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Pokémon Go Set App Store Record for Most Ever Downloads During its First Week of Availability
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Here's what needs to happen...
1. Apple makes deal with Nintendo/Pokemon Co.
2. Future Nintendo/Pokemon games become iOS exclusives
3. $$$
1. Apple makes deal with Nintendo/Pokemon Co.
2. Future Nintendo/Pokemon games become iOS exclusives
3. $$$
It's a fun and simple game. My kids, wife, and mother-in-law all play it. It's not my cup of tea, but I can see the appeal for many.
If you had stability issues when the game came out, they have since updated their app and fixed many bugs. But there are still some server load issues when demand is the highest.
If you had stability issues when the game came out, they have since updated their app and fixed many bugs. But there are still some server load issues when demand is the highest.
Eh, Not my cup of tea.
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4. Underpants
5. Profit!
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Here's what needs to happen...
1. Apple makes deal with Nintendo/Pokemon Co.
2. Future Nintendo/Pokemon games become iOS exclusives
3. $$$
4. Underpants
5. Profit!
Here's what needs to happen...
1. Apple makes deal with Nintendo/Pokemon Co.
2. Future Nintendo/Pokemon games become iOS exclusives
3. $$$
iOS Exclusives are not going to happen as long as Niantic is involved seeing as that company is practically Google.
I also don't see how Nintendo would get anymore money by making it iOS only anyway.
What... you do no testing, make something that's in no way fit for production and then just sorta wing it by releasing the software and patch it on an ad-hoc basis?
Yeah great SDLC there mate, especially for a company with billions at its disposal (and a pretty simple app TBH... heard of Google Maps? It's essentially that. There shouldn't be so many issues!
I'm sorry for your loss and glad you found something like this to help you through.
I run into some server issues so I haven't really gotten the chance to get into the game that much.
Unveiled? Mental images of them drawing back a curtain revealing a large flaming sign.
It's only a hint if you don't follow Niantic's previous game, Ingress, where this was done a number of times.
(BTW, Ingress is a much more involved game, with serious strategy - in comparison, Pokémon Go thus far is more like a pastime - walk around collecting moar Pokémons, and then...? Take over a gym? And hold it for ten minutes before someone else takes it over? In Ingress one can reinforce Portals* and link them together, making them ever more difficult to tear down, and the overall goal is to link portals into triangular fields, building into ever larger groups of fields - you can tell who's winning, locally and globally, by looking at Ingress' Intel Map to see whether an area is mostly green or mostly blue. And I've seen fields that cover parts of multiple states, that took serious planning and teamwork to pull off. Don't get me wrong, I like both games - As an Ingress player, I started playing Pokémon Go to see what the Niantic folk were up to, and I find it quite entertaining - but given what Niantic has done with Ingress, over time, Pokémon Go has the potential to become an even more involving, and also much more strategic, competitive, team-based game over time. Like I said, it's a bit more like a pastime right now.)
(P.S. For those just tuning in, Pokémon Go uses all the location/landmark data collected over the last three years by Ingress players - your local PokéStops and Gyms, with their locations, names, and pictures? Those are all Ingress portals, which were submitted by Ingress players. You're welcome.)
I'm sure they're working on a complete re-skin of the App Store into the PokéStore.
Seriously though, I think this has happened once or twice before (not to this scale) when Apple was caught a bit by surprise and they want to work out something substantial.
I'm just glad there's finally some Pokémon news on the front page again - I was getting worried.
And still can't understand why the hate for a game that actually encourages people to go outside and have fun.
True, though there's something about that Mewtwo avatar which made me think you wouldn't be too critical of the game
Yeah, you've gotta be completely incompetent to not plan on scaling to the largest mobile game in history in a matter of a couple days.
From what I've read, the main issues were simply so many people trying to sign up at one time. Account creation. Basically, one time spikes. That's why there was no point in delaying expansion. Get all the sign up spikes out of the way, so you don't have to deal with them over a longer period.
Someone Lured the three Pokestops that are in a small park at my apartment outside Boston last night around 8:30PM. I estimate that at least 50 people showed up within minutes. They swarmed the place for the 30 minutes the lures were active and were more or less gone within 10 minutes after they were over.
Pretty strange sight.
Myself and another player spent some time last night building up the Gym in that park to level 10 for Valor. By midnight it had already been taken down and turned blue...
This game is CRAZY popular right now.
I don't know how much staying power it has... but the shear number of people playing it right now is truly incredible.
Pretty strange sight.
Myself and another player spent some time last night building up the Gym in that park to level 10 for Valor. By midnight it had already been taken down and turned blue...
This game is CRAZY popular right now.
I don't know how much staying power it has... but the shear number of people playing it right now is truly incredible.
Agreed... to me it doesn't even feel like a Nintendo game. Sure it uses their IP, but it feels like a hodge podge Google game. Played it for a weekend, didn't see any reason to be distracted by it and canned it because I figured it's essentially a Google fishing expedition for where you walk to during your day + what businesses you visit. The 'augmented reality' isn't even that amazing... once you understand the physics, you realise that the pokemon don't change with your environment (they are the same overlay and there's no point crashing your car to catch them - just drive 100m down the road, stop and they will still be locked to your camera, walking through walls and stuff).
Overall, really not something to get over-excited about. Call me a tinhat, but Google's goal is clearly just to track people as much as possible (with Nest tracking the temperature, Pokemon tracking their movements and their searce tracking what you're thinking throughout the day). This gives them freakishly accurate searchs, but I find DDG isn't far off WITHOUT tracking you.
Gulping clean air, meeting new people, and having fun? I don't play it myself, nor have any desire to. But in this modern technological era, it's refreshing to see.
You'll be happier if you see the more positive side of things, I think
It's a fun game, to be sure, though I won't be contributing toward their possible 3 billion in profit from IAP. I just don't see the need. Though I know a guy who's already sunk nearly a hundred dollars into this game, so clearly at least some people see a need.
My deepest sympathies for your loss. I am quite touched to read this - I discovered Ingress a few weeks before my wife passed away (quite unexpectedly) and the distraction and excitement of the game, the necessity of getting out of the house for long walks, and the local Ingress community, helped keep me sane. Hang in there.
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Crashing into cars, getting robbed by someone, probably raped too.Gulping clean air, meeting new people, and having fun? I don't play it myself, nor have any desire to. But in this modern technological era, it's refreshing to see.
You'll be happier if you see the more positive side of things, I think
P.s. so before this game there was no reason to go outside? ways people rationalize amaze me.
You're a really bitter person, aren't you?
A game that gets people active and socialising.....in reality?
I think what is sad is catching public transport daily, and seeing everyone glued to social media on thier smartphones, without any interaction.
this Might be an improvement.
No, i'm just lucky to have a head on my shoulders.