Pokémon GO App Reviews

Love the game just wish it would stop kicking me out and when I go back it wont load properly. It gets stuck at a white screen that shows my level and sidekick progression but thats about it. I have to log out and log in multiple times to get it to work again. Please fix this issue. Thanks

Niantic has improved a few small things. The extra candies for catching evolutionary forms give incentive to actually catch some tougher mon. The pinap berry is also a welcome addition helping to speed up the grinding for candy. But there is still a long way to go and glaring problems that still need fixing. The gym/battling system is simply broken. "CP" should be scrapped altogether. CP highly favors attack power and Pokémon attackers. There is no incentive to put a 2000 CP Umbreon into a gym when its going to get knocked out first over a nearly 3000 CP Espeon and anything else in between. Although Umbreon has the clear advantage due to type and a strong defense stat. For this reason you see a lot of the same Pokémon in gyms. A well statted Pikachu would hold its ground against a Gyarados in a Pokémon game because of type advantage but why would I ever use one after catching it in Pokémon GO? The game basically forces you to use Raichu due to the huge difference in CP, or any other higher CP mon. Taking down a gym should focus on attacking with the correct party whereas holding a gym should favor using natural defenders and a diverse type of party. For this reason, I feel that it would be better if the Pokémon a trainer puts into a gym was not shown at all, much like the actual games themselves. Just show us the elemental type instead. This way the first attempt at battling a gym would always be a blind one, but players can choose their party by type advantage. This would also give incentive to throw in a variety of Pokémon and with the gym party changing constantly, youd never know what you might fight against. What if your position in the gym was dependent on how much gym prestige points you attributed to leveling it up? Somebody who gets 10,000 prestige points should be gym leader, followed by the person who got 5,000, then the guy who got 1,000 just to throw his own Pokémon in real quick. This would give incentive for players to stick around and battle for longer at a gym and would really enhance that MMO aspect of the game. You would want to keep battling to help your team hold the gym, but also be the last one to get knocked out. Just please do away with that crippling CP number stat. It holds back the potential of the game. Professor Willow has no purpose or character other than telling you the tutorial. It would be cool if he sent us on some adventures for his studies. I.e. catch 10 fire type Pokémon; feed 5 razzberries to wild Pokémon; or snap a photo of a ghost type Pokémon. Theres a lot of potential here to send players on some cool adventures via daily quests for possible rewards. There should still be a way to play the game at the end of the day from home. At 12am when its too late to go walking around. Yes, I know the game is about going out and exploring, but it shouldnt be completely unplayable from at home either. There should be something for players to do other than mass evolving Pidgeys, a boring part of the game. As of right now all you can do from home is evolve the common type Pokémon or grind up your Pokémon (which is the most boring part of the game), or look at their sprites/description. Either that or admire the ones you cant get at some Pokéstops off in the distance because its midnight, or you could pay a dollar for a 30 minute incense every time you wanted to play (in 4+ minute intervals or however long it is for Pokémon to actually spawn). Preposterous! Give me some sort of way to hatch eggs in place, albeit slower than an incubator. Give me a Pokémon spawn at my location for tapping the grass at my location 1,000 times. Anything that I can do to play and progress. Players shouldnt be penalized for the time of day they are able or willing to play your game. It should be fun and be worth playing at any time. It would be a cool feature if you could feed your Buddy Pokémon once a day, any one of your berries to make it happy ❤️ and drop an extra Candy. The Pinap berry is special of course (even on pizza) so it rewards 2 candies. Basically, if youve had your Buddy with you for the 21 hrs, like holding a gym, you can feed it when that timer counts down to collect your Candy reward. This would make the berries you collect, as well as the Buddy feature more important and a little more interactive. It would give players a reason to turn the app on at least once a day to play, whether or not they lose or care about their catch/Pokéstop streak, and still feel that sense of progression and accomplishment the game is currently lacking. Most importantly, its a good break from that boring mass evolution and grinding of Pidgeys. Players should be able to progress towards that evolution that they REALLY want--which is their Buddy Pokémon obviously! Thats the best moment of the game for everyone, right? This is why a lot of Trainers lose interest sadly and the game is dying. Lastly, please fix the annoying speed cap pop ups. Everyone is always a passenger anyway, dont you know that? Once is enough. These are just a few issues and recommendations. Thank you for the improvements thus far. Keep on GOing, Niantic.

They are cancer, deadly and nearly impossible to eliminate. 9/10 gyms have gone stagnate, often half them are 2600CP+ Blissey and Snorlax stacks. I see half as many people out since Blissey launched, and its spring now. P.S. Evolution items are given based on a hidden unique pokestop counter, triggered often by streaking on one.

It took over a year to fix one gym that was reported by my whole towns group pretty much... I assumed yall were just gonna remove it but bravo! Give me 10 coins per day for that gym IMO....

Loved the game!

App open than stuck on white Niantic screen, than suddenly closes. Must fix!!! IPhone 5s

I just want to know if youre going to fix the problem with Primeape. Im not the only one having this problem: I try to see my Primeape, they the game crashes and the app closes.

Jogo fecha sozinho quando estou navegando na lista de pokemons. The game are closing when i look the pokemon list.

Just a waste of time

Its not possible to use copy&paste to use unicode characters in nicknames to indicate attack types. PLEASE FIX!

Needs more generations of Pokémon to at least keep the game addicting and fun to play.

Bruj

Still crashing! Has been since the last update!! It has been crashing on attempting to open the app, and I am running on the most current iOS. When its not crashing Im getting the unable to authenticate message and the can not connect to server.

Update- buddy is cool feature Not as fun as when first released. Needs ability to track or search for specific and nearby Pokemon to make worth playing daily again.

Please give us the option to leave teams. I dont care if there is a week or a month of cool down between leaving teams.

poor noobs.. they keep crashing but for me its all great! 5 stars :)

It was an awesome game.I dont know what they are talking about.I am not crushing at all and my gps is fine. Maybe there is a problem with the phone and not the game. The tracking doesnt really need it. You just need to keep walking and the pokemon will come out. As long as you can hatch eggs, catch pokemons, gyms. I am happy with ir

Ok so I walk 10km to get a f****** jynx and I was so sad because now Ive got 129 candies and there is no evolution to that f***** Pokémon. why game? Why???

At first this game was amazing, got me excited to go outside... Now even with the buddy system the game is boring... Takes too many pokeballs to catch common low level Pokemon. Gps is inaccurate when calculating distance travelled. It was great while it lasted ... Finally uninstalled it today. Probably wont be back unless something great happens.

Great game but I cant collect any items from stops over wifi. It is still glitchy when transiting from wifi to data.