea of community and bonding over a shared experience but as of late, that shared community experience has only been grief and frustration at the management in place completely knee capping the experience for rural players, players with disabilities and honestly fans of the game//paying customers. I love this game so much and it kills me to be uninstalling it due to these practices.
I’m a Pokémon fan and have been almost all 26 years of my life, truly I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on this game but I can’t keep going on like this just for my love of the franchise while these predatory tactics are so blatant. Believe me it makes me sad to make such a poor review of the game but their mis-management and neglect to critical parts of the game in favor of just making more money has become unbearable.
Raids in general
Sat Sep 16 2023 …—-….I love this game, but I’ve been experiencing a lot of lag with the raid passes. For example, there have been multiple time where I spent a way-too-much amount of coins on a remote raid that didn’t even enter my inventory. And that’s not it. On the off chance that I get to use that raid pass, as soon as the raid starts, I get kicked out if I’m not within range, even if I’m using a REMOTE raid pass. I would like to get a refund on the passes that I have lost. Also, please make it easier for us free-to-play gamers that don’t feel like spending $5 to get poke coins. Maybe you can get them by completing research or winning in the GO battle league. If you guys don’t want to make it easier, at least make the raid passes cheaper. Or delete the maximum amount of Pokémon that can be in a gym. Or do SOMETHING to make it easier to get pokecoins for the kids who are broke playing this game. I’ve been saving for at least 3 months only to have 300 or so coins, and the. When I buy something I don’t get to use it. Also, for me, I get no research tasks that give me incubators. I NEED MORE. How am I supposed to hatch eggs? “You can buy incubators blah blah blah. Yeah, I know. For ONE HUNDRED to TWO HUNDRED coins. I feel like I’m more recent years Niantic has gotten more greedy and making things more expensive so that people have to spend money to buy coins. Here is my account info so that you can please maybe refund me for the countless coins I have lost randomly.
This game has come very far
Sat Sep 05 2020 ThAtS nOt A wOrDI’ve been playing this game since week 1. There was a month of 2 when I had it deleted because I wasn’t playing it, but when gen 3 was added I came right back. I’ve spent a good hundred dollars on this game, and I really only have 1 complaint in the dinosaur of video game perfection. I just wish Mega Evolution was better. Anyway, the way they have adapted into making play from hone easier is really nice, so people don’t risk getting sick. If you look back at the beginning of the game, you can really tell it’s growth. Research, buddies, friends, trainer battles, Team Rocket, shinies, and even legendaries weren’t even in the game at launch, and now we (almost) have 5 ENTIRE GENERATIONS with a read of gen 6. Research has been a really fun time killer when I’m bored, and the fact that Pokémon constantly spawn make it even nicer and a continuous adventure. Looking back, I feel so dumb taking a break from the game, even if it was only for 2 months. Anyone could get a blast out of it, and it’s a great way to drop a couple of pounds even if you’re only going out once a day! A lot of people got it at the start and quit a few weeks/months. If your one of those people, definitely check this game out again! This game has come so far, and I can’t wait to see how much it grows in the future!
Fun Yet Incredibly Inaccessible
Sun Jul 30 2023 ghost Story Girl22I have played on and off since its release. I love Pokemon, and I love playing this with family and friends. However, it's very inaccessible. I am legally blind, so while I have some vision, I can see very little, and heavily rely on my iPhone's zoom feature. But Pokemon GO doesn't work well with the zoom feature. Basically, if I zoom in to see something, buttons end up pressing, menus get closed, etc. So I can't accurately select Pokemon for a battle, or transfer specific Pokemon, or even adjust my settings. And VoiceOver (which reads text out loud to me) doesn't work either. If I activate it and try to select something for it to read, it's treated like a regular tap. So if I, for example, tap on the name of a Pokemon, instead of VoiceOver reading it, the Pokemon info is actually opened.
So while I still enjoy Pokemon GO, I can't get anywhere near as into it as family and friends. I have to select random Pokemon for battles, rely on friends to choose what I'll trade and hope I'm not getting totally cheated, and basically go down the row and transfer Pokemon rather than strategically transferring only certain ones. And I end up totally lost in many of the discussions with family and friends because they're discussing aspects of the game that are inaccessible. I would play it a whole lot more, and would actually recommend it to friends (I don't right now) if it was more accessible.
Amazing Game
Sun Feb 26 2023 Redragon6543Pokémon Go is amazing especially for getting your exercise in but there are a few things I’d like to change like with the new Hoenn research I thought I was going to get a Groudon since I’m not high level I thought getting a Groudon would be a HUGE boost for me only for me to complete a few stages of the research only to figure out I had to battle it in a primal raid to get it I was so sad since Groudon is one of my favorite Pokemon we’re not all pros at the game I just recently started so I’m hoping I get lucky and join a primal raid with a bunch of players that will eliminate the primal Groudon for me then I’ll try and catch it. Second change id like in the game is for more places like out in the country to have pokestops because I live in the country and I have no pokestops near me for miles and I only get like 1-2 Pokémon to spawn like every five hours and during a community day still only 1-2 Pokémon spawn but almost always having at least one of whatever Pokémon it is on the community day. Third change I’d like it if there were more ways to get pokecoins other than defending gyms or just buying pokecoins like a loser Mabye there could be a special daily mission thing for you to earn up to about 25-35 pokecoins a day. Otherwise it’s a really good game keep up the great work I hope you take consideration in my ideas especially the Hoenn tour one.
Frequent Issues and P2P Pressures
Sun Jun 05 2022 TheKrystalRoseI’ve been playing this for years, and there have been consistent issues with things like the probability of catching a Pokémon frequently not actually improving with the use of berries or excellent cure balls. In fact, it’s more frequent to catch a Pokémon when NOT having an excellent, which is not how it’s advertised. There has been a growing push to get folks to pay to play (P2P), and some of the events, including the most recent PoGo Fest, really haven’t been worth what they’re charging. For $15, I expected way better than a quest line and rewards comparable to the $3 community day events. More transparency on what you get for your money would be fantastic, especially with the quests that offer different rewards for different paths.
Overall, the game is fun to play, as long as you’re able to travel to spots where other people are playing and where there are gyms and pokestops. Allowing remote raids has given some opportunity for expanded gameplay, but remote raid passes frequently turn into another thing you need to P2P for. And, well, the ongoing refusal to remove the ban on being able to spin stops while moving (like we used to be able to do while riding the bus) is perpetually disappointing. I plan to continue playing, but it would be nice to see some of the long-standing issues fixed, and to stop feeling like every other weekend is a new money grab.
Rural efficacy
Wed Oct 20 2021 man_lyLiving so far out of town doesn’t help with the game compatibility, needing to be in those locations, and crushes my love for the play. I can understand the point is to be interactive virtually in the physical spectrum, but as one of countless people who don’t live in the big cities, or in the city at all, the need for a travel less game is more acceptable. As for the game in of itself, the coin prices for items is also high considering gym activity is limited to needing to get near one. That leads to people feeling less involved and tired of playing due to spending real cash on game coins, which could also be solved by changing regulations on the coins themselves. A max cap of fifty coins daily is too low considering the prices for items is almost double or triple. If the cap was per Pokémon, then maybe players could have a chance at surviving the need to ration coins. Leading to another infuriation, the need for incubators, since only one infinite is given to the players it would seem more likely there could be a max of three given at different levels reached. Not being able to hatch the eggs leads to breaking down to save coins for incubators or struggling to reach the walking parameters enough with whatever eggs they can hatch at that time. All in all, the game-play has been smooth but frustrating, considering the possible improvements it has a long way to go before it is truly a masterpiece.
Great Game BUT........
Tue Jul 17 2018 Tamila333This is a wonderful game, great to get people out and moving I definitely recommend it for people who live in populated areas and towns BUT if you live in the rural areas and the country sides of this country where service is spotty and where they placed most all the stops and gyms there is NO SERVICE then playing this game is almost worthless. As a player moving from the city to the country it almost leaves me no choice but to quit or almost forget about the game, sad because I’m a paying player. I read how Niantic was working hard at trying to come up with a resolution for RURAL players but every update and addition to the game benefits populated players. Even trying to contact help support and Niantic is a waste of time, all you will get is a return email where someone will just copy and paste the same answers over and over again, if you cared to do something about this critical issue then maybe taking a moment and conversing with the rural players may help. I hate to have to leave this game but Niantic does not seem to care if they lose their rural players and that is so sad as if you maybe took the time to work with rural players the issue could be resolved, I say to the populated players get out and have an awesome time playing this game and don’t complain about adding a couple bucks to the game it is a lot cheaper then a night out to the movies and a lot more fun with the family!
Signed
The forgotten rural players!
