Trivia / Pokémon Sleep

• Author's Saving Throw:
  • The September 26, 2023 update added the ability for all boxed Pokémon to recover 5% of your Sleep Score as Energy, letting them recharge bit by bit each day they're not on your team. This was done after several players complained about it being hard for them to recover Energy.
  • The Linking Cord quickly became infamous among the fan base due to how easy it is collect them (given as a reward for reaching level 3 friendship with a friend) and the game having very few Pokémon that use them for evolving. An update on November 16, 2023 lets you trade a Linking Cord for five Candies of a random Pokémon that evolves with it.
  • Free to play players complained how difficult it was to collect diamonds, biscuits, and other items, which made the game more difficult. An update in December 2023 added a daily free gift feature that gives players a free item or diamonds everyday.
  • At the end of March 2024, two different bugs occurred; there was a particularly nasty bug where attempting to collect berries or ingredients would display an error and boot the player back to the title screen. This happened on a Sunday where the pot size to cook ingredients is doubled so it was a pretty rough blow for everyone trying to power up their Snorlax. To compensate, the developers gave everyone three Helper Whistles, an item that gives out three hours worth of collected berries and ingredients. Another bug occurred shortly after where, upon using a Raikou Incense, only its one star sleep style would appear regardless of whether or not you qualified to see its other sleep styles. To make up for it, the developers gave everyone one Raikou Incense and one Raikou Biscuit as well as boosting Drowsy Power by 1.5 for the weekend.
• Content Leak:
  • A few months after the game's release, the then-unrevealed Dratini line was uncovered by dataminers well in advance of its actual showcase.
  • The Pokémon line that was to be introduced in the Halloween 2023 event—the Shuppet line—was revealed early through a datamine.
• Milestone Celebration: The game gave out free gift bundles for various milestones such as reaching 10 million downloads and its 6-month anniversary.
• Troubled Production: The game took four years of development before it was finally released in 2023 because it was difficult to playtest sleep tracking, its core mechanic.

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