Since I recently opened a bunch of Pokémon cards, I decided to download that Pokémon TCG Live game on my phone cuz otherwise what else would I do with all those code cards I got and like this has to be the first time where my experience with a game is totally the opposite of what it seems the usual experience is?
Cause you look the game up on the Play Store and it's got like 2.3 stars and all the reviews are all about how terrible and unplayable it is. Stuff like the game crashes often, everything is incredibly slow and laggy and you'll often get disconnected when playing against other people because of the lag, and there's a whole bunch of complaints that the most recent update to the game made it so they can't even login to the game and play it - it just gives them an error and fails to log them in.
Meanwhile, for me, it runs fine? Like I start the game up, it loads (and I just get two messages as it loads basically saying 'Hey tomorrow the game will be down for maintenance for a few hours' and 'Hey some people are having problems redeeming codes in this game, we're working on it but try again if a code doesn't redeem and if that still doesn't work, just contact support'), I didn't have any issues logging in, I've had zero crashes, basically no lag when playing against others (there was a little bit of lag at the very start of the first game I played but that was it), and I've never been disconnected from any of my opponents.
The only real issues I've encountered are that this game is a major battery drain (but that's not unusual for mobile games tbh) and, if I were to switch to another app while its running and then switch back, the game will restart itself because of how much RAM it uses (but that's probably because my phone only has 4 GB of RAM).
And like I ain't running this game on some high-end flagship phone either, it's a budget Motorola from 2021 that cost $300 when it came out.
So weird.
