![]() The game itself is a huge timesink if you went out of your way to minmax it. During raid days of popular Pokemon like Mewtwo or Rayquaza, I'd keep buying Passes one raid after another thinking the next one I'll catch will be shiny or have perfect stats… >1042606 I don't think I would feel differently, honestly. My emails are full of receipts of $0.99 purchases of 100 PokeCoins, i.e. >1042209 Two years playing before COVID hit and I might have spent a few hundred dollars with all the raid passes, ticketed events, transport costs, battery pack, autocatcher, all that. Maybe if I can get a few hundred bucks back it might be worth it. ![]() Every once in a while I open up the app and idly think of selling my account to recoup some of the costs. But nah, now I really wish I spent that time learning something actually useful. Maybe that was why I kept playing for so long, in my head I thought, well at least I'm not like those people, I'm being sensible and getting exercise. Then they'd pile in a car and drive off to the next raid. I'd see people tapping away at two, three or even up to eight phones - they'd be wearing one of those grocery store sampling trays, phones splayed out in front of them, each having their own autocatcher. Even then I didn't even have a fraction of the commitment some of the people I saw at some raids did. Maybe I just wanted to have the strongest or the shiniest Pokemon to show off to my friends who lived out in the sticks and were still at level 17 while I was level 43. Only after the pandemic hit and I couldn't leave home that I realized that mindlessly walking around with my face in my phone wasn't that fun after all. Even spent some of my weekends at parks trying to hunt Pokemon with perfect stats or shinies. I think I latched on to it because anyone can have it on their phone, my workplace is right in the middle of a major city with a ton of gyms, stops and spawn points, and it was also the only thing my poor overworked wageslave brain could play on the commute. The amount of time and money I wasted trying to find fake pixel animals makes me want to cry. Even bought a bluetooth autocatcher that cost 50 bucks so I didn't even have to switch on my phone screen. I used to consoom Pokemon Go a lot, spending money on in-game coins so I can expand my Pokemon inventory and buy Raid Passes for the chance to catch Legendary Pokemon.
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