Pokemon go succeeds at effortlessly what so many games fail at

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Pokemon go, its a huge social experiment while not that great of a game.
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Pokemon go goes back to the roots of gaming to a certain extent, its charming seemingly straight forward and easy to get into, you can boot it up go:ohhh: throw a couple pokeball's miss and after the 1st battle your :russ:



There's a brief explanation on not even a quarter of what you need to know and then your thrust into the game. At its core there's not much to do, there's not epic plot nor graphic's, the game crashes and bugs out....So why then is Pokemon go such a hit?


Simple because 1) Its free, lets not deny how huge of a deal that is, even if it was 99 cent I probably wouldn't have took the time to buy it.

2) It encourages exploration and communication online and off. This is huge, sitting behind your computer talking to a stranger is way to common place now. Hell I'm doing it now:mjlol: Pokemon go forces you to get up, travel and probably bump into other people doing the same thing. I've run into so many people that are clearly sitting at pokestop's and gym's playing Go... All they can do is look:russ: and go :ehh:


Black, white, old, young.... Knowing that what your doing is literally being done by or to others in real life is and experience that most of the younger generation missed. For us that are 29 and up we remember the arcade and when gaming was just as much of a social event as a going to the movies or bowling and skating.



Pokemon go is an example of how much humans actually enjoy socializing even if its buried subconsciously and how much humans love collecting.




It once again shows that a game doesn't need to be perfect for it to be great.


nintendo and Sega genesis showed us that are older that ages ago.
 
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Blacksands said:
it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact pokemon is the biggest franchise in the world... Nothing at all..
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What does this have to do with anything, pokemon being a successful franchise doesn't mean the game that dropped should be doing the numbers that its doing just from the name alone.
 
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Like lets be real here. The game is nothing but a reskined Ingress. Ingress was never even 3/4th as big as pokemon go.

The brand is the main selling point here. Pokémon is literally the biggest franchise IN THE WORLD. Despite what people think. No one ever stopped loving pokemon. They just got to old to be playing a 3ds. But boot it up on ya phone?? Yea that's how you sell 14 millions in 4 days.


Every single person with a smart phone from the ages 5-36 is playing this game SOLELY because they love Pokemon.


Phoenix Reborn said:
What does this have to do with anything, pokemon being a successful franchise doesn't mean the game that dropped should be doing the numbers that its doing just from the name alone.
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Uhh yes it does. The latest main games(x/y) sold over 10 million and those were 40$ entry fees.

This is a FREE GAME. Of course it's gonna do numbers. IT'S POKEMON .

If the game was some brand new concept you might have a point. But it's LITTERALY reskinned ingress. The poksetops are the SAME EXACT portals found in ingress. The games infrastructure was already laid out. AR tech and all.


Now you thrown Pikachu into that bytch? You now sitting on a revolution.
 
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The "game" itself is shyt, but it's a Nintendo property...Nintendo is the KING of gimmicks. Iwata was the one who originally came out with the idea of this.

The "catch em all" phrase along with the way the game is designed? INSTANT GOLD for them.
 
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Phillyrider807 said:
Like lets be real here. The game is nothing but a reskined Ingress. Ingress was never even 3/4th as big as pokemon go.

The brand is the main selling point here. Pokémon is literally the biggest franchise IN THE WORLD. Despite what people think. No one ever stopped loving pokemon. They just got to old to be playing a 3ds. But boot it up on ya phone?? Yea that's how you sell 14 millions in 4 days.


Every single person with a smart phone from the ages 5-36 is playing this game SOLELY because they love Pokemon.




Uhh yes it does. The latest main games(x/y) sold over 10 million and those were 40$ entry fees.

This is a FREE GAME. Of course it's gonna do numbers. IT'S POKEMON .

If the game was some brand new concept you might have a point. But it's LITTERALY reskinned ingress. The poksetops are the SAME EXACT portals found in ingress. The games infrastructure was already laid out. AR tech and all.


Now you thrown Pikachu into that bytch? You now sitting on a revolution.
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I actually played ingress, so I'm not arguing that.

However there are plenty of pokemon game spin off that dont do numbers. The main games always do.... I look at this as one of the many spin offs. The only thing this has in common with the main pokemon games everyone keeps comparing it to is catching pokemon.



I'm not denying the franchise is part of the charm. But its not the sole reason the game is popular and people continue to play after day one. It is a big reason of why people give it shot in the 1st place however.
 
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