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It's certainly on the decline. Most people I run into say they stopped playing because they got rid of the little steps on the nearby Pokemon that let you know you were going in the right direction to catch them.

 

Personally, I don't play as much because it's just not fun anymore. It's as you say...the novelty has indeed worn off. That's just me.

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I'd say the novelty is just wearing off. From the very beginning this was more or less a fad, and fads come and go on an almost monthly basis. Once the initial hype has climaxed, it has nowhere else to go but down. Casual players who just came along for the ride will gradually start to drop off.

 

I also suspect that a lot of more serious players may have accomplished almost everything by now. Let's not forget that only the original Kanto generation are currently obtainable (minus a few legendaries), and once a player has obtained what they wanted (which may even just be their favorite Pokemon) they'll probably lose motivation to continue. Once you get by the whole novelty of catching your favorite Pokemon there's really nothing else to do in the game..

 

Do I think this means the game is dying? No. I wouldn't go that far. The game has certainly passed its initial zenith, but I don't think that means it's finished. There will be updates down the line, the addition of later generations that will probably result in another spike of activity. I've no doubt Niantic will try and recapture the excitement people had for the game upon first release. Whether or not it will work as well remains to be seen.

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Pokemon Go is basically the word 'Fad' incarnate into a video game. I had a feeling it would slow down to a halt rather quickly because there really isn't much of a game there. This is why I hope Nintendo properly supports the title and improves it, rather than just updating it with an increased roster because that won't do much.

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The novelty is bound to wear off. Pokemon GO is a fad, sustained mostly by people who don't care about Pokemon at all to begin with.

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No, it is actually not unusual for even some of the most successful mobile aps to have dramatic drop offs like this. I saw this one Youtube video that puts this dropoff in some perspective.

 

 

It is very likely that users here and some others are right that Pokemon Go may in fact be a fad, but the Pokemon Go app does have a significant degree of potential. There are a lot of things they need to work out though, various bugs, glitches which tend to happen with large scale mobile games like this as well as introducing more pokemon and giving options to trade and battle with other people which have both been staples of pokemon since generation 1. Once they introduce even one of those things, Pokemon Go could see another increase in downloads, it remains to be seen though whether or not Pokemon Go will have the same staying power as the main games. Frankly I am much more interested in the upcoming Pokemon Sun and Moon, but that is just me.

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Well according to the information that I picked up, the game will die out quickly. I'm not too sure if there will be more players coming in by the time pokemon go plus is released. The other information that I picked up was from the facebook trends and said that the game lost 15mil people since last month. This is what I picked up from the trends

 

 

Axiom Capital Management's metric of the game's daily active users showed the game had a peak of about 45 million on July 17. By Aug. 16, the number of daily active users was just over 30 million

 

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The trend of walking to catch pokemon in Pokemon Go is dying because of the hacked versions people are using, whether it's to play Pokemon Go on your computer with a D-Pad or having a D-Pad on the mobile version to being able to TELEPORT in hacked versions of the game. Those hacked games make the accomplishment of catching certain pokemon a little less satisfying. I would know of this because my dad uses a hacked version of Pokemon GO and he has four Venasaurs, three Blastoise, a Charizard, crap tons of Magnemites, Voltorbs, Electrodes and Magneton because he hung out in Alcatraz in his hacked version, and even has tons of Dratini, Dragonair and a Dragonite. So, yeah, using a hacked version of Pokemon GO is the same as drinking an energy drink: You feel really good about catching all of these pokemon that you really couldn't get anywhere else, but then the fun kinda stops after a few days.

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Thing is, the millions of people playing were just joining the bandwagon/hype when it was released during the summer. Now that hype had slowed and people finding other things to invest their time with, it seems like catching Pokemon isn't they're number one priority anymore. Don't forget that school and college started again so people won't be playing as much too.

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Not so much dying as dying down. It's no longer the newest, greatest thing ever so people who only used it to be a part of the fad abandoned ship moment they got bored with it. Even with the players who are Pokemon fans they might have burned themselves out on it to needing a break. You can only play a game for so long before it becomes repetitive and dull. 

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I feel its largely the fault of Niantic themselves for the reason for the decline of Pokemon Go

 

Servers constantly down 
Them removing the poke steps that didn't work

Having all of 3 Pokemon to catch if you live in a rural area 

Not having any poke stops in rural areas

Missing Features (I think) 

Taking down websites made to make finding Pokemon easier claiming that "It ruins the fun of the game." 

 

Even though by taking down websites like that you are effectively stifling the community that has gathered around this game that wants to do things that make it easier to play. You really have no right to do things like that unless you plan to implement the feature yourself, Niantic. I'll say I'm not sure if they have implemented something like that or not but I'm just saying by being so unprepared for the release of this game and them taking down things that essentially act as the building blocks of a community they obviously don't know what it takes to give a game longevity.

 

So I'm blaming Niantic for Pokemon Go's decline. I mean I don't play the game so I might not have any business saying any of this but this is just what I've heard and seen as a casual bystander to the whole Pokemon Go craze.

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I may be thinking that the reasons for this decline was If I had to guess, It was too boring and there has been the same pokemon over and over which are the kanto region pokemon. The other I know was lives spent because people risked their lives playing this game and not knowing their surroundings, and last, but not least was the bans. A Lot of people got banned for using hacks, cheats, bots, and others. Some may have falsely banned so those who got falsely banned have to appeal the ban.

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All mobile apps eventually fade. That's just how mobile gaming operates.

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I don't think it's Niantic's fault, actually. 

Servers constantly down 

Them removing the poke steps that didn't work

Having all of 3 Pokemon to catch if you live in a rural area 

Not having any poke stops in rural areas

Missing Features (I think) 

Taking down websites made to make finding Pokemon easier claiming that "It ruins the fun of the game." 

Any sever will struggle with the pressure put on it from the sheer volume of players. The server issues have actually been fixed for a while.

Why keep a feature that doesn't work? It was giving misleading information, and they are testing a replacement system.

Even urban areas don't have many Pokemon available most of the time. I get near exclusively Pidgey and Spearow where I live, and in the town centre it's rare to see anything but Voltorb and Magnemite.

Locations for PokeStops are taken from data for a similar game from Niantic, called Ingress. Not all landmarks were imported, but most where, and the Ingress portals (that became PokeStops) were player submitted. Obviously, urban areas get a higher concentration of submissions, and they are the focus as thats where more players are. 

There's not really any features missing, just ones not implemented. Implementing the features takes time- they have to make sure it works across on all the compatible devices without breaking compatibility.

Those websites were piggy-backing Go's data stream, putting more strain on the servers. And some of the things those websites were used for have had implementation, like the IV checking- the leaders of the three teams can appraise your pokemon, giving you IV information consistent with the info you'd get in the main series games.

 

So no, it's not Niantic's fault. It's simply that past a given point, there's not a lot to do. I imagine there will be updates to increase the stuff that can be done, but I think Niantic want to get the rest of the promised features done first- quite sensibly, really.

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Nope. It's just levelling-out now; all the people who were just curious have buggered off, leaving behind those who are actually interested and will be with it long-term.

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Probably. There's honestly not a whole lot to it compared to a real Pokémon game.

Personally speaking, it only made me want to go back to Omega Ruby... hopefully it will get better when they add more Pokémon. :wacko:

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Not really. In fact, it's doing better than other mobile games and has a much higher retention rate compared to other mobile games, though Niantic should take notice and try harder to get players to keep playing. Mobile games naturally don't keep people for long; that's why console and PC games have much better retention rates, usually losing no more than 15% or even 10% of their gamer-base per month (and almost always gaining new players to compensate anyway). 

 

They should spread out the Pokestops a bit better, though. Rural areas make sense, but even in a good deal of the LA county I still found it a bit difficult to find Pokestops, while the downtown has way too much in a small area. That was the same issue I had when Taiwan released it with certain city areas getting a disproportionate amount of Pokestops compared to other equally populated areas. 

 

They also need to clean up on the battling system too, and I kind of hope for new things like Abilities or Natures or being able to look at your Pokemon's stats. They probably are planning a big update though, with Gen 2 Pokemon, trading, and breeding. 

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It's not dying, there will be hardcore Pokémon fans who won't stop playing it for a good while. I don't see myself losing interest within at least 3 months.

 

I believe the reason why so many people stop playing is simply because Niantic have failed to make a good game. It is lacking many features, is unbalanced, buggy and worst of all: horribly unfair and illogical. People stop playing when the game stops catching their interest, and the game will not catch people's interest when there's absolutely nothing to do. Casual players will have nothing left to do when they have catched all Pokémon that doesn't have a 0.003% spawn rate or whatever, because hardcore players and cheaters dominate the gyms. Serious players won't have anything to do either because when taking over gyms is the only thing you can do, it gets kind of repetitive. Not only that, level progression is so slow at higher levels and the game doesn't progress in any way when you level up. Not to mention that battling gyms doesn't give you shit. ...And don't even get me started on rural players..

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