Ive dropped my review by 1 star

Gym & Raid Update
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Raids are cool. But if you live in a small town with not very many other players, youll never be able to do a level 3 or 4 raid.

The Gym update is crap. Granted gyms before were terrible, but the premise was logical: stay in a gym as long as possible, get a reward for every day you are in.

The premise of the new gyms: getting defeated frequently is better. In a small town with few other players you end up with zombie gyms. Gym after gym is filled with pokemon with 0% motivation.

If gyms arent fixed soon, Ill have to make a second account so I can chip myself out of gyms and collect coins.

Previous
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The game is overly reliant on transmitting data in real time. It would be better to design it so that it can download and buffer data when signal is strong to cover times when the data signal is weak, like when streaming video.

The game itself is fun enough. But if you live or happen to be somewhere where there is even a slightly weak data signal, dont bother trying to play it. If you do, the game hangs.

beernik about Pokémon GO, v1.37.1