Player Reviews

While not perfect this community has shown through the years and made it's place among fansites. With the recent recode done this site has a lot going for it when it comes to player suggested content and encouraging social interactions. With clans and shops galore it is a hub for creators, fans, and casual players alike. While still not fully complete on restoring all the recodes I see a even bigger future for this site, it's creators and it's community.

First and foremost, I'd like to say that I'm generally not a biased (meaning I'm usually looking into both/more sides to something than just one), but my opinions are incredibly strong (meaning I can be hard to sway when I think of something). I don't usually favour things nor do I disfavour them or any particular reason without knowing the entirety of what's going on first. That said, I... actually really like PFQ. As someone who's played Pokemon their entire life, I can safely say that PFQ will kinda be my "go-to" for online Pokemon stuff (when it comes to games, anyway). I started when my friend accidentally introduced me by posting a link on their Quotev (cliche, "quotev users are lame and there are too many," I know, I know), but without them posting that link, I probably wouldn't have found out otherwise. I even recommended it to a few of /my/ other friends, who actually liked it! Even my younger brother got into, but he's hardly ever on, but that's not the point. Point is, the site is really lovable and that's a very good thing. However, there... are some problems, in my opinion. I'll cover the basic pros and cons, first. PROS - The artwork is A+ quality. - The staff is (mostly) nice, save some snarky stuff (though I'm a snarky person, myself, so I don't mind it/am desensitised). - The site is designed beautifully (mobile & computer wise; I use both and it works relatively well on both). - The albinos/melans are an amazing feature! (As someone who would actually hunt for them, that is...) - The community, from what I've seen, is mostly very nice and welcoming. (Save for a few rotten eggs, but I'm not going to blame a majority for a minority's actions). CONS - A lot of stuff is... slow and boring at times. - The aforementioned paywall (which I won't cover, since it's been covered a few times over and my opinion on that has already been stated by those who have mentioned it). - Shinies, albinos, melans aren't really... fun. (I'll go more into detail later on down the post). - Some other stuff that I can't label in a few short words, but will talk about later on. Let's start with the cons, since it'll be easier to get the bad stuff out of the way, allowing the pros to help... er "recover" the post and pick it back up in a happier light. First off, a lot of times the game can get a bit slow and repetitive. It's been said to death (or maybe it hasn't and I'm only noticing it whenever I look around), but I think it can get a bit... I dunno, boring. For example, even clicking quite a bit (most of it mass clicking, at that), it can be hard to accumulate and keep credits. That's not to say that stuff is wildly overpriced (though there may be some things I'm missing), it's just saying... credits are supposed to be the "least valuable" currency and when it's so hard to get them (again, clicking quite a lot + most of it mass clicking fields with large amounts of Pokemon), then it's... not really worth it? Bar trading, it can be kind of a hassle to get a good amount of credits (especially for someone who's saving up to buy a large amount of stuff/something that costs a lot, like a ditto egg that everyone and their mother seems to want if they don't already have). I know interacting and being social is the point of the site, but for some people, that can extend to a lot of things and like for some, it can simply be clicking and getting clicked back. Trading, again, is another thing I mentioned and I know it can be considered the "point" of the site as it falls under being social and interacting, but there's largely not a point to trading credits when you can get GP or ZC. I'm not saying credits are useless completely, but if there's not a stable way to get them, then it doesn't seem like there's a point to them. Lots of interacting + clicking = low amounts of credits = zero point in having those credits, which I've said to death in this post. On the bright side, the credits can be used for buying fields and in the market, so that's good! Still, if it's hard to get them, then it can also be hard to use them. I read a suggestion for an Amulet Coin type of feature in the suggestions earlier tonight, but I can't find it now... I think it's a genius idea, though! I think the majority of people wanted it to be like an EXP share, but for credits and I think that'd be kinda cool, so I'd support it if I could find it again. Next, the shiny/albino/melan thing. As someone who wants to collect all the variations of my favourite Pokemon, it comes as a hassle that I have to spend months upon months trying to get even just a shiny, which (if I'm understanding correctly), isn't that rare when compared to an albino or melan Pokemon (but very rare when compared to a normal Poke). While that can be seen as a good thing and meant to give the player a sense of reward, it can also be a bad thing. The way games work, if the player doesn't get enough reward to keep them coming back, then... they won't waste their time. It's how basically /all/ games are made; the player goes through something rigorous and they get rewarded handsomely, they keep playing, run into another situation that causes them trouble, then they get rewarded after they beat the problem. And with PFQ and shinies, it... doesn't feel like a reward if you can't even /get/ the shiny in the first place. The system is fine, hell, maybe it's just me and RNG not getting along, (speaking of troubles with rng, don't even get me started on scour finds, which have been largely disappointing despite having the max amount of boosts and slots) but... I dunno, it just doesn't seem like enough? I tried a Phantump hunt that went on for awhile (a few months, whereas some other people around me didn't spend as much; I even found someone who had found a melan Pokemon they wanted within /two (2) weeks/, which is really ridiculous!) and it never panned out, so I just... didn't see a point in keeping it going. I got into hatching eggs from the shelter that I hadn't registered before and that was fun as it took away from the frustration I had toward my failed hunt, but... it still didn't feel right to me. I wanted to try another hunt and here I am, doing an Eevee hunt with high hopes. Alas, nothing so far. On the bright side, I will feel largely accomplished when I do hatch a shiny Eevee, but... if it doesn't happen for months upon months while other people keep popping them out like it's a factory, it just feels largely... unfair? And like I said, boring. I try to click quite a bit, too, to hatch eggs faster, but it can be a bit troubling sometimes due to bad internet on my part. Point is, it just feels really... wrong? The system is fine with how it works, but to see people getting shinies and even albinos and /melans/ within weeks while I'm working months with no success, that's what feels wrong to me. Now until I think of anything else that strikes my mind, I'll get onto the pros of this review. Firstly, I really like the designs of the different types of variants/fakemon/megas/etc. The colours generally work well and the designs themselves are really good. Props to the art team for doing so well! You guys are amazing. I particularly like the albinos, as I'm really into the light colours/mix of red and although some of them look a little weird (can't name any off the top of my head, I just know some rubbed me the wrong way), I actually really like the look of a good majority of them! Same for the melans; they all look so... I dunno, polished? I know some may be older as the site is kinda/not really old, but I still do like the colours they use, though I'm aware some may need work. The artwork for stuff in general is really nice and I'd like to thank everyone on the art team for working so hard to do stuff that they've been doing. I particularly like the art that shows up on summary pages of some Pokemon; it doesn't have an entirely realistic look, but I like the look it's going for! It actually tickles me that it looks like that as some of them (haunter and gengar, particularly) really kinda spooky, while others (hoppip and shooting star cleffa are good examples) catch the cute vibe that the Pokemon are going for; if that was intended (and I kinda believe it was) then good job! You've certainly done what was intended and I can't wait to see more art in the future. (Also I'm really into the mega designs, like you don't even know, I could go on for hours about them, especially Mega Mightyena, Mega Floatzel, and Mega Luxray). Now about the site and staff. The site itself is actually quite beautiful when viewing it with the normal skin, but I also like that it has the ability to change skins to whatever the user pleases. I currently have a dark skin that I put together on a lazy day and it works quite well! I don't usually see flaws in it when viewing it on computer or mobile, so the site itself is designed for both of them in a way that makes it very pleasing to use on both platforms; I'm happy about that as I can't always be on my computer and it makes it feel more welcoming to use it on mobile in a way that most sites try to capture, but can't actually get close enough to. Props for that! Now about the staff, who I have... kinda mixed opinions about. Like I said, they're incredibly welcoming with a bit of snark to them. I can usually appreciate snark and sarcasm as those are the only two ways that I speak most of the time. However, there are some problems with that and younger users. Some young users might not be able to take either of those well and while some may, it's... not really good to assume that everyone will. I know adding it gives the staff some sense of humanity and not the "beep boop i am a robot" feeling, but I'd just be very wary about it if I were you guys! Aside from that, I've noticed that staff is very amiable and welcoming and as someone who is generally on the fence about people, it's very pleasing to see that staff are trying to come off as humans instead of corporate robots! It's nice to see members of staff interacting with the community as it doesn't normally happen in most places; I feel it makes PFQ seem less like a community and more like a family, which makes me very happy to see! Most sites are very professional and while it is a good thing to be professional, it is also a good thing to be yourself and not someone who only acts like they're professional 100%; it's nice to see that the staff can be themselves. The community, while not going to sway me to view one way or another, is incredibly welcoming and human as well. Like with the staff, it's nice to know that there are good people on here and it's also nice to know that they're more than likely to help other people who may need it. It also helps that the community itself is a "very involved" type of community, again, like a family (except I only rarely get mad at this family, but that's another story for another time). I imagine having an incredibly involved community helps staff quite a bit, too as they can report issues easily that staff may overlook without realising, help answer questions, and just generally take a lot of work away from staff so that they can work on more important things such as improving the website as a whole. And that is largely a good thing in my opinion as it makes it easier to interact with people in the community as you get to see secondhand if it's worth getting involved or not; this is a good thing because it gives someone an opinion on the community from the first few threads/posts/profiles/what have you that they read. However, I am willing to note that there are some really bad eggs (not that I've noticed personally, at leas not before they've been caught) and they can be a bit of a problem. While, again, they won't make me change my review to one star option or another, they are incredibly noticeable whether they mean to be or not. It's good to know that staff can usually catch them, but the few that staff can't could pose as a huge problem, so I understand it's up to the community to try to report the ones that "fly under the radar" so to speak, but... really, if I'm honest, some members of staff are largely intimidating at times with their snarkiness/sarcasm/etc and that doesn't really help the problem sometimes. While, again, the staff is nice most of the time, for people who aren't entirely used to approaching people like that, or those who have anxiety or other issues, it can be hard to report individuals like that. While I haven't noticed any myself, I'm just pointing out potential problems that could arise should someone get into that situation. Unless there's anything else I think of, this is pretty much my review as a whole. If you somehow managed to make it through my grossly descriptive and somewhat lazily worded review, then I'm proud of you! Have a cookie. *Flings bags of cookies into the air.*

When a good friend of mine first told me about the site, I was excited to try it... but when I discovered what it actually was, I was disappointed. After playing for a bit though, I've found I do really enjoy it; I just must admit, I have no clue why I do as the idea of just clicking on Pokémon to level them up and collect them for nothing other than viewing and bragging rights does not sound appealing at all to me. Despite all that, I do really like Pokéfarm... but don't ask me why, because I honestly couldn't tell you. As far as the site and its staff are concerned, Pokéfarm is an excellent example of how to run a site that has its own community like this; the staff seem very responsive and genuinely interested in the site as a product, and it shows. I wasn't a part of the old site, but watching the Recode really showed me how much work has been put into the site and how much dedication is behind it. Obviously there's room for improvement, as with everything, and I get that it's definitely not for every Pokémon fan out there... but I really do like it, and I'm grateful to the staff for creating and maintaining this fun place to click/tap around on for a bit each day. -- Rating adjusted by user's request -- After some thought and being contacted by Niet, I've decided my rating didn't match up with my review. Being contacted by the creator of the site showed me once more that the staff at Pokéfarm really care about what they've made and the community that has formed here, which in my opinion is an extremely positive thing for any product or service. I think my draw to this site is mainly for the sense of community and the care the admins put into it (as well as the obvious, being that it's Pokémon themed) as well as how strangely fun and addicting it is to have an extremely relaxed and casual experience to calm down with after a frustrating and/or busy day. I look forward to seeing how this site continues to grow in the future!

It's kinda hard to navigate your way around when you first join, but you get the hang of it. I really like it though, it's fun. I wish it had it had battles or something, that would be interesting. But over all, it's really good.

I'll have to say that I enjoy this little site. I started off playing before this recode had happened. Sure I stopped for a while, but when I came back, it was just as enjoyable as I remember it being. There's loads to do for collectors with the addition of melan and albino hunting. The community is very good. A lot better when it comes to other site communities that I've seen. Even not communicating, it's very easy to keep yourself busy with this here site/game of yours. I can't remember the last time I went a day without checking in on here to talk with friends, do my dailies, or attend to trade threads. BUT. This game, despite how fun it is, it really could use some fixes, which I'll list on the bottom. Daycare and shelter. I'll explain how this goes hand in hand. It's unfair and very tedious that you can only adopt 1 egg per day (two if you have HM), before you have to fish out your currency to have to buy DC passes just to be able to get more. Now I'm a paying user, so I get the discounts, and the 500gp every month and all, but it's not enough. Yes, shiny/albino/melan hunting is expensive. But most currency you make selling extras has to go right back into the daycare to buy these expensive packs. 600gp for 1 60 dc pack is ridiculous. How does this go hand and hand with the shelter? Well I'll tell you how. First, do you remember the overbreeding we had in the previous years of Rattata, either Snivy or treeko (can't remember which), and almost Furfrou? Well, it made it very hard for others shiny hunting to find the eggs they were looking for. Especially if they were one of few hunting said pokemon. This could be fixed if you only showed one of each species of eggs in the shelter instead of multiples. It doesn't make much sense because we can only grab one egg per page before having it refreshed for us. You could do that, OR you could change that we can choose how many eggs we can release into the shelter. Now, I remember going to the rejected suggestion threads and seeing this was asked for, but it was denied. Now the reason, correct me if I'm wrong, it was rejected was because it'd be easier for PFQ variants to be hunted. Which...makes no sense. If the rate of getting one is still low, as well as eggs are still released after 24 hours, that would not make it easier to get. Not everyone can afford to continue paying to adopt from the Daycare. On one of my hunts, I released over 1200 eggs in a short time, and it still took for other players to start hunting before any started to appear in the shelter (which was close about a week later). Lack of organization of PMs. I don't know about you, but I'd love to be able to organize my PMs. I thought that sense it was changed that we no longer had a limit, would make it nicer. Well...not really. I like keeping things organized, and it's very hard to do that when you constantly get messages of people begging for things from you, or just mindless trivial things that's considered spam. Yes, we can just report them to you, but that still leaves our inboxes cluttered. Yes, as you being mods, I'm sure you get messages daily. But, we normal users who conduct business and others who have valuable things on their account, gets constant spam. I've lost countless messages of people wanting to conduct business in the future when I'd acquire something, or start a hunt, and I can't find them. Not everyone can just up and remember everyone who wants something (specially those with memory problems, and I happen to be one of them). Like, if we could get folders or something to help keep things nice and organized. Or if we were to delete PMs, they'd go into an archive or something so you mods can still keep an eye on things if needed. Well...some of the staffs' attitudes could be fixed. I've heard from friends and others that there has been some major improvement in the attitude of staff members. I know it's hard to be kind and reasonable when people blow their tops (I'm no angel and I know I could be a bit unreasonable at times), but that's still no reason to be super snarky in response to those who are ticked off. I haven't had any negative interaction with any of you, but I've heard and seen of a lot who have. There's some I don't excuse because they were way out of line, but others didn't deserve the snarky attitude that they got in return. Mods/Staff shouldn't be people that put plain fear and intimidation into their members. Making them afraid of asking questions, or just posting in the forums. You're there to keep order, and to make everyone feel that things are going to be running smoothly and problems will be fixed. When someone asks a question, of course we aren't going to be happy if we get either a snarky response, or more often a very sarcastic remark that makes it feel like we weren't smart enough to figure it out. Some things are harder for some people to get like others, please don't make them feel like they're stupid for not realizing the answer. Now this isn't really a complaint, but more so a question I have. With the addition of the market, and how Albino radars are now usually stocked, it leaves me, and I'm sure others, with millions of points saved up. As people who are as active as me or more, we easily make back the 100k points we spend to charge our radar back and more. So I was thinking it'd be nice to be able to sell/trade those points with others who can't click as often to get the points, or add like a little shop or something that we could spend the points on. I think that that may be all that I have to say for now. Besides what I mentioned, this is a great site. Fun and active community and all that. Just enough for you to just sit down for hours and waste the days away on. I hope you keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what other cool features you have in store for us. I'm looking forward to it all.

Thank you for your review! The reason that there are so few Daycare adoptions is, simply put, that if shiny hunters were allowed to adopt all of their eggs with no questions asked then there would be a much lesser population in the Shelter. This would defeat the purpose of the Shelter, in and of itself. There is also the Egg Supplier for personal egg collection. In regards to the rejected thread reasoning of "It would be easier for PFQ variants to be hunted"... If it doesn't make sense, chances are it's not true. Whilst that does stand true that is not a reason for outright rejection. As for organisation, I would like to note that the interesting thing here (little story time! :) ) is that the old system that we used to have for PMs was just a list of messages displayed in the order that you received them. Now the interesting thing about this is that we didn't have complaints about it... Whereas it is now more organised and people are complaining. I'm not saying by any means that it's wrong, by the by, I'm sure it can be improved in some way (but that's what the suggestions forum is for :P ). Now, that said - you mention that you have issues with remembering things. Fair enough! I would like to point out to you that there is a Notepad function, both on our website and on most devices, these days. For the next part, you don't really make sense, I'm afraid. You talk about staff attitudes and such. "Major improvement" - For the most part it's not that the people we have "improved", it's more that the problem-people were removed. (I'll leave that there. "Long story short", shall we say?) Thereafter you proceed to say how you have heard of issues from other people (this is known as "hearsay") but then proceed to state, "I haven't had any negative interaction with any of you" and then you double-back, only to solidify the point I'm making and state, "but I've heard and seen of a lot who have." Please do pardon my blunt question but... How is that fair? You have one side of the story, so to speak. Please do pardon the example, but that's like me hearing that you steal other peoples' artwork and thinking "Yeah, this person steals artwork" when it may not be true and I COULD have come to you for more information - but instead of doing that, I chose to just assume that you were in the wrong. That's not a nice thing to do, right? I'll also note that if these problems are to do with things that happened 2-3 years ago... That's also not fair. Since the huge changes occurred around that time. I'm not denying there were issues (the fact we HAD issues is the reason I'm now... Well, here :) ) and I never will deny that they were there. What I am saying is that there is a point where you should be acknowledging the past and asking "does this still apply?" rather than treating the past as though it is the present. That is unfair to the people that you are doing it to. You can't ask people to change (for the better, of course) and then when they manage to change, continue to hold the past against them. On top of all that, this is meant to be your review - not your review influenced by other people. In regards to the Interaction Points - the people who have lots of IP are actually the minority. Interaction Points themselves are not able to be traded by design - they're what we could refer to as a 'personal currency'. We're always open to suggestions however, so if you have any thoughts on what we could use IP for, please do feel free to throw a suggestion our way! :D We're glad that you enjoy the website and I'll close up this reply by saying "thank you" for the detailed review! :D

I've enjoyed the Pokefarm experience for the Pokemon hatching, events and community. It's quite possibly the only site I feel safe as an artist too. Because I don't often see people acknowledge where or who their used images are from on other sites I use. I like the awareness of art theft, and wish other sites adopted the rule too. Hypermode is grand; I think it's worth the money I paid, definitely. Tho I'm not making the most of it, the monthly goodies and shop discounts are nice. And it entices me to renew for next month. I feel the forums could improve somehow... but even if I say that I'm not sure what I think it should improve on or how. I mean only the trades and art section seem the most popular. Is there a way of encouraging a bit more participation or activity on other sections of the forums? Aside from that, I like it here. And look forward to the updates to come. I've introduced a few friends here, they didn't stay, but they didn't leave with a bad impression.

I used to be addicted to this for a couple weeks then I quit due to a sudden change, mainly because I found another game I liked too. Community: The community is kind and sharing, usually willing to give you more than what you asked for. People praise you on certain things, hardly giving off negative opinions or talking behind your back. Chat: I used to be on chat for a whole day, trying to bring up conversations or watching other chats. The people are nice, it is just the fact that you can easily have your msg deleted by a accidental mistake. Also, sometimes people ignore you if they do not know you. Shelter: I love searching in the shelter after the daily reset time because there is much to find! I personally do not have negative opinions about this, but it can be frustrating for IPhone users who have to turn their IPhone sideways for the full details. Market: Prices are fine, except sometimes I think some items are just too easy to achieve when their prices are too low. Costumes should have a reduced price because seriously, who is going to buy a costume for 1.2 million Credits? Mods/Admins: Though some may be like hawks, most of them are fine and really nice to chat to. Mods/Admins judge accordingly and make sure to not make mistakes. I really like this site overall, even if Im not on it too often! ^^

Pokefarm is good but I think maybe battleing or some think with your Pokémon would be good, also maybe to add something so when you get one of those moments when you whish you had some type of game to play instead of waiting for eggs,berries,ext. would be nice but other then that I would give it 5 stars.

This game is absolutely wonderful, and has provided much of my knowledge of Pokemon's evolution levels, and their evolution's! Only a few things I've noticed are missing. Such as in Shelter adoptions, we should be able to put the Pokemon straight into our field, so our party can be full of eggs. That way we can collect Pokemon, and not need to worry about having a free slot. And the Sun/Moon legendaries really need to be added at some point. I'd (personally) love to have Solgaleo! But maybe they'll come in a future update? I sure hope so. But honestly, this game is amazing. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys Pokemon. Just as a little online, time-waster game to play, and of course, to collect their faveourite Pokemon from the games!