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Daily Active Users & Engagement in Decline

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited August 2016 in News & Features Discussion

imageDaily Active Users & Engagement in Decline

Pokemon Go News - Bloomberg is reporting a steep decline in active worldwide daily users of Pokemon Go. According to Axiom Capital Management, if these declines continue, it could cast a shadow over the idea of Pokemon Go itself, and augmented reality altogether. User Engagement is also showing a steady decline since mid-July and through August 18th.

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  • SpottyGekkoSpottyGekko Member EpicPosts: 6,916
    I'm sure it has nothing to do with the end of summer in the northern hemisphere. Back to school shouldn't affect Pokemon-GO players. The fact that europe has gone back to work after their summer holidays isn't a factor...

    Did anyone really expect PG to remain a massive "thing" indefinitely ?
  • observerobserver Member RarePosts: 3,685
    "it could cast a shadow over the idea of Pokemon Go itself, and augmented reality altogether."

    Perhaps for P:GO, but AR will be fine. AR doesn't have to be mainstream anyway. It also doesn't need to be for gaming either. It can be used for so many other things, such as construction planning, historical reenactments, or documentaries. The possibilities are endless.
  • adamlotus75adamlotus75 Member UncommonPosts: 387
    Sounds a bit over dramatic - no one had heard of this game 2 months ago.
  • SpottyGekkoSpottyGekko Member EpicPosts: 6,916
    "According to Axiom Capital Management..."

    LMAO !

    When financial investment firms start making predictions about the potential future of a new gaming genre, then you know things are getting weird, lol
  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,907
    edited August 2016
    MASSIVE Stampede Caused by Snorlax - today in the news.
  • DrDread74DrDread74 Member UncommonPosts: 308

    I remember when Cabbage Patch dolls were in thing and then suffered a slow and deadly decline into "who cares". Same with Wheel Spinners, Mullets and The Sega Dreamcast.


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  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771
    I think when something becomes trendy and cool it later suffers when it is no longer trendy and cool.  I think once SNL makes a skit about it you have crossed the line into uncool.
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  • tixylixtixylix Member UncommonPosts: 1,288
    I don't see anyone playing it where I live any more, I've had a Gym for weeks now, in the first two weeks it was being flipped every hour...

    The game is dead.
  • observerobserver Member RarePosts: 3,685
    edited August 2016
    DrDread74 said:

    I remember when Cabbage Patch dolls were in thing and then suffered a slow and deadly decline into "who cares". Same with Wheel Spinners, Mullets and The Sega Dreamcast.

    You forgot Troll dolls, Pogs, and Furbies!  Dreamcast was amazing though.  It had potential.
  • observerobserver Member RarePosts: 3,685
    tixylix said:
    I don't see anyone playing it where I live any more, I've had a Gym for weeks now, in the first two weeks it was being flipped every hour...

    The game is dead.
    Perhaps they all went back to WoW for Legion.  P:GO wasn't the WoW-killer people expected it to be!  
  • Prod1702Prod1702 Member UncommonPosts: 78
    They just had a massive ban wave last week. I know about 25 ppl that had a total of around 50 acconts ban because of boting. so I am sure there were a lot more then that ban.
  • seiryynseiryyn Member UncommonPosts: 18
    The fact that the servers were always down and features were broken had nothing to do with the casual players uninstalling, I'm sure.
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,063
    Niantic is just a useless company.
  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,991

    Nanfoodle said:

    MASSIVE Stampede Caused by Snorlax - today in the news.




    The game was released on Taiwan on August 6th.

    Pokemon Go is hugely popular for a couple of weeks after release, but it looks like the game has trouble retaining people for longer duration.
     
  • gervaise1gervaise1 Member EpicPosts: 6,919
    SpottyGekko said:
    "According to Axiom Capital Management..."

    LMAO !

    When financial investment firms start making predictions about the potential future of a new gaming genre, then you know things are getting weird, lol
    Predicting a drop off - easy. A decline in a game is the norm in just about any game.

    Now if Axiom had predicted the explosive growth before it happened that would have been good.

  • IkedaIkeda Member RarePosts: 2,751
    Can we please equate it to the real reason?  The patches have done nothing but make the game worse and lame-r and people stop playing when it's not fun.  It's lame to not know where Pokes are, it's lame that the gyms have been taken over by dupers and cheaters with multiple Dragonites, it's lame that they made the Poke's impossible to catch and then changed that when people cried foul.  It's the companies handling of the game.  Not the game/genre.
  • TalonsinTalonsin Member EpicPosts: 3,619
    Agreed, once you have around 80 unique Poke and hit the mid-20 in level the game loses its luster. Needing 100,000+ Xp and only getting 100 per catch gets old fast.
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  • observerobserver Member RarePosts: 3,685
    I called it back when the hype first started.  I knew it wouldn't have any long-term sustainability.  It was just a fad.
  • acidbloodacidblood Member RarePosts: 878
    Not surprised at all... it's still a somewhat fun app to fire up on a walk / in a new place, but with zero point / fun to be had beyond catching the Pokemon, the 'game' itself being a massive grind, no real change to the Pokemon available in a given area and still no way to track Pokemon in the wild... long story short: it's getting pretty boring.

    That said, I would say that it has opened up the market for AR games (good ones at least), and while I doubt any will see the overnight success of PG (the nostalgia is strong), with good mechanics and gameplay backing it up an AR game could definitely be the 'next big thing'.
  • H0urg1assH0urg1ass Member EpicPosts: 2,380
    DrDread74 said:

    I remember when Cabbage Patch dolls were in thing and then suffered a slow and deadly decline into "who cares". Same with Wheel Spinners, Mullets and The Sega Dreamcast.

    One of the Cabbage Patch kids factories was an hour from my house when I was a young kid.  I remember families used to drive to the factory to buy them before they were even shipped so they could make sure to get one for Christmas.

    Tickle me Elmo, Garbage Pail Kids, the TMNT figures (especially fucking Michelangelo which I got and then someone stole from me), Optimus Prime...ect.  There's always some short lived craze that infects people's brains and then 20 years later someone on VMH1 is doing a "remember this!?!" compilation.

    I saved that video of the Pokemon stampede in Central Park from a couple weeks ago.  I'm gonna show it to the grand kids so they can understand what my kids were like at their age.
  • esarphieesarphie Member UncommonPosts: 76
    It's a great way to liven up a long walk that you were going to do anyway... It's certainly not enough of a thing to drive people who don't want to exercise that way into permanent activity. Is there any sane person with gaming experience who didn't see exactly this coming? The game will winnow it's way down to the core players, who will continue to catch pokemon into the foreseeable future, while the trend-hoppers will bound on to the next big thing.

    Once again, the real idiots are revealed as the ignorant prognosticators and media mavens who hype things from the side based on their 8 minutes of experience with the product and a whole lot of things they "heard" from "someone"...
  • TsobotTsobot Member UncommonPosts: 12
    What!? of course its going to decline a very large part of the players were just seeing what all the fuzz was about, most of them have no interest in games or Pokemon in general. My mother, father, aunt, uncle all of course tried it out and of course got bored quickly. Stupid attention seeking news.
  • FelixMajorFelixMajor Member RarePosts: 865
    It was clearly a fad. I'm just happy I don't have to close line as many dim wits while on the bike paths.

    The game was way too shallow to actually keep anyone's attention.

    Originally posted by Arskaaa
    "when players learned tacticks in dungeon/raids, its bread".

  • filmoretfilmoret Member EpicPosts: 4,906
    Yea it happens, time for hype train to stop and the players to continue.
    Are you onto something or just on something?
  • XingbairongXingbairong Member RarePosts: 927
    Let's be honest... Game got popular because it felt like it could be a "trend" and nowadays people are into trends, but like any other trend it ends up dying few months later.
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