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JWeinCom on 12 August 2016
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JamaicameCRAZY said:
JWeinCom said:

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.

Yea i said they are no better than buggy game developers. I never compared pokego to any games only the developers so there is no free vs 60$ argument. I am purely judging developer to developer. 

I play the game im level 23 soon to be 24 i know what the game is and isnt. 

The game has been broken since launch with a glitch with no fix or announcement they removed all 3rd party apps causing those that actually spend money on the game to effectively be screwed. Here we sit nearly 2 weeks later and the update hasnt even been fully implemented so please tell me how wonderful niantic has been with their support.

This doesnt even begin to cover how many days people have been unable to login or connect to their servers. The game crashes constantly. Or any of the other stupid stuff that happens each day or time they update and break something else.

... So you were comparing developers... but not comparing the games they make.  Come on now.  There was a pretty obvious implicit comparison between the games.  If you're not comparing them based on the games they release, what exactly are you comparing?  That's like saying "yeah I said Burger King was as good as McDonalds, but I never compared their food."  

At any rate, I don't care if you didn't mention 60 dollars vs free.  I brought that up, because it is incredibly relevant.  If you're suggesting that there is no difference between asking for 60 dollars from somoen and then giving them a glitchy product and giving someone a glitchy product for free, then letting them decide whether they want to pay anything or not, then I am legitimately baffled.  

For someone who thinks the game is completely broken, you sure are playing it quite a bit.  So you clearly think the game is worth playing despite the issues.  So you started playing the game, and before you had to pay a single penny, you had the opportunity to see how the game functioned and decide whether or not is was worth playing and/or spending money on.  Much better than paying 60 dollars for something then finding out about all the glitches.  Wouldn't you say?

I started this conversation talking specifically about this feature and it's removal, so I'm not sure why you keep bringing up other things.  But hey whatever.  Ninantic never promised you'd be able to use any other third party app, and they are well within their rights to block these sites from accessing their servers (which is not the same thing as removing them).

Game hasn't crashed on me twice in the past week and I haven't had any issue connecting to servers.  Gyms now function perfectly about 99% of the time.  Game is way better than it was at launch.

"Here we sit nearly 2 weeks later and the update hasnt even been fully implemented so please tell me how wonderful niantic has been with their support."  You mean like almost two whole weeks?  Like 12 whole days?  Yeah, that's clearly a ridiculously long amount of time :-/

 The new sightings feature is ALREADY better than the old system.  The radius is decreased by alot, and the list refreshes every ten seconds or so, so you never wind up chasing after pokemon that aren't there.  It's already much easier to find the Pokemon you're looking for.  And they're beta testing a feature that's going to make it even better.  It's an always online game Considering the length of time that has passed, and that the feature is already better and is going to be made better still, I don't really think there is any cause for any complaints regarding this issue.  There especially wasn't any cause for the immature reactions we saw.