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Personally I can deal with the other stuff but I can't stand looking at that silly looking character walking over a featureless flat blue map of every parkbench around my building.

As far as I can tell there are no "friends", "clans", or even any way to battle your pokemon. I think I've clicked through everything and after restarting the game 50 some times looking for the core features associated with pokemon and now I've given up.

In what way does this constitute a game? The technical issues can be fixed but I feel like there are some more fundamental features. What was the company even doing this entire time? Those spinners in the pokecenters couldn't have taken years to build, and it also couldn't have taken years to populate the map with zubats and wevils.

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GO has teams (Red, Blue, Yellow). You need to get to level 5 to join a team. Once you join a team you can battle at and take over gyms.

Well that answers it. If I can get the app to work long enough to reach level 5 I'll try that.

It's a good thing they decided not to include that information from the start. They wouldn't want people to think there might actually be something fun to do.

Their Onboarding is horrendous. It took me awhile to figure out how to actually capture a Pokemon.

The onboarding is surprisingly bad, so bad, I wonder if it was intentional. It sort of forces you to get social to compare notes on how to make things work. Most of what I've learned so far has come from either trial & error or from social sources (in meatspace and cyberspace).

Minecraft in the early days was similar, but it's also what I enjoyed about it. Having to have the Minecraft wiki open on another screen just to figure out how to actually build anything.. :-D

Took me exactly 0 seconds, since I had played trash toss and basketball toss games before. The whole 3d avatar customization is wasted effort, at a glance. It will lead to vanity items later, obviously, but why have it in the game at all right now?

The onboarding is like SnapChat's -- nothing is explained, a lot of the functionality is hidden, and you have to learn about it from your friends or by looking up how-to articles online. I've already compared notes multiple times with random strangers I've met while playing the game.

They wouldn't want people to think there might actually be something fun to do.

You might be right! Just think of how unstable the system would be, if people thought that!

I'm at level five (almost six), but no option for team or anything has popped up?

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