Pokemon Go!

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I'm stunned at how suddenly I stopped caring about the game, but I did go through quite a shock and didn't want to go outside for a while.

Ever since I got to level 11, I have started to have problems with this game again. GPS gets stuck, it takes a few minutes for the game to load, sometimes the game freezes or I hit a bug and it throws me out of battle and the game still acts like I am in the battle and it won't always let me touch stuff like Pokemon stops or Pokemon when I tap on them. I am thinking about deleting this app again. Maybe I just need a better phone but the problem is they cost several hundred dollars. My phone is a 16 GB but my husband got it on sale so it was cheap and it was brand new. But everything else works fine on the phone but this game. I have already spend $2 to upgrade my bag so that was like a waste of money. But at least GPS in the game doesn't throw me in another location or in another state nor does it make me jump from location to location in one spot making the server think I am cheating. I did meet another woman in the park yesterday and she had the exact same problems I have and said we needed better phones and she used her partner's phone to play the game with him and she had none of those issues on his phone but she does on her new one.

Has anyone else gotten this game-breaking bug? I have an Android. An older one, some sort of candy name idk. But the previous update added a stupid and unnecessary "full-screen mode" that makes the symbols on the bottom disappear. On Android phones, there are three symbols on the bottom of the screen that allow you to exit or navigate an app. Some of them have a separate touchscreen just for those symbols, some have them as part of the general screen. Mine is the latter. The full-screen mode covers those symbols so that I can't get out of the game if I want to. It also freezes the game so I can't interact with anything. This doesn't happen as often in the GPS screen, but it always happens in the Pokemon screen. Swiping up on the touchscreen, which is how one normally makes the symbols reappear, doesn't work. The only thing I can do is restart my phone, which means I have to stand there in the cold for five minutes waiting for the phone itself to load, then the several minutes it takes the game to load. Maybe the next update has fixed it but I can't tell because I haven't had the chance to try it out.

Sorry about the long explanation. It's a weird problem.

Just in case you thought it was over . . .

Local police radio: officers responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked outside a closed diner at 1 a.m. Moments later: "We're clear. It's just a guy collecting pokemons."

Another officer breaks in on the radio: "Gotta catch 'em all."

I liked pokemon since I was 8 so it's never been a fad for me. I just got a better phone recently and finally downloaded it. I like it and it's cool going to pokestops.

Really, this game isn't for someone like me who has agoraphobia and never leaves the apartment...it's only worth it because my bf has it.

Anyone else still playing it?