I remember having fun with this game when I first discovered it, the few free games you got a day was honestly very generous, and it was more than enough with the way I played this game. In my opinion it's best experienced in a very meticulous, slow way - walking around, picking up little clues, searching (or not searching) little details from license plates, languages, business names - even when I completely missed the bar the process of finding these little trivia bits about little nooks of the world felt like a nice exercise almost in appreciation of the world. I don't really play it nowadays for no particular reason - when I have a rare urge to walk around in Google Maps I just prefer to walk around in Google Maps with no strings attached - but this game has been around for long enough to develop a meta, which has really soured my opinion on this game.

Criticizing a game for its fanbase is a bit shallow and I do have some apprehension about it, but the game itself has definitely acquiesced to the demands of this new wave of players and as such it's worth talking about. All I have to say is I really, really don't like competitive Geoguessr, it's antithetical to the way I appreciate the game, and some random georainbolt clip always seems to find its way to my eyes on social media, I have him blocked on like every site that we both use.

Of course, even talking about it as long as I have is overexaggerating the seriousness of this opinion, it's not an affront to me or anything, it's just a game I don't play anymore has evolved in a way that makes me want to play it even less.