Player Reviews

Seems like just another Pokemon collecting site, but this one is very great! Communication is an important part of the game, so you can socialise and get to know people better. Since you have to hatch the Pokemon instead of catching them, it's more of a challenge to get exclusives and it's more of a reward. There are many more Pokemon you can get and it's rewarding to complete the Pokedex and it's more of a collecting game because there are more Pokemon to collect. A tiny portion of the community is bad, but you'll never stumble upon them. Overall the community is nice, honest and great people to be in a community with. TL;DR, this game is great!

I love pokemon and I love games like this. 1000/10 Niet, Garthic, and the rest of the staff, keep up the good work!

Well, where do I begin? :D PFQ and its community is amazing. I've never encountered such a friendly group of people and the staff are really approachable too. I've been on so many other sites and the admins always seem so distant or far away, but when it comes to PFQ the mods are much closer to the community and I feel happy and comfortable talking to them. I was a bit dubious about the game to begin with. "just clicking and hatching!?" I thought, "how boring". But to my surprise, I found there was so much more than that. There's incredible artists here, roleplays, fanfictions and even original stories written by the users. I fell into the community quickly amd felt as if I belonged. I mean, the site isn't without its downsides and things to improve on, hence the four out of five. But in the end, I feel the positive far outweighs the negatives. However, the game does seem to become a bit of a menial chore after a while and finding new things to do can be hard. Niet, Garth, and the rest of the team, you've done an awesome job with this game- be proud of yourselves and I eagerly look forward to seeing whats in store for the future.

I've been playing for a collective 2-5 hours, and I'm already addicting! It's very fun and the users are really friendly. :)

I enjoy this game. It’s entertaining, and although a bit repetitive it’s intriguing to see what variants and exclusives come out. This has been said many times before but the staff is rude and sarcastic when people need help or leave criticism. I’ve seen multiple occasions where people have quit because of something a staff member said. Some staff even defend each other’s actions. One good thing is they do not tolerate bullying between normal users (but for whatever reason it’s ok for staff to sometimes). Also most reviews that are 4 or 5 stars have no reasoning most the time.

well, I have never given 5 stars to anything, because no matter what it can be improved, ya know? But it is such a great and clever game, I have to admit, I'm addicted! but not like totally, I play other Pokemon games! Well, I love the events, and the Pokemon! I like that we can add a custom description to our Pokemon, and that we can have so many fields!

"Staff are rude but helpful" is probably the best summary of the majority of my complaints with Pokefarm. I personally feel a huge lack of professionalism from a few huge players on staff and honestly, I wouldn't care that they are snarky or rude people if they kept these things away from the public eye, however on several occasions they have make posts that everyone is pinged about on the news feed that have been more than a little offensive. Which, stepping out of line would be alright if the apologies and edits didn't feel so sarcastic. Niet is super guilty of this and Garthic defends him. Their response to people saying "I don't like how accusative and backhandedly sarcastic Niet was in this update" has been "You misread me/him and since it wasn't meant to be aggressive (this is just how Niet is, deal with it) we're going to dismiss this and disregard your opinions/feelings then make even bigger jabs at entire portions of the community in our next public update." It's not like just one or two people are complaining about this. So many people have complained about how brash Niet is and it seems like staff and Niet refuse to acknowledge that maybe Niet could tone it down? It very much feels like this should be a "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" situation but instead Niet has to have the last word on everything, like he has to win this argument instead of actually empathizing with users feeling attacked. There are good things about the game and staff. They don't put up with other users bullying or harassing each other and, in my experience, have dealt with the situations quickly and completely, even if I left my one experience with an odd taste in my mouth. Niet is very good at his job. He is a very good programmer. He's constantly making updates to the game and adding features. I've never personally made any suggestions as to what should be added to the game, but little inconveniences here and there (for example, ease of mobility and managing mass amounts of pokemon within fields has been greatly improved on in my years stay on pokefarm). They seem to be developing new events all the time and tweaking old ones if users complain enough (though this is sometimes met with ego and sarcasm from Niet). The game has been made easier as well with the additions of the egg warmer and exp share which rewards activity while allowing people to be less dependent on clicks from other people. Two features seem daunting to me at present. First we have Pokerus which, used to be much easier to get. Only one user can have it ever quarter hour, which was fine about a year ago. Pokefarm's community has taken a huge upturn since I joined and this has lead to a large decrease in ones ability to get 'rus. If Pokefarm's user population continues to increase, I feel a revamp to this feature may be necessary. My gut response is to allow two people to have 'rus at once, but I'm not sure how Niet would want to/has to restructure things to make that work (or if there are better solutions to the problem). The second feature that makes me sad is Hypermode. It makes it incredibly easier to get shinies and it costs real money to obtain (and yeah sure, people can purchase zophan canisters from other users, but hoo boy are they expensive). With a full shiny chain your chances go from something like a 350% to a 2500% boost with Hypermode. That boost is insane to me and it makes Hypermode very appealing, but its nearly 60 USD for a full years Hypermode (which is, of course, the cheapest per canister deal. Lesser subscriptions are more expensive per day.) I'm stuck between "I don't have time to take full advantage of Hypermode, so what's the point" and "Hoo boy that still would make my whole like 10 times easier." So, in my mind the tie breaker is "do I want the staff and developers to receive my money." And at present, no, I don't. There is not enough professional courtesy and I say this as a person who does not go onto the forums at all (the rules there are very strict and very child oriented. This is not a place I see myself doing well, I prefer environments geared more toward 20-30 year olds. On that note, for a site so child oriented, they're setting awful examples of how to deal with differences of opinions. It very much feels like they're speaking to petulant children instead of customers half the time, but now I'm rambling.) I've decided to put my money where my mouth is and not pay for Hypermode unless I see a huge, consistent changes to public relations. (I really do want to support this site. It's very well coded and designed. It is an incredible time sink and provides me a lot of enjoyment. I wish to get more enjoyment out of it, but I also want to feel valued as a customer.) Why a 2/5? Because it is super important that staff respects users. It will drive me away if present behaviors continue. I don't care how good the game is if I feel insulted and disrespected. And if staff's response is "well then get out" then fair enough. I half expect it because this is the tone I've come to fear and know is completely possible.

I don't think you're being fair on Garthic and the rest of staff. The PR problem is me, 100%. I'm working on it, although I will point out that without making mistakes how can anyone improve? The problem is made worse by how British people such as myself do tend to be rather more sarcastic in our humour, which American people generally don't appreciate - that's a bit of a culture shock factor. I do think it is important for us to have some personality, even in "official" places like the Changelog (which I believe is what you're referring to). Nobody likes robots; personality is important. If you want proof of that, I went to the other extreme by posting a DIFF file output as a changelog entry, and lots of people were confused :D Silliness aside, what I'm saying is that I'm going to keep being the one to post announcements and such, for the most part. I do take feedback into consideration. I'm trying to improve but mistakes can and will happen. Moving on, I'm glad you enjoy the game as a whole. And I appreciate your words about my skill as a programmer, that's always nice to hear. With regard to Hypermode, I mean... you're absolutely right. It's like that by design. Pretty much everything that can be purchased on PFQ is optional, but helpful. That's the main thing stopping us from being "pay to win," the other being the fact that you can trade everything, even the premium currency. There are a number of users out there who haven't bought anything, but get their constant Hypermode and other upgrades through trading, which I think is awesome. I'm rambling at this point, I feel. Thank you for your time, and feel free to PM me if you'd like to discuss anything further.

i am addicted, i cant stop coming back :0

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