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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.

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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.

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