Official Pokemon Go Thread!!!

Community Day on the 19th this month. I'm not very excited about it considering the cold temperature and the snow I'll be forced to play in. My plan is to catch two shiny ones and then go home and make a giant cup of hot chocolate and bake some cookies.

Even though my last post was to remind everyone about community day which has come and gone. I sort of slept through it and I don't really mind it either. I always have a chance next December to catch what i miss out on throughout the year.

Caught a shiny Spoink today so my shiny luck might not exist for me during this event.

This game is free, right? How do the developers make money off it?

There are in-game items you can buy. Like extra pokeballs and egg hatchers and clothing for your avatar. The game has made over 2 billion dollars since it's launch. People will buy things if it can give them an advantage to be the ultimate pokemon master.

Just caught my very first shiny Karp today. 0 stars but I'm still excited to have it as a shiny.

Nice

How's everyone's initial experiences with battle league going? I just started it up today, won all 5 of my matches

I should ask, out of curiosity, how long will it be before Nintendo shuts down the Pokemon GO! servers?

I know that the WarioWare DIY servers didn't last until 2017, and that was 8 years. I believe Pokemon GO! is almost 4 (maybe 6) years old this year? If so, how much longer until it's demise?

Just hit rank 9, absolutely crushing people

Dang, nice. What's your go-to team right now?

Nintendo actually doesn't run Go. Niantic's the company in charge of developing and running the game, so who knows? I assume as long as they're making money lol.

Is that so? Thanks for clearing that up.

Lost my first match.

Won my first

I believe Pokemon licensed the name as a "Eh whatever, not like it's going to be big" sort of thing

Was it against
TimothJLew?

Nope

I doubt it. I do think Pokémon GO was a lot bigger trend than either Niantic or The Pokémon Company had expected (or myself ), but considering how well-received the Google Maps version was, and the abundance of smartphones and the success of free to play apps on them, I do think The Pokémon Company had expected this to be a hit. But I have no sources for that.

I'd hope for longer! But yeah, Niantic doesn't have an important reputation to keep up, do they? So it's not really important for them, whereas for Nintendo it might have been important to keep up the DS and Wii servers for as long as they could (although I'm not sure why then they let the Wii Shop go, even though it had been online for years longer than the online services... ).

Just hit rank 10, deoxys defense, meganium, altaria

Just found this. Helpful guide for the rest of the month.