This Week in Pokémon Go News

[inkstone]

Good morning, fellow trainers! Thanks for spreading the word about the community! We've been in business for less than 4 days and we're at ~100 members/subscribers! Not bad for a community I started on a whim. Let's keep things awesome and cool, and if you have any concerns or suggestions, feel free to hit me up via PM.

Anyway, here are some game-related highlights from the past week…

• Pokémon Go launched in Hong Kong! A big, warm welcome to the City of Life!

• Nintendo stock prices plummeted as investors belatedly realized the company doesn't actually make Pokémon Go. Awkward. (source)

• The Pokémon Go Plus accessory has been delayed until September. Were any of you planning on getting this? Not being a tech nerd myself, I'm curious! (source)

• In addition to revealing the Team Leaders, the SDCC PokeGo panel teased the future of the game. Forthcoming features include trading, PokeStop customizations, and potential healing centers. They're also planning to fix the three-step tracking bug (thank goodness!) and to address gym poaching. And given the fact that they unveiled Blanche, Candela & Spark, it sounds like we'll be interacting with our team leaders via the game at some point in the future as well. (source)

Any other PokeGo bits of news from your neck of the woods?

Comments

[moxieweed]

Awww I can't wait to interact with Candela!

It would also be fun to have a rival we get to battle sometimes. Maybe we can battle our team leader or the other one's...

And ughhh please an end to gym poaching! I spent ages taking down an Instinct gym the other day and right as I was about to put my vaporeon in there, a Mystic stole it out from under me. It only took a minute to get it back but it was really annoying since they made me work that bit harder for it.

[inkstone]

Yeah, the ability to poach is the main reason why I always choose the pokemon I'm going to leave as a defender beforehand & don't include it on that final round of battles. So I can drop it into place without having to take time to heal it first.

[moxieweed]

/replies to all the comments late

That's a good strategy! Usually I want to put my strongest pokemon in the gym but I also need that one to take down the gym too haha... I guess that just means I need more strong pokemon!

[inkstone]

Yeah, I never put my strongest mon in a gym unless I'm sure I won't be fighting any other gyms that day. (It's competitive where I live so it's virtually impossible to hold a gym for longer than a day.)