Play! Pokémon Access

Although people have mentioned it I will be stating this once again. The event locator is essential for community building, competitive players and new players. The fact that it is very tedious and a chore to locate upcoming events is an issue that should have never happened. The fact other 3rd party locators are being shutdown and Pokemon is not addressing their issues with its own event locator is frustrating. You would think Pokemon with its strong IP would have this app at 4 to 5 stars but it is obvious that Pokemon is very out of touch with its player base. I do understand that if we do not bring this issue up over and over then it will not be resolved. I encourage others who read this to mention the event locator be restored back to how it was originally. Pokemon or devs won’t do anything without the majority speaking up.

Putting aside all of the event locator issues that people have covered exhaustively (and have been ignored for weeks and weeks now forcing people to use third-party software to find Pokémon events and making barrier to entry higher for new players) this app was a good idea but is lacking in execution. Championship points in general have not been updated properly, events are not reported correctly and aren’t even showing up at all at this point. The badge achievement system is cool but is not working properly (I have been to multiple league cups since I got the gold badge but have not been upgraded to the next level), and the list goes on. I would love for this to include decklist submission, event check-in, results reporting, and more; but it seems like this extremely rich company doesn’t have the money to spend on resources to make this app into even a shadow of what it could be.

The app itself is a cool idea, but there appears to be absolutely no way to manage multiple accounts in a reasonable way. I play with my kids (both under 10, neither have a phone) and it appears there is no way to generate/show QR codes for my kids to check in at events. It’s fairly obvious to me that this should be enabled in the parent’s account, but the functionality isn’t there. Furthermore, there appears to be no way to actually log out of the app entirely, as when you log in again it somehow remembers who was logged in before they logged out. This app is absolutely not ready for prime time.