Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its first week ever

Re:Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its f... by jfoutz on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:02PM (#12148138)

Pokemon go is incredibly friendly to casual players. everybody gets everything. The only place where players interact via the game is at gym battles which are heavily heavily biased toward the attacker. Level 15, perhaps even level 10 can take down anything, given enough potions and revives.

If nothing else, Niantic learned from Ingress. High level players have high level stuff, sure. But 6 v 1 ensures even the most casual player can make progress. You don't have that level bonus wall to climb that you have in other games.

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Re:Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its f... by onion2k on Saturday July 23, 2016 @03:36AM (#12148724)

I gave up because I didn't know that was the case. Nothing in the game indicates it's like that - all I knew was that my Pokemon had far less power than the ones in my local gyms. I suspect most casual players will be similar as the game tells you very little about how to get the most out of it.

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Re:Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its f... by chris_wot on Saturday July 23, 2016 @12:07AM (#12148291)

It wasn't so friendly for me. I took my kids out Pokemon hunting in the car and we drove around for a while looking for one. My son was traumatized when we drove over a pidgee. I'm never doing that again!

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Re:Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its f... by Symbiote on Saturday July 23, 2016 @09:16AM (#12149379)

Isn't the idea to walk?

I live in a city centre, and there are families walking past all day, with kids looking at phones. And plenty of kids walking alone or in groups.

If any city counts pedestrians, or would be interesting to see what difference Pokémon has caused.

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Re:Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its f... by chris_wot on Saturday July 23, 2016 @07:34PM (#12151496)

I don't play by the rules of the game.

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Re:Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its f... by r00fus on Sunday July 24, 2016 @02:23AM (#12152437)

I guess don't be surprised when your strategy doesn't work out?

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Re:Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its f... by chris_wot on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:22PM (#12160506)

I dunno, I got an amusing anecdote out of it and got a rise out of you.

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