I love Pokemon, but this is just awful. When you compare it to the actual handheld games, it's obviously not the same.

The augmented-reality game has been an incredible success, taking the world by storm. But let's be honest here- it isn't good. We all know well that we wished for Pokemon to really exist when we were kids. Mainly Charazard, but I digress.

At first, Pokemon GO was so exciting. I thought I was going to get to live in my dream of becoming a Pokemon Master through the technological advancements of today. But this isn't like the old or original Pokemon Games. This is you scaling a city just for the slight chance of catching another Pidgey. With the gaming mechanics of the Pokemon Gameboy and 3DS games, you can actually train your Pokemon, instead of just constantly catching the same Pokemon just to level up the one with the highest CP and IV. You can only catch generation 1 Pokemon. There's over 700 Pokemon, and Niantic decides to only release the first 150? What about my dream of becoming a Pokemon Master? I mean, I can basically recite all the Pokemon Theme songs by heart at this point.

They've lost around 30 million users within the first month. People may see this as something to laugh at but games normally lose 70% of their users within the first 30 days.So this is actually quite a feat. It still grips the large majority of its users. Some may be actual Pokemon fans, while some may not be. It doesn't matter. This game has created a hype that hasn't gone away and causing people to actually get outside.

When it first released, the amount of bugs were unparalleled. Every new game has bugs, but Niantic took it to another level. Game crashes, freezes, Pokemon not being caught when they clearly were, gyms not loading, GPS errors, etc. You ever catch a Pokemon and the ball just sits there not moving, slowly giving you an anxiety attack?

Let's not even mention the tracking system, which was incredibly useless. You might as well consider the original tracking system a bug in itself.

Now that Niantic has finally started banning people for hacking, they're finally doing something right. Except now, legit players are being banned for being a level too high. People are reporting other players if they claim a gym with a high level account. Roughly around 5-10, to be exact. Just because I live in NYC and go to Central Park everyday doesn't mean I cheat, guys. Leave those accusations for the botters and spoofers.

Niantic- DO BETTER.

Sincerely,

An aspiring Pokemon Master.