Pokemon Go is now live

[squirrelfriend]

trigger warning for Tec: nintendo doing something successful

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/11/12147600/nintendos-stock-pokemon-go

this is a clear argument that nintendo needs to fire development teams in japan and base itself in america

[Mando Pandango]

And now the pay to win-ness of the game is becoming readily apparent

you get dust and coins from occupying gyms, do once you get in a few it's not hard to catch up

[Commander Fuckass]

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/4sa0w6/pokemon_go_geospatial_intelligence_gathering/

lols

[C.Mongler]

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/4sa0w6/pokemon_go_geospatial_intelligence_gathering/

lols

i mean anyone with half a brain in their noodle shouldn't be surprised by this whatsoever

nothing is free

even boyah

[squirrelfriend]

It doesn't use that much data so I don't know about that.

[squirrelfriend]

CIA has to fund their pensions somehow

[YPrrrr]

can it really be pay2win if there's hardly any win condition lol

i mean pay to make progress sure, but what does winning in this shit even look like, briefly taking over a gym before some  9 year old comes and steals it back from you? (i saw u at the metro station yesterday u little shit nosed cunt!!!)

Yeah, taking over gyms basically. Some 9 year old isn't going to take it over if you spend 100 bucks on pokemoney your pokemon will be unstoppable lol

If you only care about collecting it's fine of course

[YPrrrr]

And now the pay to win-ness of the game is becoming readily apparent

you get dust and coins from occupying gyms, do once you get in a few it's not hard to catch up

Right but if someone on another team is kicking out Uber pokemon then only his team can benefit and you can't get those items making you fall further behind

[squirrelfriend]

It's pretty much Ingress all over again: better get in the game early or you will never be able to make any progress at all. There should be 1 hit ko moves that have a low chance of working to allow for some variability

[YPrrrr]

If there is a level cap on pokemon maybe it is okay because eventually you'd be able to catch up but I don't know that there is?

[squirrelfriend]

There isn't but if you rank up by catching lots of pokes, you will be able to catch stronger Pokemon in the wild

[C.Mongler]

well i went for a walk in dc with this shit for the first time and the game soft locked even after multiple restarts

like my dude will walk around and pokemen will pop up but my touch screen didnt respond to being poked whatsoever so i accomplished nothing lol

[C.Mongler]

can it really be pay2win if there's hardly any win condition lol

i mean pay to make progress sure, but what does winning in this shit even look like, briefly taking over a gym before some  9 year old comes and steals it back from you? (i saw u at the metro station yesterday u little shit nosed cunt!!!)

Yeah, taking over gyms basically. Some 9 year old isn't going to take it over if you spend 100 bucks on pokemoney your pokemon will be unstoppable lol

also i guess thats tru but i feel like this:

It's pretty much Ingress all over again: better get in the game early or you will never be able to make any progress at all.

is the bigger problem, which is even people who have the best pokemens will dominate regardless, paid or unpaid but grinded out like a mofo. like i only have been casually playing this shit and am only level 5 and i dont think there's really any gyms left in the area that i can capture cuz my pokemon are shit lol and by the time i get gud there will be better mons

[squirrelfriend]

You get trainer exp from catching Pokemon so just catch any that you see and like send the ones you don't want back to the professor for more candy
With a higher trainer level, you start to see stronger Pokemon as well in the wild
so basically go to pokespots, hope someone drops a lure, rinse and repeat

[YPrrrr]

It's kind of sad that the overarching message of pokemon: the power of friendship with your pokemon doesn't work at all in this game.

Like the first couple days it was like aw, Ponyta, I will love you forever! But half a week later it's let's delete Ponyta for a piece of candy because we found a better one anyway