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The numbers will absolutely drop. I mean, there's definitely a ton of content that can be added like earning gym badges, Gen 2-6 Pokemon (which people don't really care about), trading, PvP, etc. But, at the end of the day I doubt Niantic has the time/resources for that. The execution has been rather poor.

Still though there's a demand for Nintendo software on mobile. They just need to really to execute. They're really lucky we're tolerating these huge bugs (nearby Pokemon and frozen Pokeball after catch still outstanding).

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Why is their execution poor? They've broken every record in usage and growth. Designing a back-end to expect and support that level of usage out the gate would have been poor execution.

Servers crashing and people still tolerating it is strong evidence they made something people want, which in my mind is excellent execution. I guarantee if they made a crappy game they will not have server problems or loud bug complaints.

The tolerance comes from how much people love pokemon. The execution itself is terrible.

It really doesn't have the polish of a Nintendo Pokemon game. Execution being poor is referring to its technical accomplishments, not its gameplay.

Imo both the gameplay and the ux of the whole thing is terrible.

> Designing a back-end to expect and support that level of usage out the gate would have been poor execution.

It would have been good engineering. But anyway, it's been almost 3 weeks, and they still haven't fixed anything. You can tolerate as much as you want, but it's still an extremely poor execution. Most of the low-hanging bugs could be fixed in _hours_ not days, certainly not weeks.

Got to love Hacker News! Fastest downloading app of all time, global phenomenon, absolute zeitgeist..."The execution has been rather poor."

You have to admit they're lucky we love Pokemon so much that we're willing to tolerate restarting the game every 2 minutes to continue playing the game. I'm on HN. When I say execution is poor, I'm referring to their technical execution. In terms of game design, as someone who puts in several hours a day into the game, the execution is of course great.

> Fastest downloading app of all time, global phenomenon, absolute zeitgeist

All three of which can be attributed in large part to the Pokemon IP, rather than any other characteristic of the game.

You're saying that like Nintendo had nothing to do with making that IP what it is in the first place.

Nintendo did. Not Niantec

"Worse is Better" in action? :)

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