Update anytime? – Pocket Ponds Review

9/2/19 Still hoping for an update sometime as it’s been a couple years now. I’ve got 2 ponds that are basically ‘stuck’ for some reason. I can still put fish in & out of them which is cool, otherwise I’d probably delete this game. But, I can’t do anything else with the 2 ponds; I can’t remove the last couple pieces of patio stuff from either of them so I can’t delete or sell them which is very annoying; the game just quits when I try. I’m on a new iPad so I doubt it’s me. The problems make me hesitant to spend money on this game though I’d like to keep breeding koi & have more ponds - I guess we’ll see. ? 2/14/19 Well, this is very depressing. Now the game is crashing every time I try to place or change something. I wonder if anyone has ever heard back from the dev? I’ve sent a couple emails but haven’t heard anything. I’m a longtime player of this game & the old PPond2, but I’m about ready to give up on this one. It’s very hard to get anywhere when it continually crashes. ? 4/11/18 I guess the server’s back up today, but everyone’s fish are all dead;?what a shame. Many of us put in lots of time creating our ponds. I’m not sure about buying all new fish though. What if this happened again? <sigh> 4/10/18 I see many others can’t get into their ponds either - now I don’t feel so bad! I kept thinking it was me at first. Hopefully all our fish won’t die. [OG July 2017] I was really hoping for an update to PPond2, but instead we have a whole new game? I've been playing pp2 for years & would really have liked to carry over my stuff from the old game instead of having to start from scratch. This new game started out very, very buggy too, so I ended up losing the money I spent at the beginning. Unfortunately now you have to choose between male & female fish, & the daily koi store never seems to have a decent selection of each - besides the fact that all male fish are white & the females black! I very much dislike that as nothing like that happens in nature (that I know of anyway). Of course everything is more expensive (including the cost of koins) & the fish don't seem to move as naturally. I guess the patio thing is okay, but I doubt I'll ever have enough money in the game to utilize that aspect. And you're only given the absolute cheapest fish to start (that have no coin value at all) so how are you supposed to get ahead? Why couldn't we have at least one fish with some coin value? I seriously dislike this system of two kinds of in-game cash! Without spending lots of real money you'll never ever be able to build up your koin currency so keep that in mind. Not real pleased with this, so not sure if I'll keep it around. And what will happen to pp2? I'm still getting warnings that it's slowing my tablet down & I guess at some point it's just not going to work anymore? A real shame after spending all the time I have on that game over the years keeping my koi alive.
Review by rshelton452 on Pocket Ponds.