Pokemon Go General

It's literally the lowest common denominator of "proper" video games. Built to sell consoles to children.

I can live out my childhood dream of walking through my neighborhood and catching Pokemon. And it's nice to say hi to people who are checking out the same stops as you. That's literally it.
Is it worth $0? Yes. Is it worth your time? Depends on if you had anything more important planned.

Its to save time, pokemon is a casual game at its face
its le beta XD
Whats there to be competitive about? Its a social game about meeting people and getting outside, the stuff you buy in the store is anti-fun.

Its a neat little game I think, pretty much nothing I can really say thats truly noteworthy but I was having a blast the first time I caught a squirtle through the AR mode
They're not thrown in your face like most mobile games, they're hidden behind menus, and I don't even know what advantages they give
Freetard alert, take that shit to Holla Forums

when will summer end ?

>He picks up a smartphone and then is afraid a Pokemon app of all things is the one tracking him

>>>Holla Forums

This. Stop fearing that you'll enter the cyberpunk dystopia, you're already in it.
It's not nearly as exciting as shown in the movies and vidja tbh fam

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Perhaps I should of been more clear, by casual I meant people who have never played video games before. The casuals within the casuals, if you will.

Does the effects of meeting new people wear off quickly? I think it may be okay to try out I guess.

I'm just worried that when trading is implemented, I will be trading for items not achieved under regular circumstances. I also got the impression that they are going to try to shoe-horn in a tournament scene.

I personally don't own a smartphone. Regardless however, there's a pretty distinct difference between your smartphone potentially leaking data, which gets buried, can only get pulled up manually and eventually gets deleted, and using an app that is basically confirmed to sell data to the highest bidder.

Hello NSA.

I agree that GNU/Linux is a great thing to learn to use and keep around in case the cyberpunk apocalypse does happen. But there's a difference between FOSS users and freetards, Linus Torvalds is a FOSS user for example, while Richard Stallmeme is literally Lord of the Freetards, this guy for example is a Freetard for shitposting about some conspiracy about Pokemon spying on you while using a Smartphone.

Shit connection.

There's some pretty strong evidence that the game is spying on you.
pastebin.com/wsAqK0Gg is a good starting point.

And here my point is further proven, he has no Smartphone in the first place and goes to a thread about a smartphone app to shitpost

>>>Holla Forums ← You have to go back fam

Actually, I planned on borrowing my father's smartphone which he rarely uses. No shitposting intended.

We all thank you for your noble effort in thwarting the NSA by telling people how much Pokemon games spy on you, truly Edward Snowden himself will award you with 72 virgins

Don't bother, you're worried about Pokemon Go spying on you? Its a smartphone, the implications go beyond "potential data leaks" the general consensus is that if you're truly paranoid to avoid smartphones themselves at all costs

covering your ears and closing your eyes, won't stop companies from data mining.

also i hate how faggots light you will give up your right to privacy for no reason.

I dunno. I actually hadn't sat down with a few folks to milk a lure until today.
Not a chance in hell. The way the battles work, you put a Pokemon in a gym to help your team defend it, and other people come up and challenge it as controlled by AI. Pokemon have two moves and one stat. It's as simplistic as it gets. No word on if actual PvP is coming, though it's in high enough demand that it might.

fug, i meant like.

h-hi there US citizen.

To add to that, by not having a smartphone you basically out yourself as a person of interest.
Essentially these things are handheld telescreens that stay with you wherever you go, and never truly turn off until the battery runs out.

Only two moves? Eww wtf.

has user taken over the gyms in there local area and pissed off there entire neighborhood yet?

i live in the middle of no where ;_;

The reason why I considered it at all is that I won't be using my own smartphone, and my father already uses Windows 10 so he's already getting fucked over. I brought it up because I was wondering if it worth supporting a business that employs these tactics. It was not about own privacy, as I'm already covered in that regard.

I thinking there's a high chance that the tournament scene will get implemented still. The game is still getting updated because it isn't really finished yet and from what I heard there is three different teams to choose from.

I'm just impressed they have every little fucking landmark in even the backwater town I live in marked down. I wonder how much fucking effort it takes to mark down every fucking landmark and Gym on the map

Its powered by google maps, so they can just blanket everything that shows up as a point of interest as listed. Which is why that glory hole club is listed as a stop

It would be effortless, the process would be automated since they the technology behind it is Google Maps, which already has all landmarks listed.

The battle system is completely different. It's not turn based. You have a weak move, which you can spam, and a strong move, which has to charge up before you can use it. I don't have a lot of experience with it yet because the gyms around me are orders of magnitude tougher than I can deal with, so don't ask me more than that. Suffice to say, this game isn't worth playing if you're only doing it for the thrill of battle.

Anyone on your team will love you if you can secure a gym in your color's name. It means free coins for them.

From what I understand, Ingress players submitted Pokestop locations.

i just to see someone control an entire town and have the entire community get pissed off, that would be the only reason i ever play this game but my phone cant run it

I'm just happy I caught a jigglypuff.

There was a video I watched that discussed updates where it was going to change the current combat to turn based and enable trading. I cant find it at the moment but I wouldnt put it past them especially if its not even v1.0.

Microtransactions are in the game but it doesnt really give you that much of an advantage. The two that gives you the most benefits are the lucky eggs which gives you double xp for 30min and incense which increases finding rate for pokemon. At the very least, you would still have to go fucking outside and put in effort compared to other games where it gives you an unfair advantage with no effort.

The combat isnt deep but I wasnt expecting it to be. It does need to add fucking better explanation IE for moves as you might not know what the fuck it does except for the actual damage.

Its a casual phone game that simulates the pokemon world as close as possible. Its not about the gameplay really but more so the actual experience. Me and several friends went Team Mystic/Articuno and bought matching aqua sleeveless hoodies and went around hunting and beating gyms. Its a lot of fucking fun and there are a shit load of people outside playing. This is going to save America's obesity crisis.

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You can also buy extra incubators so you can hatch more than one egg at a time, but you still need to walk around to hatch them.

Pick one and only one.

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>went to a real gym and walked to a park after

This is the weirdest fucking thing to see in real life. Everywhere I go people are all playing pokemon go in groups and are huddle around pokestops. The sad thing is that people in cars park in front of them and never get out. They just drive from one to the next over and over again.
rule 34 of female trainer when?

This was the main reason as to why I wanted to play.

HNNNGGGG I want more

There's a surprising lack of quality Jessie porn that ins't drawn by apostle. Excluding like the 5 good pokemon doujinshi she shows up in.

Delete this shit.

So much degeneracy, so little ovens.

It's too late.
It was always too late.

Holy fucking shit, get the fuck out of your goddamn basement already.

Well at least it keeps me /fit/

this is what struck me the most about this game. Once you hit level 5 you are supposed to begin going to the gyms, but the longer the game is around, the harder that will be. The gym near me has a 600cp pokemon sitting on it. I'm now faced with grinding catching pokemon until I can power up one of them enough, or doing nothing else. There needs to be some sort of ai trainer to do low level battles against. They can be another mark on the map to encourage more exploration

How am I supposed to socialise with random strangers exactly without some method of excuse like this game?

You could always play it off like being the "lel nerdguy"
Seriously normalfags will like talk about video games and stuff since they've picked that shit up too. You just need to not go overboard and flip your shit when they stuck ass at it. Oh and also you have to find decent people that aren't shitters.

It's honestly just a fun little game to dick about with on your phone. I think people put too much stress on phone games, they're never going to be as good as actual games unless they're a port of an actual game.

Though you're right, I'd prefer if it had the actual pokemon battle mechanics rather than this "skill based" dodge and attack system.

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it's like the real game, you have to grind to be able to beat gyms
Also, you usually have mon advantage, 6 v 1

I kind of want a jet set radio game like this
Imagine, gangs of autistic nerds skating across every urban area in the western world, virtually tagging walls and landmarks through AR while listening to pirate radio stations
And then of course some of them will inevitably run afoul of the police or a real gang, and earth shattering keks would ensue
It would be simultaneously hilarious and /cyber/ as fuck

It was controlled by a Beedrill named "ThnksObama" earlier.

…A.R Graffiti?

Fuck user that's actually a kinda awesome idea…

Fucking great. I only got the phone a couple of months ago too.

Here's a nice reason for this game to exist: Exercise. With the populations of all western countries tipping the scales more heavily (ba-dum-tsh) than ever, there's a real problem with obesity. Pokemon GO requires you to move around to capture and acquire enough pokemon to get your mons to a high level, it requires you to be social by going to public places to use pokestops (which give various types of items), and it means kids go outside instead of sitting on a couch eating doritos.

Pokemon GO is an unintentional solution to a variety of modern problems. As to your criticisms:
-Catching and training your mons requires you to play longer than regular pokemon games, you have to actually go around your area (HOLY SHIT, YOU HAVE TO WALK, THE HORRORS) and trade in duplicates to get more candies for specific types in order to help train up your mons.
-You need to be higher level to catch rarer mons (and even to make rarer ones appear). To gain levels you need to catch more mons, use poke stops (which have a 5 minute cooldown each), and walk around. The game uses your GPS data and calculates how fast you're moving and scales the amount of exp and appearance rate based on speed, so people in cars don't have an unfair advantage.
-Microtransactions do provide some interesting items to buy, but they're not needed and they don't provide any progression for your mons (no stardust or candies), so they're not going to break the game.
-stealing your data
While running this game over a period of 4 hours it only used 1mb of mobile data, which was just used to coordinate with the server about which mons I'd caught and own. There's no data theft going on there.

…goddammit, user, now I want this game.

Too bad like only a fifth of a fifth of Go!'s numbers would play it

Something like that could also be used as a front for actual gang activity
They could tag in AR instead to hide the physical evidence from the cops, which would simultaneously keep the streets clean
And maybe some of the neckbeards will get it in their heads to try going legit and we'll see the rise of actual rollerskating gangs, which could either end up being really awesome or really gay

That just makes it, like, extra punk, man

Come on you faggots. At least show us a problematic clause in the ToS or privacy policy. I thoroughly doubt there's any data mining in this game on the basis there has been fuck all evidence.

Yes, data mining is a very important issue, and we shouldn't give up sensitive information just for a fucking free iphone game. At the same time, the burden of proof lies with the accuser. Cough up some fucking proof or let this meme end already

Don't leave your home.

See, I don't care if you have general threads just don't call them generals and make interesting editions of the thread.

Using General just makes you look like a lazy slob and reminds me of someone who can't think of something funny/interesting from the previous threads.

Apply yourself, OP. Quit calling em generals.

Also: Better Red than Dead, despite my town being blue and yellow, but it'll just make the salt better when I start taking gyms

Step it up user.

The fucking thing tracks your GPS location at all times, its quite literally required for the application to function. Do you honestly think they aren't selling that data? What kind of proof would you find substantial? Honestly.

It's a free app too, right?

Remember kiddos: if something is free it's not the product – you are.

there are concerns, nothing concrete yet.
pando.com/2012/11/19/googles-ingress-is-more-than-a-game-its-a-potential-data-exploitation-disaster/

searchengineland.com/ingress-googles-ar-game-a-stealth-local-data-effort-175417

most people who play already have their location services on already and don't know/care
ignorance is bliss they say

B-But the NSA are tracking you catch pokemans to see if the 10 minutes you spend standing still while walking your dog is you farming a pokestop or you trying to buy drugs!

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This is such a nonsense excuse. At most you're getting people to go outside, which while nice does not constitute exercise. Let me touch on why.

-The game has a speed limit. Think you're going to be riding your bike and hatching eggs like in your mainline games? Nope. Can't go too fast or the GPS thinks you're spoofing/can't keep up.

-The very nature of the app itself requires frequent stops, or can anyway. Yes, you could be walking a mile and a half to the nearest pokestop but chances are if you live in any moderately populated town you're not going to be doing that and will be walking down the block at best. This isn't exercise, this will not assist but the absolute fattest, most unfit slob in any way of anything but his or her shin splints.
–moreover, you're required to keep the application OPEN at all times. You cannot put your phone in sleep mode and wait for a rumble nor can you let it run in the background. The absolute best you can do is set your phone to allow battery save mode to kick in before your lock screen does, use a case that covers your touch screen, lock your side buttons, and hope you don't shuffle it while in your pocker. The alternative of course to be walking with it in your hand, which means you're more than likely going to be looking down often. Walking at a very moderate pace while staring downward is not exercise, you need to get your heart rate up for it to count as cardio.

This will not assist anyone in losing weight or getting in shape. It is far too passive while also requiring far too much input.

I'm now waiting for the day that some nigger tries to rob a kid playing Pokemon Go and gets shot in the process and BLM start some bullshit movement against Pokemon and burn down multiple gym and pokestop locations.

I know for a fact my friend CCs a compact 9mm and has been playing Pokemon Go like it's going out of fashion.

It already happened, people are setting up stops just to bait poketarts in to rob them.

archive.is/cdpsW

That poor white man was rused into going along with those angry apes plan. Release him for his white privilege allows him extra things :^)

Yeah I know that. Hence the and clause about a nigger getting shot in the face for trying.

Those kids were fucking retarded

Certain pokemon only appear in the dark.

What's so bad about Data Mining anyway? So, I don't know much but if they track my area via my phone and sell it, what exactly does that mean for me at an individual level?

Will I get SWAT teams on my ass if I take the wrong left turn?

I hear Jynx's are quite common in ghettos.

This game does not data mine. I've had the game for like a week now and it's used up like 16 meg of mobile data. That's not enough data to send detailed GPS reports to anybody.

The French have actually gotten it down pretty good now.

Although it's cheating because I'm pretty sure the artist is at least partially Japanese.

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If someone needs to impersonate you, the more info they have on you the better.
Companies mine it to sell or advertising companies. And that is a liability, because if someone needs to REALLY get to you, they know where to look for the data.

They don't even spare other jews anymore.

You have 4 whole hours of reasonable darkness before it gets to real nigger hours.

Wow that is dark as fuck

fuck off

i agree with your post just not your embed

They're already doing that shit in Pokemon GO.

It's just not the same, man

You have no idea how biology works, do you?

Of course I do. You install pokemon go on your iphone and BAM you're losing weight.

I didn't even touch on the biology aspect of it you fat shit, I shouldn't need to. It should be common sense to anyone with half a brain that you aren't going to lose weight by talking a short walk outside to catch a caterpie.

The logic is that it's better than nothing. You're right, it's not going to make you drop the lbs from all the strenuous medium pace walking but that's at least a few calories burnt.

Unless your main mode of transportation is an actual vehicle
Then it's merely a small amount of walking, punctuated by lots of sitting while you drive from place to place

Everything you do is a few calories burnt, especially in terms of the amount the app requires. Its a total non-point. You could brush your teeth briskly and burn calories, you could jerk off vigorously and burn a similar amount of calories as walking to starbucks to recharge your shit.

The amount of walking you would need to do to burn off a small bag of doritos would be a little over 6 or so miles depending on your weight and pace.

Hairy muff.

Walking to a set destination absolutely does not depend on your pace.

As long as you aren't straight up running (a completely different motion than walking), it doesn't matter how fast you walk somewhere.
The fact that you get there faster means you burn calories for less time, and it all cancels out to be the same thing.

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I like it, it gave me motivation to go outside when all I used to do was play MAME all day. That being said the game isn't perfect, and not having trainer battles or trading really sucks.

Fun fact: even Jews don't like other Jews.

Ah I see your problem. You're trying to play games on a mobile phone.

Do you fuck his boipussy or suck his feminine dick?

Traps are gay, user.

>>>/cuckshed/

anything computer related not governed and populated by autists is objectively shit

I don't understand why they don't make gen 2 on DS.

They did gen 1, so why not gen 2?
RBY can still be played.
Most GSC games have dead batteries, it's impossible to legit play it only on emulators.

There are males and females.

Males have dicks.
Females have pussies.

This is how God created us.

That's not what I asked, faggots.

HG/SS was a thing that happened, user
And like the rest of gen 5, it's in the top 5 for the series

HG/SS was gen 4

>walking 10/20/30km to hatch an egg isn't exercise becasue you stop to catch Pokemon even if you can keep walking or have to stop to a pokeshop same thing, you can keep walking

I think you need a brake from your autism user

check em

Fucking normalfags

I wanted to play something like this for 15 years.

Uh oh! He smuged!

I think we all have

I wanted something like Dream Radar, but this doesn't cut it for me.

maybe it's my autism because I can't suspend enough disbelief to think I'm catching Pokemon irl

This feels more realistic then dream radar i think, you actually feel pangs of loss when you let a rare slip away

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Microtransactions give a pretty minimal advantage if you live near a lot of pokestops. You can't buy potions or revives, you can't buy the higher tiers of pokeballs, the only useful things you can buy are additional incubators so you can hatch more eggs at once and more inventory space. Lures and incense have very weak effects, lucky eggs are good but don't give a huge advantage.
On top of this, having pokemon in gyms gives you the cash shop currency for free.

Battery save mode doesn't even work correctly, half the time it comes out of sleep, the controls get frozen so you have to restart the app.
Holy shit, how retarded are you?

Either way, combining that with the other flaws of this "game" makes it even more of a steaming load. Using Ingress blindly as a base was a huge mistake.

Guess you got monkey-pawed then.

Happens to me too, not even one minute and the game automatically closes. Great optimization Nintendo.

FUCK

All pokestops are ported over Ingress portals, which are user submitted

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Why do mobilecucks always say this shit? Also since when were turn based JRPG mechanics "casual"? The main story of Pokemon is casual. The breeding, battling, and training systems are not casual.

Your waifu isn't in the game user. She wasn't genwun enough.

Fatty please, Pokemon Go isn't going to make you /fit/

you mean it doesn't even have any of the good pokemon in it? all the more reason not to play it

It outclasses all my other Pokemon, it's ridiculous.

I'm playing through it, but I have so many questions, and a few observations.

-What happens when I run out of pokeballs? I'm down to 22, and unless I catch a few new ones, I don't think it'll be enough for me to reach another level up (I'm level 6.)
-This is going to sound like a really stupid question, but I'm playing on an old iPhone I got some time back. It connects to wifi, but I don't have it set up with a phone service, so as soon as I wander out of my wifi's range, I'm told as much and the game kicks me off. Is this the same for everyone, or if I unlock it and put in a phone service will it use that phone network to allow me to continue roaming?
-Who picks where gyms and pokestops are placed? The map from my apartment shows two pokestops and one gym within walking distance.
-Is this actually determined by you walking around? I've obtained the majority of my Pokemon staying still. How close or far a Pokemon is seemingly depends on my character randomly moving towards them. Also, just laying in bed with my phone connected to a wall socket next to me I've already encountered like 40 different types of Pokemon. It seems odd I've caught so many of so many different types in one singular spot. I was thinking if I told anyone this they'd think I wanted to fuck them. "No seriously, it's the weirdest thing. You'll find tons of Pokemon just hanging out near my bed."

As long as you are alive, there is no justice in this world.

>>>/reddit/

Pokemon Go is cancerous meme shit. Pokemon was always shit, and always will be shit. It's "Dogfighting: The Game", and all this will do is indoctrinate stupid little kids into thinking mobile=gaming.

pic unrelated

You can't catch anything until you get more. Go to a pokestop.

THE POKESOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN

why would anyone rob someone over pokemon go? why not just steal every phone you see if youre going to do that?

This app is honestly very scary. Have yet to try a lure module at 2AM, but I'm tempted just to see what happens.

if glover only has 4 fingers how does he flip someone off?

Because Pokemon Go lets you literally lure them to a spot of your choosing.

Do you not see how that would be advantageous to a criminal?

He changes the rubber ball into a huge middle finger, through the wizard's magic.

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Reposting this from another thread:

How is anyone satisfied with the execution?

It's a great premise, and I wouldn't mind (some) microtransactions to make it free (""), profitable, and professional looking, but it is just so low effort. Pokémon (only 1/7th of the pokémon that actually exist) appear completely randomly, regardless of your geographical region or location. You cannot battle wild pokémon, so actually catching them is just a craps shoot. You cannot battle other people face to face. You can only battle by proxy at a gym. When you do battle, it is three button combat where your pokémon has TWO moves preselected based on its species. The "augmented reality" is extremely weak, it only uses the gyroscope to paste a 3d model over your camera, disregarding what is actually on the screen, even though any camera could have a distance finder with the focus changing, and Nintendo more than enough money to implement it and implement it well.

>>>/reddit/

There's only Gen 1 Pokemon, you can do a lot with the 720 we got. Why not find Chatot in Costa Rica? Or Aipom in the Amazon? Or find Lopunny in a brothel? Plus, there's no battle system. What the fuck?

It's a great idea, sadly got ruined by the inevitable casualization and mobileshit.

It would be better if they're were no battle system at all, instead of "tap opponent while swiping left"

I want to like this game. I really, really do. It's so close to being right, and they still fucked it up. All they had to do was take the battle system from the games, put it on your phone, make it aware of the weather, and let you trade/fight with other trainers.
That's it.
But they fucking didn't.

Trading will be in an update, they already said so

What we have now is pretty much a beta

This will have a lot of updates, its only kanto pokemon atm , it will have several iterations

If it's anything like Ingress, it will take a year to become a good game

>IT'S ONLY A BETA

It blows my mind that they decided to not even reach the level of a battle system from the original GameBoy that fit on a 1024kb file.

Fucking pathetic.

And then there are these cucks that pop up in every popular new game thread trying to silence criticism with future promises. It's not in the game now, so we get to shit on it and you have to deal with it until it gets fixed.

They should have at least had to gen 3, geographically influenced, with the full battle system, before release.

If it gets fixed.

NEVER EVER*

>you will never get to be an Ace Trainer IRL

The gym near me already has a Gyrados with 1500 cp

if its this broken in the first week I pity the bastards who start playing later

Don't you have some training to do?

There are plenty of Ace Trainers in real life, it's the autists who dominate VGC. You can join them if you like, but it takes high autism.

That's another thing: the one stat kiddy porn system instead of an actual stat system is pathetic.

Hey, dipshit, I know that. I'm talking about in Go.

Fuck off mobilefags you aren't playing games.

Hopefully the game has level cap.

Do people whining about Go threads even look into them and see that 75% of the posts are shitting on the game?

user, mobile games aren't games, you should have known that.

Aaaaaand that's the moment where I stopped caring about your opinion.

What the fuck did you think I was in here complaining about?

But in the end it was Pokemon Go that unleashed the true autism. Gardevoir full size fuckable dolls when.

You consented to it, so if you play it that means it's not a problem

She's not in the game, or the genwunners will get mad.

>except it's missing fucking Mewtwo

Given how you said "IRL" like a teenage girl on Facebook, I assumed you meant in the real world, not some mobile shit.

And as I corrected you: There are plenty of Ace Trainers in real life.

Don't get salty over it.

They need to tone it the fuck down with pidgeys and rattatas , jesus christ

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I'm sorry, would you rather it be covered with ugly ads, or become stagnant in a month because nobody is willing to pay upfront on mobile.
And that was of course talking about if it were a otherwise good game. And the kind of microtransactions I'm talking about are like "get a completely random pokémon egg for ¢99", a case system, basically.

Yeah, I did mean in the real world, because nobody goes around challenging random people to DS battles.

You need to take a look at your pokedex again.

They're supposed to be the most common pokemon, just like pigeons and mice. Makes sense to me.

If the game made good use of geolocation, you'd find more electric mouse pokemon innawoods though.

oh? well alright then. i dont really know how that game works

I'm literally surrounded by water on all sides and have gotten no water pokemon

so idk about the geolocation

Do you really think the casuals this is trying to appeal to actually caught the legendaries and Mewtwo? I bet most of them didn't even get all eight gym badges. All the normalfags I see posting about it are posting shots of Diglets and Meowths like it's the end of the world that they caught one.

New update! Full roster of Pokemon and relative positioning have been added! You'll find Pokemon in areas similar to where they're found in the game.

nichegamer.com/2016/07/11/nintendo-stocks-increase-by-23-after-pokemon-gos-release/

This is a new era for Nintendo. They have smelled the money.
Iwata tried to prevent it, but it's too late now.

How new are you?

My sister's first pokémon (besides a starter) was a staru in an apartment in a city in central texas that is a hundred miles from the ocean, there is no geographical component at all.

My point exactly. It's supposed to analyze your surroundings to figure out what kind of pokemon should spawn there. Urban pokemon should spawn in cities, etc.

We have a power plant with whopping 3.6 gigawatt output capacity, and a steel processing plant. I should be able to find shit ton of electric pokemon around here, and a load of poison types. Also there's woods and a river nearby, so there should be water and forest pokemon.

Well, what the fuck else are they gonna catch? There's barely any cool pokemon in the game. I've heard of a dude near my friend's house that's been sitting with his big dick on a gym challenging people to fight his Aerodactyl, but that's it.

Everyone knows this app is just for datamining and surveillance, right?

You don't get what I'm saying user; to the casuals who played pogemon for five minutes when they were kids meowth and the starters and even Pikachu are huge fucking deals to catch. This isn't for the hardcore gen1 players who beat the shit out of the game, those people are either still playing pokemon, or would shit on this games battle system… This is for the people who barely played Pokemon back in the day, but picked up on it because it was a craze in the 90's. Those people don't even know what a Zapdos is unless it relates to the fuckin' movies.

This game is for casual genwunners, in other words: casuals who grew up in the 90's. I'm sure hardcore genwunners are pissed as fuck at Go.

Also for luring people into shops partnered with the company, by putting pokestops there. Yes we're well aware.

moreso than smartphones in general?

Tell me something I don't know.

Its obvious why its not like that, because no one would ever get all the pokemon

How the fuck do you expect to get a fire type, go to a volcano?

It just wouldnt work

Its in fucking beta holy shit

to be fair meowth and pikachu are recurring characters in the show.

Kill yourself.

Hey, I had an idea but am too lazy. This one's on me.

I was gonna do some cheeky spoiler thing here, but I've got nothing.

Exactly. Casuals love the shit anime.

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It's clear that he doesn't give a fuck. He's going to shit on game regardless if it's in the beta or not. So why bother replying?

Pokemon trading is a thing.

He has to defend his game's honor on the internet.

Not in this game :^)

Unfortunately, it doesn't, so you find NOTHING innawoods. This is a game developed by San Francisco developers for San Francisco hipster gamers who only played Pokemon Blue once when it was released and didn't even finish it.

The more cell phone traffic there is in a given area, the more pokemon spawn there. The end result of this?
I encountered something like 3 or 4 pokemon over the course of 2 hours walking along a nature trail near here.
Sitting in one spot at work, there were more than double that within an hour.
At the mall, though? Surrounded at all times.

No lures, no incense, nothing. Good job, Niantic!

Uh, wrong, dumb nigger.

But that's the whole reason that it is worth doing in the first place. Also trading, and you'd be surprised how many people live near an active volcano.

Touche! Really though, that's how it supposed to work. You only see pokemon specific to particular location, maybe with a tiny chance to see a stray mon someday, and you can only get others by trading. It was kinda there since gen 1, there were two versions of the game and each had a bunch of version-exclusive pokemon, which you're supposed to obtain via trading.

Not yet anyway. If that trailer for this game means anything, its that they want to add it.

Yeah Im sure someone living in a small rural town will have tons of people coming through to trade with

Couldn't they go innawoods for more pokemon?
You know, if this game wasn't a piece of shit?

Trading is done over the internet, you don't have to use those big-ass poketrading machines from the anime.

They're charging money, it isn't in beta.

So how long before we get the message

"GO TO YOUR LOCAL GAMESTOP (*and purchase 1 new game) TO GET A MEWTWO EGG"

Oh yeah, I totally agree it would be a better system. Which is why it will never happen.

Nope, sorry, not in now so I get to talk shit.

How are these fucking people leveling up so fast with cp700+ Pokeymans? I just snagged a cp249 Seadra and figured I'd drive around to find a gym since there isn't anything near me for at least a goddamn mile (no stops or gyms), and I get there only to see some lvl12 faggot has a CP883 Flareon.

Without any stops near me I'm basically fucked since I can't restock my balls and I'm not giving these Pokekikes any of my shekels.

Holy fucking shit you have got to be kidding me. How do they fuck something like that up?

*new Nintendo system

Just speculating m80, shit on the game all you want. But they are asking for a failure if they don't add shit to it.

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If Pokemon GO wasn't a piece of shit, yes, that would work. Unfortunately this is reality, so the further you get from dense urban areas with lots of cell traffic, the fewer pokemon you will see.

Yeah the autists are already breaking it

I have 4 gyms near me, all with 100+ cp pokemans

*1000+ cp

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Holy shit do it digitally, you can do it digitally in the games and anime already so it's not even farfetch'd

am i fucked?

Oh yeah, this thing is doomed if they don't fix it. But honestly I think it's doomed either way. You only get one chance to make a first impression and the casuals aren't going to stick it out and wait for updates. Their whole audience is going to leave the second the next flavor the week comes along.

I hope you're yellow.

Holy shit , I know you think it sounds cool but the idea of going to a volcano for a magmar and going to the antarctic for a dewgong is beyond autistic , its not practical for them to do it that way

By using Ingress as a base while putting absolutely no thought whatsoever into it.

Ingress uses "XM Energy" as a kind of MP for all of the actions you perform in game, which is generated (thematically and for gameplay purposes it makes sense) in the areas where people are playing ingress, and near portals (which are all reused as pokestops and gyms).

Pokemon GO simply takes all of this data and reuses it. All of the portals have been repurposed into pokestops, so if you didn't have anything of value nearby for Ingress, you're fucked now. They also simply used the XM heatmap for pokemon spawning, so all of those dense urban areas with lots of pokestops and player activity will be where you can actually find the fuckers.

As someone who doesn't live in a city, it basically makes the game unplayable.

You know people live in places near cold, open bodies of water, right?

I know it sounds alien to you, but rare pokemon are supposed to be rare, that is not many people even have one.

yes, but why?

Normalfags win again

You think people will keep playing if they can only get rattatas and pidgeys? nintendo wont kill their own game to satisfy your urges to be an irl trainer

If I understand correctly, it's generally the smallest team, isn't it? You should be running into all sorts of shit to fight.

But user, Pokemon is not Nintendo game. GameFreak owns the IP. And this time around they didn't even bothered making a game, and just outsourced it to some noname SanFran mobile devs.

Do you think I give a shit? There's 7 Rattata and Pidgey copies, they can use them.

If it makes you feel better, Magikarp requires 400 candies to evolve into Gyarados.

Where can I look up the locations for pokecenters without installing this thing?
I want to know which places to avoid.

ingressportal.com/maps/

Apparently they lifted the majority of the stops/portals from Ingress.

Ya, but I lose them sweet pokebux. pic related, I think I cucked myself.

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Sure are a lot of bug types in and around the local Taco Bell.

GUYS, I WANT TO TAKE THE CHANCE TO ASK SOMETHING SINCE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MOBILE GAMES

Where do i "buy" (hehe) talisman: digital edition? last time i googled it took me to some bangladesh site and the DL size wasn't right so i couldn't dare to do it, i want a version with all expansions unlocked btw.

I would have asked in /scurv/ but…

I found a Grimer hanging around outside a pizza place that closed down recently.

ive always wanted to put my balls inside a young girls anus

adamreeve.tumblr.com/post/147120922009/pokemon-go-is-a-huge-security-risk

Not in beta

it's fun yo

Kill yourself.

I did the same and didn't find any at all. Found a pretty stronk Pinsir on my way there though.

this game is so fucking bland and shallow i uninstalled this crap the second day. It was pretty disappointing especially with all the potential it had.

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I was sorely disappointed.

welcome to everything within the last 10 years or so

Is it fun,
Or are you having fun?

There's a big difference.

That's not what I said, you cuck. A retard can have fun staring at a wall, doesn't mean staring at a wall is suddenly GOTY. I'm sure they're having "fun", it's just that their "fun" doesn't actually mean anything.

They probably aren't, but I'll bet money that it will happen because the second a hacker group gets wind of this they'll be working on a way to get their hands on the controls.

This is going to be hilarious, thanks for sharing that.

But his fun triggers you enough to tell him to kill himself?

Kill yourself

Newfag sjw pls go

kill yourself

Kill you're self

you guys think they'll add the rest of the pokémon before they release in latin america?
I want to make a team with a Lopunny, a Blaziken, a Delphox, a Zoroak, Gardevoir and a Lucario just to trigger as many autists as possible.

Ok so what the fuck is the point of this thing? I downloaded it and caught three pokemon sitting my chair. Is there actual gameplay or is it always just flick the ball in the direction of the pokemon?

kill your self

Good lucK

Have you considered suicide as an option, yet?

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any other easy to catch furrybait?

Gothorita

I hope some anons here bought some nintendo stock, its up 34.5%. Sell now and be happy when it crashes.

I linked my google account but it doesn't show in my apps permissions list like it said. Is this guy just full of shit?

I just downloaded the game and I'm having fun.

After years of sitting on my ass I'm getting a shit load of exercise just being outside walking.

I just wish catching Pokemon and battling weren't simplified, and that there was more Pokemon.

i played this then realized it started taking up too much time. I uninstalled. I could definitely seem people getting addicted to this

It seems it only does this on IOS.

Could be. I'm on android.

Some people also have fun throwing their own shit, that doesn't change anything.

I know people who have fun by picking and eating the shit between my fingernails.
That doesnt mean its good or that you should do it.

Its pretty shit, stupid and a waste of fucking time that you could be using to play actual vidya.

"Fun" is not an argument, I dont gind sports fun, fuckoff.

Summer and Overwatch cancer

>>>/pokemongo/
Fuck off to your containment board

wash under your fingernails you dirty faggot holy shit

What's wrong with eating shit? Are you some sort of shitphobic bigot?

You mean like posting here in a thread for a game you hate?

>>>/tumblr/

Im playing Endless Legend as I post, kill yourself you shit eating pleb

lel

QUICK QUESTION

As you know, several of us non-muricans (and non-downunders) installed the apk for android or registered a new apple id for ios.

Is there any confirmation on whether any progress will be deleted or carried over when it finally hits other countries?

Right now how does it work? is your progress tied to your device like Miitomo does if you do not link it to a Nintendo account or is it already tied to the google account you used to log in?

Your progress seems to be tied with your account.

>>>/suicide/

Fucking disgusting normalfags the lot of you

NEET please

What's that about Lucario?

It's legendary, which means it well have a >.01% chance to spawn at best

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haha what

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Legendary or very rare, either way, also lucario is treated as legendary for story purposes any way

This, holy shit

fat asses too lazy to go outside so they talk shit trying to ruin every ones fun

Rolling out on your rascal doesn't count as exercise, fat boy.

yes this game made by Niantic, previously named "Keyhole" after the surveillance satellites, just wants you to have fun playing with your pokemans

call me when the Challenger lands, kid

have you ever gotten out of your chair?

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Casual

I'll be disappointed if I don't see a ponyta at the local rodeo.

Ingress was shit and entire purpose was mass data collection, a pokemon skin doesn't change anything

There's Pokemon Gyms at the White House and the Pentagon. Pokemon is literally taking over the country.

Wait does that mean someone inside the pentagon has been playing Pokemon go?

yes

Good one fattie. Based on how this game works it seems like it encourages you to walk your fat ass around a mall for ten minutes.

Kek, so people have been trying to get into the pentagon for a gym? Will the government be forces to address this game because of it?

That doesn't beat some good goy finding koffing in a fucking holocaust museum

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Zapdos is the coolest bird and Moltres is shite, screw you fags, I'm going yellow team once I start this game up :)

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Why is the goy upset?

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holy shit, that is great

While they still have public attention, they should announce a 3DS port that uses the 3d camera to mange more convincing augmented reality, but with cross platform play.

Just look at how smug that Koffing is. He knows.

You call that "pretty good"?

6,000,000/6,000,000
Thats fucking great.

everything you enjoy is the equivalent of watching dog shit harden

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Says the mobile faggot.

youre a homo that pays niggers to let you suck their dick enjoy your aids

Repost from Holla Forums because I really want to keep playing this game.
Dear God my phone's gps is KILLING ME.
If anyone can help please do.
Here is all the info I can give.
The phone is a moto x first gen, the gps shows that I'm over a street across where I am (gets worse as I move), It was working a few days ago perfectly, It works perfectly right after a factory reset but after a few minutes it teleports me all over the place settling me at the wrong spot.
Here is everything I have tried but with no success.
Factory reset, Reset a-gps data in the program gps status, I made sure mock locations are off, Recalibrated my compass (inside and outside).
Please help ;_;

Newfag, go back to where you came from, I'm not giving you any more of the attention you so desperately seek.

no i wont let you suck my dick. maybe if you didnt carry every std known to man

If you have the right screwdrivers for it tighten the screws in the backplate of your phone. If you don't, try pressing down (lightly) to try and better contact your backplate to the phone backing. This helped me to fix my GPS.

Also try using the GPS test app to make sure that your GPS is in fact working, and check to see if your GPS is set to GPS only or GPS high precision mode. High precision mode uses wifi routers as a means to calibrate the GPS so if there's a lot of wifi hotspots in the area it can cause your phone to go haywire.

Okay so i caught one of these stupid shits now what do I do with it?

Is catching a pokemon its own reward?

After catching some Pokemon, and leveling up to trainer level 5, you can challenge gyms in your area.

The point of the game is to be the best :^)

So I guess the servers are down? Canadafag here.
Worked fine for me a few hours ago

They go up and down constantly.

Ok the back plate thing did not work (my phone is one of those shitty new age ones without them.) I've just tried puting my phone in gps only mode (called battery saver on this one) and it did not work. I've even tried removing my sim card which I could not get out until i got it out with an ice pick. This is feeling so helpless.
My GPS test app which is called GPS status is telling me that my phone sees about 20 satellites but is connecting to ZERO somehow. Anyother ideas friend?

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Nigger I play this game but Linux and FOSS principles have absolutely nothing to do with someone being against GPS tracking. Most people turn that shit off when they don't have a use for it because having their location kept tabs on is unnerving.
You're telling someone, who doesn't like the taste of potatoes, that they're afraid of rocks.

You also do realize games don't just manifest themselves into reality, and it's not "pokemon spying on you," but rather the companies which work on and manage it correct? Privacy rights have absolutely nothing to do with free software, people who use 100% proprietary software, and hardware, are in favor of privacy rights. I'm sure your next magic trick will be to pull a big fat rabbit out of your ass while you'll claim Google doesn't log data and sell it for profit because "lol it's just a search engine bro."

Use your noggin' son.

I don't feel anger or disgust for your kind, just pity. It's not even a conspiracy or anything. It's right in the EULA that they're selling that data to advertisers.

Sorry, wasn't paying attention. What kind of building do you live inside? Try going outside and getting a signal. Also realize that GPS signals are not instant, they take up to 30 minutes to calculate. Make sure that location is turned on on your phone (probably already on if you're using that app), and if your building is concrete or metal, get away from it and try again.

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Which one of you fags is ABigGuyForYou

It's no problem man. I'll leave my phone out side for a bit then so I will report back later.

So does one need a data plan for this app or does it use something else?

Does this rely on internet connectivity?

actually it does. For hatching an egg you need to walk that amount of km, so get fuck contrarian

You need a data plan for it needs access to a GPS and the Pokemon GO servers.

That was my thought actually.

I chose red because:

-It's my favorite color.
-Subsequently, that's the version I got when Pokemon first came out.
-Also, I'm a Republican.
-Plus Candella's outline looked hot.

I'm planning on choosing blue.

Which team are you all going with and why is it Team Instinct?

I have a grandpa phone, will this game work on an HP 608 Tablet?

I DID NOT QUIT THE PETROLEUM JEW FOR THIS. There's fucking rush hour traffic on bicycles in my area now because of all these fucking fat people & children taking up my bike path to & from work.

THEY AREN'T EVEN SOCIALIZING. They're just sitting in hippie circles & saying "lol, I got a parasect. Wow!"

GET OFF MY FUCKING BICYCLE PATH YOU FUCKING NORMAL FAGS!!!!!

theyre the ones playing a video game on your bike path while youre "busy"

wouldn't red be the Holla Forums approved?

and china/russia

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I don't understand why people are so worried about NSA. Google, et al already have all my info…..I'm really supposed to be worried about what the POKEMON COMPANY does with it?

No, you're thinking of Holla Forums.

While the permissions on Android are most often than not 'Hold on to your butts' -general strokes with lots of implications- this piece here was developed by a dubious entity and is gaining such a blowback reaction I am beginning to think it asks and uses for much more than it seems. Still waiting to see if it's all just overreactions.

The way I see it, at this point in time every tech company is competing to be the megacorporation that puts us in the matrix in 50 years. Google is winning, apple and facebook not far behind, etc. Nintendo is probably in like 75th place.
However, I'm a brainwashed nintendofag so I really wish that they end up winning, so I made a policy a few years ago to always give Nintendo whatever info they ask for, in the hopes that one day I can live in a true Nintendocracy. [not bait]

you have to be retarded to do that

you don't have a smartphone?

I do but I use cyanogen and I never login with google on anything.

Yeah I left my phone out side for over three hours and that did nothing

no its true. republicans are represented by the color red

Wasn't always Blue and white?

I don't really know if Holla Forums falls under "Republican" per say.

Thanks a lot.