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Is Gamefreak the most incompetent developer in charge of a popular franchise? This shit is the most barebones experience I've ever seen. How do you leave out a battle system? How are you so lazy that you can't even include all Pokemon?

It's really sad that Gamefreak makes Pokemon. Imagine if a talented dev team got ahold of this franchise. We would probably have open world console games instead of freemium apps.
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>>344956861
Here's your (You)
You deserved it for at least not using a smug anime pic. That's about the only thing you did right.
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>>344956861
The game is already the most popular mobile app ever. They don't need to add a battle system. This shit is everywhere. Everyone plays this game.
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You know that great big fucking symbol of a ship strapped to a hot air balloon with words that read "NIANTIC" every time you boot up the app?
Blame them, not Game Freak.
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The focus was probably more on the geo tagging features that have made the game so popular. I'm hearing a lot of hype that the duel system is coming. The game has been downloaded more than Tinder, and brings in over a million in cash daily. There's no way they're stopping here.
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>>344956861
If this game was a lot more complex then Normie's would not pick it up. Let Nintendo whallop in their new fortunes. And why don't you go enjoy your newfound game with your girlfriend or friends anon or meet new people. I'd love to meet you :3
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>>344956861
To be honest, Pokemon Go is the most fun I've had with a videogame in the last 10 years or so.

That's gotta account for something.

Also I believe Nintendo has killed the 3DS with it.

Why would people want to buy a stationary pokemon game now when GO took it a step further?
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>>344956861
Go to your containment board. We don't want your faggotry.
>>>>>>/vp/>>>
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>>344956861
Even if this bait and everyone knows that Go was developed by Niantic, you're right.

GameFreak is really fucking incompetent with his games, especially after XY. Fuck, they took 20 years to finally add Trainers animations on battles and almost 10 years to include an ACTUAL 3D engine
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>>344956861
With all the changes introduced in pokemon since gen 5 it certainly looks that way.

Shame because GF used to be based.
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>>344956861
>Is Gamefreak the most incompetent developer in charge of a popular franchise?
Bordering with Bethesda and Sonic Team, sure.

But Niantic is the reason GO is almost Farmville-tier barren.
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>>344958660

I liked the games more when they were sprite-based

The 3DS games feel like they're trying too hard to be like the Pokemon Stadium N64 games with the battle animations
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>>344956861
Nah, that belongs to SEGA with Sonic.
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>>344956861
>How do you leave out a battle system?

wait what

I clearly don't play it but how do you have a Pokemon game without battles?

What's there even to do?
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>>344959902
you walk around and catch pokemon
but when you are smart enough you dont have to walk
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>>344959902
Throw a rock.
Throw some bait.
Pkball.
Run.
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Honestly the 8844294759440 threads complaining about Pokémon GO are worse than the 203947493947562 normal Pokémon GO threads.
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>>344956861

>How are you so lazy that you can't even include all Pokemon?

Nobody wants all those fuck-ugly little turds that they call Pokemon.

The only point to Pokemon GO is collecting rare cute things and showing them to your friends as you go out and do shit.

It's not so much a game but a carrot on the end of the stick for getting your fat ass up and outside.
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>>344959902
Le gotta catch em all! Right guise? Right?
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>>344960058

That's dumb though.

See,
>The only point to Pokemon GO is collecting rare cute things and showing them to your friends as you go out and do shit.

If you aren't doing this then there's no point in playing the game. I hope they ban everyone using PC emulators to play this game.
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>>344960280
>it's le fitness app!

stupidest meme of all time
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>>344957024
They better add that fucking battle system and trading, oh wait, what am I complaining about? The game hasn't even been fucking released in my country and I'm using a windows phone.
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can't wait for this to tank like Wii Fit.
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>>344960126
I wish I could've seen you smash those number keys like an autistic retard.
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>>344960802
It's really not hard to hit random keys without smashing them. You're the autistic retard here.
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>>344960493

Getting your fat ass up is only step 1.

Step 2 is meeting people and talking to them.

Step 3 is getting your first friend.

Step 4 is showing them your Pokemon.

Given if you aren't a fat piece of shit and already have friends then you can skip straight to step 4.
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>>344960906
>the only defense for Framville: Pokemon edition is ad homs

noice.
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Liked the memes that came from this.
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I have a friend who works at Niantic. Apparently, whenever they proposed adding any depth to the game, the Pokemon Company shot them down because they WANTED this game to be accessible to literally anyone. They wanted your 90 year old grandma with dementia to be able to pick up and play this game. Disbelieve me if you want, but it's not like I'm saying anything outrageous. I'm disappointed too, but the game is making them a ton of money so clearly their plan worked.

Maybe they were afraid that if they made GO too good, it would kill the main franchise on their handhelds.
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>>344961068
>squirtle's face on a condom

whoever made this is based
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>>344960906
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>>344961059

Sorry you have no friends anon

There's nothing really to defend, it's a simple concept. You find Pokemon hanging out at landmarks with your friends then show it to them.
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>>344959136
>gen V

All of those changes were good ones. You can argue that megastones made things weird, but those were introduced in gen VI.
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>>344961068
Holy shit is this a real thing?
My sides man. Fuck
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>>344956861
>Can't even include all Pokemon
They're obviously going to release them in batches to keep people interested instead of blowing their load all at once.
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>>344961083

My dad works at Nintendo and he says you full of shit mate
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>>344956861
>Gamefreak

back in my day we do research before shitpost, now you make fool of yourself
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>>344961083
Pokemon Go was always meant to be a easy way to get people to just walk around. This is like when they added the Pokewalker to HG/SS. Pokemon has always been about getting people outside and socialize. And Go is the ultimate version of that. Yeah it doesn't really have the Pokemon gameplay but to Gamefreak Go was never really meant to be a real Pokemon game. Just a app to get people walking.
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>>344961265
Or you could just ignore another Zynga-tier p2w scam?
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>>344961216
>>344961291
https://twitter.com/ppmn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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>HOW TO SPOT NORMALFAG IRL
>plays pokemon go

SIMPLE SIS
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>>344961083
Aren't they planning to release battling and trading in a later update?
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>>344961449
>Pokemon Go was always meant to be a easy way to get people to just walk around.

Wrong. It was always meant to be a way to get people to drop a shitload of money on microtransactions.

If you think it was ever intended for anything else you are flat out retarded.
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>>344961613

I've met some pretty neat people in my time already playing it, so I'm good, thanks for all your concern about my life and what I do though.

Wish anybody gave a shit about yours.
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>>344961685

>something can't be made to accomplish a purpose while still making money

No John, you are the retard.
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>>344960498
>windows phone
>ever get Pokemon Go
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>>344961265
>show them
Nigga everyone has seen the same shit and rarely do people not have the shit you have
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>>344956861
>trying to justify being autistic
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>>344961837
Yeah that's why I said it. I own a samsung tablet but it wouldn't be the same.
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>>344961704
the amount of bitterness coming from people who feel like they have to play a game they know is bad to fit in is honestly pretty funny.

We've all known how mobile games based on microtransactions work for like, what, ten years now? And yet people on this very board are letting themselves be suckered in because they feel like they have to be part of the herd.

I genuinely want to know how you justify buying into something like this while simultaneously looking down on Clash of Clans or Candy Crush.
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>>344961291
>>344961216
>>344961068
This joke is literally as old as Pokemon itself.
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>tfw Pokemon GO was funded by the CIA
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>>344962059

>have to play a game

Nobody feels this way

>feel like they have to be part of the herd.

Nobody feels like this, either.

>buying into

I didn't "buy into" anything. I go out and the game drops me random shit here and there. It requires pretty much 0 dedication or effort aside from not sitting at home.
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So how will businesses cash in on this? Apparently McDonalds is getting some kinda promotion, but how will they require you to "buy in" to be able to use their pokestop or catch stuff there?
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>>344962425
They pay to be gyms and appear on the game it's basically paying for advertising I guess.
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>>344962337
ah, so just like Candy Crush, you get a certain amount of free energy per day? Hey, that's awesome. That certainly isn't just a way to get you hooked enough to drop cash.

You and I both know that all mobile games are rigged BY DESIGN to force you to spend money. Like, you don't actually think it's "free," right? You don't literally think that a company would give away anything for free?

Or do you think you've somehow outsmarted the creators?
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>>344956861

It's a successful product precisely because it is not a video game.

The "gameplay" consists of going out and exploring the real world. Pokemon GO simply rewards that behavior just enough for your typical couch-bound normie to move his pudgy ass a few hundred meters more per day.

Had Niantic forced a battle system, this product would not have seen nearly the amount of market saturation it has, because most normies don't like RPGs of that sort.

If they ever do implement a pokemon battle system, it will either be:

a) incredibly simplified

or

b) 100% voluntary and having zero impact upon core mechanics such as gym ownership

Pokemon GO is a mobile app for normies to enjoy. The core audience is not hardcore pokemon fans who want to battle.

You will never have the full pokemon experience integrated with AR like this, in this particular product.
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A full fledged battle system leaves room for gameplay to spiral out of control and quickly turn into competetive bullshit, encouraging the use of select Pokemon, introducing shit like IV/EVs, and would overall make the game less approachable to a casual player which is obviously the intended audience.

The theme is just "walk around and catch shit", with added king-of-the-hill.
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>>344962425
Seem places that are Pokestops are selling themselves by paying to be lures all day.
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>>344962529
Nobody actually plays Pokemon by choice. They play it because they're invested in the property.

It's not a game you play for enjoyment alongside other games. The only people that buy Pokemon games are already Pokemon fans. That's just how it works.
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>>344962623
This, hasn't South Park taught us anything at all?
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>>344962612
Yeah but you don't need to go inside, you don't need to even interact with the business at all. McDonalds doesn't need any more advertising then it already has.

I guess people could fight over the gym location while sitting down and eating food.
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The amount of unbalance and Bugs is troubling. Ive got nexus 5 and battery drain is ridiculous, ive got about 1 hour of play from the full charged battery. It eats my battery even while it charges. Its madness since my phone take 3h to get charged to full. Gps is lousy and all over the place. I want to like this mobile game but its hard at this stage.
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>>344956861
Haha, you're going to get them with this one. I like how you repeated "Gamefreak" just to really rub it in. 10/10, my friend.
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>>344956861
Why do people even play this shit, /v/? I honestly don't understand the appeal of a literal GPS game.

And I'm a huge Pokefag.

Pic related is literally me.
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>>344962623

>rigged BY DESIGN

Okay, so what's rigged.
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>>344957024
>The game
Can it even be classed as a game, if there's no way to lose, or even show your superiority over another player? You are just catching Pokemon and that's it.
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>>344956861
Is this gonna kill pokemon sun and moon sales?
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>>344962623
No, they intended for people to be able to play the game without ever spending a dime. All it takes is friends and a little organization.
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>>344962529
You are acting like I only play Pokemon. While I'm excited about Sun/Moon I can't wait to play YW2 also.
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>>344962884
le socializing and getting outside xDDD
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>>344956861
>Pokemon themed Ingress game come out
>WOW WHY IT'S NOT POKEMON RPG
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>>344962943
You can lose gym battles. Why do people try to give opinions of games they haven't played?
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>>344962987
I don't think so, its going to take awhile before they put out gen 2 Pokemon. The battle system is limited, has no direct battles vs other players, has no trading.

In a month I don't think people will be excited for another X or another Y, but they can't force out another 100 because of the way they designed evolution. Would take so much longer than it already does when you can't find the same one over and over.
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>>344963015
>No, they intended for people to be able to play the game without ever spending a dime.
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>>344957024
Now search for "Pokemon Go".
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>>344963015
So it is like Pokemon.
>>344962792
The idea is to get them near. Since lures and others are fairly cheap even a few extra customers is a plus.
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>>344960058
Spoofing isn't smart, it literally destroys any reason to play it at all, it's like playing online doom with IDDQD.
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>>344959902
these people dont play the game:
>>>344960058 >>344960102 >>344960390

theres a battle system, you fight pokemon gyms.
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>>344956861
>Gamefreak
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>>344956861
>>344957024
>>344959902
>>344960058
>>344960102
>>344960498
>>344961676
>>344962668


Literally wat famalam you can battle at gyms.
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>>344956990
he was 100% right
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>>344959902
safe to say most people are going around catching pokemon to make their regular pokemon stronger for when trading and battles come out
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>>344957024
I don't even know how Tokyo will function when this shit gets released in Japan.
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>>344959484
having no animations was a limitation of the tech at the time only. Fuck off with your regressive nostalgia. game freak were simply lazy and content with milking the franchise with no innovation or improvements
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>>344963109
If they didn't, they wouldn't make it so. Honestly, the way these games work, 10 percent of the players are probably going to be their major profit group, with about another 20 percent occasionally buying items here and there, and the rest never doing so. but they still need a way to keep those players playing. Hence why the game is built so you don't have to spend money unless you have no time to socialize or are just starting.
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>>344963203
It wasn't even developed by Gamefreak.
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>How are you so lazy that you can't even include all Pokemon?
But they have?
Only Mew, Mewtwo and the legendaries were left out, they are probably for events
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>>344963224
The pokemon density will be 100 times higher in Japan.
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>>344963015
Yeah the company is doing it just from their good will because they love pokemon so much that they want anyone to play it for free. That pay option and limited resources are there by accident.
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>>344962623
stop arguing with drones. they play it because it's trendy or because they're autists who have to defend anything affiliated with nintendo. they're fucking retards but you won't change their expressed opinion
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>>344963357
Yeah but the mass horde of people will be like the World War Z movie. I feel like Tokyo will actually not be able to function with all the people usually away in their corner of the city flooding the streets.
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>>344962792
Yeah I guess they could, but getting their name in there AND getting you to go near their places is enough for them, companies already pay a lot just for advertising on tv or doing a 2 second cameo in a movie. If all that already works to make some people, consciously or not, spend money on their product, imagine making people actually visiting the place.
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>>344957794
>step further
>literally 1 stat that determines all efficiency
>no trading IN A FUCKING POKEMON GAME

If they can somehow give the pokemon actual stats, and allow you to trade them to an proper pokemon game (they don't even have to include battles), then this could be a cool arg.

As a stand-alone thing that is completely self-contained, it is buggy, feature-less trash.

Though it at least gives me something to do on my morning walks, other than just texting. I don't see why I couldn't just play omega ruby when I go for a walk assuming I actually bought a 3ds.
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>>344956861
>literally developed by the cia
>gamefreak
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>>344956861
>>344957024
>>344960498
>>344961837
>>344962037
Actually with how popular Pokemon Go is, Microsoft would be extremely tempted to buy Nintendo or at least the Pokemon franchise from Nintendo.

The biggest reason Microsoft bought Minecraft was only how large the playerbase was and now Pokemon Go is on its way to surpass Minecraft.

If Pokemon Go maintains its success, Microsoft has a high chance of buying Pokemon or Nintendo.

Not only that but Pokemon Go is one way for Microsoft to save their phone line or hype up the Surface Phone that is rumored to be capable of x64 with the help of a customized Intel chip.

The reason Microsoft can't confidently announce Surface Phone yet is because Intel keeps acting wishy washy on the smartphone market.

They want to join in the market but then say they don't want to at the same time.

If Microsoft does buy Pokemon or Pokemon Go, this provides enough leverage and reasoning for Intel to become serious with providing chips for smartphones, and now Microsoft can make a phone perfect for playing Pokemon games or other Nintendo IPs.

And with a Surface Phone capable of x64, it will actually be a mobile phone capable of playing proper video games because ARM and Qualcomm Chips are not good enough.

I know it might sound crazy over Microsoft buying Nintendo or Pokemon but you have to realize for the last 3 years, Silicon Valley has been buying much more retarded shit than Pokemon.

Apple bought Beats and now that shitty music streaming service from a hack like Jay Z.

Facebook bought a scam like Oculus Rift

Etc, etc

You may criticize but Microsoft buying Minecraft is less retarded than Apple buying Beats headphones.

Anyways, Pokemon Go might be the golden opportunity Microsoft is waiting for and something that might convince Intel to stay in the smartphone market.
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>>344956861
It's Ingress with a Pokemon skin.

In fact, you can use ingress to find "rare" pokemon, since they both use the same data.
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>>344962940
are you 10 years old? how do you think mobile games are designed? with the assumption that people won't spend money on them? it's making hundreds of millions through the cash shop already because people buy shit to level up faster.
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>>344963052
I don't mind the Ingress part but it obviously has a small part of Ingress features. They need to think about adding shit soon or it won't last.

Even if they don't add the full pokemon battle system, they need at least a simplified one for nearby users.
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>>344961676
likely not.
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>>344957024
How long will it be popular though?
Currently it's #1 purely because of Pokemon nostalgia, everyone is riding high in the honeymoon phase and nobody really cares about how good the actual game is.
But they will start noticing the complete lack of any depth after a couple of months. Catching the same Pokemon over and over with no mechanics only to go to the same gyms and taptaptap to battle is going to exhaust people.
They speed at which they address the issues and emptiness the game has will determine if it's the next evergreen title on the scale of candy crush or a passing fad that everyone completely stops giving a shit about like flappy bird.
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>>344963574
>>344963197
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>>344956861
I'm fat as shit and I've been hatching 5km eggs on a regular basis. This shit's getting me outside so I won't be such a fat piece of shit anymore and it's free so I'll take what I can get.
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>>344963396
Did you ever read what I said. They know not everyone is going to be buying stuff, but they still need a way to get those guys hooked, thus why the defender bonuses and pokestops exist. You're not "cheating" the devs when you play without spending money. They intended for you to play that way if you want to.
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>>344957479
I don't know if you want to meet OP anon. He seems like a bit of a poofta
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>>344956861
GameFreak outsourced the game to Niantic.

And to be fair, GF doesn't know shit about making games on phones so this was a natural move
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>>344963530
>microsoft buying pokemon or nintendo

What the fuck are you smoking?
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>>344956861
https://twitter.com/NatlParkService/status/752949572058492928
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>>344963628
Fall is coming and so is Winter.

Less hot weather and Holidays are coming up like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

This Winter of News Year may have a Mewtwo Event or the 3 Legendary Birds.
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>>344963530
You need legitimate mental help.
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This is so fucking dumb. My less powerful friends have pokemon go and we were talking about how it was the "hypest" shit ever. I asked him about Sun and Moon and if he was going to get it and showed him a couple of the new pokemon and he looks at me and says "wtf? that shit is gay". Now just imagine the person who says this is wearing a fucking pokemon t-shirt from like hot topic or something. it had the genwun starters on it. He doesn't even know what the Johto region is. baka

People are only playing this game because of their nostalgia goggles and they want to be hipsters and like pokemon again, but you know the new pokemon and new region doesnt even fucking mean anything to these people.
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>>344963628
>lack of depth
It's been a week and the meta is starting to emerge. It's not for everyone, but for people in a group, I can see this being a daily thing for them.
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>>344956861
My theory is Niantic and Pokémon did not expect this game to even get 1/10 as big as it ended up being. So they released the minimum viable product with the intention of iterating on it.


Right now they're probably grossly understaffed and underfunded. I expect Nintendo to double down on this game and hire zealously.
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>>344963631
Gym battles aren't real PvP battles though.
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Why are retards like OP looking at this like it's a main series game? It's a spinoff mobile game. Calm the fuck down you autist.
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>>344963628
>>344963797
Its Summer so right now kids don't have school either, and kids these days all have smartphones
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>>344963815
So what? Are you mad that people like the same thing you do? Are you seriously trying to get "street cred" for your Pokemon knowledge like some sort of shitty hipster? Who cares if they don't like the new ones.
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>>344963530

Nintendo just gained about 10 billion dollars in this one week thanks to Pokemon Go
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>>344956861
>most successful app of all time in USA
>trending across all media channels
>boosted Nintendo's stock 25 FUCKING PERCENT IN A DAY
If that's what you term "incompetent," then I don't know what you would consider competent.
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>>344963868
Thank god. It's already shitty enough with just fighting an AI. You can't do real time battles over a network like this. The lag would be too much.
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>>344963943

That wasn't his point though.
It's not that they don't like them, it's that they don't even know they exist. They don't know pokemon went on beyond the first 2 seasons they've watched reruns of as kids. Why? Because they don't really care about pokemon and just jumping on the nostalgia/SOCIAL PHENOMENA everyone keeps hyping. It's nothing but peer pressure and wanting to fit in.

I don't care about pokemon that much past the first 2 generations either but at least I don't pretend to be a huge fan so I don't have to feel like a hypocrite.
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>>344964314
Again, so what? You want a fucking pat on the back?
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>>344964314
It literally does not affect you.
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>>344964031
25% in one day is one thing
It's been 50% overall so far. 50% is a fucking crazy increase. I'm willing to bet money a lot of the anger we're setting on /v/ comes from rival developers who are pissed that they aren't the ones making all that money.
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>>344964393
Its mostly because the board if flooded with Go/Pokemon threads again, when its a mobile game with the same complexity as every other mobile game. A mobile game has never got a free pass for being F2P.
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>>344957479
>your girlfriend or friends
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>>344964362
No I just hate hypocrites and mindless sheep.
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>>344964314
Why does it matter that they don't care about newer Pokemon? They can be huge fans of the old stuff and still be Pokemon fans, forcing them to like the new stuff to be a fan is stupid
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>>344964534
While I agree with your views, it's a waste of time and energy to get worked up about or even think about.
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>Is Gamefreak the most incompetent developer in charge of a popular franchise?
No
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>>344964534
>using the term sheep
You're a sheep too, anon
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I got my grandmother into the game and she has not stopped catching every nearby pokemon she finds and is pretty good at it as well
She has a pokestop right next to her house and a gym just 3 minutes away where she takes her morning walks.
though she has no other pokestops or anything else nearby and those are her only ones
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>>344963565

Not really essential, you get some lucky eggs through leveling and can simply save all your evolutions for when you decide to activate it, thus giving only a marginal advantage to people that buy them. You also get coins through contesting Gyms, I control about 5 right now which is 50 coins a day.

I agree it shouldn't have any pay-wall advantage but the advantage is slim. Beyond this, nobody plays Pokemon for competition really anyway.

The only reason so many people play it is just to collect Pokemon and show what ones they've gotten to their friends.
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>>344963631
If by "battle" you mean smash your screen like it's Track & Field and swipe ocasionally to evade.
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>>344964772
This here is the right answer. These guys have fucked EVERYTHING up.
They made TWO conflicting explanations for the redesign of the Elites.
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>>344965091
You just described ever action game ever
>attack
>dodge occasionally
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>>344965461

I can never seem to get the dodges to work right so I just attack constantly
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>>344964557
>>344963943
Im not mad or trying to get street cred for pokeymanz lmao... But the whole spirit of Pokemon is to catch all the pokemon, not the same fucking 151, yet people are getting so hype for pokemon they caught 15-20 years ago. There are new undiscovered pokemon and regions, yet all these "fans" care about are the old ones from the game they can barely remember playing? Times have changed
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>>344965625
It's not worth it for regular attacks. If you can't survive regular attacks you need to level up anyway. Just dodge the special attacks.
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>>344964393
Probably the Chinese are sending haters to /v/.

After all the Chinese have been buying all the popular mobile games lately and they must be mad that Pokemon is taking their profit.
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>>344965708
That's all that's been released so far. Wait until the expansion and then we'll see.
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You have to understand OP that the game has become a gateway for people to stand up and interact with the outside world, all under the principle of playing an unpolished app based around one of the best nostalgia-source franchises. Yes, the app still lacks a lot of stuff from the games, but at this point, the attractiveness comes from all the dedication people are putting into it, rather than the app itself, which was only the fuse to this big bomb of mainstream.

I mean, the concept of Pokémon GO satisfies in a cheap yet effective way the dream of almost every pokémon fan: bring pokémon into the real world for you to capture them. If the developers of this app aren't stupid, then they're in for some of the biggest changes in video game history. For now, it's only a fad that may not fade too soon.
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>>344965708
That's all we needed then and that's all we need now, period. No point in adding 500 pokemon if the average player will only see 100 of them anyway.
It's also a small dream come true. Just running around and catch all the monsters from one of your favorite childhood franchises.
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So I just downloaded this and got off my lardass to walk around town, catching som pokemeng and stopping by some pokestops. It's really fun actually but I was wondering if there's a way to have the app tell me if there's new shit around me while it's closed (via push notification). because walking around while staring at the screen all the time like an idiot is draining my battery and my self esteem.
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I caught like 8 Pokemon at the bar tonight

Shit was so cash
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>kinda want to try it out
>don't want to run into random people who might go to the same location because it's just feels awkward
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>>344967813
Does everyone have their own pokemon or are they free for all? I don't wanna get bullied away when chads are out pokemon hunting with their GFs and I happen to walk into their territory
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>>344956861
>still no PC pokemon MMO
KILL
ME
FAMILIA
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I'd really prefer they focus on refining the features they have already, instead of pushing for more content in a hurry.

That said, 6 months from now when Johto inevitably comes out, I hope they introduce swarms, push notifications from Youngster Joey and Shiny Pokemon.
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lads I've not rode my bike in 3 years but walking around town is taking too long. should I take the plunge and use my bicycle for this? how to properly balance driving and catching then? give me your tips pokemon go / ingress gururs
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>video games single handedly saved america from obesity
>now normies play pokemon and you are the weirdo for NOT playing pokemon as a adult
What the fuck happened with the world?
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>>344968307
You lose more weight/burn more calories walking that bicycling if you do both things at the same amount of time

Consider your choice fatty
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>>344964085
not with the amount of money being funneled to them by google the branch of darpa that funded Niantec and Keyhole LLC who developed the proprietary software for Google Maps and now being named Niantec, is the key company behind the game. there is absolutely no server limit for a psyop as large as this, they however did not expect the burst. servers are fine now, as for money. they should at least let me battle others with a rank. easy in an update.

stadium update screenshot this post.
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