Player Reviews

The community is great, kid friendly, and the game is fun. Many of the on site Pokémon are gorgeous. For someone who is busy though if you want to succeed in some endeavors it can be extremely time intensive and I feel that some things can be a bit more complicated then they need to be. But hey! If you've got time to kill or just need to relax it's a fun game to play.

Now, I'll try to get on in explaining things, but I'm on mobile, at night... So it might be a bit run-on or repeated. Pros: -Really good for just a Beta, functions smoothly, minding the few deadlocks here and there. -Addictive -Creative with sprites (10/10 graphic team) -Good at making me more social (I made a few friends :>) -Kid-friendly! -Active and hard-working staff. Cons: -The "paying" people advantage -The Daycare system -The intense clicking -SOME of the staff behavior 1.) The paying people: The people that pay for the game, presumably "win" the game. -More Shiny, Albino, and Melan chances (not to mention the profit they could make on those.) -Some kids are not allowed to pay for things on the website. Desperation in the kids could lead to STEALING money from their parents in order to get HM, Ubercharm, etc. (Cliche, but it does happen.) -Fabulous Friday is a site thing, in which people get Gold Poke. Now, when you get GP from HM, people are less likely to click for the sake of filling the Fabu~ Bar. 2.) The Daycare: I absolutely hate the prices, especially on the Red G. and on the passes themselves. -The passes are in effect after adopting a free egg, and for hunters, those run out fast as well as their GP. -The Red G. Should be lowered, considering it WILL lower the happiness of the partners, which could possibly make them run away if you are asleep while the unhappiness is occurring. 3.) The intense clicking: PFQ's main aspect of the game is to click, click, click! But, there are some bad things about it. -The clicking can be extreme. On the 12 DOC event where the final goal was about 20k interactions, I finished it, but my hand wouldn't stop shaking for weeks, making me unable to do the daily tasks of 1k clicks just because of how bad my hand would shake. If people have more fragile hands, this could damage their hands even more. 4.) Staff Behavior: Usually the staff will be: "👌👀 K cool thanks.~", but sometimes their behavior can get nasty. -This could be as a result of stress, in which they tend to lash out a bit, but on a growing teenager that's usually isolated and sensitive, it kind of leaves a mark on me when the staff get a bit too aggravated. I've seen most of these in suggestions.

I'm just going to cover some of the points you've made and try to explain them for you :) 1. They don't. If you could buy Shinies directly, that would be "pay to win" sure. But you can't. You can buy upgrades to make things easier, that's all. 1a. Funny thing, actually: people who pay are generally more active. After all, they've invested money into this. Just being more active gets you more shiny chances, it's not just the fact they've paid. 1b. While unfortunate, that's not our responsibility. It's the responsibility of parents to both keep their finances safe, and raise their kids not to be thieves. 1c. There are a LOT of free-playing users, and they have plenty of motivation to get the FabuBar filled. Not to mention paying users want it too, as a fuller bar means higher bonuses. 2a. That is by design: it keeps the Shelter populated. If you could adopt all the Eggs you reasonably want from the DayCare, you wouldn't leave any for the Shelter. 2b. That is also by design: the Red Gigaremo is a luxury item, not necessary for game completion but helpful to do things faster. You'll find that most things you can buy - whether it's for GP or ZC - are simply ways to do things faster. 3. Sure... and how often do we run events like that? Not very often, because we know that's intense. We run MCW once a month where you have two whole days to meet a goal. We know! 4. As always, if you have any specific issues, please don't hesitate to contact our Staff Manager Garthic, he's literally here to help with these things. Anyway, thanks for the review, hope this clears some things up!

As an avid writer and artist, nothing I try to make compares to when I spend hours a day clicking on Pokemon and accidentally giving myself carpal tunnel every. single. time. I can't help that this game is awesome though.

It's good to hear you enjoy the game, but may I ask why the 3/5 star rating when you quite clearly write 10/10 in the title of your review?

Good game but i would like to be able to hunt for my pokemon not just try to breed shiny pokemon and others.

Returned to this site after a good few years of a hiatus, thought it'd be fun to go back. I was pleasantly surprised to see the seventh gen here, but not as happy with some of the changes from the original Pokefarm. Pros: -Seventh gen with very good 2D sprites -Mass-clicking feels easier, not quite as painful on the wrists as before -Badges are a very good way to boost EXP -I personally like some of the touches on the sprites like Vulpix gaining tails as it levels up -Very cool Mega Evos Cons: -Only three scour slots, compared to the numerous I could have on the old Pokefarm -Feels harder to get some of the Fakemon on the site, I remember it being far easier to get the likes of Lunupine and Orkit -No real store for basic supplies, you're left to the whims of the community Market, even if you want something like an evolution stone -Mega Evolution is permanent and you have to pay for it?? -Feels a lot more 'pay to win'-ish than the original pokefarm -You have to pay to be able to unlock albino (and presumably melanistic) hunting? -The transfer system somehow being constantly unavailable. The old site only had up to the fifth gen, it feels very frustrating to want to bring my old Pokemon to the new site but am just unable to right now. -Speaking of the transfer, the Pokemon being brought over not counting toward Pokedex completion. There's no real reason for it, as far as I'm concerned. Overall, the site is okay, but needs many, many improvements.

This game has a lot of nice ideas and fun things to do. The different site-wide events are usually quite fun, the albino/melanistic mechanic is a fun surprise sometimes, pokeradar chains make shiny hunting really fun, and the community (for the most part) is very nice and inviting. However, I feel as if this game, at its core, is very crippled by the clicking mechanic. This mechanic is basically the only way to have pokemon hatch/evolve and basically the only way to progress. But the clicking mechanic is not a fun thing to do, it's a chore in most cases. Clicking pokemon mindlessly for the chance, not even the guarantee, of a clickback gets very tedious and annoying very quickly. I feel as if this game has a lot of fun stuff to do but it's diminished by the main "gameplay" being a chore. I feel that if there were alternatives to hatch your pokemon, like different mini games or activities, this site would be a lot more fun. I think an alternative, not a replacement, for the clicking mechanic would attract more people and hold more interest in a lot of players. This is by no means a bad game/site/whatever, but it has a narrow audience.

The game is fun and has a decent mix of easy/hard tasks, making it so that it takes time to complete everything. I'm gonna make a short con list. We (should) already know what the pros are from the other reviews. :) - Repetitive, which leads to being boring. The regular events are MCW and tournaments. These shouldn't be replacing special events (pi day, April fool's, Valentine's (??), Halloween). Mini games (like Voltorb flip, not fishing) would be really nice too. - Paywalls. No melanistic or shiny legendary hunting unless you fork over a lot of money. I understand that the staff need and deserve to be paid, but I've seen people with chains into the several thousands with zero melanistics, and, in my opinion (:v), that's not fair to them. - Hostile staff. I know the excuse is to appear more human and not robotic, but the sarcasm and seemingly eagerness to reject suggestions (looking at pm sorting and the block button) is too often down right mean. There's a lot of kids who play and they take the brunt of it, and coming from someone who's been 'told off' by mods on other sites back when I was 11-14, it's an incredible sting. - Slow development, which is too be expected when there's only one person doing the coding. Patience is key, I and many others can respect that. But sometimes it feels like things aren't priotized at all. It's been 3 years and we just now are getting a way to evolve Sylveon and Milotic. There's also been promise of Furfrou haircuts, Vivillion wing patterns, and trainer sprite customization for years too. But the lab gets a redesign, we can reset our dexes, and accessories (which we still can't sell) are moved to new scour locations instead? Overall, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the game. Why would I come here everyday if I didn't? :P It just needs work and more room to grow.

I like it I get to interact more. But I evolved pokemon and sometimes they disappear and I can never find them and I know that I released them.

overall this site is good, i'm online pretty much all day every day because it's just a really good way to zone out and chill... when i first started it was really easy to get the hang of and get super into because the tutorial was really thorough and there are a lot of different goals for new players to achieve. love that! and i love that the tournaments add a little extra challenge and competition (though i can see how some people, who can't really be online as much, can find them a little more difficult or unfair). also love that you traded friend requests for the vip function. less anxiety for those of us who have anxiety. it's a great way for us to keep track of friends and people on mass-click lists without having to say in giant bold font "seriously, no random friend requests!!!". because it was really annoying when people ignored that :-P but i have a couple problems, the most important being where the heck is the block feature? a block feature is one of the most basic things on any online community. it's a simple way to avoid conflict - if you have a problem with someone, just block them and move on. it's been, what, at least 3 years since this site has been up and running, and i feel like a lot of features that have been added, though fun and unique, haven't really been asked for? or necessary? i haven't even seen any recent news about adding the block function any time soon or at all (unless i've missed it). and going off that, staff can be really dismissive or indifferent of important things (ableism, transphobia, that sort of thing) compared to things like art theft and stuff? which, don't get me wrong, general site rules are still very important! but over the course of the years (i used to watch my friend play a couple years ago) i've seen/heard of more people getting in trouble or banned for things like art theft than i've seen staff do anything substantial about racism and transphobia and the like. as staff, the safety of your users is your responsibility too. and some of the mods/admins have a "holier-than-thou" sorta attitude? sarcastic and in some cases, downright snobby. moderators are supposed to be just that - moderators. mediators are not supposed to have an "i'm always right" attitude, and people who run a website should be able to handle problems without being sarcastic and passive-aggressive. truthfully, that bad attitude makes it hard for people to take the admins, and this site, seriously. another suggestion - some of the goals on the task list don't have like, reasonable rewards? being online for 100 days in a row is definitely a commitment so 1 million credits seems like a great reward for that. but really all you have to do is login 100 days in a row and nothing else. not too difficult. compared to that, getting pokerus 100 times for example, which takes a ton of commitment and hours on top of hours of clicking, only gets you 222,000 credits... it doesn't really make much sense. last one is the economy on this site. the marketplace is a mess. most of everything is extremely overpriced so either people spend a ton more credits than they need to and go broke or close to it, or things just don't get bought and circulated. i don't know how it can be fixed but it's kind of a real problem that you should seriously consider and discuss. that's pretty much all i can think of! overall a great site, love being a part of it! but as with anything there are some problems to be seriously considered, not just glossed over or tossed aside.

Thank you for your review. Regarding the block feature, we do not have any plans to implement it. Anything that you would want to block someone for, you can probably report them instead. This will get the problem *fixed* rather than just ignoring it. This might seem like an extreme example, but we have had extremely undesirable people including child predators. If we had a block function, we might never have found out. Instead, by forcing people to report the issue instead of ignoring it, the problem was solved. This is why we don't have a block feature: it doesn't help anything. I would like to mention that you claim staff are dismissive, yet your desire for a block feature is exactly that: wanting to dismiss a problem rather than resolve it. Anyway, if you have any specific issues with staff, we have a Staff Manager for a reason. Please contact Garthic with *specific* issues, and again get them fixed instead of ignoring them. I mean, not to be rude here, but so far your review is "you need to fix these things but I'm not gonna help you do it..." We aren't omnipresent and we need your help to bring things to our attention. Like, what's all this about transphobia? If that's going on, we want to know about it! Please, report it! Racism too, just anything bad, let us know... We want to fix this but again we can't without your help :D Regarding the Task List rewards, admittedly some of them are just numbers I grabbed out of thin air, but for the specific example you gave: being online vs. PKRS, PKRS automatically includes a bunch of Credits (for your interactions to get it), and the reward of having PKRS itself. The Task then becomes a nice little extra "you did the thing!" reward. Meanwhile the "online chain" reward is all there is to it. I hope this helps explain why some rewards at least seem so out of scale. As for the economy - that's not us! Economics follow the rules of supply and demand, and if supply is low then prices will be high. That's just how money works. If it's out of your price range, don't buy it - the seller won't get anything out of it if they don't sell it either, so... eventually they'll have to lower the price, at which point you can buy it because the demand will have lowered compared to the price. See? Anyway, thanks again. Please feel free to contact me if you want to discuss anything further.

Pros: +Ongoing work to make the site more user friendly +Fun events for the users +Addition of Daily Tasks Cons: -A lot of the good stuff requires ZC -The market listings are often SUPER MEGA overpriced for the items -The staff attitudes and responsibilities Explanations: The ongoing work of Niet to make the site more user friendly is great. I like looking at the updates and seeing how he constantly works to make his userbase happy. Sure a lot of this stuff comes kinda slow, but since he is the only coder for PFQ, that's fair enough. I especially love the open all function, as well as how easy it is to click in the fields. Niet works to make fun and engaging events for his userbase, though the MCW sometimes seems boring to me. I like more variety in the prizes than just a PFQ megastone exclusive. That however is just me, I know that a lot of work goes into those and most people love them! The last christmas event was a lot of fun, and the prizes were great since non-paying players could get premium items for just meeting the interaction goals. Not a lot of sites would do this for non-paying players. Now I am not a heavy player here. But the addition of the Daily Tasks was a very nice touch. It helped make those that can't play that much feel a little better thanks to the rewards they can get from tasks that don't rely on clicking someone several thousand times for a small payout. Or on luck (love my free gold poke!) that you would need when opening treasure boxes. Now I know that the site runs on money, and you get ZC from that money, but since a great deal of players can't use RL money, they have to devote a lot of time here to get something of enough value to snag some ZC. That in and of itself isn't all that bad, but allowing people to price their own ZC ratio values to the other currencies is the big problem. I have seen shops that are very fair and reasonable. Then there are shows that blow the prices SKY high. Yes the idea of a free control over that is good in theory, but think of it this way. When someone is fair with the price of their ZC, most will go to them. Then all that is left once they are out of ZC are the ones selling it for atrocious amounts. It makes both searching for it tedious and depressing. I know of a lot of people that don't even bother to look even though they have plenty of gold poke to buy with. I know I saw that moderating prices or ratios would destroy the freedom and impose the sellers to just post at the cap but there should be another alternative. Market is full of over priced items. I mean, I have seen simple evolution stones for 10,000 credits. Like really? Sure only the desperate will ever by at prices so crazy, it makes people compete a little too much. "Oh this person is selling theirs for 11,000. I don't wanna get less than that because I have no idea how much this really is worth." So the prices just stay way out of reasonable prices. I don't really know how this can be fixed but plenty of people just avoid looking at the market right now because they know if they actually do see something they want or need, it will be way out of their price range. Staff attitudes have literally been all over the wall. I have seen them respond with incredible courtesy during hostile situations, then flip the switch on something much more docile. I don't really know what the pattern is, but I have witnessed it several times during my short time here. There is also a smugness among a small handful of the mods. The impression I get from them is "Well I don't like what you say, and I disagree with you. Being a mod means I am right." Now I know I could be very very wrong there, but that is how it comes off. And I certainly am not the only one to notice. I know Niet says they this issue is much better than before, but I am not so sure... Also, I have noticed that Mods seem to not be doing their full responsibilities in the forums. Its kind of a mess in certain areas and no mod intervention came in a responsible amount of time. No they aren't perfect but I know if they had been more attentive in certain areas, they could catch the problems much faster. Well that's my two cents.