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Pokémon GO's Big Weekend Accidentally Reminded Us The Game Used To Be Fun
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Pokémon Go Fest 2024 being bright, fun and generous highlights how dull, grim and stingy the game has become

This weekend may have been deranged on previously unexplored levels, but it was also Go Fest in Pokémon GO, the annual event when the mobile game reminds its millions of players why they used to love playing. This year, as the app reaches new nadirs of money-grubbing banality, the event’s terrific execution had the unintended consequence of starkly highlighting where the game goes so wrong the rest of the time.

A brief glimpse of sunshine in the UK this weekend really helped turnout in our small town’s large park—it’s a location that sees people travel in from the bigger, far more populated towns either side, because of a particular concentration of Gyms in one area that makes for perfect raiding. At one point there were 20 people in a single raid, most of them locally—something I’ve never experienced in five years of playing the game.

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