Similar in concept only. With the popularity of Pokemon I think you'll have to search far and wide NOT to find other players.
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'Pokemon GO' Begins Rolling Out in the App Store
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Similar in concept only. With the popularity of Pokemon I think you'll have to search far and wide NOT to find other players.
You're both barking up the wrong tree with this one. Nintendo has no involvement in the development of Pokemon Go. It's not their game.
Also "Gameboy 3DS" is hilarious.
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It a good start. Fun to play. I never watched a full episode of Pokemon or played the card games or the Nintendo games till this app
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7:23am in the UK. Still no Pokemon Go in the App Store
I was really hoping for it today. I gave up in the end and have downloaded it from the US App Store.
Seems good so far although there isn't a lot on the map where I live (a large village).
Going Pokemon hunting with my daughter later, hopefully we will catch something!
Damn Kids!!!!
I must be getting old, I have already seen lvl 15 players. I can barely get the game to run for more than 15 minutes at a time and that is if I can get logged on at all, how are these people doing this. Do they have any life or a job or sleep??
Edit: I wanted to play on my lunch break today and tried to log in about 10 times in a 20 minute window and all I got was the "Our servers are experiencing issues. Please come back later." screen.
I must be getting old, I have already seen lvl 15 players. I can barely get the game to run for more than 15 minutes at a time and that is if I can get logged on at all, how are these people doing this. Do they have any life or a job or sleep??
Edit: I wanted to play on my lunch break today and tried to log in about 10 times in a 20 minute window and all I got was the "Our servers are experiencing issues. Please come back later." screen.
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Really a shame this game does not work properly on iOS 10. I'm a huge Pokémon fan and want to see the AR in action but it's currently bugged.
Thank you. It's nice to see a beta user who expresses this as wistfulness rather than outrage. I have no doubt this will run on iOS 10 by release time (likely well before, Ingress already seems to run there fine), but I suspect Nianitc has there hands completely full with backend scalability issues right now - one gets "our servers are busy please come back later" occasionally now; it was happening more than half the time initially. (My personal annoyance is that they always seem to make you log in again before giving the canned message - which means typing my lengthy Google password on the phone and then doing the two step authentication yet again.) the AR is neat, but not life-changing, the overlay on live video only happens while you're throwing PokéBalls - sort of a mini-game of virtual ring toss.
I hear that Nintendo have delayed released of the game in Europe and the rest of the world because so many people are playing it already it has killed the servers.
So it is just a waiting game now. At least Australia, New Zealand and the United States are beta testing for us
So it is just a waiting game now. At least Australia, New Zealand and the United States are beta testing for us
Augmented reality, eh? Look! There's Pikachu right in front of that bus! Oops! BAAAAMMM! (User Agreement: To play this game we take no responsibility for kids walking into traffic or falling down wells)
To a lesser extent, this has already started happening. Several stories in the press now about people who have fallen over whilst pursuing them.
You are accepting an intentionally crippled game as "the full game experience". If you pay money (even thousands!) you're still playing an intentionally crippled game but being fleeced to do so more quickly. You will never EVER be competitive on ladders in these games without paying thousands of dollars, not that being competitive in them really matters.
Pay-once games give the developers good incentive to make the game as good as they can and establish a reasonable cost per customer. If they slack off or charge too much for what they offer, their game flops and they don't make money. Except in cases such as D3 where gameplay-wise it flopped (by most accounts) but Blizzard had very cleverly restricted the beta content and sold pre-orders on hype from D2 and their own well established fanbase. That very flop forced them to step up their game if they wanted to sell expansions and resulted in a better game for the players.
If you like playing crippled games for free or spending thousands on nothing, I certainly can't stop you. But know that you perpetuate the lazy and greedy development of inferior games.
Here's a game that's free, non-crippled, and just as epic as it was 30 years ago: TW2002.
Games just aren't made like they used to be.
Games just aren't made like they used to be.
Shout out though to CD Projekt RED who made The Witcher 3 and did practically everything right there by gamers, even with the expansion.
Some Ingress portals are not poke stops or Gyms, but all Poke stops and Gyms are portals.