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Re:Niantic Labs splitting from Google by jtbigwoo on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @09:45PM (#10051883)
The community and the meta-game quickly became the engrossing part of the game. If you like coordinating with other players and getting together to wander around and mash buttons on your phone, then it's great. You can still play by taking walks by yourself, but that's not as much fun.

I think this is pretty common evolution for games. Games from bridge to Magic:The Gathering to softball are as much about the social elements as they are about the actual gameplay.

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Re:Niantic Labs splitting from Google by pavel_lishin on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @10:54PM (#10052032)
It was like WoW or Eve, but in the real world.

Which is probably why I quit; I much preferred walking around on my own, rather than trying to coordinate with people.

Oh well. It wasn't for me, and in the month or two that I played it, I did see some pretty neat stuff around the city that I hadn't before.

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Re:Niantic Labs splitting from Google by numinit on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:43AM (#10052585)
The crypto challenges are fun as well.
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