Working through lvl 22 now... I have no sympathy for you, it's 100k to go from 22>23 the rise in EXP required for the later levels is just nuts. 20 is 50k 21 is 75k 22 100k I can see where this is going fairly fast lol, and the sad thing is the best way to get exp in Pokemon go is just to get pidgeys, weedles and kakunas, evolve them once and grind that into candy, that fact never changes regardless of level you are. worked it out that this level is going to take me 800 weedles in total :D fairly crazy amount of "grinding"

As for the new tracking thing, should be sort of cool, still just gives you a slight idea of the Pokestop that the guy might be around, but still in a large radius around the stop that could be huge, at least it's better than the 3step bug or the current version of "this could be near you... wouldn't you like to know where?" The current "tracker" just more of a teaser really, does nothing to show you where they might actually be, just teases you with what you are missing by the tracker being non functional.

It's still easier to list the things which don't work correctly in Pokemon Go than the things which actually does.

Or just the basic fact that it has far more in common with Pokemon Snap than any of the franchises main game, still though it was such a shame they had this terrible start to the game, no casual player could be expected to restart the app 20 times to make it register gps position correctly in game or having a game which crashed whenever it felt like it, you can't expect casual gamers to become beta testers, they just wont stand for it and the drop off in players of Pokemon Go is a clear sign of this.

ITs a game that has been broken from launch. Everything they get is deserved. They are no better than Dice, COD, Bethesda, and Ubisoft developers at this point. They also did a shit of telling anybody anything and have taken away every sort of assistance anyone has. Peoples opinions are 100% justified in my eyes.

The clear difference here is that the game is free to play.  If people felt the game was broken at launch, they found that out way before they ever had to pay a dime.  And they've been clear from the beginning that features are going to change as time goes on, which is typical for an always online game.  And, aside from ingress, games like this haven't been done before, so obviously it's more reasonable for it to have growing pains as opposed to the 6th Assassin's Creed game.  

The game being free makes no difference. They make games just like any other developer and they released a mess of one. Now nobody had to pay a dime to play it sure, that great, doesnt mean criticism cant be given. And again my wife and i play and with every update they give shit notice and very little information on them. Its a pretty big middle finger not going to lie. They are going to make people stop playing on the updates and bugs if they dont sort their stuff out.

Also we are getting into driveclub territory with this freaking pokemon tracking shit.

So... you can't see a difference between people finding out a game is broken (your words) before having to pay for it, and people not finding out about the problem until after spending 60 dollars?  Really?

So a free game is not a game because its free? Angry birds while free is still a game just as call of duty is still a game. I did say yea its free which is why im not in pitchforks and thank goodness for them it is. But they still developed a game that to this day has rediculous bugs. And they have done a pretty subpar job of being up front about what they are doing and updating.

If you buy call of duty and it's buggy or unplayable, then you've lost 60 dollars.  If you download Angry Birds and you find it is buggy and unplayable then you've lost absolutely nothing.  That's a pretty obvious difference.  So, I'm ok with downloading something for free that's a work in progress, especially with something of this nature.

The idea that they're both "still a game" is kind of off.  A free sample I get at the food court is "still food" just like a 50 dollar steak is "still food".  But I wouldn't care much if my free sample of General Tso's chicken was overcooked, and I'd be pretty upset if my 100 dollar steak was overcooked.  I would actually wager my life on the fact that your expectations vary based on price in every other circumstance in life.  So to say it makes no difference here doesn't make a whole lot of sense. 

You are going off into something that i was never going into. I never said that this situation is as bad as a 60$ game. I said the developers are on the same level as some developers that are known for making buggy messy games. The price of the games matters little to me because i am judging the game itself and the state its in. You are determining overall value which is fine and all but again its not what im talking about. 

If you get a free sample and its overcooked its likely going to affect your future decisions as far a going to that place. Now your not going to flip out like you would if you were paying for it but you will still judge the place like you were paying or judge it for future transactions. Its not like you would say oh that sucked but it was free so it never happened or i will go there to eat more of that. You can still judge something reguardless of whether it is free or not. Read back through what i said and you will see im am speaking more so about the developers and what they have done more so than even the game itself.

Errrr... yeah you did kind of say the situation was as bad as a 60 dollar game... "The game being free makes no difference." "They are no better than Dice, COD, Bethesda, and Ubisoft developers at this point."

So you compared them to other companies making full retail games.  The word you used was "no better" which literally means "as bad as". And you said it literally makes no difference.  No difference means it's the same, or another way to say as bad as.  If you meant something different then whatever, but that's what you said and what I reacted to.  

And you can judge things whatever you want.  And I'm not suggesting anyone play things you don't like.  But if you ate a bad free sample, what would you do?  Probably shrug, move on your life, not eat there, or maybe try another sample next time you're there to see if it's improved.  Would you demand the manager provide you with an explanation immediately then start screaming in the middle of the food court about how you'll never eat there again?  I'm pretty sure you wouldn't, but that's pretty much were people doing.

Ninantic took down the feature which wasn't working then, and within a few days explained that they were working on replacing it with something better.  The feature went down on July 30th and the announcement came on August 2nd.  Seems fairly reasonable.  And, in about a week, they've partially rolled out the new system, and are beta testing the other part which certainly seems like a very nice improvement.  So honestly, I'm not sure there was any legitimate cause for complaints, yet alone the type of hissy fits people were having.