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Good game but should also add pokemon battles and exploring new regions.Instead of shelter there could be an exploring tab where we could catch pokemons.

Thank you for your review, but I must admit to being confused. You say our game is good, then say we should just be like every other game that already exists? Whatever happened to creativity and uniqueness? Anyway. Battling is being worked on, as a side feature, but it will take some time. As for exploring, I doubt it. This is a social game, not an RPG... Hopefully this clears that up. Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss this further.

Positive: - Site is functional - Regular updates - Bonus counters are a nice feature - Site looks clean, artwork is nice - Tradeable premium currency Negative: - Daycare system - Some paywall - Repetitive gameplay - Market prices I will go into more detail for each of my negative points. First, the Daycare system. I find it unfair how you need to purchase Daycare Passes to adopt more than one egg per day, and how expensive they are. I was doing a shiny hunt with Daycare Passes, and I cannot fathom how selling shinys is profitable considering how expensive the passes are. To users that have all the shiny boosts you can buy with Zophan Canisters, it may not seem expensive. When you only have the PokeRadar+ to work with, the Daycare is a money pit and seems to be paywalled. Shiny hunters can adopt shelter eggs as an alternative, but they should not have to. Paying to adopt eggs from your own breeding pair does not seem right to me. I would like to see the price for Daycare Passes significantly dropped, or remove them alltogether. On a positive note, I do like how eggs are released to the Shelter after a day. This site does have a paywall. It is not the most extreme one I have ever seen, but it does exist. There are free alternatives to some things that require Zophan Canisters to purchase, like the PokeRadar+ for Hypermode, and Lucky Eggs for Super Lucky Eggs. Hypermode users receive free Gold Poke and summons every month, which as another reviewer pointed out seems very pandering towards paying players. The gameplay itself is not paywalled, but shiny hunting is. Shinys are one of the, if not the main thing people look for in trade shops and free-to-play players are considerably disadvantaged because of it. For non-paying players, they only have the PokeRadar+ and Sei's bonus to work with, while paying players have: Hypermode, Shiny Charms, Ubercharms, and Sei's bonus when it is active. It does not seem like a huge advantage, but I have done the math and the numbers should speak for themselves. At a chain of 35 with only the PokeRadar+, the chance of hatching a shiny is increased approximately 594 percent. With paid players, Hypermode allows them to chain to 40 which gives a 3,996 percent boost. There is already a huge difference between free and paid players. Let's factor in the Shiny Charm to the Hypermode percentage which doubles the chances, we're at 7,992 now. The Ubercharm doubles shiny and albino chances, so I multiplied 7,992 by 2 and this brings paid players up to a whopping 15,984 percent increase with all three paid shiny boosts. Paid players are approximately 26.9 times more likely to hatch a shiny with all paid boosts than a free player using the PokeRadar+ (if my math was done correctly). Even if my math is flawed, there is still a huge difference between a paid player and a free player's chances of hatching a shiny. I do agree paid players deserve some perks over free players, however the boosts given to paid players here essentially deny free players a good chance of making a considerable profit. Take a look through the trade shops in the forums and see how many are operated by Hypermode users. Repetitive gameplay does not need much explanation, all there is to do is click. It isn't bad if one can set their own personal goals, but for those that need some sort of achievement system it can get boring. The prices when selling through the Market system are absolutely ridiculous. I understand these prices are set by the players and are pretty much out of staff control, but it does not change how high they are. Users are setting their own currency conversion ratios and this may be a reason why prices are all over the place. Overall, the game itself works fine. If you get into the game's economics, it is highly biased towards paid players. The paywall could certainly be worse, but it is still built pretty high. As my title says, the game works fine but the economy is ruled by those who pay real money.

Let me just start this by saying that I was addicted to this game for the first week after I started playing. It certainly has it's good points... But I'm not going to talk about those just yet. For me, this game seems to have little reason to come back each day. Sure, you have your daily chains and such but I found after breaking it for the first time I just couldn't find it within myself to try and build it back up (and I was only at 14 days!). Besides the chains I honestly don't see a reason to come back on a day to day basis. And then after that it's almost like.. why come back at all if I'm barely having fun? And on that note, while this game is most certainly not pay-to-win it feels like pay-to-have-fun. Fun for me is hatching Shiny/Albino/Melanistic pokemon. While I possess the IRL funds to be able to purchase the premium currency I just don't enjoy the site enough to justify spending real money. I suppose I could utilise the trading system but all I see of value on this site is Shiny, Albino and Melanistic pokemon and, as far as I understand it, the only somewhat reliable way to get those is to use your premium currency to buy equipment. Perhaps I am wrong, but the fact that I haven't seen any other way might indicate a problem. Another subject I'm almost a little nervous to bring up is the staff. Now I'm not here to name names but certain members of the staff here intimidate me to no end. The fact that some of the first interactions between staff and players that I saw were almost rude in nature has put me off ever interacting or even having the CHANCE at interacting with the staff here. But hey I like to think of myself as a positive person. I'll share some of the of the good stuff about this site too. The community seems pretty nice. As I mentioned above I'm too afraid to even attempt to use the forums and yet I've still managed to encounter nice members of this community. Someone even sent me a gift out of nowhere and it absolutely made my day. The staff are very clear about the updates. I like how sometimes it is discussed in detail, I find it really interesting. Hopefully in the future I'll have more positive things to say! :)

I'll take this in chunks. Shelter: I've made posts before about how I wish only one of each type of pokemon/egg would be shown at once. It would be different if we could claim more than one pokemon per screen, but it forces us to refresh or go to the pokemon page anyway so there's no real point in having more than one type. Scour: I bought two scour boosts and I still mostly get junk. Store: I've very much missing the store. The market is very hard to use while on mobile. Forums: I think Journals should be exempt from the delete after such-and-such time. Anyone who ever has had a journal knows that entries can be far and few between. Other: I miss the keyboard shortcuts. It's become more of a hassle to explore the site now that I have less time to do so since I got a job. Other than these points, I think Pokefarm is doing pretty well. I like that it's gotten a bit less pay-to-play as well as it was when PFQ first came about. There's more chances to earn things BUT you can also pay real money to get them.

To be frank, it's been an addiction for some time now, in a positive sense. Something that's been addicting in a fun way. Lately, however, there has started to be some pressure alongside the fun. I'm mostly talking about the Tournaments and daily task-list. I know, no one forces one to take part, but the daily task list thingy popping to one's eyes as incompleted all the time feels like a taunt. And the tournaments, with the way they work, they make casual "completion" of the game an impossibility. In order to complete one's dex one would have to participate and grind trough almost all of them, which pretty much steals the possibility for long hunts and such since the party is almost always occupied by tournament pokes. Or well, one could pour in money to get zophan and get over it with eggpasses and Super lucky eggs but... All in all, with the way the site's been going lately, it's getting too competitive in my opinion. For now we are still on the positive side, but in all honesty, I really hope there will be no more of these new features which force the players to either fight themselves or the others. One thing I have to complement though is the great artwork. The new gen 7 mons are a great example of that. The official images of them just look freaky to me, but PFQ's sprites are cute. Visually, this is easily one of the best browser games I know of.

This is one of many games I play where I have to actually feed the 'pets' that I have. I might not have been a member for long but somethings could really use fixing. During the 12 days of Christmas I could not complete day 11 because of the extreme lag on the site, gate way errors, things going to an oops page of some sort. So, I skipped that day entirely. I couldn't handle the site doing all of that. When I want to do a mas release, it would really be nice to have a select all button. Clicking all of those individual squares sometimes makes me just delete the field and re-buy it. Half the time when I click on a square, it doesn't register until I click on the actual Pokemon. I then get a 50/50 chance of going to the Pokemon's page. I do love this site dearly, since its my favorite Pokemon one. Things could be better though.

It sounds like you're having some issues that are specific to you or your computer/network. "Gateway error" is typically an error you get when a proxy server is involved somewhere, and we don't use one of those - it's possible that your network is configured poorly leading to this issue. This could also explain why the lag was so bad for you on Day 11 - it wasn't until Day 12 that the lag got really bad here. Similarly for Mass-Release, it is supposed to select the Pokémon whenever you click anywhere in the box, and selecting all of them should be a breeze. If it's not, there may be something wrong with your system. In either case, please feel free to post in the Bugs or Help forum to get further assistance in solving these problems. I will mention, however, that we have no plans of adding a "select all" feature to the Mass Release. It would be too easy to accidentally release more than you intended to. Having to click each one's box allows you to have just that extra moment to check what you're doing before an irreversible accident happens. I hope you understand.

I strongly enjoy pfq however the daily counter and albino radar are both quite harsh if you're trying to live a life. The 'miss a day - daily reset minus 1 albino level' is crude and makes me feel forced to come on pfq, I wanted a relaxing game I could pick up and put down whenever I had time. Its not fair for people who struggle to even get onto the internet to be punished so harshly. otherwise, the other mechanics work great and run smoothly. Will edit in future if changes are made to site regarding these issues.

Thank you for your review, I'm sorry you feel negatively regarding our Daily Rewards systems. While most of them are designed strictly to reward returning users, I will admit that the Albino Radar's de-levelling can be seen as somewhat punishing if you aren't able to play. That being said, I would like to point out that it could be worse: you only lose one level per missed day, rather than being forced to start over from scratch. In fact, missing just one day is completely harmless, as powering it the following day will instantly return you to the level you were at. I hope this helps explain the design choices we have made, and I hope you will give us another chance in future.

I would've given this a 3.5/5 if I could haha I feel I've been a pretty Loyal PokefarmQ Member. I've been playing this game since I was in 4th grade, now I'm a senior in High school. Obviously I must like this game if I've been playing it so much (on and off)! So I was an Original PF1 player and I really have enjoyed old and new! I always loved the idea of just raising and breeding Pokemon. I tried suggesting it to many people but it's an acquired thing haha. I absolutely love it. There have been a couple things that I have thought about since PF1. For one, since PF1 this really seems like a pay to get type of thing. I can understand it a tad with this being what you're working on all the time, but like, paying a lot. Especially for kids who have to dig outta their parents paychecks where as a lot of Pokemon games don't require the money. I've been personally happy because I feel I get far with spending now money at all, but sometimes you have to commit a lot of time which not a lot of people can do. I do love the implementation of the GP sale type stuff. I just feel like it's so much money to be spending and although you can trade other players for it, you have to have, like, a million shinies or legends. That's another hard thing as well. Shinies and legends feel hard to come by for someone not paying money. Luckily I have gotten a couple shinies and legends from commissions or just the kindness out of peoples hearts (BEST) but otherwise its hard. I have been opening boxes, almost 200 or 300 since PFQ started and I have gotten NO summons. That's... like, how. Maybe I have bad luck? But that's so frustrating. Okay I hate the market. Those insane prices. I just miss when you'd sell to Doug and he's give you a normal price or offer a normal price. I mean the Market is a cool side idea but it's just frustrating at times. I love the idea of seeing people selling summons but they want so much so again not worth it as well. The Berry Garden is nice but I wish it would update me when Fields are damp, because I get there when it's dry and I always only get a berry and I just also am frustrated. I love the sprites that are being made! They're so great! I feel like the Megastones, as people has brought up are very hard to find, PFQ ones I understand but the other ones? :/ Also I love the graphics team they do a wonderful job but a lot of the Mega sprites look a little not so mega. Flareon, Leafeon, Ninetails, Mighteyena, Dragonite etc aren't super mega. They seem plain. Like just bigger more fluffy dogs/foxes with some add ons. Now your other creations like Wailord, Froslass, Seviper, (Although it's a super crazy design too much for my taste haha), Lapras, Ho-oh, Lugia etc are AMAZING and really look mega! Just some thought on those, but keep up the good work! I also love the PFQ mons c: Very great! I'm really sad that you closed off the PF1 transfer. What kinda sucked is I had saved up A LOT of GP and credits over there and had some of the fakemon from before. Now you finally have things like Orkit and dolphin man (hahah forgot its name) again and I was never able to transfer those because it wouldn't let me. I felt like that was kinda a let down :/ Finally, I've always been trying to be a good part of the community but leaving this review almost scares me. The staff can be really intimidating sometimes, whether they mean it or not. I understand you kinda gotta be strict, but sometimes staff answers questions in harsh ways. I hope this is alright, I kinda just wanted to say some things that have been on my mind. I love this game, I love what ya'll been doing, and keep pumping through you beautiful souls! Thank you so much! P.S I'd love to one day perhaps be apart of the graphic team! I always love coming up with fakemon, sprites, and just drawings in general!

Thank you for your review, I just wanted to take a moment to clarify a few points. It's difficult to say this but... You haven't found any Summon Items in Boxes because you haven't unlocked any of them yet. Please visit https://pokefarm.com/summons to find out more about unlocking them. This also applies to your experience on the Market: even if you did decide to buy a Summon Item, you can't use it until you unlock it. I hope this helps resolve your issue regarding Summon Items. Regarding "paywalling", since you didn't specify I am going to take past feedback into account when I assume you're referring to Account Upgrades purchased with Gold Poké, such as upgraded Shelter Passes and the like? If so, this is correct, as Gold Poké is obtained through gameplay other than core interactions. The Daily Tasks reward you with some, the weekly Fabulous Friday gives you more, and of course Treasure Boxes may contain it too for a nice bonus. We believe we've managed to carefully balance the items, such that paying for them with real-life money is nothing more than a shortcut to save time, whereas many online games will be stricter in requiring you to buy them - we like to think buying is optional. With regard to Megas, we do careful research before working on any designs, to ensure that we stay true to the Pokémon's nature and don't go over the top. If you want official examples, take a look at Mega Sableye or Mega Aggron, and you may notice that they don't actually change all that much in appearance. Meanwhile others like Mega Mawile change significantly. Variety is the key here. We're happy to hear that you like many of our designs, and hopefully this explains why some of them may seem "plain" at first glance. Finally, PF1-Transfer is returning, but is currently low priority due to other features still in progress. But it will come back. I promise. :)

I like playing this game, it's pretty simple and easy to do. The only downfall I have is before the Recode I made a post asking a simple help question and I got very unwelcome answers which made me feel terrible and since then I haven't submitted a post. I don't read posts either as I feel so unwelcome I just mind myself to myself and play the game I don't try to make friends like I do on other adoptable sites. I understand that this is not the games fault but I just don't feel this site is as friendly as other Pokemon sites are.

I'm sorry to hear about your negative experience on our forums. I went and had a look, digging around to see if I could find exactly what happened. Since you only made one thread, it was easy enough to find :) For the benefit of others reading, and to refresh your memory (since you did delete the thread yourself over two years ago), here is what happened: You asked about how to evolve Inkay - a perfectly legitimate question. However, due to our policy on spoilers (at the time - it has since been relaxed) a user told you that they could not tell you the exact answer to the puzzle. You were given hints and encouraged by other users to try things for yourself, but you responded scathingly and deleted the thread. I'm sorry if the experience made you feel unwelcome, but I feel it is somewhat unfair to judge our entire game based on this experience, as you seem to have taken what was said by other users very negatively when it was evidently not the intention. Not to mention, this was over two years ago, and things have certainly improved since then. On the other hand it's good to see that you are still here and apparently still active, this would seem to indicate that you enjoy the game itself despite your experience with one other user on the forums.

I've been with PFQ for a while now, and I like the game, but weekly tournaments are just a bit too much for me. I play more casually than the tournaments require to win any good prizes, and I just simply can't make myself sit and click for hours just to get some tokens. Some tournaments are more forgiving, thankfully, but I'm just not able to get myself to play enough to get anything more than the medium reward. I wouldn't be as bothered by this if so many items were only available through tournaments or the market (which can get way too pricey for my tastes), and from the looks of it, the shop isn't returning. I haven't seen anything mention of it in the plans for future updates, and have lost hope of it ever coming back. I really preferred having the shop, as it made my life a little easier, and while some people seem to like challenge, I would rather have something that I need to work for but doesn't seem completely out of my reach like the tournaments. In all honesty, there's not much to do here other than sit and click and sit and click and sit and click, and although I can enjoy it in small doses, I just simply can't play the game extensively. It's too boring. While I do love the promise of upcoming features such as mini games and dungeons, I'm not going to rate the game based on things that don't exist yet. So, for now, I'd say it's an all around decent site, but needs a little more engagement to actually capture my attention and hold it for a substantial amount of time.

Thanks for your review. I'm sorry to hear you feel our Tournaments are unbalanced. It was our intention to provide an experience that everyone could participate in no matter what their skill level. The point of having Easy/Medium/Hard targets is so that players can reach whatever goal they wish, and still get some reward for it. If you're getting the Medium reward consistently, then you're already doing better than most "casual" players! That being said, we're constantly looking to improve the Tournaments as they are intended to appeal to all, and we may still have some balancing issues as we get there. We hope you'll give us an opportunity to find that happy balance.