The need to implement things that you can do when you aren't out hunting.. when I'm sitting on the toilet I'm just doing housekeeping on my Pokemon storage, managing my item bag, and occasionally reading the Pokédex entries since I know little about the lore.

They need to have match 3 game or picross game that you buy that either let's you earn stardust, candies, lures or incense. Why do I have to play puzzle and dragons or lumines? I want to go all in for this app but I have to leave their ecosystem when I'm stationary..

They haven't had a sale yet.

The app isn't going anywhere but man did they drop the ball by not having simple YouTube tutorials for things or Best Buy promotions. I feel like everybody at Niantic that has already cashed out their chips. Of all the videogame franchises this is the only one that could make sense out of the license and use it effectively like this for phones. Not Halo. Not Call of Duty. Not Mario.

Hardcore players like myself are growing through the game without spending money, partly because I'm. Fitness junky and partly because I want to be competitive when the game eventially evolves.. the only problem is that none of my friends will be able to compete unless Niantic artificially levels them up which will piss me off tremendously because you aren't talking g a couple of hours of work negated. You're talking hundreds...

Tldr; Niantic messed up.