Way to turn the holy grace of catching and raising your precious and beloved Pocket Monsters into what is essentially just a clicker game. I'm sure you get really sentimental over the fiftieth shiny Zigzagoon. Skinner box incarnate, sweeping through the neighbourhood and grinding the block's population of iconic creatures into Exp with the heart of a feller buncher combine harvester uprooting swathes of lush green forest. Pokemon Go to the gallows and give me your oil money fortune. I'll stop exaggerating and say this shit sucks even though I played it for like 10 hours.

Recentemente atingi o level 30 jogando a cerca de 2 meses, com uma conta nova, o sentimento de exploração e descoberta é incrível e meio viciante de certa maneira, o motivo que me prende obviamente é o apego a marca.

Me passa um sentimento bom sair pra caminhar e jogar um pouco do jogo, sair pra caminhar 15 minutos pra usar o incenso diário ver e ter experiências novas esse jogo me mudou de certa maneira eu o amo por isso.

Eventos e dias de comunidade deixam minha vontade de voltar pra ele maior, mas ao mesmo tempo ele cria uma relação complicada comigo as vezes parece que ele só quer o investimento de dinheiro(o que não fiz e admito fiquei tentada).

No fundo disso sei que esse jogo seria extremamente melhor se no fundo tudo que esse quer é seu dinheiro em troca de sentimentos, desde coisas simples como incubadoras a pedaços de eventos trancados atrás de uma parede de pagamento, a ideia de limites de moedas diárias por ginásio é TÃO merda, enfim eu recomendo se você não tiver problema com um jogo que as vezes bota paredes que você vai ter que passar por motivo nenhum.
Eu te amo Pokémon Go, mesmo que seja platônico

I work in a coffee shop in San Francisco and there was a big gaming tech convention recently. Some dudes with lanyards from Niantic came in and ordered a cold brew or something and I was like oh yeah, you’re the Pokémon Go guys, right? They didn’t know what I meant at first and then said oh yeah, that game from years ago. I told them I have a few friends that still play it and it shocked them to their very core, as if I had told them I remembered something incredibly embarrassing they did at a college party. “But… WHY?!”

Yesterday I re-downloaded and logged on one last time to transfer some favorite Pokémon to my Home account one last time before fully retiring this game. I played for the first year this game was out and then on-and-off throughout the years up until some time in the end of last year. Same with Fire Emblem Heroes, I just have slowly lost my taste for these daily time-sinks on mobile. It’s fun to catch Pokémon while you’re going out for a walk, but much like every modern Pokémon game it has become only truly enjoyable by a devoted minority. Sometimes on TikTok I’ll scroll past a livestream of this game and see the interface that the really hardcore players use on this app and it just depresses me! This game that barely has a battle mechanic has become so much about battling and it really baffles me. The fact that this game has a spot at Pokémon’s championships alongside the core games and the card game is insane to me. It’s fun to catch Pokémon while you’re on a walk, but this game became so much bigger than “just going out for a walk,” and I think for the worse.

Like everyone else, I too miss 2016-era Pokemon Go. My fondest memory was being at Disneyland in 2016 and everyone boarding the Jungle Cruise, phone in hand, because a Gyarados spawned on the ride, with employees even joining in and giving hints. Truly one of the more whimsical moments in video game history.

The game nowadays? It's Capital F Fine. It's one of those cases where I can see the appeal but it's just Not For Me. I finally have a phone powerful enough to run this game pretty decently and I live in a metropolitan area with lots of PokeStops, but that also means I've also reached the part of the game where Niantic is shaking me down for real money to upgrade my inventory space.

I'm disabled, so I can't really partake in a lot of this game's features. I also happen to live in a super small town, which is a terrible combination for it. All I can get from here is basically the same 5-10 Pokemon appearing, and I can't reach any Pokestops without walking, which is difficult for me to do. They ramped up the prices of remote play, which sucks for disabled people like me, so :')

On the rare occasions I find myself in a city it's pretty fun, but I'll never be able to play it properly or fully enjoy it because it wasn't made for disabled people and their perspective is that accommodating us would go against their aims with it.