5 Reasons People Quit Playing Pokemon Go!

Last week, reports were circulating than Pokemon Go! is slowly losing steam and lost about 15 million active users in a span of one month. The news is a bit surprising since the game has only been out for a couple of months, with some countries having access ahead of others by just a few weeks.

As one of the active players of Pokemon Go!, weunderstood the charms and pitfalls of the game. We also talked to dozens of people and getting insights from them. Here’s what we learned.

It gets boring.

If you’re just new to Pokemon Go!, more likely than not, most of the monsters you’ll encounter are the pretty common ones. While it can be exciting to catch your first Pidgey or Rattata, the feelings will defintiely not be there on your 100th catch.

Sure you can earn more candies and later evolve them to Raticate or Pidgeotto/Pidgeot and use the remianing candoes to upgrade their Combat Power, you can only go so far as catching the same old rat and piegon every single day.

So yes it is repetitive and, after a while, becomes really boring.

Location, location, location.

One of the reasons why it can get boring and you end up catching the same pocket monsters is location. Pokemon Go’s inherent advantage to play the game is you need to scout around or even take a day long trip around the city just to catch different kinds of monsters.

However, if you live in an area that’s scarce both in monsters and Pokestops, you’s have much fewer chances to play catch and just end up staring at an empty map most of the time.

After a few days to a couple of weeks, you’ll be frustrated of the same empty space until the day you completely forgot to open the Pokemon Go app.

Battery hog.

Since the game requires you to run it even as a background task, it will still eat up a lot of battery. Combine that with the need for an active mobile internet connection and consistent access to GPS, Pokemon Go! can as much as burden to your smarpthone as Waze or Google Maps.

It’s no wonder we’ve seen several smartphone vendors sending out firmware updates to their phones to optimize it for Pokemon Go! (we’ve seen the updates from OPPO and HTC devices last week).

The, if you’re mostly outdoors catching Pokemon, then you’d also be forced to increase the screen brightness of your mobile phone making it real a juice guzzler.

So if you want to stretch the battery life of your phone to last the entire day, you’d more likely quit or limit your play time with Pokemon Go.

Cheaters.

Almost every game has their fair share of cheaters and we can’t really avoid them. With Pokemon Go, there was more than the usual number of cheaters and they can actually affect your gaming experience with Pokemon Go!

These are the ones who have been using GPS spoofing apps to play the game ahead of everyone else and virtually catch every single Pokemon out there.

With outrageously high player levels and Pokemon combat powers manning the Gyms, there’s no way a non-cheating player can beat them. Spoils the fun, right?

Niantic, makers of Pokemon Go!, have actively banned cheaters but they still abound and having one in your area controlling a gym is a complete bummer.

Mobile internet is expensive.

Let’s face it, mobile internet is not cheap in the Philippines, moreso that local telcos have already switched to volume based charging (i.e., the more you play, the more you pay).

Players may be tempted to spend for mobile internet access at the beginning but after a month or two, they’d start to worry how much their monthly postpaid bill would be and cut back on usage in favor of the more important apps or tasks.

This is more evident for prepaid users who’ll need spend Php30 every couple of days just to gain access to mobile internet. And if you’re really saving up on bandwidth, Pokemon Go might not be on top of the priority list. Of course, telcos are hoping that the game is so addicting, you’d still be willing to shell out more than what you usually spend for internet access.

Mobile games come and go.

Like any other mobile game, Pokemon Go! is not immune to player fatigue. We saw that in Plants vs. Zombies, Angry Birds, Clash of Clans and even the overnight phenomenon that was Flappy Bird. Like any other game, the Pokemon Go excitement is bound to decline — it’s not a matter of IF but WHEN. For Pokemon Go, it just seemed too soon.

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5 Reasons People Quit Playing Pokemon Go!

Last week, reports were circulating than Pokemon Go! is slowly losing steam and lost about 15 million active users in a span of one month. The news is a bit surprising since the game has only been out for a couple of months, with some countries having access ahead of others by just a few weeks.

As one of the active players of Pokemon Go!, weunderstood the charms and pitfalls of the game. We also talked to dozens of people and getting insights from them. Here’s what we learned.

It gets boring.

If you’re just new to Pokemon Go!, more likely than not, most of the monsters you’ll encounter are the pretty common ones. While it can be exciting to catch your first Pidgey or Rattata, the feelings will defintiely not be there on your 100th catch.

Sure you can earn more candies and later evolve them to Raticate or Pidgeotto/Pidgeot and use the remianing candoes to upgrade their Combat Power, you can only go so far as catching the same old rat and piegon every single day.

So yes it is repetitive and, after a while, becomes really boring.

Location, location, location.

One of the reasons why it can get boring and you end up catching the same pocket monsters is location. Pokemon Go’s inherent advantage to play the game is you need to scout around or even take a day long trip around the city just to catch different kinds of monsters.

However, if you live in an area that’s scarce both in monsters and Pokestops, you’s have much fewer chances to play catch and just end up staring at an empty map most of the time.

After a few days to a couple of weeks, you’ll be frustrated of the same empty space until the day you completely forgot to open the Pokemon Go app.

Battery hog.

Since the game requires you to run it even as a background task, it will still eat up a lot of battery. Combine that with the need for an active mobile internet connection and consistent access to GPS, Pokemon Go! can as much as burden to your smarpthone as Waze or Google Maps.

It’s no wonder we’ve seen several smartphone vendors sending out firmware updates to their phones to optimize it for Pokemon Go! (we’ve seen the updates from OPPO and HTC devices last week).

The, if you’re mostly outdoors catching Pokemon, then you’d also be forced to increase the screen brightness of your mobile phone making it real a juice guzzler.

So if you want to stretch the battery life of your phone to last the entire day, you’d more likely quit or limit your play time with Pokemon Go.

Cheaters.

Almost every game has their fair share of cheaters and we can’t really avoid them. With Pokemon Go, there was more than the usual number of cheaters and they can actually affect your gaming experience with Pokemon Go!

These are the ones who have been using GPS spoofing apps to play the game ahead of everyone else and virtually catch every single Pokemon out there.

With outrageously high player levels and Pokemon combat powers manning the Gyms, there’s no way a non-cheating player can beat them. Spoils the fun, right?

Niantic, makers of Pokemon Go!, have actively banned cheaters but they still abound and having one in your area controlling a gym is a complete bummer.

Mobile internet is expensive.

Let’s face it, mobile internet is not cheap in the Philippines, moreso that local telcos have already switched to volume based charging (i.e., the more you play, the more you pay).

Players may be tempted to spend for mobile internet access at the beginning but after a month or two, they’d start to worry how much their monthly postpaid bill would be and cut back on usage in favor of the more important apps or tasks.

This is more evident for prepaid users who’ll need spend Php30 every couple of days just to gain access to mobile internet. And if you’re really saving up on bandwidth, Pokemon Go might not be on top of the priority list. Of course, telcos are hoping that the game is so addicting, you’d still be willing to shell out more than what you usually spend for internet access.

Mobile games come and go.

Like any other mobile game, Pokemon Go! is not immune to player fatigue. We saw that in Plants vs. Zombies, Angry Birds, Clash of Clans and even the overnight phenomenon that was Flappy Bird. Like any other game, the Pokemon Go excitement is bound to decline — it’s not a matter of IF but WHEN. For Pokemon Go, it just seemed too soon.

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Sony announces Xperia devices to receive Android 7.0 Nougat

Google’s latest Android version, Android 7.0 Nougat, was released just recently. And it didn’t take long for Sony to announce which of their Xperia devices will get the new OS. Is your device included? Find out below.

Xperia Z3+
Xperia Z4 Tablet
Xperia Z5
Xperia Z5 Compact
Xperia Z5 Premium
Xperia X
Xperia XA
Xperia XA Ultra
Xperia X Performance

Sony didn’t mention when Nougat will rollout for the devices listed above. The company also said that they are working hard to bring the update to as many of their devices as possible so we might see more supported Xperia devices in the near future.

source: Sony Mobile

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Huawei promises software updates for its devices up to 2 years

One of the crucial and most overlooked aspect of a smartphone, especially for budget devices, is its software version. Manufacturers tend to release a number of devices with dead operating systems. But, Huawei wants to step up against this and has a promise for its users this year.

honor-8-androidupdate

Taylor Wimberly of Huawei Device USA has posted on Google+ to announce the company’s plan to commit to a 2-year time frame of software updates. This is for 24 months from the time of the launch of devices, much like what Google did with their Android One devices. Also, within the first 12 months, they’ll be seeding an update at least once every three months.

As with Android’s monthly security patch, they’ll keep to provide it “in a timely manner” even after the timeframe of the 24-month promise for a device. For now, Honor 8 is the company’s latest device to be released in the market and also the image used for the said post, so most probably, it will be the first device to be well taken care of in terms of software for 2 years.

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Huawei promises software updates for its devices up to 2 years

One of the crucial and most overlooked aspect of a smartphone, especially for budget devices, is its software version. Manufacturers tend to release a number of devices with dead operating systems. But, Huawei wants to step up against this and has a promise for its users this year.

honor-8-androidupdate

Taylor Wimberly of Huawei Device USA has posted on Google+ to announce the company’s plan to commit to a 2-year time frame of software updates. This is for 24 months from the time of the launch of devices, much like what Google did with their Android One devices. Also, within the first 12 months, they’ll be seeding an update at least once every three months.

As with Android’s monthly security patch, they’ll keep to provide it “in a timely manner” even after the timeframe of the 24-month promise for a device. For now, Honor 8 is the company’s latest device to be released in the market and also the image used for the said post, so most probably, it will be the first device to be well taken care of in terms of software for 2 years.

Via

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