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Revision as of 06:11, 24 February 2016
Pokémon Vortex is a free online Pokémon RPG. Created back in 2008 in memory of it's predecessor; Pokémon Crater Battle Arena.
Over the years, it has built up a fan base of millions, from the game itself, to it's numerous social media pags.
Before Version 2 closed down, it had 2.8 million registered users within the database who had accumulatively caught over 70 million Pokémon. As the game progresses, it gets updated in version numbers when there are big changes. This number does not change, however, every time a small udate occurs such as a feature revamp or a new Pokémon added.
With the game currently in Version 3, it has just over half a million registered members.
Pokémon Vortex sees updates all year round from new features, to events. Events can vary from random in-game tasks to obtain a Pokémon's form to random give-aways on the chatroom or social media pages.
Introduction
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Currently, Pokémon Vortex is running in it's version 3 BETA stage.
History
Version 1
Version 1 of Pokémon Vortex was similar to where Pokémon Crater left off, without the addition of live battle. It started being developed on October 2nd 2008, not long after Pokémon Crater had closed on December 1st 2007. Pokémon Vortex had it's final public build, ready to go out on September 12th 2009, two months after it had it's closed BETA and was an instant hit globally. Some of it's more popular countries included the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and Peru.
The closed BETA for Version 1 was invitational where the current forum members waiting for the games release could apply within a forum topic. In the end, 50 people were invited a long with a few select friends of the game and forum staff.
A lot of it's following came right from Pokémon Crater where they had been waiting for something similar to be brought to life. With the popularity of the game increasing at a rapid rate, the early days of Version 1's public build seen a lot of down time due to the servers not being able to handle the traffic load that was trying to access the game.
In December 2009, the game had generated enough money from advert revenue to move the website to dedicated server hosting and finally put a stop to the constant downtime and lag. With this change came a flood of more people as the word got around that Pokémon Vortex was finally playable, problem free.
The main attraction of Version 1 was it's competitive leader board called Top Trainers which was a list of 50 users in descending order of points. Their points were calculated from the users; toal Pokémon, total battle count, total experience, average experience and unique Pokémon. The points calculation formula used in Version 1 through to Version 2 was flawed in the sense that it heavily favoured players who had played the longest to gain the highest battle count which later caused the Top Trainers to lock in fixture during Version 2 so no new members could climb the ranks.
Version 1 seen the very first event ever held on Vortex on October 31st 2010 which seen Rotom (Halloween) released on the maps for three consecutive days. With the huge success of this event drawing in over 40,000 users to take part, this shaped the future of how Pokémon Vortex would later introduce new Pokémon and seen the beginning of something that continues to this day; seasonal events.
Pokémon Vortex Version 1 was scheduled to update to Version 1.8 in April 2011, the first of it's big version shifts.
Version 1.8
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Version 1.8 was the first huge update added to Pokémon Vortex in late 2010
Version 2
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Version 2 was the last version with everyone's current data.
Version 3
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Version 3 was a new start for Pokémon Vortex.
Mobile Version
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Vortex Mobile was a short-lived mobile device optimized version of Pokémon Vortex.
Community
Forums
The forums is one of the main community sources for Pokémon Vortex and has seen many changes over the years. With a small moderating team consisting of less than 10 people at a time, it has progressively got less active due to people preferring to use the alternative methods of communication such as the chatroom. Version 1's forums, which was completed and running before the game was, had 230,000 registered users before it was wiped and reset for the release of Version 3. The main draw to the forums is it's guides, closely followed by it's trade sub-forum. Thousands of unregistered people use the forums daily for it's detailed guides on how to play the game and where/how you can get certain Pokémon/Items.
Chatroom
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Social Media
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Wiki
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