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Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by Sumaso »

tuna-piano wrote: post #62

A few thoughts: 1. I tried playing this game, but really don't enjoy it. It feels to me it's not about strategy as much as it's "the one who puts in the most hours of playing wins". Felt actually like work to me. 2. I don't see this game being a long term super success, as it is now. I'd imagine cohort analysis would show the first cohorts waning in usage in the next several weeks. I imagine as more people begin play…

The game has different layers. Personally I just try and catch pokemon. 'Winning' would be getting all 150.

Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by taneq »

ihuman wrote: post #77
taneq wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Th 'AR' mode is terrible . I had hoped for at least an attempt at registration and tracking. It's not AR, it's just a gyro based 3D app that happens to use the camera feed as a background.

>Gyro-based 3D with camera feed background Isn't that how augmented reality works? I can't think of any other way to do it, unless you are tracking specific objects and overlay something on top of it.

If so then the term "AR" has been diluted. :(

I was hoping for something like this: https://youtu.be/GnuQzP3gty4?t=22s

Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by nkrisc »

Sumaso wrote: post #81
tuna-piano wrote: post #62

A few thoughts: 1. I tried playing this game, but really don't enjoy it. It feels to me it's not about strategy as much as it's "the one who puts in the most hours of playing wins". Felt actually like work to me. 2. I don't see this game being a long term super success, as it is now. I'd imagine cohort analysis would show the first cohorts waning in usage in the next several weeks. I imagine as more people begin play…

The game has different layers. Personally I just try and catch pokemon. 'Winning' would be getting all 150.

Agreed. The most enjoyment I've gotten from the game so far is actually walking around and finding them and getting the best stats. As for actually using them in the gyms and such, I'm not yet interested in doing that.

Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by Grue3 »

stepanhruda wrote: post #48
Grue3 wrote: post #44

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It's only "talked about" because a commercial company behind it wants it to be talked about. Why do you think all these articles are popping up?

It's talked about because people wanna hear about it. If the articles had no hits, they wouldn't bother publishing them.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by skizm »

tuna-piano wrote: post #62

A few thoughts: 1. I tried playing this game, but really don't enjoy it. It feels to me it's not about strategy as much as it's "the one who puts in the most hours of playing wins". Felt actually like work to me. 2. I don't see this game being a long term super success, as it is now. I'd imagine cohort analysis would show the first cohorts waning in usage in the next several weeks. I imagine as more people begin play…

I assume the plan is to release new pokemon similar to the way they do throughout the generations. Also I assume they will add a battle system which is similar or exactly the same as the one on the Nintendo handheld systems since the one now is pretty lack luster. I do see the game coming down from this insane high pretty quickly but I bet it stays relevant for a long time.

Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by bargl »

nkrisc wrote: post #84
Sumaso wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The game has different layers. Personally I just try and catch pokemon. 'Winning' would be getting all 150.

Agreed. The most enjoyment I've gotten from the game so far is actually walking around and finding them and getting the best stats. As for actually using them in the gyms and such, I'm not yet interested in doing that.

I also agree, but a way I find entertainment on my quest to filling out my pokedex is by fighting gyms with the goal of adding a crappy pidgey or rattata after I've taken it.

I change the names in my replacements to something like "The King".

For a level 10 pidgey that's a lot of confidence.

I do this for a few reasons: 1) I can. 2) It's fun and keeping gyms is ridiculously hard. 3) It gives new players a chance to unseat my gym and get their daily bonus. 4) Powering up gyms is way under powered at this point. 5) This also gives other people on my team to power up the gym and reach their own goal if they like.

Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by mason240 »

Grue3 wrote: post #44
calsy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Pokemon Go is the most talked about topic in tech at the moment. Considering this a tech news site, it would seem more than appropriate to show this content.

It's only "talked about" because a commercial company behind it wants it to be talked about. Why do you think all these articles are popping up?

I guess the dozens of people talking about in my social media feeds are all corporate plants. Who knew!

Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by 27182818284 »

throwawayReply wrote: post #49
goodplay wrote: post #12

I would be very happy if Niantec releases an in-depth write up on the how the backend was implemented and what measures they took to make it scale to handle this kind of traffic. I don't care much for the game, but details of why the servers weren't (aren't?) able to handle the traffic interests me immensely.

I look forward to what they can further do to improve things. For instance they don't cache pokestop images, my phone keeps redownloading the same images from pokestops and gyms, if it just cached the top 10 most visited pokestops and gyms that would be a decent reduction in data use. Also it would help if they offloaded some of the work of the GPS onto the local phone steptracking/direction trackers it would help. I…

More on the images, since the images are just the ones that were popular during Ingress (I mean the same images, like some of the ones I took a few years ago in Ingress are now in Pokemon), they probably could have done even more aggressive caching for the very popular spots.

Re: Users spend more minutes per day in Pokémon Go than Facebook

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Post by 27182818284 »

Kiro wrote: post #18
Illniyar wrote: post #6

Yes! Another arbitrary metric that pokemon go passes an arbitrary company. We get it, Pokemon Go is popular. Seesh.

Why so snarky? Don't you think it's an interesting phenomena?

Not really, no, because I had already been an Ingress player. So the wow-factor of walking around to various spots for a geo-based-AR game is like 3-years-old.

I feel rather hipster about it, haha.

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