Niantic Reveals What's Next For Pokémon GO

If they continue to evolve the game it can grow further and keep existing customers. And sort out the servers.

Wow, a non-negative comment from @SLIGEACH_EIRE!

And I'm still waiting patiently for the game to come out where I live.

I wonder where they will place PokéCenters. Will they be on some PokéStops, or are they going to be on their own?

@FezodgeIII 99% of my comments are "non-negative".

Glad to see it do so well. I just hope people who haven't had 20 hours a day since launch will have a remote chance at gyms.

"changes which will make it harder to poach gyms from rival teams" - As I am like the only person in my team here, the news aren't good for me. Good bye those hard earned 10 coins at 5 AM before all other teams wake up...

Please fix the pokeball freezing during capture too. It really bugs me. Still I can't wait to see the game grow

@Whopper744 You can claim your coins as soon as you put a pokemon in a gym - you don't have to wait 21h. You only wait after you claim the coins. For example, if you have 3 gyms nearby you can quickly claim them/throw a poke and immediately grab 30 coins before they'd gone defeated (althrough I never managed to claim more than 1 gym at once but I guess it will work as I described).
So instead of seeing 21h as a possible crossing fingers pay-day deadline, see it as a coin-grab ban

I...just want the ability to add in more Stops...I really have no way of playing anymore, and I'm not wasting money just to play it for a couple of more days. :/

Do you have a legitimate source instead of just linking us to another article that was written by some random person? I honestly can't stand it when you do that. It's like when Wikis cite other Wikis as sources. But even then they recognize not to do it.

@KTT Poaching is when you throw a Pokemon into a gym that someone else defeated. Like a blue team member beats a red gym and someone from yellow team puts a Pokemon in before the blue team guy can.

Your 5 am walks are still safe my friend.

@Indielink OMG, then I misunderstood the term! I thought it means a meeting of a group of people from the same team, defeating a gym simultaneously. I was concerned that forming bigger groups will soon be a must, while lone people (like me lol) will soon have harder time at beating gyms. Thanks for claryfing that for me.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE If you post just a few negative comments people take that as your entire MO. I used to be one of the biggest Negative Nancys around here

improved training
Please have a way to train Pokemon of your choice and not just be restricted to what commonly spawns in your area.

PokéCenters for healing your monsters
I had this idea myself day 1. I coupled it with having people watch a video ad for the heal though.

changes which will make it harder to poach gyms from rival teams
Right now a 30 second to one minute window to allow the person who defeated the gym to put their own Pokemon in would be nice so it doesn't get stolen by someone camping outside of it.

Other things:

Pokemon GO seriously lacks the ability for people to care for their Pokemon as more than commodities or tools. Pokemon in Pokemon GO are highly disposable, the mechanics in fact encourage it.

Pokemon Amie: Seriously, it's literally a game designed for a touch screen, put it in the mainly touch screen game.

Can take pictures with Pokemon you own and not just wild Pokemon.

A Pokemon can follow you around on the map. Perhaps the Pokemon you have following you provides a type bonus that effects the capture rate depending on how the Pokemon you encounter matches up with it?

A way to change a Pokemon's Attacks from it's small list of possible attacks.

Better character customization. Allow for people to really be expressive when they're on display at gyms. Perhaps even add character poses for gyms. Pokemon GO is a social game after all.

Player vs Player and Pokemon Trading would be nice.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE

Non-negative is a double negative, so their all negative so?

Gen 1 baby! Woo!

@Owaynott Haha! You know, I was thinking about that at the time and then about how would you phrase it? I'm no expert on grammar so I'm not sure if it's alright and whether someone would pick up on the double entendre.

I just want to play the game for 10 minutes w/o having to restart the app. Start there.

If it were me I'd make Pokecenters Hospitals. It'd be more realistic that way.

Still a ton of things they need to fix in terms of availability of just about anything in game. People in the suburbs have to drive hours to find anything while people in rural areas are almost completely screwed.

@KTT
Instinct? Lol I feel your pain.

@KoopaTheGamer I saw another article stating that some pokestops would become Pokemon centers and others would have different special functions, encouraging players to go to different types of pokestops.

They need to implement a Player vs Player battle mode.

They might need to come up with their own battle system, but as long as it works, it would be nice to battle against other players.

Well I booted up Pokémon Go.
I live near a garden center, I can actually see it from the map in the app and there are 2 gyms right next to each other, one for the entrance and one for the exhibition gardens in the back (which are free to enter). Also there are about 2 Pokéstops nearby.

I think I'm set.

Every time I catch Kakuna, the game freezes on me. And when I close and reopen the game, it doesn't show I have him. Kinda frustrating! They still have bugs in this game. No pun intended 😕

@gardevoir7

While I think the novelty of making Pokemon Centers real life medical facilities would be fantastic, medical facilities would probably complain that people gathering around them for Pokemon GO are hampering those who need real medical assistance, especially hospitals.

You might be able to get away with it by making places like Dentists and Pharmacies Pokemon Centers though.

@DarkKirby Yeah I figured that might be a problem. I was just suggesting that if they wanted to start making Pokemon Centers then having places of actual "healing" act as them would make it more real. It'd also be cool if you got a sort of special shop if you went somewhere like Kroger or Wal-Mart.

@DarkKirby. I agree with you saying that pokemon are very disposable in this game. It only reflect the catching aspect of the game but really the training and the bonding. I understand they want to encourage people to go outside, but catching 10 of the same pokemon to get pokecandy is kinda lame to level up and it devalues the pokemon. It actually keeps me from playing it myself cause i only played it ones but more because of friends ( highly addicting though). Why not do it the same as in the games. Let people catch pokemon and make there teams of 6 pokemon. Hunt for wild pokemon and battle them for experience points( this will also give higher value to future pokecenters, let mcdonalds be pokecenters where you can heal your pokemon) other real life trainers give you higher experience points in general. The higher the level the more experience.

If they do this you have the option to be a collector or a battle master. This will still encourage people to go outside because you need to find wild pokemon to level up. Otherwise meet other trainers to gain XP.

If the other trainers are too strong its gonna motivate you more to find wild pokemon too train. The higher your level gets stronger pokemon will appear based on your level.

PokeBeach says that the addition of new generations was announced too. Serebii doesn't seem to mention this however

I wanted the ability where POIs are saved (first visit to one) on an external map, so we can always see the places I visited. I was on an island in Croatia, tiny island (60 inhabitants) and it had 2 POIs here, wish it would save them.