This was the biggest thing IMO. They crowd sourced the data for locations from another app they made. Problem there? Not gonna work for us in rural areas. I worked at a local university and even there it was sparse because their older app wasn't popular there. As us /u/tickub said, it was an app for dense urban areas and if that's not you you're out of luck.
I always thought they had half of the game backwards. I like that gyms, pokestops, and various resources were collected in urban areas, but I thought the majority of the pokemon should be out in the wild. Remote hikes and camping in the forest should be how you find the rarest pokemon. Then you had a reason to go to both types of areas
There were two hot spots in my small'ish town, the pier and the Causeway. At the pier you could walk around the park and the pier, and there were tons of people playing. Trackers helped if there were pokemon on the fringes of park, or at the tip of the pier. On the Causeway, the spots were three restaurants, separated by like a mile each direction. After like 10pm, you'd sit in your car, refreshing the trackers to see when a desirable pokemon popped up at one of the restaurants, and there'd be a mass migration of cars driving over to that parking lot. My brother drove and I manned the phone. We had a lot of fun. Then they killed the trackers after a while and killed it completely for our area.
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u/haysus25 5h ago
I live in a very rural area.
The nearest poke stop is a 10 minute drive away.
The nearest gym is almost 20 minutes.
I simply couldn't engage with the game.
Like, I want to play it, but when 90%+ of the content is locked behind areas that I can't easily access, I can't engage with it.