Ausfaggot here
people here are complete scumsucking casuals.
I got the game, looked at it for a bit, put it away after the initial fun of catching pokemon subsided and after realising how much battery this thing sucks up.
then i'm out in the city with some friends. while waiting for a cab, i check pokemon go to see what the fuck is going on. keep in mind it's only been 3 days since release here - there are already autists who have obsessively leveled to the point where they have pokemon with 700+ CP in the gyms in the area.
All the gyms in my cozy, sleepy suburb have 300+CP pokemon too. for perspective, i'm level 6 and the average pokemon i have are around 90, so I presume these guys are level 20 minimum.
I haven't mentioned how RETARDEDLY SLOW it is to level up. you catch one mon, good for you, +100 exp that's it. If it's a new pokemon, an extra 600 on top of that but that's rare since you only ever run into zubat, ratata and pidgey.
pokestops give you 50 - 100 exp and you can visit one every 10 minutes.
It took 4k experience to get from level 4 to 5, so fuck knows the astronomical level of sheer GRINDING necessary to reach such high levels to get such high mons.
Not to mention, this app is a busted, broken, glitchy mess, or at least it is on iphone, as the android version is much more stable.
further, it completely kills your battery life. I had the app open for 30 minutes while on a bus ride once, and my iphone 5 dropped by 20% (but I did have a podcast open too).
And fuck knows how much data it uses. Data, GPS, all of this shit completely taxes your phone.
So if those 600+cp fuckers are running around with 10GB data plans and heaps of power packs to get where they are, fuck it, let them have it. call it sour grapes, but this game just really isn't worth sinking time into.