Pokémon GO Daily Bonuses Update Begins Rollout

Sigh...Mobile games usually selling like hot cakes at the beginning but become quiet after long time.

@Anti-Matter To be fair, most aren't quite so badly handled as Pokémon Go.

Well Niantic has now killed off third party trackers and aren't going to be releasing their own in the UK for a long time. For those of us stuck on one quite rare pokémon, we need SOME reason to log in occasionally.

I don't know anyone who still plays this game, myself included. It's just gotten incredibly boring and leveling up your Pokémon takes way way WAY too long.

The bonuses are nice, but the 7-day PokeStop bonus will be annoying for me as there are hardly any PokeStops near where I live (always have to stock up on items during my lunch breaks).

The gyms are getting pretty stupid now, as they're just not thinking the changes through properly before they implement them, as is obvious currently... and I can't help but think that the new changes will make it swing back the other way, making it impossible to hold a gym for more than a day or so again.
The timed assignment lock was needed, but is a little late, as people don't sit at gyms waiting to recapture them in this weather... and they should really have added it for levelling up gyms as well (especially considering that it'll be slower to level them up again).

@CB85 The crowd has definitely thinned out a lot. I still meet people playing around our local hotspot in Gosport... but it's not the swarms we had back in July/August.

I just save up stardust & only use it on pokémon with IVs I like. I usually sit around 100,000 just so I have a good reserve to dig into.

Game is getting more and more enjoyable, although tbh this kinda stuff should have been in from the start. I'll be looking forward to Pokemon Go 2 with gen 2 next summer!

Based on my experience yesterday, Pokestops now also block you from accessing anything if you are going above 30 miles an hour. You also need to remain stationary for about 20 seconds prior to the game allowing you to access a Pokestop after you stop going 30 miles an hour.

Basically, if you are a passenger, Niantic doesn't care at all.

@LordGeovanni I think the servers can be a bit buggy, I was on a train the other day & was only getting about half the stops. Personally I think the game just handles the GPS data really inefficiently.

Thee gym changes are nice. Team Mystic have held the gyms nearby me for far too long.

Pretty ironic that they wanted gyms to be harder to take down because people complain how hard it was to keep and level up. Now they're making it easier because people complain how hard it is to take control and level down.

I just hope they mean (also) to say friendly gyms and not rival gyms when it comes to taking a spot. I would be confused on how it would work when more than one player can battle a rival gym together, also from two different team.

The worse enemies in the game is your own team that dominates an area. You can raise you team's prestige 8000 points in one sitting, only for someone to come and steal your 10th spot after/during the battle with no effort.

Cool changes. I usually hit both once a day at least, so this will just be gravy. Stardust I need to make up for spending too much too early on silly Pokemon with a lame special attack. Learning the best way to manage everything is a big part of the game, of course.

The combination of less players and changes to how the gym worked means that we have one team dominating with level 9 and 10 gyms... and it's my team so that's even worse!

The constant in mobile games is change, though. The mythical final version is nowhere in sight as they need to adjust to the changing player base and always will. It's not like there are many examples of phenom gps collecting games to draw from. Seems like Niantic is becoming much less reactive and more responsive and able to add more features now. Will be fun to see where it goes.

I think there's a vocal group that likes to complain mostly because it wants Go to work much more like the original games and there is just no purpose for that. Those games are still continuing on. Go needs to be a mobile game: something that is returned to in small doses over time.

Same old pidgeys, rattatas and weedles, I've gone back to playing Alpha Sapphire at least until Sun/Moon come out later this month. I was actually excited about catching a rattata the other day as they're pretty rare in ORAS lol X-D

@DanteSolablood buggy servers are probably still a round, but I don't think that is the case here. I only got the problem on my way home last night (about 14 hours ago). The update was active and I got my daily quests, but I also missed out on 10 pokestop that I normally collect. They all just said "Try again later." Additionally, I could gather Pokestops after I sat long enough for Pokémon to spawn. And again, after I turned the app off and then on again, I could spin Pokestops I until the speed warning activated.

@LordGeovanni Ahhh, that explains it! I don't have the latest update yet - not sure why but it's not come up on my Play Store yet (are you on iOS?). I thought you meant the update before.

Okay, when the daily update drops for me, I'll keep an eye on it.

@DanteSolablood
Nah, I am also Android. It look like it updated on its own. I just got the daily Quest yesterday and I also couldn't get Pokie stops anymore unless I was stopped.

There's 1 more update. You can no longer get pokestops in the car. I now can't sit in the passenger seat and collect stuff while my wife drives.

I just started playing again today and every gym is Blue Team with level 10 and 50000 or 52000 prestige. Probaly same arrogant Google sorts working together.

@LordGeovanni I finally had this happen to me too when hitting pokestops. Very annoying because I don't have any stops close to where I live so driving past 12-15 a day to and from work is my only way to get items to keep capturing and battling.