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I have mixed feelings.
My biggest, nearly only regret is I'm back to needing reasons to go for walks. The exercise was lovely and there's no good way (yet) to replicate the "if I go outside I get paid in POKEMON!!" motivation. To a lesser extent I feel the smallest (irrational) pang of letting people down since everyone was so kind to my newbie self, and now I've wandered off.
But it's FREEING to have all that time back! I have so many more hours in a day now that I don't have to juggle "how will I Tetris my daily 'stop spin into my schedule, or do I need to make a day out of collecting quests, or should I work on hoarding event candy, or" and so on. This also means I don't have to waste brain space on what a buggy flustercluck the game is, nor be trampled on all sides by desperation, by the sensation that I'm behind and need to race just to catch up. No more irritation that my shiny luck sucks, that I can't get XYZ without doing the unreasonable ABC... and I never have to jump through hoops to check IVs and levels again!!
Oh, right, I should mention:
The thing that took me "from I'm having a good time!" to "I'm done." was the Adventure Sync system breaking. I didn't get credit for multiple walks. That's it, that was the one thing keeping me interested, and with it gone: *fart noise.*
Not sure what my plan is from here. Maybe make myself a fake walking game with a spreadsheet, manually awarding myself pretend Pokemon stuff for my walks (since the app to track my walks still works just fine, and I do like using that.)
My biggest, nearly only regret is I'm back to needing reasons to go for walks. The exercise was lovely and there's no good way (yet) to replicate the "if I go outside I get paid in POKEMON!!" motivation. To a lesser extent I feel the smallest (irrational) pang of letting people down since everyone was so kind to my newbie self, and now I've wandered off.
But it's FREEING to have all that time back! I have so many more hours in a day now that I don't have to juggle "how will I Tetris my daily 'stop spin into my schedule, or do I need to make a day out of collecting quests, or should I work on hoarding event candy, or" and so on. This also means I don't have to waste brain space on what a buggy flustercluck the game is, nor be trampled on all sides by desperation, by the sensation that I'm behind and need to race just to catch up. No more irritation that my shiny luck sucks, that I can't get XYZ without doing the unreasonable ABC... and I never have to jump through hoops to check IVs and levels again!!
Oh, right, I should mention:
The thing that took me "from I'm having a good time!" to "I'm done." was the Adventure Sync system breaking. I didn't get credit for multiple walks. That's it, that was the one thing keeping me interested, and with it gone: *fart noise.*
Not sure what my plan is from here. Maybe make myself a fake walking game with a spreadsheet, manually awarding myself pretend Pokemon stuff for my walks (since the app to track my walks still works just fine, and I do like using that.)
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Date: 2019-04-30 10:45 am (UTC)From:sorry pgo was being stressful, i dont bother checking IVs or anything with it and just try and have fun when I can get it to open
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Date: 2019-05-01 03:49 am (UTC)From:Anyways, I should clarify that if Niantic makes it, I don't want it, not after seeing them in action. But that does remind me of a very I Can't Believe It's Not Pokemon PGO-style game I heard about, made by an entirely different company and built *slightly* differently. Maybe I should peek towards that again, it sounded decent enough.
Habatica/HabitRPG I hadn't heard of, I'll have to look into those! Thank you!
I don't know if PGO was being "stressful" exactly... a lot of my dislike came down to it being a game built around a lifestyle & life situation extremely unlike my own. Namely it's a game built by rich white tech dudes, FOR rich white tech dudes, and all other demographics are invisible to the makers. I was trying to play regardless because yaaaay pokemon, yaaaaay going outside; but no. Oh well, it happens!
I admit that when I realized going all-in was causing me such "ugh" I thought I'd try dialing it back. But (as I more or less figured...) I prefer my games all-in or not at all. I don't want to chill when there's tons more game I could be in the thick of! I want to PLAY GAEM, or else I want to wander off and try something else. That probably sounds like a character flaw, but my GOD it does wonders for my Steam library. So small, so simple... so little money wasted on games I'll never play. ;)