Player Reviews

The title serves as a good TL;DR, since I kinda started rambling. Like everyone else on here, I joined because I love Pokemon and Fakemon. All of the aspects of the site (hunting for rarities, gem farming, entering in contests, weekly tournaments, etc.) are fun to interact with, and usually there is only one or two days a month when there is no special event going on. It keeps me entertained for hours at a time, but is calming enough to play while watching TV or doing other relaxing activities. Most people on here are very friendly and open to cooperation and chatting, making it a good community to interact with. My only real gripe with Pokefarm is how hard it is to hatch rare Pokemon if you are a free-to-play (F2P) player. Items to increase chances of hatching Shiny/Ablino/Melan pokemon are obtained easiest with Zophan Canisters, a premium currency that can usually only be obtained by paying real money. It is possible to buy chance-increasing items with Credits (normal currency obtained by doing activities on the site) but a huge amount of credits is needed to buy these items. I understand that being a F2P player is supposed to be more challenging so that players have incentive to pay real money, but going days and sometimes weeks without hatching a special Pokemon makes the site a lot more boring, because the rarities you seek are so hard to get. I had bought a good sum of Zophan Canisters as part of a promotion months ago, and the items I bought with those canisters/received as part of the promotion were immensely helpful, and the game was much more fun. Once my supply of Canisters ran out, the game became much duller, as collecting valuable items in order to trade for shiny-chance-increasing items became a much slower process than simply paying Canisters. The obvious solution would be to buy more Canisters, but I am not in a position in my life where I can justify spending money on an online game, as much as I would like to support the creators. Therefore, I have been spending much less time on the site, as it just isn't as entertaining for me anymore. I understand that increasing the chances of hatching special Pokemon is probably not an option for this site, because the low chances of them hatching are what make the Pokemon so valuable. However, F2P players will likely lose interest in this game the longer they go being fruitless in their hunts.