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Waroduce posted:If i wanted to play a real pokemon game now what are the best ones? Last i played was silver X and Y are the newest "new" games. Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire were released more recently, but they're remakes of a game that has aged pretty poorly.
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Niantic absolutely needed to do something about the rampant cheating before they could bring in new features like trading. It wasn't just about gym battles. Besides, the current tracker works ok if you're willing to do some thinking. I've tracked down 2 laprases and countless other semi-rare pokemon in my neighbourhood. So I can understand not putting that as their top priority.
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Aug 23, 2016 20:43
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Waroduce posted:If i wanted to play a real pokemon game now what are the best ones? Last i played was silver X/Y are good and have a large variety of Pokemon in them. The remakes of Ruby and Sapphire are fun and have some good additions but many still prefer X and Y. If you don't mind waiting Sun and Moon are coming out later this year.
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Aug 23, 2016 20:45
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X/Y introduced the two best Pokemon in the world, by the way. Luchador Bird  and Ghost Possessing a Coat of Arms 
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Aug 23, 2016 20:50
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Are you trying to be sarcastic? The answer is a fervent "yes". There's no way they were expecting to hit the "not a male between 13 and 30" demographic so hard. I mean Pokemon is one of the most wildly popular video game franchises of all time and is loved by all demographics, is it really unexpected that the mobile game would be so huge??????
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funky not a junkie posted:I mean Pokemon is one of the most wildly popular video game franchises of all time and is loved by all demographics, is it really unexpected that the mobile game would be so huge?????? I mean, yeah. No one expects anything to blow up quite like this did. Hugely popular fads are impossible to predict
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Aug 23, 2016 20:55
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Lol though if you didnt understand within 5 minutes of playing this game and learning its format that ultra nerds would completely ruin it for everyone else almost immediately
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funky not a junkie posted:I mean Pokemon is one of the most wildly popular video game franchises of all time and is loved by all demographics, is it really unexpected that the mobile game would be so huge?????? It's unexpected if you're the kind of gamer who thinks the only people who play videogames are 13-30 males
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Aug 23, 2016 20:57
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As a 31 year old male, I'm offended #notall31yearoldmen
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Aug 23, 2016 20:59
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Predictions about demographics aside there's no excuse for how hilariously broken the gyms are. I mean did they even play their own game once? Was this how it was in beta and they thought "yeah let's keep it hosed?"
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Aug 23, 2016 21:03
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Alan Smithee posted:Predictions about demographics aside there's no excuse for how hilariously broken the gyms are. I mean did they even play their own game once? Was this how it was in beta and they thought "yeah let's keep it hosed?" This is what I don't understand They had to have known - for a while - how their game mechanics were going to work. How did it not occur to anyone at Niantic that the gym system wouldn't be feasible for new and casual players after a month or two? Even if the cheaters never existed casuals would be completely locked out of gyms by now anyway.
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Aug 23, 2016 21:06
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Someone in the very beginning of this thread posted something to the tune of "this game is more like a successful proof-of-concept than an actual game." that guy was right
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Aug 23, 2016 21:09
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I got a gyrados w Bite and Dragon Pulae...thats the second est skillset right? E: is an acid/ sludge wave tentacruel worth upgrading? Also i got a 96% eggexcutor with confusion and solar beam....also second best moveset? Waroduce fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Aug 23, 2016 |
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Aug 23, 2016 21:12
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Waroduce posted:I got a gyrados w Bite and Dragon Pulae...thats the second est skillset right? I would go for another one bc dragon pulse is total bullshit compared to hydro pump
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Aug 23, 2016 21:14
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Oil of Paris posted:I would go for another one bc dragon pulse is total bullshit compared to hydro pump So many magikarps
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Aug 23, 2016 21:15
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Hmm... my game's getting stuck on "Cannot get data from server" and my app updated yesterday. Anyone else getting this?
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Aug 23, 2016 21:15
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Mirthless posted:It's unexpected if you're the kind of gamer who thinks the only people who play videogames are 13-30 males No, it's unexpected anyway, because it had more users than Twitter. The Pokemon core market are young dudes, and if this had been a launch on the scale of a Pokemon game, they would have been fine. Instead, it was the biggest videogame launch ever. Mirthless posted:This is what I don't understand Well this is just plain stupid. The level of experience required after 20 means that barely any players that aren't cheating are even level 30, and most of the casual players seem to be somewhere between 20 and 22 by now. You can get to level 20 in a week of somewhat active play and don't ever need to touch gyms to do so - and the attacker advantage means that a level 20 player with a Vaporeon cleans out any gym with a little patience.
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Aug 23, 2016 21:16
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Yeah a level 20 vaporeon is definitely cleaning house against level 30 dragonites
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Aug 23, 2016 21:18
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Oil of Paris posted:I would go for another one bc dragon pulse is total bullshit compared to hydro pump It'd probably be good at destroying Dragonites.
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Aug 23, 2016 21:18
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"Most of the casual players are level 20 by now" The word casual has lost all meaning to the average gamer by this point Now it just seems to mean "The gamers who spend 10 hours a week on this game instead of 40"
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Aug 23, 2016 21:20
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Yukari posted:Hmm... my game's getting stuck on "Cannot get data from server" and my app updated yesterday. Anyone else getting this? That's the ban message.
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Aug 23, 2016 21:25
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I think what people/Niantic weren't expecting was that it would be 63% female 37% male.
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Aug 23, 2016 21:26
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It's not that 'Success!' was surprising, it's that the game shattered records in the app store and we haven't really seen such a monstrous mobile title in years, let alone from a newcomer like Niantic. You expect these things out of King and Supercell, who both have a fuckton of experience in mobile, not some seemingly random developer whose previous title was Ingress. (However, they weren't random at all- they secured $20 million in Google/Pokemon Company/Nintendo moneys to make this happen, using Ingress as the proof of concept for an AR game) Unprecedented success was surprising. Niantic was obviously not prepared for it. I don't know how accurate their LinkedIn page is, but the company is listed at 11-50 employees there... You try dealing with ~20-25 million daily active users (this number is shrinking, though) while trying to staff up, rapidly increase server bandwidth, roll out new features, prevent cheaters from ruining it, manage a PR crisis, etc.. it's not that easy. You also don't ramp up full time employees until you know for certain something is going to experience sustained financial success, unless you want to hire and fire a bunch of people. Relocating people to work at your studio takes time. Getting features tested takes time. Everything you want to do takes time, if you want to do it right. Of course, this is mostly conjecture - I don't have perfect data. I just work in mobile games, and have some experience with how crazy poo poo can get when you're short staffed and did NOT expect your game to take off. Especially when the game you just launched is a skeletal, minimum viable product of the game you actually want to make. Hopefully that gives some perspective.
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Spawns definitely changed again, seeing Mr Mime's silhouette third time in a row now, though no actual sighting yet...
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Aug 23, 2016 21:27
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Frown Town posted:It's not that 'Success!' was surprising, it's that the game shattered records in the app store and we haven't really seen such a monstrous mobile title in years, let alone from a newcomer like Niantic. Angry Birds, Draw Something, Words With Friends, Flappy Bird, Minecraft
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Aug 23, 2016 21:35
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Mirthless posted:"Most of the casual players are level 20 by now" Actually everyone I'm thinking of just plays it on breaks from work and on the commute. They do commute by bus, however, and the bus route is full of pokestops.
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geke rowsperg posted:That's the ban message. I thought the ban message was "We're overwhelmed by your response"?
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Aug 23, 2016 21:37
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endlessmonotony posted:Actually everyone I'm thinking of just plays it on breaks from work and on the commute. They do commute by bus, however, and the bus route is full of pokestops. Yeah that would probably help a lot I have to get in my car to go hit pokestops and I don't live in a tiny town.  If you have to commit real time to playing this game things slow down significantly.
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Aug 23, 2016 21:40
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Yukari posted:I thought the ban message was "We're overwhelmed by your response"? They both are. The "Failed to get data" is more common, but sometimes you get the "Overwhelmed by your response" one instead. I think it just depends on what point in the login it gets the ban status. Since the account is probably toast anyway, try logging in on pgnexus or something, that would give you a "servers may be down" error. And if you legit didn't GPS spoof or bot or use that account on a scanner, might as well contest it. I have no idea what the odds are for getting it back though.
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Aug 23, 2016 21:42
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Must have gotten nailed by the last banwave. Oh well. Weird that this morning, my scanner account was still up and working.
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Yukari posted:Must have gotten nailed by the last banwave. Oh well. Weird that this morning, my scanner account was still up and working. What services did you use that might have gotten you banned?
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Spellman posted:I think what people/Niantic weren't expecting was that it would be 63% female 37% male. Does this mean I can meet girls by playing pokemon go, this is important
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Manslaughter posted:Does this mean I can meet girls by playing pokemon go, this is important I've had 3 dates with 3 different girls where we've gone to different hotspots and caught pokemon, so... yes?
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:X/Y introduced the two best Pokemon in the world, by the way. Every time I consider getting back into Pokemon, I see the weird poo poo they have come up with and it just makes me NOPE right off that train of thought. They blew their chance to capitalize off a remake of Blue/Red/Yellow right now with the full 3DS graphic treatment. That's all I really want.
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Aug 23, 2016 21:50
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Hell Yeah, after months of playing, finally got enough Candy to get my Gengar. Aaaaaand he's got Sucker Punch.  And Dark Pulse
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:What services did you use that might have gotten you banned? Scanned for 1 day, then realized that that was retarded and swapped it to another account. PGNexus and blossom's pokemon viewer (only for IV checking. Never for mass transfer/evolve).
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Rich Uncle Chet posted:Hell Yeah, after months of playing, finally got enough Candy to get my Gengar. I'm gonna keep pokemon with bad movesets around, in hopes that a future update adds TMs / HMs.
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Astro7x posted:Every time I consider getting back into Pokemon, I see the weird poo poo they have come up with and it just makes me NOPE right off that train of thought. Sounds like you need to chill out! 
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Astro7x posted:Every time I consider getting back into Pokemon, I see the weird poo poo they have come up with and it just makes me NOPE right off that train of thought. Don't worry - superior-designed Pokemon "Alive Pokeball" and "Purple Goo" are in X/Y as well.
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no see those are simple, classic designs. just like "guy who is just a human dressed like a clown" and "whatever the hell mewtwo is"
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