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curly

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #180 on: July 15, 2016, 08:10:38 PM »
Wtf I just read if you miss you can pick your pokeball back up by tapping on it....

And that you can summon Pokemon with no tracks next to them if you select them

The pokeball thing is confirmed fake

Tasty

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« Reply #181 on: July 15, 2016, 11:11:21 PM »
This is "mew is under the truck" playground shenanigans all over again.

Didn't think I'd see it happen again with the internet being a thing.

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #182 on: July 15, 2016, 11:46:04 PM »

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #183 on: July 16, 2016, 12:40:36 AM »
Total. Fucking. Madness. :doge
« Last Edit: July 16, 2016, 12:46:47 AM by Pallando »

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« Reply #184 on: July 16, 2016, 12:55:50 AM »
ok i love video games and have done countless ridiculous things bc of them but seriously wtf people
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #185 on: July 16, 2016, 12:58:32 AM »
A herd of Wild Andrexes appears.
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #186 on: July 16, 2016, 02:47:52 AM »
This is "mew is under the truck" playground shenanigans all over again.

Didn't think I'd see it happen again with the internet being a thing.
Indeed. :lol Seriously, between VC release of the 90s era games and a week old mobile game, the latter sure invoked more nostalgia somehow.
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« Reply #187 on: July 16, 2016, 12:50:43 PM »

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« Reply #188 on: July 16, 2016, 01:19:54 PM »
finally came out here, but cant login

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #189 on: July 16, 2016, 01:23:29 PM »

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #190 on: July 17, 2016, 11:40:09 AM »
I don't want to see these people's cellphone bills
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #191 on: July 17, 2016, 12:29:14 PM »
t-mobile gave everyone free data for pokeymans go
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #192 on: July 17, 2016, 12:52:01 PM »
Doesn't really seem to be using much data for me

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #193 on: July 17, 2016, 01:20:08 PM »
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« Reply #194 on: July 17, 2016, 03:19:07 PM »
this eats battery

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« Reply #195 on: July 17, 2016, 04:24:11 PM »
Doesn't really seem to be using much data for me

Yeah, just a couple megabytes for most of my sessions.

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #197 on: July 18, 2016, 07:21:20 AM »
Been watching the Pokemon cartoon and bought Pokemon Y because of this. need mah fix
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« Reply #198 on: July 18, 2016, 09:32:44 AM »
Been watching the Pokemon cartoon and bought Pokemon Y because of this. need mah fix

Coworker bought a 3DS and is trying to get all the DS and 3DS mainline games because of this, too.

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #199 on: July 18, 2016, 10:40:19 AM »
My co-worker downloaded a Yellow rom for his phone :lol

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #200 on: July 18, 2016, 10:50:52 AM »
Drove my kid around to pick up a few. I'm now part of the problem. :fbm
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #201 on: July 18, 2016, 11:19:33 AM »
I still have Red, Blue and Yellow. Somehow I never knew there was a Green. It makes sense to me now but for some reason I always thought the original games were only Red and Blue.

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« Reply #202 on: July 18, 2016, 11:40:42 AM »
I still have Red, Blue and Yellow. Somehow I never knew there was a Green. It makes sense to me now but for some reason I always thought the original games were only Red and Blue.

Green was Japan only.

The original release was Red and Green. The Japanese Blue was released later in 1996 and was the Crystal/Emerald/Platinum-like "third version" which fixed some bugs, rebalanced things and changed all the Pokemon sprites. The international Red and Blue in 1998 are based on the Japanese Blue.

Sprite comparison here: http://orig04.deviantart.net/3e75/f/2012/296/0/e/pokemon_green___red_blue_comparison_sprite_sheet_by_fimxscootaloo-d5iqjvd.jpg

Hence why the remakes were FireRed and LeafGreen (although I still think they should have renamed it for America.)

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #203 on: July 18, 2016, 01:03:57 PM »
I got a Pokemon at a gym that's at a backwoods fly fishing shop. Been there 3 days now :lol

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« Reply #204 on: July 18, 2016, 03:46:58 PM »
ok i love video games and have done countless ridiculous things bc of them but seriously wtf people

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I mean really- going outside? #nope
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« Reply #205 on: July 18, 2016, 05:05:26 PM »
The distance tracker has been broken for days and the game isn't fun without it.
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #206 on: July 18, 2016, 05:08:22 PM »
If anything the distance tracker has been working better for me last few days. How very inconsistent

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« Reply #207 on: July 18, 2016, 05:09:15 PM »
Really? I see a lot of people saying the same thing as me: I can't get any Pokemon to show less than 3 "feet"
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BobFromPikeCreek

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« Reply #208 on: July 18, 2016, 05:12:06 PM »
Kotaku seems to have written about what I'm talking about:
http://kotaku.com/pokemon-gos-three-step-glitch-makes-tracking-pokemon-im-1783854268
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #209 on: July 18, 2016, 05:14:17 PM »
Oooooh yeah same shit here, actually, thought we were talking about distance walked for eggs, sorry

BobFromPikeCreek

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« Reply #210 on: July 18, 2016, 05:20:13 PM »
Really shitty. I liked seeing a rare Poke in my tracker then hunting it down. The only way you can play the game at the moment is squatting on lures and catching everything you see like an MMO Chinese gold farmer. Lame.
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BobFromPikeCreek

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« Reply #211 on: July 18, 2016, 05:21:22 PM »
And it's frustrating to see Niantic put no emphasis on community management. It's basically complete radio silence from them on everything.
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curly

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #212 on: July 18, 2016, 05:23:38 PM »
I think I've been getting the 3 steps thing too, but I never used the distance tracker anyways because for some reason my phone refreshes more slowly than everyone else's  :( I don't see new pokemon until a minute or two after they show up for others, coupled with the still shitty servers it makes the game nearly unplayable a lot of the time

Tasty

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« Reply #213 on: July 18, 2016, 05:45:21 PM »
The steps were kinda useless anyways. It's more useful to track their position in the list in order to triangulate their whereabouts.

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #214 on: July 18, 2016, 05:49:48 PM »
Yeah I didn't ever successfully use the tracks, maybe I'm just dumb tho  :doge

BobFromPikeCreek

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« Reply #215 on: July 18, 2016, 06:03:29 PM »
Come on dude. I love this game too but I'm not going to apologize for broken functionality.
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #216 on: July 18, 2016, 06:04:50 PM »
I'll assume you mean Andrex, I'm not apologizing for it being broken. I wish it was fixed and even more clear / in depth / functional for finding those lil guys

Tasty

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« Reply #217 on: July 18, 2016, 06:05:36 PM »
Broken shit is shitty, for sure. But as someone who works in tech I have nothing but sympathy for their engineers and IT people tbh. This is the biggest mobile game of all time, plus they got DDOS'd last Saturday on top of it.

They get a pass from me for now.

BobFromPikeCreek

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« Reply #218 on: July 18, 2016, 06:11:02 PM »
Not you Cats, Andy.

Andy: I get that and totally agree, but a game this size should really have some line of communication with its audience (ie a community manager). Acknowledging issues and keeping people in the loop goes a long long way. This isn't a tiny start up, and this isn't a tiny independent mobile game.
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« Reply #219 on: July 18, 2016, 06:15:41 PM »
Fucking Diablo 3 has MULTIPLE community managers. No pass on this shit.

But, who are we kidding- Fandrex gonna Fandrex from now until the end of time.
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #220 on: July 18, 2016, 06:26:31 PM »
I wish the pokemans had a visual indication of when you were walking towards or away from them at least.

BobFromPikeCreek

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« Reply #221 on: July 18, 2016, 06:29:35 PM »
I work in Community Management, so maybe that's why the whole thing frustrates me. People just want to know what's going on with the game they're in love with.
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« Reply #222 on: July 18, 2016, 06:31:35 PM »
Sounds like a common problem. These devs cant just blurt out what they're working on with big daddy (Nintendo) overseeing.

Bungie has the same issue with Destiny. Massive had the same issue with Division.
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #223 on: July 18, 2016, 06:47:19 PM »
Fucking Diablo 3 has MULTIPLE community managers. No pass on this shit.

But, who are we kidding- Fandrex gonna Fandrex from now until the end of time.

The fact that you're even posting in a Pokémon thread proves I won. :umad

Sounds like a common problem. These devs cant just blurt out what they're working on with big daddy (Nintendo) overseeing.

Bungie has the same issue with Destiny. Massive had the same issue with Division.

Exactly.

Joe Molotov

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #224 on: July 18, 2016, 08:09:32 PM »
Fucking Diablo 3 has MULTIPLE community managers. No pass on this shit.

But, who are we kidding- Fandrex gonna Fandrex from now until the end of time.

Ya, but Diablo 3 is a game though.
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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #225 on: July 19, 2016, 10:57:06 AM »
I think I've said it before, but the thing that scares me most about Pokemon Go is that fact that it's rather easy to tell how rushed it is, that really this is just a step beyond beta. But look at how popular it is. Can you imagine what it's going to be like when they have a system that stays up, they fix the bugs, enhance it to allow trading or battling or release another region? I mean if we're at these levels of hype for what we have? When they fix it it's going to be insane. Of course, if they don't fix it soon they'll lose a bunch of momentum and a bunch of people will leave, but still. It's crazy.
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« Reply #226 on: July 19, 2016, 02:10:01 PM »
I think I've said it before, but the thing that scares me most about Pokemon Go is that fact that it's rather easy to tell how rushed it is, that really this is just a step beyond beta. But look at how popular it is. Can you imagine what it's going to be like when they have a system that stays up, they fix the bugs, enhance it to allow trading or battling or release another region? I mean if we're at these levels of hype for what we have? When they fix it it's going to be insane. Of course, if they don't fix it soon they'll lose a bunch of momentum and a bunch of people will leave, but still. It's crazy.

It's a mobile game.  By the time they fix it, the popularity will have waned and everyone will have moved onto the next fad.

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« Reply #227 on: July 19, 2016, 02:15:29 PM »
And then they'll add trading.

And then they'll add battling.

And then they'll release a limited-window legendary Pokemon.

And then they'll release Gen 2.

Using "fad" in the same breath as Pokemon is... contrary to history.

Will it remain as big as it is now forever? Nope. But it's probably not going to go away quietly any time soon either.

How long is the P&D thread here, again?

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #228 on: July 19, 2016, 02:43:10 PM »
Gen 2 hitting is my quit point  :-X

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #229 on: July 19, 2016, 03:27:34 PM »
Someone used a lure in front of my appartment  :lol

« Last Edit: July 19, 2016, 03:32:02 PM by Premium Lager »

BobFromPikeCreek

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #230 on: July 19, 2016, 03:44:41 PM »
There was a big lure party at the CN Tower last night.

Every person in this pic is playing Pokemon GO

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« Reply #231 on: July 19, 2016, 03:55:28 PM »
And then they'll add trading.

And then they'll add battling.

And then they'll release a limited-window legendary Pokemon.

And then they'll release Gen 2.

Using "fad" in the same breath as Pokemon is... contrary to history.

Will it remain as big as it is now forever? Nope. But it's probably not going to go away quietly any time soon either.

How long is the P&D thread here, again?
Exactly. So long as Nintendo doesn't take too long to fix their problems this is only going to get bigger.
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« Reply #232 on: July 19, 2016, 03:56:21 PM »
With no major awards shows coming up or sports going on (sorry baseball), Pokemon Go has been a godsend to the people who need to tell everyone about what they're not interested in.

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« Reply #233 on: July 19, 2016, 04:04:07 PM »
With no major awards shows coming up or sports going on (sorry baseball), Pokemon Go has been a godsend to the people who need to tell everyone about what they're not interested in.


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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #234 on: July 19, 2016, 11:09:35 PM »
I guess it's launching in Japan soon. The internet here is already stuttering in fear.

BobFromPikeCreek

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #235 on: July 20, 2016, 12:34:12 AM »
Saw Electabuzz on the tracker. Wandered aimlessly until he disappeared. I think I'll stop playing until they fix this.
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BobFromPikeCreek

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #236 on: July 20, 2016, 01:39:27 AM »
So this exists: https://pokevision.com

You can scan an area and see exactly where the Pokemon are and how long they'll be there. Since it's cheaty I'm refraining from using it, but I used it to test and confirm my suspicion that tracking is broken beyond just showing three steps for everything. The order of the listed Pokemon does not properly indicate how close they are to you relative to the other listed Pokemon.

TLDR: The tracking is broken worse than everyone thinks. Shit's junk.
« Last Edit: July 20, 2016, 01:56:19 AM by BobFromPikeCreek »
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Tasty

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Re: Pokémon GO
« Reply #237 on: July 20, 2016, 11:39:57 AM »
That Poketracker is a godsend. Actually makes the game have some amount of strategy. ("Should I ditch this meeting to get that Dratini?")

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« Reply #238 on: July 20, 2016, 11:43:28 AM »
all I see are fucking pidgeys
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