3/5!
I really enjoy the concept! We don’t have enough interesting genetic games, and adding the multiplayer aspect is so exciting! You can go-hatch with someone passing by and you never know what you’re going to get! But, you can only really explore the main aspect of the game, the entire selling point, if you pay. That’s really upsetting to me, as it seems like a lot of love went into it. But it comes off as a cash grab. I think a great feature would to be to add some way for free to play players to get some nests. Sure you can make it tougher, but at least make it possible. This game is only so fun without that, and I think people would be more interested in paying for items and nests if it didn’t seem so greedy. I know I would. The ar is also a little goofy, but that doesn’t really bother me. A few quality of play changes could be made, but really just add a way for free to play players to get more nests. Be it a daily spin, quests, whatever. So much potential to be a huge success! Make it more accessible!
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Good idea - but pay to play and buggy
I love the feel of raising and caring for your dots. Love playing with them, feeding them, teaching them tricks. But there are some massive issues that right now I can’t overlook.
The biggest issue is that you need to spend money (and a lot of it!) to get nests to raise more dots. $5 per nest, with only 1 free, is ridiculous when a main draw for this game was to breed and raise multiple dots. Can’t do that without nests, and the only way to get those is spend money. Hard pass.
The other issues I have are the bugs in the game itself. It often stops responding or recognizing locations/people/animals and has to be closed and reopened to have the hope that it will recognize things. The forced AR is a battery draining nightmare and while it’s cute to see your dot in your environment it often glitches and disappears or has missing cells. The game has no ability to sense things when it is even remotely dark out (I will often take walks after dark to wind down and I hoped to be able to play with my dot during them). The dots want you to feed them specific foods or play with specific balls, but the random generation of items means you can be searching for a ball type or food for 10 minutes without finding it - and good luck if you need an item from a biome that you can’t currently access.
TLDR: Overall I love the idea. The pay to play makes the game unplayable. And the glitches and battery draining aspects are also difficult to manage.
The biggest issue is that you need to spend money (and a lot of it!) to get nests to raise more dots. $5 per nest, with only 1 free, is ridiculous when a main draw for this game was to breed and raise multiple dots. Can’t do that without nests, and the only way to get those is spend money. Hard pass.
The other issues I have are the bugs in the game itself. It often stops responding or recognizing locations/people/animals and has to be closed and reopened to have the hope that it will recognize things. The forced AR is a battery draining nightmare and while it’s cute to see your dot in your environment it often glitches and disappears or has missing cells. The game has no ability to sense things when it is even remotely dark out (I will often take walks after dark to wind down and I hoped to be able to play with my dot during them). The dots want you to feed them specific foods or play with specific balls, but the random generation of items means you can be searching for a ball type or food for 10 minutes without finding it - and good luck if you need an item from a biome that you can’t currently access.
TLDR: Overall I love the idea. The pay to play makes the game unplayable. And the glitches and battery draining aspects are also difficult to manage.
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Adorable, and expensive
Not free to play. This game is paywalled; you cannot progress without spending a LOT of money.
So much potential
This game looks and appears so beautiful and unique however after reading the comments in the groups from beta testers it has changed tremendously from that version. I’ve played PoGo since day 1, I now have been playing this since day 1 as well in hopes Niantic will help create a way to not make this all about money. A nest to breed one is far too expensive, and there needs to be something additionally added to help with xp gain, it seems to level up quite slowly and could use some additional missions. Being in AR mode all the time also drains the battery so much, there needs to be a “playroom” or something to that effect created so you don’t have to be in it all the time. Maybe even a way to save your favorite habitat in 360 view so your dot can have all that play room in case you can not leave your house that day etc. a feature to assist in re-rolling your eggs somehow via sun drops or gems would be great but the ability to highlight the ones you’re most desiring even if it’s only one option would be really nice. So many people are wanting specifically 1 thing more than others plus it would prompt more breeding to finally acquire your ultimate dot if it’s only 1 benefit at a time added to each version, heck even paying gems or sundrops to keep a feature and choosing multiples would be a great option during breeding. I look forward to watching this game develop and become something great it has so much going for it.
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Good early game, locked behind paywall
Its adorable and fun, but paying $6 for every nest afterwards is ridiculous. Maybe if it was 4-6 for $6 would be better or even one free one a week. Would also like to see one Nest that doesn’t break like the incubator in pogo. I would also love to see more ways to get EXP to level up not. Last, would like the ability to find and adopt stray Peridots on our adventures.
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Breeding is paywalled
Uninstalled after finding out that the only way to breed your dots is to pay for a nest - at over $5 each. The gameplay is not worth paying this every generation. Too bad, was really looking forward to this game!
Poorly designed monetization structure
Long time Niantic fan. Ingress, PoGo, WU, Pikmin and now I had to check out Peridot. Seems cute. Fun. Like a heavily fledged out interaction with your buddy in PoGo. A lot more to do/interact with your pet here in Peridot. Only major problem is that the main thing I will want to do is breed them and see what comes out. First off. The game doesn’t really provide an easy clean way to share that information. Secondly, beyond the first breeding nest you get all subsequent nests cost $5. That’s right. If you want to try a bunch of times throughout the week and see different offspring. It will cost you a whopping $5 a pop. There is no other way currently to earn nests at all. This is a poor call by Niantic, and potentially will stagnate the game and having a strong user base that will in fact purchase items in the store. Until this is fixed it’s really sketchy if it will last and I can’t recommend it.
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Great game but…
This truly is a fun, cute, and great game but I do have some issues.. I’ll start withy biggest issue.. The nests. I understand that this game is new and does need advertisements and money to keep it free but my favorite part of the game is raising them but that’s kinda difficult when you hate paying for stuff in games.
What I would suggest is finding a way to pay for a nest with sun drops or gemstones. I would say maybe about 500 gemstones or 5000 sundrops because to get that amount of sundrops or gemstones it would cost close to $5 which is the price for a nest.
Another issue is sometimes my dots will go into the ground and into walls and turn grey which is a weird sight to see but it’s not too often. It usually happens when playing fetch which my dot. The ball will get all glitchy and go into the ground or through walls which ends up making my dot grey and go through the floor or wall.
Also sometimes there’ll be a glitch where if I close out of the game for a second while walking and then re open it, I’ll get the message that appears when in a vehicle even though I wasn’t in a vehicle.
And here is my last suggestion. When I’m a vehicle and is a passenger, I feel like it would be cool if the dot could also sit in the vehicle with you. It would be pretty nice seeing my little dot sitting in a car with me.
Anyways this is a great game and I do believe it will get incredibly better and way more fun than it is now.
What I would suggest is finding a way to pay for a nest with sun drops or gemstones. I would say maybe about 500 gemstones or 5000 sundrops because to get that amount of sundrops or gemstones it would cost close to $5 which is the price for a nest.
Another issue is sometimes my dots will go into the ground and into walls and turn grey which is a weird sight to see but it’s not too often. It usually happens when playing fetch which my dot. The ball will get all glitchy and go into the ground or through walls which ends up making my dot grey and go through the floor or wall.
Also sometimes there’ll be a glitch where if I close out of the game for a second while walking and then re open it, I’ll get the message that appears when in a vehicle even though I wasn’t in a vehicle.
And here is my last suggestion. When I’m a vehicle and is a passenger, I feel like it would be cool if the dot could also sit in the vehicle with you. It would be pretty nice seeing my little dot sitting in a car with me.
Anyways this is a great game and I do believe it will get incredibly better and way more fun than it is now.
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Multiple Problems
The community is boycotting purchases as a result of the insane paywall.
Got first to adult I think I could have a lot of fun with the breeding, but at $5 a dot it’s not worth it. Read that in beta nests were craftable, that makes sense. I think it would be easy to raise two in one week, so basically it is expected we pay $10 a week??? That is INSANE. Not sure who can even afford this game, and with the massive paywall it is definitely NOT FOR KIDS. Also need a battery saver option, currently this app drains battery quickly and makes the phone hot. And the notifications! They are getting very pushy and annoying and some aren’t even accurate. Recently got two 4 minutes apart about new weekly quests available, making these two back to back notifications even more annoying: there was no new weekly quests. This game has problems.
Got first to adult I think I could have a lot of fun with the breeding, but at $5 a dot it’s not worth it. Read that in beta nests were craftable, that makes sense. I think it would be easy to raise two in one week, so basically it is expected we pay $10 a week??? That is INSANE. Not sure who can even afford this game, and with the massive paywall it is definitely NOT FOR KIDS. Also need a battery saver option, currently this app drains battery quickly and makes the phone hot. And the notifications! They are getting very pushy and annoying and some aren’t even accurate. Recently got two 4 minutes apart about new weekly quests available, making these two back to back notifications even more annoying: there was no new weekly quests. This game has problems.
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Needs optimisation, possible pay to play.
My phone burns up while playing this game and my battery dies after just over an hour. Seems like a really great game but from what I can tell it is pay to play. Peridot becomes an adult in 3 days, you get 1 free nest to hatch another and then you have to pay for anymore? So that’s 1 week before you have to pay to do anymore as there really isn’t much to do without breeding. Also VERY little instruction about how things work.. took me 3 days to figure out how to breed! App is also very unintuitive!
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