Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession

Re:Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession by fphhotchips on Monday July 11, 2016 @12:13AM (#12068847)

Ingress also had an invite-only launch, which meant that by the time lots of people got into the game, the portals were all super high level and playing the game was difficult.

Pokemon Go is already showing signs of the same problem at Gyms, where newer players are going to have to grind for days to take on a gym that their team doesn't already own.

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Re:Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession by joshschreuder on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:25AM (#12069235)

Yeah I can see that. It would be good to be able to build your own gym up, so you could place a gym at your house after acquiring some kind of resource, and people could try and take you down.

It would help to add to the density of the map in less populated areas, though that might make the trespassing issue a lot worse.

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Re:Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession by voltagex_ on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:47AM (#12069287)

Please submit this as a support request - this seems to be the only way to get Niantic to see anything as they don't seem to use Twitter, Facebook or HackerNews.

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Re:Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession by tonfa on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:35AM (#12069437)

Wasn't high level portals a good thing for ingress? It made the social aspect more important. New players would meet experienced ones and quickly level up.

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