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Pokémon GO Soon Won't Support iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, and Some Older iPads
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Yes, they do. All the fake wannabe Pokémon fans are gone though.
My experience matches yours. Our local Discord server has several thousand members, and I usually don't have a problem finding a raid or two in the evenings - was at a Groudon raid tonight with 15+ real live actual people. I've seen spoofers in raids a literal handful of times, and it's annoying, but it's way down in the noise (I've also had times where folks believed that someone in the lobby must be a spoofer, and then the real actual person walks up afterwards, and they were in their car, or across the street, or some such).
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For a few months at the start, everyone and their dog was playing because it was a fad, and you could quite literally see flocks of players everywhere you looked. Now they're down to "merely" millions of players (a player base many other games would give their right arm for), and it's harder to notice them in public if you don't know what to look for. There's a substantial base of dedicated players that are quite active.
This reminds me of a guy who walked up to me in a park, perhaps a year ago, and said, "Pokemon Go?!? Nobody plays that any more." My reaction was along the lines of, "Uh, yeah, that statement is demonstrably false, since you're watching me playing it right now - logic isn't your strong suit, is it?" I think he meant that nobody should play it, since it was no longer cool (as in "didn't you get the memo?"). But I've never been much of one for following the latest fad things to look cool.
FWIW, there's a thriving online community on Reddit at /r/TheSilphRoad that's largely dedicated to figuring out precisely how all the mechanics of Pokemon Go work. Interesting stuff, if you're of the right mind for it.
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This will affect kids the most. They are the ones who have hand-me-down devices that are likely to be affected by this change.
It won't affect me because I stopped playing when they started pushing advertisements for Sprint in the game notifications.
It won't affect me because I stopped playing when they started pushing advertisements for Sprint in the game notifications.
coding in 32bit from the beginning spells the failure of any ios dev. you must be so incompetent to only be able to code in 32 bit and not 64 bit.
90% of the stuff in the app store are duplicates and reskin of popular games anyway and its designed to trick unsuspecting people to download it.
90% of the stuff in the app store are duplicates and reskin of popular games anyway and its designed to trick unsuspecting people to download it.
I wish I could still play the game :'(
I've only played for about 2 weeks, but I've gotten so addicted. I've never had a 'good' phone until recently. And now that one of my favorite games is no longer available for the IPhone 5s that I have, it just sucks. I have no way to upgrade my phone right now either.
I've only played for about 2 weeks, but I've gotten so addicted. I've never had a 'good' phone until recently. And now that one of my favorite games is no longer available for the IPhone 5s that I have, it just sucks. I have no way to upgrade my phone right now either.