Despite Pokemon Go being in decline, my library has 17 people sitting outside in the dark playing currently

[Ganoncrotch]

naruball said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Casual soccer mom players do not know what updates are to things like this really and wont be coming back, this isn't like expansions to PC MMOs, those people tried it, was buggy and stopped playing it because of that. First impressions with some players are damning especially like I said if they aren't your standard gamer who is fine to basically beta test a buggy mess.

Yup. I keep reading that updates will bring people back and I could agree with you more.

People won't like the idea of paying for data. The game doesn't have much to offer and you can't play it wherever you go like Candy Crush or Angry Birds.

Given the way the game works I don't think there can ever be an offline mode to PoGo though, unless it just see's that you are offline and auto populates the area near you with pidgeys and rattatas :S

Connection to the server is needed at all times and I can't see that changing without a huge change to the game at its core.

It's half the reason this game is so taxing on Phone batteries, it is sort of ahead of its time for a mobile game, using AR, GPS, Data, WiFi, constant screen use and phone vibration all together, it is like a game designed on a PC knowing that all those features are in a phone... but not thinking logistically about what using them all at the same time constantly would mean for battery life or data charges.