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NEW! Now you can battle other Pokémon GO Trainers online! Try the GO Battle League today!
Join Trainers across the globe who are discovering Pokémon as they explore the world around them. Pokémon GO is the global gaming sensation that has been downloaded over 1 billion times and named “Best Mobile Game” by the Game Developers Choice Awards and “Best App of the Year” by TechCrunch.
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UNCOVER THE WORLD OF POKÉMON: Explore and discover Pokémon wherever you are!
CATCH more Pokémon to complete your Pokédex!
JOURNEY alongside your Buddy Pokémon to help make your Pokémon stronger and earn rewards!
COMPETE in epic Gym battles and...
TEAM UP with other Trainers to catch powerful Pokémon during Raid Battles!
It’s time to get moving—your real-life adventures await! Let’s GO!
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Notes:
- This app is free-to-play and offers in-game purchases. It is optimized for smartphones, not tablets.
- Compatible with Android devices that have 2GB RAM or more and have Android Version 6.0–10.0+ installed.
- Compatibility is not guaranteed for devices without GPS capabilities or devices that are connected only to Wi-Fi networks.
- Application may not run on certain devices even if they have compatible OS versions installed.
- It is recommended to play while connected to a network in order to obtain accurate location information.
- Compatibility information may be changed at any time.
- Please visit PokemonGO.com for additional compatibility information.
- Information current as of October 20, 2020.
Join Trainers across the globe who are discovering Pokémon as they explore the world around them. Pokémon GO is the global gaming sensation that has been downloaded over 1 billion times and named “Best Mobile Game” by the Game Developers Choice Awards and “Best App of the Year” by TechCrunch.
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UNCOVER THE WORLD OF POKÉMON: Explore and discover Pokémon wherever you are!
CATCH more Pokémon to complete your Pokédex!
JOURNEY alongside your Buddy Pokémon to help make your Pokémon stronger and earn rewards!
COMPETE in epic Gym battles and...
TEAM UP with other Trainers to catch powerful Pokémon during Raid Battles!
It’s time to get moving—your real-life adventures await! Let’s GO!
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Notes:
- This app is free-to-play and offers in-game purchases. It is optimized for smartphones, not tablets.
- Compatible with Android devices that have 2GB RAM or more and have Android Version 6.0–10.0+ installed.
- Compatibility is not guaranteed for devices without GPS capabilities or devices that are connected only to Wi-Fi networks.
- Application may not run on certain devices even if they have compatible OS versions installed.
- It is recommended to play while connected to a network in order to obtain accurate location information.
- Compatibility information may be changed at any time.
- Please visit PokemonGO.com for additional compatibility information.
- Information current as of October 20, 2020.
App Store
NEW! Now you can battle other Pokémon GO trainers online! Try the GO Battle League today.
Join Trainers across the globe who are discovering Pokémon as they explore the world around them. Pokémon GO is the global gaming sensation that has been downloaded over 1 billion times and named “Best Mobile Game” by the Game Developers Choice Awards and “Best App of the Year” by TechCrunch.
_______________
UNCOVER THE WORLD OF POKÉMON: Explore and discover Pokémon wherever you are!
CATCH more Pokémon to complete your Pokédex!
JOURNEY alongside your Buddy Pokémon to help make your Pokémon stronger and earn rewards!
COMPETE in epic Gym battles and...
TEAM UP with other Trainers to catch powerful Pokémon during Raid Battles!
It’s time to get moving—your real-life adventures await! Let’s GO!
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With the player’s permission, Adventure Sync uses the Health app to enable the player to earn walking distance when the app is closed.
Notes:
- This app is free-to-play and offers in-game purchases. It is optimized for smartphones, not tablets.
- It is recommended to play while connected to a network in order to obtain accurate location information.
- Compatibility is not guaranteed for devices without GPS capabilities or devices that are connected only to Wi-Fi networks.
- Compatibility information may be changed at any time.
- Information current as of July 11, 2019.
- Compatible with iPhone® 5s / SE / 6 / 6s / 6 Plus / 6s Plus / 7 / 7 Plus / 8 / 8 Plus / X devices with iOS Version 9 or later installed.
- Not compatible with 5th generation iPod Touch devices or iPhone 5c or earlier iPhone devices.
- Please visit PokemonGO.com for additional compatibility information.
- Compatibility is not guaranteed for all devices.
- Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically reduce battery life.
Join Trainers across the globe who are discovering Pokémon as they explore the world around them. Pokémon GO is the global gaming sensation that has been downloaded over 1 billion times and named “Best Mobile Game” by the Game Developers Choice Awards and “Best App of the Year” by TechCrunch.
_______________
UNCOVER THE WORLD OF POKÉMON: Explore and discover Pokémon wherever you are!
CATCH more Pokémon to complete your Pokédex!
JOURNEY alongside your Buddy Pokémon to help make your Pokémon stronger and earn rewards!
COMPETE in epic Gym battles and...
TEAM UP with other Trainers to catch powerful Pokémon during Raid Battles!
It’s time to get moving—your real-life adventures await! Let’s GO!
_______________
With the player’s permission, Adventure Sync uses the Health app to enable the player to earn walking distance when the app is closed.
Notes:
- This app is free-to-play and offers in-game purchases. It is optimized for smartphones, not tablets.
- It is recommended to play while connected to a network in order to obtain accurate location information.
- Compatibility is not guaranteed for devices without GPS capabilities or devices that are connected only to Wi-Fi networks.
- Compatibility information may be changed at any time.
- Information current as of July 11, 2019.
- Compatible with iPhone® 5s / SE / 6 / 6s / 6 Plus / 6s Plus / 7 / 7 Plus / 8 / 8 Plus / X devices with iOS Version 9 or later installed.
- Not compatible with 5th generation iPod Touch devices or iPhone 5c or earlier iPhone devices.
- Please visit PokemonGO.com for additional compatibility information.
- Compatibility is not guaranteed for all devices.
- Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically reduce battery life.
Ratings & Reviews
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Bug fixes needed badly
Jan 24, 2021 Love the game, however there are many bugs happening that has made it frustrating. My friends list keeps showing blank and when it does show up I receive errors sending or receiving gifts. The friends list has also been blank when I go to invite to a raid I Ave to restart the app a few times before I can even invite people, which is frustrating when you’re on a timer to get everybody in! We should also be able to open more gifts in a day. When you are allowed to have 200 friends but can only open 25 gifts a day makes it hard. People get upset that their friends don’t open gifts daily then delete them. At least make it 50 gifts a day. It would also be great if we can select items from our bag to gift to others, like poke balls, revives, and berries. Or do some sort of trade with items. I find that I’m constantly needing to delete certain items that I have an abundance of like revives, when my kids have none and have so many fainted Pokémon. There should also be a better deal in remote passes. Or at least put some in the boxes you can buy. Instead of 16 premium passes do half remote half premium. With the majority of raids being remote anymore and only getting a max of 50 coins a day from holding a gym (which is another complaint that I know I’m not alone with), people have no choice but to buy remote passes. Not everyone has unlimited funds to keep raiding and playing this game.more -
Apr 19, 2021 If you dropped this game after release, I highly recommend picking it back up, even for just a day. But I have a lot of bones to pick with this game. There is a significant lack of polish. The animations are laggy. The music is more annoying than anything.The battle system is awful and grossly unbalanced. Raids are only possible with a group. Many things make you yell "why!?" Why do I need AR to feed my buddy? Why do I need a raid pass to do a raid? Why can't I spin Pokéstops on a road trip?more -
Sit back and enjoy the read
Mar 18, 2021 I’m a lover of Pokémon. I have been since I was a child. So obviously when the game was announced I was truly jumping up with joy. My idea of this game was quite honestly MUCH different than I expected/wanted. When it was released I was sorely disappointed. So much so that I avoided a review this long. I believe they missed their chance to truly make a NEXT GEN game that would shape future mobile games. I find the lack of being able to SET and PLACE “Pokestops” I would have added Poke Centers to place around my location. The egg system is fine. Minus the dumb mobile money making idea which I have bought into a bit just to see how bad it is. Overall you can buy enough poke balls for a few weeks if you spend like $30. Depending on how much you walk/run. The pokemon rotate sometimes and I’ve gotten a decent amount but I find variety lacking over a month. The catching system is okay and definitely unexpected to what I believe would have worked better. I think in total my experience for the game is that it’s definitely gotten better since it’s release. But I’d rather they kept Pokémon Duels over this. I’d still wish to see them edit some game mechanics in favor or battle and needing less people for raids ESPECIALLY in not so crowded places. I gave the game a 4 of 5 for allowing cool photo options when it comes to AR gameplay. But I doubt they alter the gameplay to reflect the 5/5 I’d love to give any Pokémon game.more -
Apr 18, 2021 I think alot of these 1-3 star reviews are people complaining about free to play game mechanics, I don't really feel that's fair to the company. Obviously they need to make money that's the point around F2P you guys need to understand. It's going to be grindy. As far as bugs go I have yet, since the games been out, seen any bugs. connection wise with battles, either don't play them or be in an area that's not 1 bar 🤷, best connection is going to win until carrier services are good EVERYWHERE.more -
Best game ever
Jul 16, 2018 Almost. I love the new trading and friend system, this has been one of my favorite games over the last couple years. But I think that you guys should add a chat system to organize raids better. It could be like a messaging system between friends only so that way there no trouble with stalking or anything negative like that but it would make it easier to organize raid parties without having to download a third party app like WhatsApp which requires you to let everyone know your phone number. Also it would be great to be able to buy great or ultra balls from the shop as well. I walked at a park near me for about 30 miles and caught every Pokémon that appeared. By the end of the walk I only received about 40 ultra balls and 50 great balls which sounds great until you consider that I walked for 9 hours. I received plenty of regular poke balls though(over 250 to be exact). One last note, I live in Miami and there are plenty of places to go play Pokémon go but sometimes I wish I could just walk around my area without having to travel to play. There’s plenty of things that could be pokestops near me but just aren’t. There are 2 churches on my corner that don’t have pokestops. Right across the street there is a building with a cool design that could be a pokestops but I refuse to download ingress just to request pokestops.more
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Apr 7, 2021 This game is fun and it's also great to play to kill time. I love this game and always look forward to playing it,but it can be unfair most of the time. Every time I battle, someone manages to use their attack when they have 1% of health left while I still have 50% of it left. It will say "Not Very Effective" when actually it is "Super Effective". This is UNFAIR and the mechanics need to be fixed ASAP. This game deserves 1 star. Trust me.more -
Account Issues
May 10, 2020 First off, I’m a huge Pokémon fan! Have been all my life. I got super far in my original account but then it wasn’t letting me buy stuff in the shop with my coins I had. So I figured I’d log out and go back in. Now it’s saying my password isn’t correct which I know it is. But then I requested an email to change it. They said it was sent but I never got it. I tried retrying and it said the link is active for 48 hours. Does that mean I’ll get the email within 48 hours or I have 48 hours? I tried using a made up email just to see what would happen and they said there’s no account on there with that email. Just wanted to be sure the email wasn’t a problem. So why is it not allowing me to change my password by sending me an email?? Also I made a second one just for the meantime but on this one it won’t allow me progress with egg hatching and/or buddy Pokémon getting candies. I turned all settings on for allowing my location and all that. My battery saving mode isn’t on either. Aside from that, I can’t add friends. It said that it won’t load and to try again later. All I’m saying is that on my original account, everything was okay. I was even playing earlier this morning. Is there anything that can be done? I can’t even really get the full experience because the events have to do with my buddy getting candies and also hatching eggs. What can be done?? I’m just upset because I put so much time and effort into this all for this to happen...more -
This device is not compatible
Feb 9, 2021 This review is for customer service more than the “This device is not compatible” error message. Like many others, I did the game update and the IOS update that ended my Pokémon game. Since that update a few months ago, I have updated my game several times and my IOS. After each update, I get excited hoping that this will be the update that fixes the “This device is not compatible” error message, but that update has not yet come. After the first “This device is not compatible” error message, I started searching for an answer. After not finding anything, I reached out to customer support for help. I filled out the form and explained in detail the best I could about what was happening. To my surprise, I received a reply pretty quickly. The only problem was it was just a link that took me to the troubleshooting guide that was inside the game. How do I know this you might ask, my friends I play with had the same guide opened in their game as I was doing what it said. After many failed attempts I reached back out to the customer and was once again sent the same link. I replied that I have already tried all these steps the best I could since the game will not even open. After more looking around I found other people were also having this problem and that there was no way to fix it. This game is so much fun and happily change my review if and when this problem is addressed.more -
Mar 29, 2021 This game requires a gaming phone. It takes a standard android like mine to boot the game at a record of 1 min 20 sec. It also freezes whenever I look at a gym, my pokedex, and my inventory. Probably has something to do with so many different pokemon(+700) and cosmetics(~100). that's a lot of rendering my phone has to do and It couldn't take it. They're going to keep adding more pokemon as time goes and you will have to upgrade your phone to keep it smooth sadly. I loved this game years ago.more -
Apr 5, 2021 GO Battle League makes the experience less enjoyable. The matchmaking system is very one-sided. More often than not, the algorithm places you in battles that are impossible to win because you end up being matched with someone who has all the counters to your team. On the rare occasion, your enemy will have an ineffective team that you can easily beat with one pokemon. Changing your team doesn't make it better, as the algorithm always pairs you against someone who can counter the new changes.more
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Apr 18, 2021 I think alot of these 1-3 star reviews are people complaining about free to play game mechanics, I don't really feel that's fair to the company. Obviously they need to make money that's the point around F2P you guys need to understand. It's going to be grindy. As far as bugs go I have yet, since the games been out, seen any bugs. connection wise with battles, either don't play them or be in an area that's not 1 bar 🤷, best connection is going to win until carrier services are good EVERYWHERE.more -
Apr 17, 2021 This is a pretty good game, though some changes would be nice.....My main issue is that every time I'm going to Play with my buddy, it has to use the camera and most of the time it freezes on me....I can exit the camera screen just fine and play the game but it for some reason freezes when I want to Play with my buddy.I've already deleted the cache & data, uninstalled the game, I have great internet connection & cell service but it still freezes and I don't know what to do.If a bug please fix.☺️more -
Apr 16, 2021 I'm still enjoy playing this game that's why I'm giving a 5 star rate. But, sometimes when I open this game I'm literally in other place (even my GPS on) and I stock but when I uninstall then reinstall. The game is now back at my exact place. My question is, is this a kind of bug? PS: I'm not using any spoofing.more -
Hands down, best app available.
Jul 15, 2020 I’ll shoot it to you straight. Don’t listen to the negative reviews. Contrary to “popular” belief, this game isn’t “paywalled” unless you have a fear of missing out on what other players spend 6+ hours achieving in a day. A very small portion of exclusive events are paywalled, like go fest/safari zone and that’s it. If you want items from the store, Drop in as many gyms as possible, it’s good for 350 coins per week if done right, and have reasonable expectations (and by that I mean shiny Pokémon. Shiny Pokémon in GO are given out at an insanely high rate compared to main series games) Competitive gameplay (Go battle league) having some glitching issues, doesn’t make it a bad game for those that choose not to play competitively, and even with the glitching, proper investments in Pokémon far outweigh any glitching that occurs, that and most players just expect to go 5/5 on every round played and anything less than that is a failure on Niantic’s part. Raids are very easy if you toss your IV expectations out the window and focus on high CP counters. Each Pokémon has given base stats, and IV doesn’t make or break most Pokémon when raiding, counters make or break your success. The game is completely add free, it’s free of actual currency, it’s fun, it’s addictive and it gets you outside. Just play it how YOU want to play it, and you’ll love it regardless.more -
Best Pokémon game ever
Feb 7, 2021 I have been playing this game for over 2 years and I can tell you that this is the best Pokémon game you can get on your phone or mobile device. I know some people don’t agree with me and say the game glitches or lags but when you think of it every game do that and the fun you can have while playing this game out wigh its little glitches. If you do not agree with me look at every one who's rated this game 5 stars. I have told everyone I know about Pokémon go and they all say the same thing best game ever. If I can recommend somethings to the developers it would be to add more Giovanni/ team go rocket research task, put in the master ball and you can get it from achieving special research tasks, And the last thing is to fix the internet problem/ week connection you see I can be in my room with full bars and in a middle of a battle my game lags and say week connection and I end up losing idk if you can fix it but I wanted to mention that. The next and last thing is my brother found a way to cheat system if you put battery saver mode on and adventure sinc you can put you phone into a sock (big one) and shake it up and down and it will count it as steps and kilometers he uses this methods to hatch eggs and get buddy candy. I wanted to tell you this because I consider it cheating and want it fixed if you can do that.more
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Bug fixes needed badly
Jan 24, 2021 Love the game, however there are many bugs happening that has made it frustrating. My friends list keeps showing blank and when it does show up I receive errors sending or receiving gifts. The friends list has also been blank when I go to invite to a raid I Ave to restart the app a few times before I can even invite people, which is frustrating when you’re on a timer to get everybody in! We should also be able to open more gifts in a day. When you are allowed to have 200 friends but can only open 25 gifts a day makes it hard. People get upset that their friends don’t open gifts daily then delete them. At least make it 50 gifts a day. It would also be great if we can select items from our bag to gift to others, like poke balls, revives, and berries. Or do some sort of trade with items. I find that I’m constantly needing to delete certain items that I have an abundance of like revives, when my kids have none and have so many fainted Pokémon. There should also be a better deal in remote passes. Or at least put some in the boxes you can buy. Instead of 16 premium passes do half remote half premium. With the majority of raids being remote anymore and only getting a max of 50 coins a day from holding a gym (which is another complaint that I know I’m not alone with), people have no choice but to buy remote passes. Not everyone has unlimited funds to keep raiding and playing this game.more -
Sit back and enjoy the read
Mar 18, 2021 I’m a lover of Pokémon. I have been since I was a child. So obviously when the game was announced I was truly jumping up with joy. My idea of this game was quite honestly MUCH different than I expected/wanted. When it was released I was sorely disappointed. So much so that I avoided a review this long. I believe they missed their chance to truly make a NEXT GEN game that would shape future mobile games. I find the lack of being able to SET and PLACE “Pokestops” I would have added Poke Centers to place around my location. The egg system is fine. Minus the dumb mobile money making idea which I have bought into a bit just to see how bad it is. Overall you can buy enough poke balls for a few weeks if you spend like $30. Depending on how much you walk/run. The pokemon rotate sometimes and I’ve gotten a decent amount but I find variety lacking over a month. The catching system is okay and definitely unexpected to what I believe would have worked better. I think in total my experience for the game is that it’s definitely gotten better since it’s release. But I’d rather they kept Pokémon Duels over this. I’d still wish to see them edit some game mechanics in favor or battle and needing less people for raids ESPECIALLY in not so crowded places. I gave the game a 4 of 5 for allowing cool photo options when it comes to AR gameplay. But I doubt they alter the gameplay to reflect the 5/5 I’d love to give any Pokémon game.more -
Best game ever
Jul 16, 2018 Almost. I love the new trading and friend system, this has been one of my favorite games over the last couple years. But I think that you guys should add a chat system to organize raids better. It could be like a messaging system between friends only so that way there no trouble with stalking or anything negative like that but it would make it easier to organize raid parties without having to download a third party app like WhatsApp which requires you to let everyone know your phone number. Also it would be great to be able to buy great or ultra balls from the shop as well. I walked at a park near me for about 30 miles and caught every Pokémon that appeared. By the end of the walk I only received about 40 ultra balls and 50 great balls which sounds great until you consider that I walked for 9 hours. I received plenty of regular poke balls though(over 250 to be exact). One last note, I live in Miami and there are plenty of places to go play Pokémon go but sometimes I wish I could just walk around my area without having to travel to play. There’s plenty of things that could be pokestops near me but just aren’t. There are 2 churches on my corner that don’t have pokestops. Right across the street there is a building with a cool design that could be a pokestops but I refuse to download ingress just to request pokestops.more -
Apr 17, 2021 The game is great so far but its not tracking movement so well and sometimes moves me on its own which has moved me out of range of several pokemon including a charzarid(i don't know if I spelled that right)also a volume button would be nice if my phone is even an inch over half volume it makes my ears bleed other than thatmore -
Apr 9, 2021 Very fun game. Takes this old man back to his childhood, and that helps after a hard day of goofing around! Lol, I do wish there was a way to communicate with players in the game and find friends quicker that are close by without always having to keep a constant eye on forms or a community page..more
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Apr 19, 2021 If you dropped this game after release, I highly recommend picking it back up, even for just a day. But I have a lot of bones to pick with this game. There is a significant lack of polish. The animations are laggy. The music is more annoying than anything.The battle system is awful and grossly unbalanced. Raids are only possible with a group. Many things make you yell "why!?" Why do I need AR to feed my buddy? Why do I need a raid pass to do a raid? Why can't I spin Pokéstops on a road trip?more -
Amazing
Jul 26, 2020 This app is an amazing app! It is an amazing way to kill time and a great app to get your exercise in! There are a couple things that I think could be better. I feel there should be a chat space! So you can talk to the people you are friends with to meet up and do raids or battle together. Instead of having to download an app which even then you need to at least know there phone number. I feel you should be able to get more than 50 coins a day. Or at least be able to get a bonus for every continuous day your Pokémon is at a gym. Saying that I know that the prices to buy stuff is set to match the amount of coins able to be received each day. So if needed I feel it would be ok to up the price on coins a little. For trading.... I feel you should be able to choose what your friend gets. Or at least be able to put something in there for them besides a sticker. This also adds onto the fact that we need a chat system between friends to be able to tell what each other needs and or is receiving. I know you have the notifications for what your friend has received but it would still be nice to be able to say “oh thanks for the poke balls dude” or something along the lines of that. Overall this game is amazing! And I get on it several times a day. But I am sure other people have been saying things along the lines of what I have said! I mean none of this is no rude way but I do feel that these things should either be changed or added into the game!more -
Apr 14, 2021 Overall a great game. I am a player for almost 5 years now. However, I am finally fed up with catch rates in 5-star raids! We are spending SO many berries and so many NON-retrievable, PURCHASABLE remote passes to participate just to lose the pokémon even after several excellent throws and golden. For spending so many resources and money on these raids the LEAST you can do is make these pokémon easier to obtain if we already went through all the effort to get to them. You are being very unfair.more -
It is fun.
Jun 12, 2020 It is indeed fun and has grown a lot since I first started about four years ago. I am also really glad they retracted with the sprite version of Pokémon. I would have quit. I am proud that those behind Pokémon Go are doing what they can to help people enjoy the app during the pandemic. Even more so, I commend them for standing up for the black people and all races. Being anything other than white dose not mean that they mean less. To me they mean so much more. Now on from that and back to Pokémon Go. I find myself pondering weather to keep with Pokémon go, or to let it go. Community days end when workers are getting off work or kids getting off school. That is extremely unfair. There should also be more Pokémon, Pokémon stops and gems for those in rural areas. Also, I purchased a remote raid pass for the event. When I hopped in to join, the people left so I hopped out only to find that I had completely lost my remote raid pass. This was also unfair as other raid passes do not vanish when you hop in and out when others leave. Another reason for me to consider leaving. It is very wrong for the raid to be used up like that especially when we have to pay for them. I surely will not buy another, event or not. Sure, coins, incubators, lucky eggs and so on are expected to disappear when used, but when other raid passes let you hop in and out, it is shameful to take the remote raid pass without having participated in any raid. That is all I have to say.more -
Good game but many fixes.
Dec 28, 2020 OK so first of all I would like to say is a great game plus there’s many problems with it. My first problem is that you have to pay for everything in the shop instead of earning points but I have played for about three months now and I haven’t a single coin and it is really annoying to have to pay money to be able to get more poke balls and revives. Another problem is that a lot of times when I go to a PokéStop and spin it, it won’t let me collect anything, and will tell me to please try again later even though I already tried but it didn’t give me anything. One of my last two problems is that I hate how you run out of poke balls so quickly because then the only way to get more is to buy with money, or go to a poke stop for only 3 poke balls, which gets really annoying at times. One of my last problems with this game is, I don’t like having battles that all you can do is tap the screen I wish it was like that you could actually choose your move I could use and you can dodge other moves like a real Pokémon battle and I think that would improve the game much better. Just being able to tap the screen taking in every single shot is really annoying. Also the blocks don’t really seem very Pokémon, since in actual Pokémon battles you don’t really have a big screen in front of you blocking so I think it would be better if you guys let us be able to dodge instead of blocking.more
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Account Issues
May 10, 2020 First off, I’m a huge Pokémon fan! Have been all my life. I got super far in my original account but then it wasn’t letting me buy stuff in the shop with my coins I had. So I figured I’d log out and go back in. Now it’s saying my password isn’t correct which I know it is. But then I requested an email to change it. They said it was sent but I never got it. I tried retrying and it said the link is active for 48 hours. Does that mean I’ll get the email within 48 hours or I have 48 hours? I tried using a made up email just to see what would happen and they said there’s no account on there with that email. Just wanted to be sure the email wasn’t a problem. So why is it not allowing me to change my password by sending me an email?? Also I made a second one just for the meantime but on this one it won’t allow me progress with egg hatching and/or buddy Pokémon getting candies. I turned all settings on for allowing my location and all that. My battery saving mode isn’t on either. Aside from that, I can’t add friends. It said that it won’t load and to try again later. All I’m saying is that on my original account, everything was okay. I was even playing earlier this morning. Is there anything that can be done? I can’t even really get the full experience because the events have to do with my buddy getting candies and also hatching eggs. What can be done?? I’m just upset because I put so much time and effort into this all for this to happen...more -
This device is not compatible
Feb 9, 2021 This review is for customer service more than the “This device is not compatible” error message. Like many others, I did the game update and the IOS update that ended my Pokémon game. Since that update a few months ago, I have updated my game several times and my IOS. After each update, I get excited hoping that this will be the update that fixes the “This device is not compatible” error message, but that update has not yet come. After the first “This device is not compatible” error message, I started searching for an answer. After not finding anything, I reached out to customer support for help. I filled out the form and explained in detail the best I could about what was happening. To my surprise, I received a reply pretty quickly. The only problem was it was just a link that took me to the troubleshooting guide that was inside the game. How do I know this you might ask, my friends I play with had the same guide opened in their game as I was doing what it said. After many failed attempts I reached back out to the customer and was once again sent the same link. I replied that I have already tried all these steps the best I could since the game will not even open. After more looking around I found other people were also having this problem and that there was no way to fix it. This game is so much fun and happily change my review if and when this problem is addressed.more -
Mar 29, 2021 This game requires a gaming phone. It takes a standard android like mine to boot the game at a record of 1 min 20 sec. It also freezes whenever I look at a gym, my pokedex, and my inventory. Probably has something to do with so many different pokemon(+700) and cosmetics(~100). that's a lot of rendering my phone has to do and It couldn't take it. They're going to keep adding more pokemon as time goes and you will have to upgrade your phone to keep it smooth sadly. I loved this game years ago.more -
Apr 5, 2021 GO Battle League makes the experience less enjoyable. The matchmaking system is very one-sided. More often than not, the algorithm places you in battles that are impossible to win because you end up being matched with someone who has all the counters to your team. On the rare occasion, your enemy will have an ineffective team that you can easily beat with one pokemon. Changing your team doesn't make it better, as the algorithm always pairs you against someone who can counter the new changes.more -
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Aug 7, 2019 i love the game but i give it a 2 bc it needs updates for ease of use. im a passenger in a car alot and pokestops should be able to open and spin if were going past one at 60 mph bc some of the places we go by no one is walking to so the onlyway to hit it is from a car but like i said if im a passenger there shouldnt be restrictions. also i dont need the dont pokemon and go while driving message to pop up every time my speed changes if i say im a passenger it should acknowledge and not ask again unless i close the app and open back up if u have to create a license agreement stating that if u check this box and are using pokémon go while driving after it asks if ur a passenger and u aren't a passenger u cant sue if u get in an accident then do that . also the special stones and leafs and all that for upgrades should be way easier to get I'm level 28 and have never seen some of them and i have the candies to upgrade idk if thats just me but ... lastly ditto idk what i have to do but its the longest achievement I've been trying to get i cant ever find him and like i said i'm a passenger a-lot i go all over the state it's getting to the point where i don't wanna play anymore bc i cant get to the next stage of special research its a lil ridiculous like i feel like they should pop up once since i have 2 special researches for it but yea hope thats all taken into account before i delete the app bc i like playingmore
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Apr 7, 2021 This game is fun and it's also great to play to kill time. I love this game and always look forward to playing it,but it can be unfair most of the time. Every time I battle, someone manages to use their attack when they have 1% of health left while I still have 50% of it left. It will say "Not Very Effective" when actually it is "Super Effective". This is UNFAIR and the mechanics need to be fixed ASAP. This game deserves 1 star. Trust me.more -
Horrible customer service!!!!!!
Jul 30, 2020 I’m writing this because of an experience I just had with this game. I’m a long time player, I have been playing since the game came out. Anyways I took part in go fest that just took place and besides a few glitches everything was fine until 8pm hit on Sunday. I was playing and I had a Durant spawn at 8pm and it was shiny!!! I couldn’t believe it I was so excited so I took a snap shot of it and then proceeded to catch it. I posted the Pokémon I just got on the Pokémon messager group I am in to show everyone how excited I was. Well that’s when everything went south. I went back to my game and it wasn’t shiny anymore... so I took screenshots of everything including the original shiny one I had and sent it to niantic to have them try and fix it. Well guess what the creators of the game said they can’t help me... I mean you would think that maybe they would wanna do something to make me happy because I have been playing this game for 4 years and have given them thousands of dollars. So I messaged them and told them my situation again and all they said was it’s a glitch and nothing they can do.. they didn’t even offer any sort of compensation for my troubles. Then Regina was the person who messaged me and was very rude about everything. Well I am very disappointed in the customer service they offer and I will absolutely think twice before spending my money and time in this game again if this is how they treat people!!!more -
Buggy app
Mar 30, 2020 For the most part you better have good connectivity with your mobile device or you will experience the most frustrating lag at times when you are battling other trainers thru the new go battle league schematic. I have lost tons of battles due to not my skill level but the servers not being able to connect my Pokémon fighting the other trainers Pokémon. There are times where the Pokémon disappears or takes time for the servers to load the Pokémon on the map which delays the time frame of events like community days etc. if you carry an iPhone I don’t think this game will be any fun due to the lag and any other issues that come across over time. Even Samsung has trouble on occasion with the 5g connectivity in certain areas. The antennae’s on the iPhone are awful and are better used for taking pictures and just calls. But for games stuck with a Samsung note or the galaxy series to get a better experience. This game after four years in the making struggles to allow any fun for the user about 60% of the time. Playable only when poke stops are near by and if you are out and about. Absolutely unappealing due to the laggy servers and lousy deals from in app purchases. One star automatically until this issue is fixed which will never happen. There will always be crashes and laggy gameplay for more than half of the time playing. Also make sure you have the unlimited data plan so you can at least load the game.more -
Unplayable. Zero stars.
Jun 6, 2020 My game just crashed 12 times in the last hour (I have time-stamped screen shots to prove it). I have an iPhone 6+. No other app I’ve ever used has been like this. This game has been consistently glitchy since it launched 3+ years ago, and there have been times when it was basically unplayable for me. But I’ve been a lifelong pokémon lover, so I didn’t give up back then. I am seriously considering it now. Literally the only thing tying me to this game is Nintendo’s franchise. Niantic is terrible, and if any other company were to put out a pokémon game, I would dump this game in a heartbeat. Even though I love Harry Potter just as much (if not more) than I love pokémon, I can’t actually bring myself to play WizardingWorld because I can barely tolerate ONE Niantic game. Two would be impossible. Niantic needs to completely overhaul its entire programming department, because as it is it seems like they’re incapable of producing a halfway decent game. They might make a bunch of money, but it’s all through gimmicks. If they actually had a game that most other developers would consider worthy of making available to the public, they’d be making billions more than they are now. Update 6/6/20: Still terrible. My game just crashed 3 times in 2 minutes, costing me a raid pass and a lost opportunity to get roughly 1500 stardust. I’m really not sure what the recent server updates are supposed to have done. I see no changes. Still worst app ever.more -
Go Battle League
May 28, 2020 The G.B.L used to be very fun and competitive. I could go out and see what people were using and strategize teams capable of doing well. But, now in season 3 the algorithm feels socialist and fixed, way more than last season. What I mean by that is, I’ll use a team and everyone I go up against “just happens” to have the perfect team to destroy mine more than half the time, so I’ll change my team to combat the teams that I have been seeing, but the teams I’ve been seeing are no longer what I am seeing and again everyone I verse has a different team which “happens” to be made to easily destroy my team. This algorithm has in fact ruined the G.B.L. by removing most if not all of the competitiveness. So, people get wins when the algorithm says they should win and loses when the algorithm says they should lose. The only way to really get more than 50% wins seems to be if your opponent makes a mistake, which doesn’t usually happen because people who you verse when ranking matters usually know what they’re doing because they got to the rank they have by knowing what they’re doing. So, socialism may sound great, but in a competitive game it is asinine to have the system built around an idea that completely lacks competitiveness. Please allow the matching system to be more capitalist because capitalism is very competitive. And competitiveness is way more fun than non-competitiveness. I’ll probably increase my ranking if this change is made.more
What’s Groovy
This game is amazing. Wonderful. Now for the reason it is 3 stars. I went up do a go battle league battle, and it took forever to actually get me and my opponent into the battle, even though we were matched immediately. Then, upon the battle starting, it said time up before the pokemon had appeared. Then I got stuck on a screen with just a landscape but no win or lose picture. Now when I go onto the go battle league I'm stuck on that screen for a moment and then It takes me away from that menu.
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What’s Subpar
Adventure sync is broken again. It's impossible to remove a nickname from a Pokémon. Sometimes inviting a player doesn't tell the player, so they can't join. Catching legendaries is made artificially difficult for higher level players, but lower level ones can generally catch them in less balls, regardless of cp. Your developers are the worst. How do you make this much money and continually break basic features in the game? It's been 5 years now, you've had enough time to learn how to bug test.
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Bug fixes needed badly
Love the game, however there are many bugs happening that has made it frustrating. My friends list keeps showing blank and when it does show up I receive errors sending or receiving gifts. The friends list has also been blank when I go to invite to a raid I Ave to restart the app a few times before I can even invite people, which is frustrating when you’re on a timer to get everybody in! We should also be able to open more gifts in a day. When you are allowed to have 200 friends but can only open 25 gifts a day makes it hard. People get upset that their friends don’t open gifts daily then delete them. At least make it 50 gifts a day. It would also be great if we can select items from our bag to gift to others, like poke balls, revives, and berries. Or do some sort of trade with items. I find that I’m constantly needing to delete certain items that I have an abundance of like revives, when my kids have none and have so many fainted Pokémon. There should also be a better deal in remote passes. Or at least put some in the boxes you can buy. Instead of 16 premium passes do half remote half premium. With the majority of raids being remote anymore and only getting a max of 50 coins a day from holding a gym (which is another complaint that I know I’m not alone with), people have no choice but to buy remote passes. Not everyone has unlimited funds to keep raiding and playing this game. -
If you dropped this game after release, I highly recommend picking it back up, even for just a day. But I have a lot of bones to pick with this game. There is a significant lack of polish. The animations are laggy. The music is more annoying than anything.The battle system is awful and grossly unbalanced. Raids are only possible with a group. Many things make you yell "why!?" Why do I need AR to feed my buddy? Why do I need a raid pass to do a raid? Why can't I spin Pokéstops on a road trip?
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Sit back and enjoy the read
I’m a lover of Pokémon. I have been since I was a child. So obviously when the game was announced I was truly jumping up with joy. My idea of this game was quite honestly MUCH different than I expected/wanted. When it was released I was sorely disappointed. So much so that I avoided a review this long. I believe they missed their chance to truly make a NEXT GEN game that would shape future mobile games. I find the lack of being able to SET and PLACE “Pokestops” I would have added Poke Centers to place around my location. The egg system is fine. Minus the dumb mobile money making idea which I have bought into a bit just to see how bad it is. Overall you can buy enough poke balls for a few weeks if you spend like $30. Depending on how much you walk/run. The pokemon rotate sometimes and I’ve gotten a decent amount but I find variety lacking over a month. The catching system is okay and definitely unexpected to what I believe would have worked better. I think in total my experience for the game is that it’s definitely gotten better since it’s release. But I’d rather they kept Pokémon Duels over this. I’d still wish to see them edit some game mechanics in favor or battle and needing less people for raids ESPECIALLY in not so crowded places. I gave the game a 4 of 5 for allowing cool photo options when it comes to AR gameplay. But I doubt they alter the gameplay to reflect the 5/5 I’d love to give any Pokémon game. -
I think alot of these 1-3 star reviews are people complaining about free to play game mechanics, I don't really feel that's fair to the company. Obviously they need to make money that's the point around F2P you guys need to understand. It's going to be grindy. As far as bugs go I have yet, since the games been out, seen any bugs. connection wise with battles, either don't play them or be in an area that's not 1 bar 🤷, best connection is going to win until carrier services are good EVERYWHERE.
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Best game ever
Almost. I love the new trading and friend system, this has been one of my favorite games over the last couple years. But I think that you guys should add a chat system to organize raids better. It could be like a messaging system between friends only so that way there no trouble with stalking or anything negative like that but it would make it easier to organize raid parties without having to download a third party app like WhatsApp which requires you to let everyone know your phone number. Also it would be great to be able to buy great or ultra balls from the shop as well. I walked at a park near me for about 30 miles and caught every Pokémon that appeared. By the end of the walk I only received about 40 ultra balls and 50 great balls which sounds great until you consider that I walked for 9 hours. I received plenty of regular poke balls though(over 250 to be exact). One last note, I live in Miami and there are plenty of places to go play Pokémon go but sometimes I wish I could just walk around my area without having to travel to play. There’s plenty of things that could be pokestops near me but just aren’t. There are 2 churches on my corner that don’t have pokestops. Right across the street there is a building with a cool design that could be a pokestops but I refuse to download ingress just to request pokestops. -
This is a pretty good game, though some changes would be nice.....My main issue is that every time I'm going to Play with my buddy, it has to use the camera and most of the time it freezes on me....I can exit the camera screen just fine and play the game but it for some reason freezes when I want to Play with my buddy.I've already deleted the cache & data, uninstalled the game, I have great internet connection & cell service but it still freezes and I don't know what to do.If a bug please fix.☺️
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Amazing
This app is an amazing app! It is an amazing way to kill time and a great app to get your exercise in! There are a couple things that I think could be better. I feel there should be a chat space! So you can talk to the people you are friends with to meet up and do raids or battle together. Instead of having to download an app which even then you need to at least know there phone number. I feel you should be able to get more than 50 coins a day. Or at least be able to get a bonus for every continuous day your Pokémon is at a gym. Saying that I know that the prices to buy stuff is set to match the amount of coins able to be received each day. So if needed I feel it would be ok to up the price on coins a little. For trading.... I feel you should be able to choose what your friend gets. Or at least be able to put something in there for them besides a sticker. This also adds onto the fact that we need a chat system between friends to be able to tell what each other needs and or is receiving. I know you have the notifications for what your friend has received but it would still be nice to be able to say “oh thanks for the poke balls dude” or something along the lines of that. Overall this game is amazing! And I get on it several times a day. But I am sure other people have been saying things along the lines of what I have said! I mean none of this is no rude way but I do feel that these things should either be changed or added into the game! -
I'm still enjoy playing this game that's why I'm giving a 5 star rate. But, sometimes when I open this game I'm literally in other place (even my GPS on) and I stock but when I uninstall then reinstall. The game is now back at my exact place. My question is, is this a kind of bug? PS: I'm not using any spoofing.
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Hands down, best app available.
I’ll shoot it to you straight. Don’t listen to the negative reviews. Contrary to “popular” belief, this game isn’t “paywalled” unless you have a fear of missing out on what other players spend 6+ hours achieving in a day. A very small portion of exclusive events are paywalled, like go fest/safari zone and that’s it. If you want items from the store, Drop in as many gyms as possible, it’s good for 350 coins per week if done right, and have reasonable expectations (and by that I mean shiny Pokémon. Shiny Pokémon in GO are given out at an insanely high rate compared to main series games) Competitive gameplay (Go battle league) having some glitching issues, doesn’t make it a bad game for those that choose not to play competitively, and even with the glitching, proper investments in Pokémon far outweigh any glitching that occurs, that and most players just expect to go 5/5 on every round played and anything less than that is a failure on Niantic’s part. Raids are very easy if you toss your IV expectations out the window and focus on high CP counters. Each Pokémon has given base stats, and IV doesn’t make or break most Pokémon when raiding, counters make or break your success. The game is completely add free, it’s free of actual currency, it’s fun, it’s addictive and it gets you outside. Just play it how YOU want to play it, and you’ll love it regardless. -
Overall a great game. I am a player for almost 5 years now. However, I am finally fed up with catch rates in 5-star raids! We are spending SO many berries and so many NON-retrievable, PURCHASABLE remote passes to participate just to lose the pokémon even after several excellent throws and golden. For spending so many resources and money on these raids the LEAST you can do is make these pokémon easier to obtain if we already went through all the effort to get to them. You are being very unfair.
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Hate it!
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Great fun with the kids
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It's meh
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Super masing game 😍😍😍😍😍😍😋😍😍😍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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Good
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This game is fun and it does not lie I love this game but I accidentally transfered a entie please give it back😭😭😭😭😭
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NO GUNS but good
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I truly love this game, gets you walking and keeping fit, The only downfall is the 5*raids, 13 berries later and 2 goes, I still couldn't catch it. Also please change the eggs, I have stopped buying the incubators as I'm I fed up with the same constant pokemon all I do now is hatch and delete, please change the pokemon often.
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I can't understand which nickname is available in the game
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Fun, but definitely wouldn't recommend for lower end phones.
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I think alot of these 1-3 star reviews are people complaining about free to play game mechanics, I don't really feel that's fair to the company. Obviously they need to make money that's the point around F2P you guys need to understand. It's going to be grindy. As far as bugs go I have yet, since the games been out, seen any bugs. connection wise with battles, either don't play them or be in an area that's not 1 bar 🤷, best connection is going to win until carrier services are good EVERYWHERE.
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This is a pretty good game, though some changes would be nice.....My main issue is that every time I'm going to Play with my buddy, it has to use the camera and most of the time it freezes on me....I can exit the camera screen just fine and play the game but it for some reason freezes when I want to Play with my buddy.I've already deleted the cache & data, uninstalled the game, I have great internet connection & cell service but it still freezes and I don't know what to do.If a bug please fix.☺️
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I'm still enjoy playing this game that's why I'm giving a 5 star rate. But, sometimes when I open this game I'm literally in other place (even my GPS on) and I stock but when I uninstall then reinstall. The game is now back at my exact place. My question is, is this a kind of bug? PS: I'm not using any spoofing.
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Hands down, best app available.
I’ll shoot it to you straight. Don’t listen to the negative reviews. Contrary to “popular” belief, this game isn’t “paywalled” unless you have a fear of missing out on what other players spend 6+ hours achieving in a day. A very small portion of exclusive events are paywalled, like go fest/safari zone and that’s it. If you want items from the store, Drop in as many gyms as possible, it’s good for 350 coins per week if done right, and have reasonable expectations (and by that I mean shiny Pokémon. Shiny Pokémon in GO are given out at an insanely high rate compared to main series games) Competitive gameplay (Go battle league) having some glitching issues, doesn’t make it a bad game for those that choose not to play competitively, and even with the glitching, proper investments in Pokémon far outweigh any glitching that occurs, that and most players just expect to go 5/5 on every round played and anything less than that is a failure on Niantic’s part. Raids are very easy if you toss your IV expectations out the window and focus on high CP counters. Each Pokémon has given base stats, and IV doesn’t make or break most Pokémon when raiding, counters make or break your success. The game is completely add free, it’s free of actual currency, it’s fun, it’s addictive and it gets you outside. Just play it how YOU want to play it, and you’ll love it regardless. -
Best Pokémon game ever
I have been playing this game for over 2 years and I can tell you that this is the best Pokémon game you can get on your phone or mobile device. I know some people don’t agree with me and say the game glitches or lags but when you think of it every game do that and the fun you can have while playing this game out wigh its little glitches. If you do not agree with me look at every one who's rated this game 5 stars. I have told everyone I know about Pokémon go and they all say the same thing best game ever. If I can recommend somethings to the developers it would be to add more Giovanni/ team go rocket research task, put in the master ball and you can get it from achieving special research tasks, And the last thing is to fix the internet problem/ week connection you see I can be in my room with full bars and in a middle of a battle my game lags and say week connection and I end up losing idk if you can fix it but I wanted to mention that. The next and last thing is my brother found a way to cheat system if you put battery saver mode on and adventure sinc you can put you phone into a sock (big one) and shake it up and down and it will count it as steps and kilometers he uses this methods to hatch eggs and get buddy candy. I wanted to tell you this because I consider it cheating and want it fixed if you can do that. -
This game is my vice. Everyday when I wake up in the morning, after eating lunch, and before going to sleep, I check this app. My problems with app are minor (seldom crashes and a few connection hiccups during raids) but I do wish that there was a way to directly communicate with other players, especially now during COVID-19. I would love to do a remote raid, but I'm at work, not ignoring your request. Especially when you have 100+ active friends in different timezones.
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I love this game, can we make it even better?
This has been a great game since the beginning! Never before have we had a game that encouraged people to get out and meet people in the real world with the same love for Pokémon. The best part is Niantic really does care about their players and listens to the feedback given from their loyal players. The new changes have been great keeping older players such as myself actively playing yet I’ve felt like since the beginning there has been a key element that has been missing. In the original Game Boy games when you tried to catch a Pokémon you had to fight it with one of your own Pokémon and each Pokémon had up to 3 or 4 attacks that you could pick from. Less tapping the screen continuously and more strategizing your next move. I was reading the reviews and I agree that there needs to be a chat with your friend group so you can coordinate raids rather than using facebook chat groups. I honestly don’t struggle with poke balls but more with potions since I battle a lot I am always healing my Pokémon and always have a huge amount of Pokémon I can’t revive due to the low amounts of potions that are more frequently getting distributed as gifts from raids or friends. Also can we make dodging work in battles? It’s an underutilized addition that doesn’t appear to help with battling. -
This game has come very far
I’ve been playing this game since week 1. There was a month of 2 when I had it deleted because I wasn’t playing it, but when gen 3 was added I came right back. I’ve spent a good hundred dollars on this game, and I really only have 1 complaint in the dinosaur of video game perfection. I just wish Mega Evolution was better. Anyway, the way they have adapted into making play from hone easier is really nice, so people don’t risk getting sick. If you look back at the beginning of the game, you can really tell it’s growth. Research, buddies, friends, trainer battles, Team Rocket, shinies, and even legendaries weren’t even in the game at launch, and now we (almost) have 5 ENTIRE GENERATIONS with a read of gen 6. Research has been a really fun time killer when I’m bored, and the fact that Pokémon constantly spawn make it even nicer and a continuous adventure. Looking back, I feel so dumb taking a break from the game, even if it was only for 2 months. Anyone could get a blast out of it, and it’s a great way to drop a couple of pounds even if you’re only going out once a day! A lot of people got it at the start and quit a few weeks/months. If your one of those people, definitely check this game out again! This game has come so far, and I can’t wait to see how much it grows in the future! -
Exceptional. Brilliant. I do prefer the old Pokemon games but I am very impressed that this particular Pokemon requires you to become active and gives a reason to get up and exercise. I may prefer the old DS or Gameboy Pokemon games but this one rocks as well! I highly recommend for any and all ages, and no matter who you might be you'll most likely agree. Game on guys!
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Innovative and Adaptive
Pokémon has been a staple of my childhood; so needless to say, I had very high hopes when Niantic brought Pokémon Go to us. At the start of its conception the game has been captivating and engaging in a whole new way with today’s technology. Though lacking aspects from the original game such as battling others or fighting a great evil like Team Rocket, Niantic has continuously evolved the app, actively listening to its fan base to make a Pokémon game that resembles the original more and more closely. Admittedly I was only slightly disappointed by how limited the game was first starting out, so I dropped it for a year. When I started playing it again with friends later, I was shocked and impressed by how far the game has come in its innovations and adaptivity, bringing 1 on 1 battles to the table in a variety of league settings, constantly sending out news letters to its players in order to stay up to date with Pokémon events happening from week to week, creating Raid Hours and Community Days, allowing invites to Raids, battling Team Rocket, and so much more! If you thought the game was lacking from the start, I strongly encourage you to pick it up again and see what it has become today. I look forward to Niantic’s journey for this game with great anticipation
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Bug fixes needed badly
Love the game, however there are many bugs happening that has made it frustrating. My friends list keeps showing blank and when it does show up I receive errors sending or receiving gifts. The friends list has also been blank when I go to invite to a raid I Ave to restart the app a few times before I can even invite people, which is frustrating when you’re on a timer to get everybody in! We should also be able to open more gifts in a day. When you are allowed to have 200 friends but can only open 25 gifts a day makes it hard. People get upset that their friends don’t open gifts daily then delete them. At least make it 50 gifts a day. It would also be great if we can select items from our bag to gift to others, like poke balls, revives, and berries. Or do some sort of trade with items. I find that I’m constantly needing to delete certain items that I have an abundance of like revives, when my kids have none and have so many fainted Pokémon. There should also be a better deal in remote passes. Or at least put some in the boxes you can buy. Instead of 16 premium passes do half remote half premium. With the majority of raids being remote anymore and only getting a max of 50 coins a day from holding a gym (which is another complaint that I know I’m not alone with), people have no choice but to buy remote passes. Not everyone has unlimited funds to keep raiding and playing this game. -
Sit back and enjoy the read
I’m a lover of Pokémon. I have been since I was a child. So obviously when the game was announced I was truly jumping up with joy. My idea of this game was quite honestly MUCH different than I expected/wanted. When it was released I was sorely disappointed. So much so that I avoided a review this long. I believe they missed their chance to truly make a NEXT GEN game that would shape future mobile games. I find the lack of being able to SET and PLACE “Pokestops” I would have added Poke Centers to place around my location. The egg system is fine. Minus the dumb mobile money making idea which I have bought into a bit just to see how bad it is. Overall you can buy enough poke balls for a few weeks if you spend like $30. Depending on how much you walk/run. The pokemon rotate sometimes and I’ve gotten a decent amount but I find variety lacking over a month. The catching system is okay and definitely unexpected to what I believe would have worked better. I think in total my experience for the game is that it’s definitely gotten better since it’s release. But I’d rather they kept Pokémon Duels over this. I’d still wish to see them edit some game mechanics in favor or battle and needing less people for raids ESPECIALLY in not so crowded places. I gave the game a 4 of 5 for allowing cool photo options when it comes to AR gameplay. But I doubt they alter the gameplay to reflect the 5/5 I’d love to give any Pokémon game. -
Best game ever
Almost. I love the new trading and friend system, this has been one of my favorite games over the last couple years. But I think that you guys should add a chat system to organize raids better. It could be like a messaging system between friends only so that way there no trouble with stalking or anything negative like that but it would make it easier to organize raid parties without having to download a third party app like WhatsApp which requires you to let everyone know your phone number. Also it would be great to be able to buy great or ultra balls from the shop as well. I walked at a park near me for about 30 miles and caught every Pokémon that appeared. By the end of the walk I only received about 40 ultra balls and 50 great balls which sounds great until you consider that I walked for 9 hours. I received plenty of regular poke balls though(over 250 to be exact). One last note, I live in Miami and there are plenty of places to go play Pokémon go but sometimes I wish I could just walk around my area without having to travel to play. There’s plenty of things that could be pokestops near me but just aren’t. There are 2 churches on my corner that don’t have pokestops. Right across the street there is a building with a cool design that could be a pokestops but I refuse to download ingress just to request pokestops. -
The game is great so far but its not tracking movement so well and sometimes moves me on its own which has moved me out of range of several pokemon including a charzarid(i don't know if I spelled that right)also a volume button would be nice if my phone is even an inch over half volume it makes my ears bleed other than that
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Very fun game. Takes this old man back to his childhood, and that helps after a hard day of goofing around! Lol, I do wish there was a way to communicate with players in the game and find friends quicker that are close by without always having to keep a constant eye on forms or a community page..
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Edit: Finally after the 3rd update can play again thank you for fixing the issue. I love the franchise and this game and I've never had any major problems till now my game was working until the latest updates now it's freezing on the start screen or it crashes, I haven't been able to get back into it for weeks now I've restart my phone, uninstalled and reinstalled I don't know how many times and still can't access my game. .
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The app freezes a bit too much for my liking. Especially during raid or something and I get no compensation for the losses incurred. I think it's a rip off how often raid passes ate lost with how much people have to pay to play. The battle pass holds your place for days if needed. I would do 3 and a half just due to this. Other than that, it's pretty fun.
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Actually a really good game
See, I started on July 17, 2016 and I’m still playing it. The pvp battles that were added in are an easy way to gat rare items and cool pokemon. There are also five generations of Pokémon in game so there is a lot of variety with Pokémon. The updates during corona make it easier to play without going outside so that makes it a lot more enjoyable to play. And I’m not sure if this helps but the 3D models make good drawing references for me. I’m a long time Pokémon fan and have been playing since 2001. I really don’t understand the critical reviews. I think that this game is simple to understand and good for all ages. You can also get motivated to exercise with this app. The game has good graphics too. My only complaint is that many people are hacking the game. I think that a game that is still receiving updates in 2020 should be harder to hack into. Also there may be daily gift boxes that give you pokeballs but some of us don’t have many Pokestops around their homes so we don’t have much accessibility to pokeballs. Even so, it’s a good overall pokemon game and I would recommend it to many. Thank you for taking your time to read my review by the way. 4 stars for me! But please stop asking for Pokémon that haven’t been added in yet to be added in. Gen 6 along with greninja will be added Later. Thank you again. -
Similar to real game
I started playing July 2016 but due to all the glitches and lack of Pokémon I stopped playing for a few years. The reason I started up again was because a friend recommended to try it. Now gifts can be exchanged, the Pokémon generations are mostly caught up, and there are a lot more stops and gyms to interact with. My main issue with this game is the lack of interaction with other players. I would like to be able to battle with nearby trainers like the real Pokémon game allows. Also during gym battles, there should be an option to switch Pokémon in between defeats. Those are the rules in a real Pokémon battle and this should be applied to this game. Pokémon should also gain experience after battles to help build them up. I understand the candy concept but those should be bonus experience/cp. I have lost a few great catches due to the glitches/network errors which is very frustrating! Other than that I enjoy catching Pokémon and spinning stops on my walk up to work through the downtown area. It’s a nice way to see the town. EDIT I forgot to mention: I’m not sure why but when I’m on the bus or in any vehicle as a passenger I should be able to spin stops for rewards not “try again later”. It doesn’t make sense to allow me the option to catch Pokémon but I can’t get stops or gain steps with my eggs or buddy. -
I wish it is not hard to evolve the pokemon and does not require a lot of stardust and candy. Other than that, I wish we have a choice whether to catch or fight wild pokemon to raise our pokemon's level instead of catching the same pokemon just to get the candy. At least we can do something like fighting wild pokemon when we stayed at one place and not moving at all. But overall, it's a great game.
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If you dropped this game after release, I highly recommend picking it back up, even for just a day. But I have a lot of bones to pick with this game. There is a significant lack of polish. The animations are laggy. The music is more annoying than anything.The battle system is awful and grossly unbalanced. Raids are only possible with a group. Many things make you yell "why!?" Why do I need AR to feed my buddy? Why do I need a raid pass to do a raid? Why can't I spin Pokéstops on a road trip?
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Amazing
This app is an amazing app! It is an amazing way to kill time and a great app to get your exercise in! There are a couple things that I think could be better. I feel there should be a chat space! So you can talk to the people you are friends with to meet up and do raids or battle together. Instead of having to download an app which even then you need to at least know there phone number. I feel you should be able to get more than 50 coins a day. Or at least be able to get a bonus for every continuous day your Pokémon is at a gym. Saying that I know that the prices to buy stuff is set to match the amount of coins able to be received each day. So if needed I feel it would be ok to up the price on coins a little. For trading.... I feel you should be able to choose what your friend gets. Or at least be able to put something in there for them besides a sticker. This also adds onto the fact that we need a chat system between friends to be able to tell what each other needs and or is receiving. I know you have the notifications for what your friend has received but it would still be nice to be able to say “oh thanks for the poke balls dude” or something along the lines of that. Overall this game is amazing! And I get on it several times a day. But I am sure other people have been saying things along the lines of what I have said! I mean none of this is no rude way but I do feel that these things should either be changed or added into the game! -
Overall a great game. I am a player for almost 5 years now. However, I am finally fed up with catch rates in 5-star raids! We are spending SO many berries and so many NON-retrievable, PURCHASABLE remote passes to participate just to lose the pokémon even after several excellent throws and golden. For spending so many resources and money on these raids the LEAST you can do is make these pokémon easier to obtain if we already went through all the effort to get to them. You are being very unfair.
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It is fun.
It is indeed fun and has grown a lot since I first started about four years ago. I am also really glad they retracted with the sprite version of Pokémon. I would have quit. I am proud that those behind Pokémon Go are doing what they can to help people enjoy the app during the pandemic. Even more so, I commend them for standing up for the black people and all races. Being anything other than white dose not mean that they mean less. To me they mean so much more. Now on from that and back to Pokémon Go. I find myself pondering weather to keep with Pokémon go, or to let it go. Community days end when workers are getting off work or kids getting off school. That is extremely unfair. There should also be more Pokémon, Pokémon stops and gems for those in rural areas. Also, I purchased a remote raid pass for the event. When I hopped in to join, the people left so I hopped out only to find that I had completely lost my remote raid pass. This was also unfair as other raid passes do not vanish when you hop in and out when others leave. Another reason for me to consider leaving. It is very wrong for the raid to be used up like that especially when we have to pay for them. I surely will not buy another, event or not. Sure, coins, incubators, lucky eggs and so on are expected to disappear when used, but when other raid passes let you hop in and out, it is shameful to take the remote raid pass without having participated in any raid. That is all I have to say. -
Good game but many fixes.
OK so first of all I would like to say is a great game plus there’s many problems with it. My first problem is that you have to pay for everything in the shop instead of earning points but I have played for about three months now and I haven’t a single coin and it is really annoying to have to pay money to be able to get more poke balls and revives. Another problem is that a lot of times when I go to a PokéStop and spin it, it won’t let me collect anything, and will tell me to please try again later even though I already tried but it didn’t give me anything. One of my last two problems is that I hate how you run out of poke balls so quickly because then the only way to get more is to buy with money, or go to a poke stop for only 3 poke balls, which gets really annoying at times. One of my last problems with this game is, I don’t like having battles that all you can do is tap the screen I wish it was like that you could actually choose your move I could use and you can dodge other moves like a real Pokémon battle and I think that would improve the game much better. Just being able to tap the screen taking in every single shot is really annoying. Also the blocks don’t really seem very Pokémon, since in actual Pokémon battles you don’t really have a big screen in front of you blocking so I think it would be better if you guys let us be able to dodge instead of blocking. -
You get 3 stars this time because the app certainly has improved, it's not so power hungry, but it still needs more improvement. I also now have the problem of sharing pictures of my Pokémon for buddy status. Everytime I go to share it, it highlights it and then I press the button and nothing happens. I can't share my pictures for Pokémon at all and it started with the update prior to this. Kinda disappointed since I'm trying to buddy one of my favorite Pokémon and I want to share with others.
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Not gonna lie
I’m not even going to lie, I’m 27 and absolutely love this game. I grew up with Pokémon and this is by far the best Pokémon game. I stopped playing for a year or so because I reached the top level and got bored with it; about 6 months ago my husband convinced me to redownload it because of the numerous new features and two more generations of Pokémon that had been added to the game. Unfortunately as of lately I’ve been having nothing but problems with getting it to load. This is now the third time in a week that I’ve had to uninstall and reinstall the game and unfortunately this time it doesn’t appear to even be reinstalling. And yes the app and phone software are all up to date and everything like that. On top of that, on my other phone, if/when the game loads it no longer loads all of the way. It’s genuinely one of the most frustrating things I’ve been dealing with because playing this game keeps me out of trouble and out of my own head. It’s definitely become my biggest hobby and biggest outlet, so when I’m stressed out to the max and it doesn’t want to load - which seems to be every single time I’m excessively stressed lately- it just makes everything worse. I was praying that these last batch of updates they did would have fixed that but I haven’t even been able to get the game to load since it updated! That is literally the only downside to it and unfortunately it’s a major one. -
Fun game, needs to be polished
Love the game. With the newer updates there’s a lot more to do in a more organized way. Most of the objectives of the game work flawlessly. The inner economy of items and Pokémon’s creates a wonderful system that makes you want to come back and play more. But, there are a lot of issues to still work out. One of which is the coins and gyms system. Right now, you can only get 50 coins per day. And a pokemon earns a single coin per 10 minutes in a gym. You would reach the max limit for coins in about 8 hours. This creates an issue, in which, if you have 4 pokemon in different gyms that have been in there for all over a day. Well over the limit. Meaning you could make 200 coins total, if they get defeated on different days. However, if they are all defeated on a single day then you only receive 50 coins for all 4, missing out on the 150. Currently, there is no work around this issue. You can’t recall your pokemon early, and if one gets stuck in a gym you are sitting there praying for it to be beaten. Another issue is with the combat leagues. When I first started the game with my most powerful pokemon at about 1000cp to try out the feature, the opponents were vastly unbalanced. I had to fight a 3000cp mewtwo on my 4th or so fight. It just seems that some of the features weren’t given enough time as opposed to other features of the game, and that lackluster approach clearly shows. -
I love this game I'm addicted. I give it 3 stars because I feel like it's not random like it says. We have 4 accounts in the house and the same accounts always get more shinies, better Pokémon rewards in raids, and will get more XL rewards from Pokémon when the other higher account won't get any. I'm a level 47 or I would just leave this account and start a new one. You can level up without spending money it just takes a little more time.
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Frustrating Customer Service
Currently customer service does not provide adequate support. During and shortly after go-fest, I was invited to multiple mobile raids but got flat kicked out after all my Pokémon fainted. I couldn’t get back in. If the timer hadn’t expired and I was able to get back in, it burned a second pass. This glitch cost me at least 6 mobile raid passes which I had purchased with money (not coins from raiding.) I bought more because I wanted to have fun with my friends and not let it ruin my time. Later when I contacted customer service I got reimbursed for 1 pass. One. That’s it. They blamed it on a “visual glitch” saying the pass was still there, but it wasn’t. My inventory never got reset, the passes just disappeared. Even after closing and logging out. They know the system is buggy and people are getting gypped out of things they purchased but don’t seem to care. Everyone I play with experienced the same issues and only half of us have received any sort of refund. Also: (yea I know it’s petty) character customization. There’s lacking color variants for even the basic items, you can’t choose between long or short hair. Every male/female looks the same but with a different skin tone. We’re 4 years into this game and you can have blue, yellow, green, white, purple or 3 different shades of brown hair ... but no RED. (Give me my stupid red hair!!!)
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This game is fun and it's also great to play to kill time. I love this game and always look forward to playing it,but it can be unfair most of the time. Every time I battle, someone manages to use their attack when they have 1% of health left while I still have 50% of it left. It will say "Not Very Effective" when actually it is "Super Effective". This is UNFAIR and the mechanics need to be fixed ASAP. This game deserves 1 star. Trust me.
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Account Issues
First off, I’m a huge Pokémon fan! Have been all my life. I got super far in my original account but then it wasn’t letting me buy stuff in the shop with my coins I had. So I figured I’d log out and go back in. Now it’s saying my password isn’t correct which I know it is. But then I requested an email to change it. They said it was sent but I never got it. I tried retrying and it said the link is active for 48 hours. Does that mean I’ll get the email within 48 hours or I have 48 hours? I tried using a made up email just to see what would happen and they said there’s no account on there with that email. Just wanted to be sure the email wasn’t a problem. So why is it not allowing me to change my password by sending me an email?? Also I made a second one just for the meantime but on this one it won’t allow me progress with egg hatching and/or buddy Pokémon getting candies. I turned all settings on for allowing my location and all that. My battery saving mode isn’t on either. Aside from that, I can’t add friends. It said that it won’t load and to try again later. All I’m saying is that on my original account, everything was okay. I was even playing earlier this morning. Is there anything that can be done? I can’t even really get the full experience because the events have to do with my buddy getting candies and also hatching eggs. What can be done?? I’m just upset because I put so much time and effort into this all for this to happen... -
This device is not compatible
This review is for customer service more than the “This device is not compatible” error message. Like many others, I did the game update and the IOS update that ended my Pokémon game. Since that update a few months ago, I have updated my game several times and my IOS. After each update, I get excited hoping that this will be the update that fixes the “This device is not compatible” error message, but that update has not yet come. After the first “This device is not compatible” error message, I started searching for an answer. After not finding anything, I reached out to customer support for help. I filled out the form and explained in detail the best I could about what was happening. To my surprise, I received a reply pretty quickly. The only problem was it was just a link that took me to the troubleshooting guide that was inside the game. How do I know this you might ask, my friends I play with had the same guide opened in their game as I was doing what it said. After many failed attempts I reached back out to the customer and was once again sent the same link. I replied that I have already tried all these steps the best I could since the game will not even open. After more looking around I found other people were also having this problem and that there was no way to fix it. This game is so much fun and happily change my review if and when this problem is addressed. -
This game requires a gaming phone. It takes a standard android like mine to boot the game at a record of 1 min 20 sec. It also freezes whenever I look at a gym, my pokedex, and my inventory. Probably has something to do with so many different pokemon(+700) and cosmetics(~100). that's a lot of rendering my phone has to do and It couldn't take it. They're going to keep adding more pokemon as time goes and you will have to upgrade your phone to keep it smooth sadly. I loved this game years ago.
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GO Battle League makes the experience less enjoyable. The matchmaking system is very one-sided. More often than not, the algorithm places you in battles that are impossible to win because you end up being matched with someone who has all the counters to your team. On the rare occasion, your enemy will have an ineffective team that you can easily beat with one pokemon. Changing your team doesn't make it better, as the algorithm always pairs you against someone who can counter the new changes.
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update
i love the game but i give it a 2 bc it needs updates for ease of use. im a passenger in a car alot and pokestops should be able to open and spin if were going past one at 60 mph bc some of the places we go by no one is walking to so the onlyway to hit it is from a car but like i said if im a passenger there shouldnt be restrictions. also i dont need the dont pokemon and go while driving message to pop up every time my speed changes if i say im a passenger it should acknowledge and not ask again unless i close the app and open back up if u have to create a license agreement stating that if u check this box and are using pokémon go while driving after it asks if ur a passenger and u aren't a passenger u cant sue if u get in an accident then do that . also the special stones and leafs and all that for upgrades should be way easier to get I'm level 28 and have never seen some of them and i have the candies to upgrade idk if thats just me but ... lastly ditto idk what i have to do but its the longest achievement I've been trying to get i cant ever find him and like i said i'm a passenger a-lot i go all over the state it's getting to the point where i don't wanna play anymore bc i cant get to the next stage of special research its a lil ridiculous like i feel like they should pop up once since i have 2 special researches for it but yea hope thats all taken into account before i delete the app bc i like playing -
Horrible customer service!!!!!!
I’m writing this because of an experience I just had with this game. I’m a long time player, I have been playing since the game came out. Anyways I took part in go fest that just took place and besides a few glitches everything was fine until 8pm hit on Sunday. I was playing and I had a Durant spawn at 8pm and it was shiny!!! I couldn’t believe it I was so excited so I took a snap shot of it and then proceeded to catch it. I posted the Pokémon I just got on the Pokémon messager group I am in to show everyone how excited I was. Well that’s when everything went south. I went back to my game and it wasn’t shiny anymore... so I took screenshots of everything including the original shiny one I had and sent it to niantic to have them try and fix it. Well guess what the creators of the game said they can’t help me... I mean you would think that maybe they would wanna do something to make me happy because I have been playing this game for 4 years and have given them thousands of dollars. So I messaged them and told them my situation again and all they said was it’s a glitch and nothing they can do.. they didn’t even offer any sort of compensation for my troubles. Then Regina was the person who messaged me and was very rude about everything. Well I am very disappointed in the customer service they offer and I will absolutely think twice before spending my money and time in this game again if this is how they treat people!!! -
Buggy app
For the most part you better have good connectivity with your mobile device or you will experience the most frustrating lag at times when you are battling other trainers thru the new go battle league schematic. I have lost tons of battles due to not my skill level but the servers not being able to connect my Pokémon fighting the other trainers Pokémon. There are times where the Pokémon disappears or takes time for the servers to load the Pokémon on the map which delays the time frame of events like community days etc. if you carry an iPhone I don’t think this game will be any fun due to the lag and any other issues that come across over time. Even Samsung has trouble on occasion with the 5g connectivity in certain areas. The antennae’s on the iPhone are awful and are better used for taking pictures and just calls. But for games stuck with a Samsung note or the galaxy series to get a better experience. This game after four years in the making struggles to allow any fun for the user about 60% of the time. Playable only when poke stops are near by and if you are out and about. Absolutely unappealing due to the laggy servers and lousy deals from in app purchases. One star automatically until this issue is fixed which will never happen. There will always be crashes and laggy gameplay for more than half of the time playing. Also make sure you have the unlimited data plan so you can at least load the game. -
Not Right
I have been playing Pokémon go for several years now and about a year ago started getting into the raid. Until today I actually enjoyed playing Pokémon and doing the raids. I got the chance to do the new raid boss Giratina and actually had enough people to down the raid boss just before the time ran out. However I DIDNT GET Giratina because it would NOT stay in the White ball. I gave it berry’s but NOTHING WOULD HELP. I was not over throwing the balls and I didn’t miss 1 time but didn’t get the Pokémon because it would NOT stay in the ball AT ALL didn’t matter if I threw a berry or not. We do the raids to win the Pokémon and to do all that work and not win the Pokémon because it won’t stay in the ball is very wrong. It’s hard enough to actually find enough players to down a boss like Giratina where I live which is why I’m so very frustrated this happened. I’m sure some might think I’m just complaining but this is the 2nd time this has happened. I fully believe something needs to be done about this. If we are given these special white balls then it should be very hard for the Pokémon to brake out so we actually get the prize we are there for not break out as soon as it’s caught ever time. If that’s the case then why give us the special white balls .I don’t know if this has been happing to others I’m sure I’m not the only one but I can say if this happens again I will stop playing it Pokémon!! -
Unplayable. Zero stars.
My game just crashed 12 times in the last hour (I have time-stamped screen shots to prove it). I have an iPhone 6+. No other app I’ve ever used has been like this. This game has been consistently glitchy since it launched 3+ years ago, and there have been times when it was basically unplayable for me. But I’ve been a lifelong pokémon lover, so I didn’t give up back then. I am seriously considering it now. Literally the only thing tying me to this game is Nintendo’s franchise. Niantic is terrible, and if any other company were to put out a pokémon game, I would dump this game in a heartbeat. Even though I love Harry Potter just as much (if not more) than I love pokémon, I can’t actually bring myself to play WizardingWorld because I can barely tolerate ONE Niantic game. Two would be impossible. Niantic needs to completely overhaul its entire programming department, because as it is it seems like they’re incapable of producing a halfway decent game. They might make a bunch of money, but it’s all through gimmicks. If they actually had a game that most other developers would consider worthy of making available to the public, they’d be making billions more than they are now. Update 6/6/20: Still terrible. My game just crashed 3 times in 2 minutes, costing me a raid pass and a lost opportunity to get roughly 1500 stardust. I’m really not sure what the recent server updates are supposed to have done. I see no changes. Still worst app ever.
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remote raid passes gone missing?!! I don't know why. Does it has expiration date?
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Account retrieval is time gated.
I’ve been away for over a year so naturally I don’t recall my information and they really make retrieving it difficult. It’s been 45 minutes since I retrieved my username and it’s stop tells me to “wait a few minute” before I’ll be allowed to recover my password. What a streamlined process -
iPhone issues
The bugs on this game are HORRIBLE. My software on my phone is up to date and it’s telling me my IOS system is not compatible with the game... since when? I just played THIS MORNING‼️ Lucky eggs don’t work, grunts not appearing FIX IT JESUS‼️ -
Adventure sync
Fix adventure sync or actually respond to my email and I’ll give your stats back, -
No account
I can’t get a single account in this game!!!! Just let me sign in and let me catch Pokémon! -
Update it!
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Bugs ruining the game
Nah man. I’m using up a bunch of Poke balls and finally catch a Pokémon (it says the Pokémon was caught), only for the game to freeze up and tell me the Pokémon can’t be found. Are you kidding me? Give me my Poke balls back at least. This is ridiculous -
Absolute disgrace of a Pokémon game
This game used to be passable but since the pandemic it has become nothing but a 419 scam with a Pokémon sticker slapped on it. They absolutely have not made the game playable with the pandemic and everything they have introduced since then has been a complete fraud. The events they have are a joke, you left more likely to be struck by lightning then find any of the “featured” Pokémon unless you cough up $5 for a remote raid pass that makes even easy raids possible to lose because your damage is reduced just to punish you for social distancing. The PVP is the worst of any game ever made and that is not an exaggeration. Rampant cheating, hideously unbalanced metagame, disgusting amounts of lag and absolutely worthless rewards is you do manage to get one or two near victories. The rest of the game is completely pay to win and not to mention absolutely deplorable bias towards city players and if you’re rural you may as well not play because you’ll get nothing from the game. Niantic does not care about its players at all in any way and I except as time goes on you’ll have to start paying to login, access the menus or even pay for each step to count. They’re only in it for the money they can squeeze out of our pockets and Nintendo should be ashamed of this worthless abomination of a game. -
Keeps kicking me out
After downloading the newest version of the game it keeps kicking me out of the game and frankly it’s pissing me off. I have uninstalled it several times and after a few weeks and or months I reinstall the game and it still kicks me out
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Account Issues
First off, I’m a huge Pokémon fan! Have been all my life. I got super far in my original account but then it wasn’t letting me buy stuff in the shop with my coins I had. So I figured I’d log out and go back in. Now it’s saying my password isn’t correct which I know it is. But then I requested an email to change it. They said it was sent but I never got it. I tried retrying and it said the link is active for 48 hours. Does that mean I’ll get the email within 48 hours or I have 48 hours? I tried using a made up email just to see what would happen and they said there’s no account on there with that email. Just wanted to be sure the email wasn’t a problem. So why is it not allowing me to change my password by sending me an email?? Also I made a second one just for the meantime but on this one it won’t allow me progress with egg hatching and/or buddy Pokémon getting candies. I turned all settings on for allowing my location and all that. My battery saving mode isn’t on either. Aside from that, I can’t add friends. It said that it won’t load and to try again later. All I’m saying is that on my original account, everything was okay. I was even playing earlier this morning. Is there anything that can be done? I can’t even really get the full experience because the events have to do with my buddy getting candies and also hatching eggs. What can be done?? I’m just upset because I put so much time and effort into this all for this to happen... -
This device is not compatible
This review is for customer service more than the “This device is not compatible” error message. Like many others, I did the game update and the IOS update that ended my Pokémon game. Since that update a few months ago, I have updated my game several times and my IOS. After each update, I get excited hoping that this will be the update that fixes the “This device is not compatible” error message, but that update has not yet come. After the first “This device is not compatible” error message, I started searching for an answer. After not finding anything, I reached out to customer support for help. I filled out the form and explained in detail the best I could about what was happening. To my surprise, I received a reply pretty quickly. The only problem was it was just a link that took me to the troubleshooting guide that was inside the game. How do I know this you might ask, my friends I play with had the same guide opened in their game as I was doing what it said. After many failed attempts I reached back out to the customer and was once again sent the same link. I replied that I have already tried all these steps the best I could since the game will not even open. After more looking around I found other people were also having this problem and that there was no way to fix it. This game is so much fun and happily change my review if and when this problem is addressed. -
This game requires a gaming phone. It takes a standard android like mine to boot the game at a record of 1 min 20 sec. It also freezes whenever I look at a gym, my pokedex, and my inventory. Probably has something to do with so many different pokemon(+700) and cosmetics(~100). that's a lot of rendering my phone has to do and It couldn't take it. They're going to keep adding more pokemon as time goes and you will have to upgrade your phone to keep it smooth sadly. I loved this game years ago.
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GO Battle League makes the experience less enjoyable. The matchmaking system is very one-sided. More often than not, the algorithm places you in battles that are impossible to win because you end up being matched with someone who has all the counters to your team. On the rare occasion, your enemy will have an ineffective team that you can easily beat with one pokemon. Changing your team doesn't make it better, as the algorithm always pairs you against someone who can counter the new changes.
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update
i love the game but i give it a 2 bc it needs updates for ease of use. im a passenger in a car alot and pokestops should be able to open and spin if were going past one at 60 mph bc some of the places we go by no one is walking to so the onlyway to hit it is from a car but like i said if im a passenger there shouldnt be restrictions. also i dont need the dont pokemon and go while driving message to pop up every time my speed changes if i say im a passenger it should acknowledge and not ask again unless i close the app and open back up if u have to create a license agreement stating that if u check this box and are using pokémon go while driving after it asks if ur a passenger and u aren't a passenger u cant sue if u get in an accident then do that . also the special stones and leafs and all that for upgrades should be way easier to get I'm level 28 and have never seen some of them and i have the candies to upgrade idk if thats just me but ... lastly ditto idk what i have to do but its the longest achievement I've been trying to get i cant ever find him and like i said i'm a passenger a-lot i go all over the state it's getting to the point where i don't wanna play anymore bc i cant get to the next stage of special research its a lil ridiculous like i feel like they should pop up once since i have 2 special researches for it but yea hope thats all taken into account before i delete the app bc i like playing -
Not Right
I have been playing Pokémon go for several years now and about a year ago started getting into the raid. Until today I actually enjoyed playing Pokémon and doing the raids. I got the chance to do the new raid boss Giratina and actually had enough people to down the raid boss just before the time ran out. However I DIDNT GET Giratina because it would NOT stay in the White ball. I gave it berry’s but NOTHING WOULD HELP. I was not over throwing the balls and I didn’t miss 1 time but didn’t get the Pokémon because it would NOT stay in the ball AT ALL didn’t matter if I threw a berry or not. We do the raids to win the Pokémon and to do all that work and not win the Pokémon because it won’t stay in the ball is very wrong. It’s hard enough to actually find enough players to down a boss like Giratina where I live which is why I’m so very frustrated this happened. I’m sure some might think I’m just complaining but this is the 2nd time this has happened. I fully believe something needs to be done about this. If we are given these special white balls then it should be very hard for the Pokémon to brake out so we actually get the prize we are there for not break out as soon as it’s caught ever time. If that’s the case then why give us the special white balls .I don’t know if this has been happing to others I’m sure I’m not the only one but I can say if this happens again I will stop playing it Pokémon!! -
Decent game, but unless you spend real money you miss out on most things
Even with max friend gifts daily, random free daily store gift you are veryyyyyy limited on what you can do playing this game for free. It is a fun game dont get me wrong but the battle system is very flawed and lazy, you could easily have every pokemon capable of 4 different moves AT ONCE like the Older but better pokemon games. Depending where you live you might not be able to see a poke center or gym or any buildings icons at ALL on your map while home so again certain people constantly have a advantage. Many glitches and modders on the game who can force you out of a battle and count 50 wins against you in 1 battle . Pokemon spawning system should be improved as well, and team rocket ballons are veryyyyy scarce . I hope they keep improving this game but really it just seems like most other phone games where its all about the money and very little actual quality and time put into making a good game, just a okay game that was super rushed and underdevoleped in EVERY aspect, not like any other pokemon game for evolving too? Whats up with getting rid of stones or having a inventory that is SOOoo limited you cant even hold 1 of every pokemon... suppppppper lazy. Please fix, i dony care if a game has to be 50 gigs or more, it should be quality, not rich kids auto advantage and free players play 10 times as long just to keep up. -
I LOVE IT BUT,
Ok I have been playing Pokémon go since it came out. I have never left it, and I have probably spent 100$ on it this year. Pokémon go is so fun and addicting for Pokémon fans. Now on to the bad parts. A Raid glitch happens here’s how, so I was playing Pokémon go and my friend invited me to a Espurr raid yesterday, and we won because me and my friend have good Pokémon and I went to the catch screen. IT WAS A SHINY. I freaked out and I started screen recording. But then it said “network error (3)”. I didn’t care because that happens when u exit out of Pokémon go. So I went to my berry screen to get a golden Berry and it just started spamming network error 3. It didn’t let me touch or do anything. My entire phone was frozen! I tried to power it off and it didn’t work. So I went to apple to fix my phone. They fixed it but I lost the shiny Espurr. I was so mad. And your probably like “oh just go and get another raid” I live somewhere where there is no gyms, or raids. The only place where I live where there gyms and raids are at the city capital (where the apple store was) and I can’t go there because of covid. Oh and to mention I lost my Pokémon go account because I forgot my password (when apple fixed my phone they reset it completely deleting all my apps and photos.) but I made a new account and I’m level 20. I’m gonna try the grind to get my account back. (Sorry for spelling errors I rushed this.) -
PokemonGo has a big problem with step count rewards
I have been playing PG since 2016. It’s a great game in many ways. I especially appreciate the attention to getting players moving - increasing activity is so good for health - and it avoids the pitfall of most smartphone apps, which tend to incentivize sedentary behaviors. But recently they’ve started using language about “burning calories.” At the end of each week, the app pops up a notification that says “Congrats, you burned a ton of calories this week!” I have no idea why they would do this. First of all, it isn’t a weight loss or dieting app. Second of all, duh. You can lay in bed for a week straight and the human body will still burn about 13,000 calories. Calorie “burning” is a biological function that doesn’t need congratulated. Movement doesn’t increase it that dramatically, and increasing activity levels is laudable and healthy REGARDLESS of caloric effect. Thirdly, and most importantly, this kind of language is incredibly dangerous and triggering for those who are recovering from disordered eating and EDs. If the developers had consulted a medical or nutritional professional, they would know this. They are literally risking lives with this phrase. It would be very easy to correct. Do better, please. Also, minor, but when will we get alternate hairstyles? It’s so frustrating to be stuck with long hair just bc your avatar is female. -
PvP is so unbalanced it's not even funny
The base game is fun enough for a while, but once you've collected a couple dozen or even hundred of every Pokemon you have even the slightest interest in the only thing left it PvP, and oh man would it be better for my blood pressure if that just wasn't in the game. Almost every single team you're going to face is nearly identical and practically unbeatable unless you have a slightly better version of that same team or a perfect counter. You're going to lose to Giritina. You're going to lose to it a lot. It's stupidly powerful and everyone uses it. If you change your team to counter Giritina you will stop being matched with people who use Giritina. I'm 80 battles into the current league and 60 (I started keeping track after five in a row) of the teams I've fought had a Giritina. The remaining twenty battles were when I tried to just have a counter to Giritina, alternating between Umbreon and Darkrai depending on what I felt like using more. And every one of those twenty battles with a dark type on my team, not a single person I fought had a Giritina. I switched back to my usual team when I got absolutely fed up with this and was immediately bodied by the 60th Giritina. This isn't even taking bots and exploiters into account, both of which are frustratingly common and not worth talking about, it's just like you'd expect.
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This game is fun and it's also great to play to kill time. I love this game and always look forward to playing it,but it can be unfair most of the time. Every time I battle, someone manages to use their attack when they have 1% of health left while I still have 50% of it left. It will say "Not Very Effective" when actually it is "Super Effective". This is UNFAIR and the mechanics need to be fixed ASAP. This game deserves 1 star. Trust me.
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Horrible customer service!!!!!!
I’m writing this because of an experience I just had with this game. I’m a long time player, I have been playing since the game came out. Anyways I took part in go fest that just took place and besides a few glitches everything was fine until 8pm hit on Sunday. I was playing and I had a Durant spawn at 8pm and it was shiny!!! I couldn’t believe it I was so excited so I took a snap shot of it and then proceeded to catch it. I posted the Pokémon I just got on the Pokémon messager group I am in to show everyone how excited I was. Well that’s when everything went south. I went back to my game and it wasn’t shiny anymore... so I took screenshots of everything including the original shiny one I had and sent it to niantic to have them try and fix it. Well guess what the creators of the game said they can’t help me... I mean you would think that maybe they would wanna do something to make me happy because I have been playing this game for 4 years and have given them thousands of dollars. So I messaged them and told them my situation again and all they said was it’s a glitch and nothing they can do.. they didn’t even offer any sort of compensation for my troubles. Then Regina was the person who messaged me and was very rude about everything. Well I am very disappointed in the customer service they offer and I will absolutely think twice before spending my money and time in this game again if this is how they treat people!!! -
Buggy app
For the most part you better have good connectivity with your mobile device or you will experience the most frustrating lag at times when you are battling other trainers thru the new go battle league schematic. I have lost tons of battles due to not my skill level but the servers not being able to connect my Pokémon fighting the other trainers Pokémon. There are times where the Pokémon disappears or takes time for the servers to load the Pokémon on the map which delays the time frame of events like community days etc. if you carry an iPhone I don’t think this game will be any fun due to the lag and any other issues that come across over time. Even Samsung has trouble on occasion with the 5g connectivity in certain areas. The antennae’s on the iPhone are awful and are better used for taking pictures and just calls. But for games stuck with a Samsung note or the galaxy series to get a better experience. This game after four years in the making struggles to allow any fun for the user about 60% of the time. Playable only when poke stops are near by and if you are out and about. Absolutely unappealing due to the laggy servers and lousy deals from in app purchases. One star automatically until this issue is fixed which will never happen. There will always be crashes and laggy gameplay for more than half of the time playing. Also make sure you have the unlimited data plan so you can at least load the game. -
Unplayable. Zero stars.
My game just crashed 12 times in the last hour (I have time-stamped screen shots to prove it). I have an iPhone 6+. No other app I’ve ever used has been like this. This game has been consistently glitchy since it launched 3+ years ago, and there have been times when it was basically unplayable for me. But I’ve been a lifelong pokémon lover, so I didn’t give up back then. I am seriously considering it now. Literally the only thing tying me to this game is Nintendo’s franchise. Niantic is terrible, and if any other company were to put out a pokémon game, I would dump this game in a heartbeat. Even though I love Harry Potter just as much (if not more) than I love pokémon, I can’t actually bring myself to play WizardingWorld because I can barely tolerate ONE Niantic game. Two would be impossible. Niantic needs to completely overhaul its entire programming department, because as it is it seems like they’re incapable of producing a halfway decent game. They might make a bunch of money, but it’s all through gimmicks. If they actually had a game that most other developers would consider worthy of making available to the public, they’d be making billions more than they are now. Update 6/6/20: Still terrible. My game just crashed 3 times in 2 minutes, costing me a raid pass and a lost opportunity to get roughly 1500 stardust. I’m really not sure what the recent server updates are supposed to have done. I see no changes. Still worst app ever. -
Go Battle League
The G.B.L used to be very fun and competitive. I could go out and see what people were using and strategize teams capable of doing well. But, now in season 3 the algorithm feels socialist and fixed, way more than last season. What I mean by that is, I’ll use a team and everyone I go up against “just happens” to have the perfect team to destroy mine more than half the time, so I’ll change my team to combat the teams that I have been seeing, but the teams I’ve been seeing are no longer what I am seeing and again everyone I verse has a different team which “happens” to be made to easily destroy my team. This algorithm has in fact ruined the G.B.L. by removing most if not all of the competitiveness. So, people get wins when the algorithm says they should win and loses when the algorithm says they should lose. The only way to really get more than 50% wins seems to be if your opponent makes a mistake, which doesn’t usually happen because people who you verse when ranking matters usually know what they’re doing because they got to the rank they have by knowing what they’re doing. So, socialism may sound great, but in a competitive game it is asinine to have the system built around an idea that completely lacks competitiveness. Please allow the matching system to be more capitalist because capitalism is very competitive. And competitiveness is way more fun than non-competitiveness. I’ll probably increase my ranking if this change is made. -
Location accuracy is terrible; gets real boring.
I could be right where a pokestop is, and when I click on it it says “walk closer “. How much closer do you want me to get??? Then all those annoying warnings about my speed when I’m not even moving is a HUGE NEGATIVE! The location accuracy is terrible; I can be right in one area, then the game will show I’m half way across from where I actually am. Furthermore, as they continue to add new Pokémon to the game; the same repetitive ones still show up consistently all the time. There’s no variety to catch unless you are walking all over the place; at random you may come across something worth the effort that’s IF the game is functioning properly; or if they have some sort of event happening. Lastly, I finally deleted the game because any time I have an opportunity to do something with the game, it ALWAYS takes a lifetime to load up EVERY time i get ready to try and play it, or it won’t load at all. Additionally you can’t play it if the game fails to read your location properly. I honestly wouldn’t recommend this game. Update: now the experience as far as catching the Pokémon is worst! They seem to now make you use the augmented reality when trying to catch the Pokémon forcing you to lose several balls, because if you move the phone around you lose sight of the Pokémon too. It’s like they think they’re making this game better, but it just gets worse with each update! -
Played since release.
Game used to be fun, then Niantic started enforcing their definition of what kind of fun you should be having with their game. I used hacks and location spoofing specifically because of Niantic shutting down any tracking program and the abomination they call trading Pokémon. The game location services gives errors more times than it loading properly. The game decides when you’re actually close enough to the stop/gym to spin for items. Instead of finding the Pokémon you wanted in an accessible public area, you’re forced to wander around potentially trespassing because being able to track isn’t fun to Niantic. When you trade Pokémon, all stats are randomly set so giving /receiving good stuff to/from your friends is fubar. Trading mechanics are completely random to the point that a good Pokémon immediately becomes trash to be transferred. Instead of putting in trading or switching teams to make the game somewhat enjoyable to play with friends or convince other people it’s not a waste of time, they hold events in cities that are only for the people willing to send them money and travel 500 to 2000 miles away. As well, that’s assuming that the real life events aren’t disasters like the first few events in Chicago. You’re doing good following Nintendo’s model of just adding in more busywork rather than doing anything groundbreaking, guys. You’re right in thinking people only want a mile wide but an inch deep. -
App is fine. Niantic is bad
Long story short I had to delete the email attached to my Pokémon go account due to it being compromised. I spent a whole day switching over accounts but I had forgotten about Pokémon go. Of course since the email no longer exists I’m unable to sign in, so I contacted Niantic about it. I got an email where I had to answer a series of questions about my account like the last achievement I had unlocked or my last in app purchase. I hadn’t played in months because I have limited to no time while university is in session so I regularly play during breaks. So you can imagine the difficulty I had in answering questions about game progress made over six months ago. I was given two tries to get 11 questions like this right (all of them, in fact, you have to get right or they don’t help you and I got most of them right in the first place) and of course I couldn’t, so now I lost my account that I had since the game’s release. It’s really telling that a player who has been with the game since the beginning just gets tossed to the side like it’s nothing. The game is awesome but niantic has by far the worst customer service/assistance I have ever seen in a company. To think all of this could have been solved by having a couple of security questions like literally any competent website has. I will never play another Niantic game again because of this experience -
Recently returned and want to play more, but..
I was one of those players who played at launch for a month, and was driven away by how hollow the game was. There has been a lot of improvement since then. I’ve recently moved to Florida from the far north and am motivated to spend more time outside. Enter my Pokémon GO revival: The game itself is fun and engaging now that there has been a lot of content added. You can read that in any review. The criticisms I’d like to contribute outweigh the benefits I’ve been enjoying lately. Niantic has a bad reputation when it comes to app support and listening to customer feedback. The notable exception being during in game events that they need to continually host in order to sustain a player base. iPhone X users had been waiting for an update to support their device for quite some time, despite developers having more than adequate time to provide it. Niantic’s solution, nearly a full month after the iPhone X release, was to zoom everything in and make everything look and feel wonky. The edges are also cut off so they could stretch the UI vertically. Lazy and sloppy. There’s no excuse for this, and my rating will remain at 1 star until this is addressed. iPhone X users now have a smaller usable map on a larger display. The game was more playable before they “supported the iPhone X.” Get your stuff together, Niantic. -
Trash
How am I expose to get catch Pokémon with no poke balls. There’s no way to get more balls in this game without spending money or walking far just for like 1-5 poke balls. Then with gifts you can get poke balls but that’s only if they actually send gifts, I have friends on Pokémon go some I know and some are random and they rarely send the gifts and if they do there’s no guaranteed way of getting them. Where I live there’s no Poke stops that are in range for me to spin to get some and if I do walk all the way there it’s only 1-5. The daily gifts aren’t worth it either same thing low amount of Poke balls. Storage system is to small you expect us to either deal with what we got or spend money on the game to buy more storage, like why. Same with Pokémon space. The only other way to get Pokecoins is to put Pokémon in gyms but there’s no guarantee that people will try to defeat them and if they do it takes a few hours. Why can you use a golden berry and throw a excellent ball and not catch them. Why do they move so much so you waste poke balls and berries and if you do catch them they have terrible iv’s. Also since you have to buy inventory space you get little amount of things from the shop like 100 pokecoins for only 20 poke balls like how is that for or make any sense at all. All around your game just is really money based and is just not worth it for a Pokémon with terrible Iv’s.
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