
Seth Newlin
Buggy spyware. Every single time you open the app it demands you turn on "adventure sync", which means sharing your location with the app at all times. Not one but two pop-ups every time you play the game "reminding" you to turn it on. Doesn't matter that I've already said no LITERALLY a thousand times, they INSIST that they have access to my location 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 365 days a year. It also crashes every time you try to catch your first Pokémon since launching the app.
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Wesley Pate
Long time player of the game, and it has brought me more fun and exercise than just about anything I can think of. Picking it back up post 2020, so much has changed. some good, some interesting, but it has become so heavily microtransactional it's hard to look past it. I love the game, but it feels like they are trying to FOMO me at every corner, and slowly pulling back the "free" features as time goes on. It hurts like losing a friend.
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William Stark
I have been playing since 2016, but with the sale of the game to Scopely I am for the first time seriously considering stopping, as it feels like monetization is becoming baked into the game's mechanics. I am willing to pay for a little something extra, but overlapping Go Passes and the option to pay for increased shiny rates after slashing the base chance ain't it. So far, nothing that has happened has killed my core gameplay loop, but it is a shame to see this predation in a Pokemon game.
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