Pokemon Go is starting to look like a flop

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-national-love-affair-with-pokemon-go-might-be-short-lived/

Looks like people have started to realize they have better things to do then run throughout streets and buildings looking for their imaginary friend.

[LLR]

VICTORY FOR HUMANITY YAY!!!!!

[Xing]

About time.

[FairBol]

Sweet.  I'll be very happy when this fad officially ends, LOL. 

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Who said it was a commercial failure?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

people who hate on pokemon go are the worst. seriously, get over yourself.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Uh, they're only on generation 1. And they haven't even implemented player-to-player battling yet.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Is this a surprise?  I thought the consensus was that it was a fad with no more than six weeks staying power, if that.

[SWE]

people who hate on pokemon go are the worst. seriously, get over yourself.

hey guys i dislike something popular look how cool i am pls love me

[IceSpear]

people who hate on pokemon go are the worst. seriously, get over yourself.

hey guys i dislike something popular look how cool i am pls love me

If you wanted to be loved, wouldn't you like the popular thing?

[Slow Learner]

people who hate on pokemon go are the worst. seriously, get over yourself.

hey guys i dislike something popular look how cool i am pls love me

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[Citizen (The) Doctor]

people who hate on pokemon go are the worst. seriously, get over yourself.

hey guys i dislike something popular look how cool i am pls love me

If you wanted to be loved, wouldn't you like the popular thing?

Clearly you didn't spend time with the edgy people in high school.

[Devout Centrist]

Looks like not many people are going to Pokemon Go to the polls.

[dead0man]

people who hate on pokemon go are the worst. seriously, get over yourself.

hey guys i dislike something popular look how cool i am pls love me

If you wanted to be loved, wouldn't you like the popular thing?

Clearly you didn't spend time with the edgy people in high school.

I don't know if "the edge" can explain it.  Do people actually like other people that jump on every trend?  I've always taken that as a huge turnoff.

[Joe Republic]

Not that I was ever a player, but it does genuinely seem like there's far less buzz already.  I haven't heard anybody IRL talking about it or seen it being played in at least a week.

[Antonio the Sixth]

people who hate on pokemon go are the worst. seriously, get over yourself.

hey guys i dislike something popular look how cool i am pls love me

Yeah. I don't have any interest in playing it, but the hate it's getting is pretty ridiculous.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Not that I was ever a player, but it does genuinely seem like there's far less buzz already.  I haven't heard anybody IRL talking about it or seen it being played in at least a week.

     The newscycle is quite short these days. A few weeks pass and people move on to something else. Those weird hoverboards were common for a little while. Now I hardly ever see them. They were so forgettable that I did not even notice their disappearance until I saw one the other day and remembered that they were a thing.

[DavidB.]

Exactly. Why run through the streets to play video games when you could be sitting at home playing video games, stuffing yourself with Doritos and cotton candy, washing the sticky-sweet mess down with a fizzy, teeth-rotting can of Mountain Dew?

It is both  comical and pathetic that Pokemon Go has attracted so much derision not on account of its flaws - which it shares with virtually every video game that people waste their time playing - but its virtues, i.e. that it encouraged its players to be physically active, socialize with their neighbors, and spend time in public spaces.

Go back to playing flash games like Run the Jewels or Alfred Hitchcock's Birds until you develop bed sores, I guess. Just so long as you stay inside so that no one sees you doing it.

Exactly. I'm kinda done with Pokemon Go now, I think, though I might occasionally play it again, but it was fun while it lasted and it is better than couch-sitting.

[Joe Republic]

Not that I was ever a player, but it does genuinely seem like there's far less buzz already.  I haven't heard anybody IRL talking about it or seen it being played in at least a week.

     The newscycle is quite short these days. A few weeks pass and people move on to something else. Those weird hoverboards were common for a little while. Now I hardly ever see them. They were so forgettable that I did not even notice their disappearance until I saw one the other day and remembered that they were a thing.

I think they were more of a thing for black people anyway.  I'd estimate about 85% of the people I saw using them were, at least.  (Not that that has much of anything to do with their overall popularity now; just my incidental observation.)

[HagridOfTheDeep]

I guess I picked a bad time to start playing. But I almost caught a Gengar!

[MasterJedi]

Is this a surprise?  I thought the consensus was that it was a fad with no more than six weeks staying power, if that.

The consensus was the people who weren't actually fans but played back in the day and the other casual people playing would always desert in that time period. Actual Pokémon fans (which there are many millions) would keep playing.

I guess I picked a bad time to start playing. But I almost caught a Gengar!

Plenty of people still playing, aka actual Pokémon fans. The casuals will be on to the next fad.