"Not everyone defines "playing a game" as "min/maxing the reward system""

#PokemonGO: TL;DR: Collecting free coins is a fun perk for playing the game. Collecting free coins is not the game.It seems like a lot of players are causing their own stress and unhappiness by projecting their personal quirks onto a casual phone game.Pokemon Go is (in part) a game where you pick a team and try to hold gyms. I'm on the blue team, and I think it's fun to level my pokemon so they're strong, so they can kick out yellow team and red team pokemon, and hold blue gyms. I think that's really fun, and I get exercise by walking around to accomplish this.A lot of players on this forum define the game as "get maximum coins with minimum effort." Since the game doesn't offer that, the game "sucks," and the recent update is "is a slap in the face," or whatever. I think this is sad. Nowhere does the game claim to be a vehicle for you to get unlimited free poke-items, and projecting that judgement onto the game is unfair.The game is for people who think it's fun to train and battle pokemon. The 50 coins a day maximum is a fun perk for those who are enjoying playing the game. If you don't enjoy training pokemon and don't enjoy battling gyms, and you only login because you desperately need 50 cents worth of free pixels of this game you apparently don't have fun playing, maybe it's not the game for you. Or maybe you need to tone it down a bit. Play a little bit each day, and stop when it stops being fun. You don't have to make it a part-time job.I know I've rustled some pokeballs by saying this, and I'll be accused of being a company shill, but I'm not. I'm just an old, grizzled gamer who realizes that having fun due to gameplay is the real reward, and free bonuses on top of that are icing on the cake. If you don't like the gameplay and log on only for the bonuses, well, you need to reevaluate.edit: I will add that it's sad to see people put 10CP pokemon in gyms hoping they'll get turned over faster so they'll get their coins faster. It's no different than going into a team-based FPS and purposely killing yourself and helping your team lose so you get a few participation points faster. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2u4pbsh