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Pokémon Go is unquestionably this season's hit game. But whether it has any staying power is a very open question, and early signs suggest it's already trailing off.
Bloomberg has published some charts by Axiom Capital Management that show daily users and engagement dropping. One chart, using data from analytics firm Apptopia, shows Pokémon Go peaking at around 45 million users in mid-July, during the week or so following its launch. It then begins a decline to somewhere above 30 million daily users last week.
Bloomberg's article also notes a surge in searches for "augmented reality" coinciding with Pokémon Go's debut.
Niantic, for its part, is "still working hard on several new and exciting features to come in the future of Pokémon Go." Meanwhile, Nintendo is releasing two new 3DS Pokémon games on November 18.
(Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Thursday August 25 2016, @08:09AM
I played Go a fair bit as I had fun hunting and exploring. However, Niantic made it that once you get up to about level 15+, everything starts breaking out of pokeballs very very easy, and you could never get enough balls unless you either bought them or camped on a spot. I can accept the fact that high level cP pokemon could (and should) escape, but a cheap pidgey?
I could buy balls, but at 20 balls per .99c (which wouldn't last even one pokemon), it simply wasn't worth it for me personally. I know quite a few people on reddit have complained about this after dropping several hundred dollars on the game(!)
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday August 25 2016, @01:59PM
Niantic made it that once you get up to about level 15+
About two or so weeks ago, right? There was a patch released that made it miserable for everyone around then. I was at level 5 at the time fighting a ratatata and it escaped like ten time and I'm thinking Holy Cow I've found the worlds first 1000 CP ratatata and ... no it was just a plain old rat. And thats just how it is now, it costs like 3 to 7 balls on average instead of 1 on average.
Note that they're not monetizing very well, thus the incredible spike in stock price followed by the incredible collapse. I'm not buying pokeballs so I'm merely an expense to them to be minimized, so if I think the game now sucks that's great from a business perspective. They've advanced past the "first hit is free" stage and now its time to jack the prices and revenue up on the victims who are addicted...
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday August 25 2016, @07:09PM
Yeah, right about then. That's when the game was last opened on my Galaxy S6 Active.
/r/pokemongo was full of rants. I'm still subscribed to that sub because its fun watching people think the world is ending.
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