This is a game . It ' s something people do in their spare time for fun , or wile running errands . It ' s better than sitting at home watching mindless stuff on TV . Or playing candy crush or words with friends . You don ' t ask people what your inspirationmotivation is for those do you ? Why is this any different ? However I get annoyed at long what ' s the point ? Posts because once you go past a few sentences you really aren ' t asking , you are advocating . It ' s not enough that you aren ' t enjoying this game but you for some reason have some underlying need to ruin it for others too . Which isn ' t cool IMHO . If you don ' t enjoy it stop playing . But don ' t post a narrative of why it ' s not fun to try and sway others because many are still having a good time with this . Additionally a lot of your problem is you played too intensely at the beginning and got burned out . At a spare time pace you would be still knocking on the door to level 30 , still with Pokmon to find and eagerly awaiting Gen 2 . But you went at a faster pace than that and were kind of doomed to run out of things to do from the start . Basically you gobbled down the whole pie in one sitting rather than a slice at a time and got indigestion . You were looking for an end game long before Niantic was ready to serve one . Take a break for a few months , maybe longer . And then try going at a less frantic pace once gen 2 comes out so you don ' t get ahead of the game development or burn out . For those of us going through it slower it ' s actually a fun distraction we can milk for months to come . So in short it ' s a good game but you can absolutely burn out on it if you don ' t do it as a spare time kind of thing , like TV but that doesn ' t entitle you to try and ruin it for others with a long post advocating it ' s pointlessness .