My only problem with that is there ' s no inherent fun factor to the game other than being a collectathon . It ' s a Skinner box , only instead of conditioning you to spend time sitting in front of a monitor it ' s conditioning you to get up and move . The only reason I keep playing is for that reason I ' m much more fit now than I was and I really enjoy the run . Getting rid of that element it just isn ' t fun . The mechanics are more simple and uninspiring than most generic free to play mobile games . Just flick pokeballs and tap Pokemon in battle . There ' s a slight hurdle you have to overcome in learning the dodge mechanic , but it ' s silly to call that challenging . What I ' m getting at is . Hm , I kind of lost my train of thought . I ' ve been playing real Pokemon lately and I guess I ' m just really salty at how diluted niantic made this game , it ' s barely a shell . Tldr I think what I started out coming at this comment with was they need more of an end game rather than you grind Pokemon to get Pokemon to fight gyms to get coins to hold more itemsPokemon so you can grind Pokemon to fight gyms to . Ad nauseam . If they had some sense of progression besides filling the dex I could feel like accomplishing any of these tasks are a treat rather than a grind .