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Fact is, this game is the work of a small VC-backed game shop in San Francisco with some great talent. They license the Pokémon characters, which are owned by The Pokémon Company, which is minority owned by Nintendo.
Just image if the game was actually good... It's kind of a shame :(
I'm optimistic that the game will continue getting fleshed out; there's no way Niantic isn't going to capitalize on this.
Honestly I hope they add functionality so people who run into each other while playing can battle. It'd really be just like the game at that point, other than the battle system being very different.
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There's little reason why they are dependent on only in-app coins. They could easily sell "advertising" by placing regionally rare items in real business space.
This would be one of the worst possible outcomes of Nintendo dipping their toes into the mobile game category. Nintendo doesn't need to bootstrap, they don't need to mine user data, they are brimming with IP and are backed by a lot of creative people. My hope is after this initial success they start adding in paid apps that tie into improve their existing games. Something like exploring the real world for Pokemon all…
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It definitely didn't have a "catch them all" mechanic, and that alone lets Pokémon Go have much more of a feeling of personal progress. In Ingress, everything is about taking over portals for your team. You get items with weird names that you use for taking over portals. The maximum strength of the items you get is determined by your experience level, up to 8. After level 8 all players are equal. What Ingress has tha…
> that alone lets Pokémon Go have much more of a feeling of personal progress. In addition to the levelling-up aspect (L1-L16) Ingress has about a dozen "Medals", each with 5-tiers. IMO, they go along way in terms of giving a feeling of personal progress. > In Ingress, everything is about taking over portals for your team. There are also infrequent Niantic-organized global 'Anomaly' events, which require a surprising…
So, the game claims that I walked a bit more than 40km so far and I'm going for the next (100km..) level of that medal. As soon as I reach 200 caught normal type Pokemon (at ~150 now?) I get the next 'Schoolkid' level.
Was/is Ingress different?
As I stated elsewhere, for me it's Ingress vs. Pokemon Go is currently Multiplayer vs. Singleplayer, Community vs. Progression
Do I need to feel out of place in this world? I still dont understand why the game is so popular!
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I think that's a very short-sighted judgement to say that the game is nearing anywhere close to the level of games like Wow and CoD, and sadly -- it will never get there. There isn't very much flexibility that the game offers, and even it if will offer it in the future, the initial moon phase will be over by then. It's a nice example of launching a product and getting people to use it, but within a few weeks Pokemon…
I think that highly depends on what they do. In its current form, you're probably right. If they add the right features, I think it could be big. What are those features? I'd speculate that the big one is letting people battle each other with the pokemon they've collected. Also, let them trade pokemon with one another and get them building teams. Give people a reason to interact with one another using the app, and th…
I haven't played Pokemon Go, but if you can't do this, what exactly are people doing in the game? Just collecting Pokemon and doing nothing with them? Honest question -- I had implicitly assumed being able to battle with collected Pokemon was the whole point.
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I think that highly depends on what they do. In its current form, you're probably right. If they add the right features, I think it could be big. What are those features? I'd speculate that the big one is letting people battle each other with the pokemon they've collected. Also, let them trade pokemon with one another and get them building teams. Give people a reason to interact with one another using the app, and th…
> I'd speculate that the big one is letting people battle each other with the pokemon they've collected. I haven't played Pokemon Go, but if you can't do this, what exactly are people doing in the game? Just collecting Pokemon and doing nothing with them? Honest question -- I had implicitly assumed being able to battle with collected Pokemon was the whole point.
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The one thing which is missing (and which made Ingress the amazing game it is) is ingame notification and ingame player activity. Based on the gym activity there are at least 15-20 players in my town but there is just no way of contacting them. If I am lucky I can manage to meet one by random chance but currently Pokemon Go is a rather single player game. The other thing which is missing is a system which shows ingam…
I'm kind of on the fence here. I played Ingress quite a bit (and early), but what I disliked was that it seemed multiplayer only. There was very little (for me) return for being a solo player and most Ingress communication at that time happened in G+ (aka I wasn't part of that). Pokemon Go is in some ways a limited Ingress, but the collecting/evolving/upgrading part of the game is what got to me. I'd be glad about so…
tldr: Pokemon Go is the better single player game, but if you are into large-scale and coordinated multi player games then Ingress is better.
Just image if the game was actually good... It's kind of a shame :(
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Yes except almost nobody plays Ingress and this game hasn't been out a month and it's about to pass Twitter in popularity...
Pokemon popularity != Twitter popularity. You wouldn't go around comparing the popularity of Doom to Facebook right? This comparison needs to disappear.