Pokémon Go Plus Review
Hi!
Intro
So, I recently got a Pokémon Go Plus!^^ I luckily had a gift card so I only paid €25,- for it at Game Mania (original price is €40,-). Initially, I was gonna buy one second-hand (or new) from Amazon/eBay/Marktplaats (I even considered AliExpress) but after reading a post on Reddit about counterfeit Go Plus, I decided to just buy it from Game Mania. As I was sure Game Mania sells the authentic Go Plus and I'll also have a 1-2 years guarantee.
Review
Spinning Stops/Gyms
The plus does a decent job at spinning stops and gyms if you are walking. However, it does prioritize Pokémon over stops/gyms in my opinion. But, if you only want to collect items I think you can disable the option in setting (I haven't tried it yet).
My bag is always full now though so I hope Niantic will either expand or have a sale on expansions for 3rd Gen!
Catching Pokémon
The Go plus has been super handy for catching Pokémon and collecting Stardust! I don't mind the one Pokémonball chance to catch, as I'm mostly only catching them for Stardust or for mass evolution for XP. If I'm playing in an area known for good spawns or with a friend I tend to not use the Go Plus as much for catching, then I use it for stops and non-rare Pokémon. Running out of regular Pokéballs sometimes is a bit annoying, but not a major setback.
Hatching Eggs
Very helpful but with a major drawback. At first, I could only hatch eggs if I constantly had my phone in hand and ensured my phone was awake and Pokémon Go was open. But now it doesn't matter and I can hatch eggs by biking/cycling!!! Which personally I think is the best part, as I bike quite a lot these days. However, not being able to know if you've hatched an egg while using the Plus is my only complaint (so far).
Possible Improvement
I've (currently) only got one improvement I would really like to see.
Automatic incubation!!!
The only drawback of using the Go Plus for hatching Eggs is that you don't know when an egg has hatched (as far as I know), especially if you are just walking around and push the button whenever the Go Plus vibrates. So, I hope that in the future Niantic will add the option for automatic incubation when using the Pokémon Go Plus (or just walking with your phone) and a selection of which eggs you want to incubate automatically (only 2k, only 5k, only 10, only 2k and 5k, etc...)
If you've got a Go Plus, do you find it useful? what improvement would you like to see?
Have an awesome day and be nice ^^
Blue7noise
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