The game is so cute! I'm always afraid of joining those non-official Pokemon games as Nintendo usually closes them down; in the past I played some "PokeTibia" (modified Tibia servers that emulated Pokemon), and I always lost my account after the games were closed down due legal stuff :(
This game has been alive for a long time and I'm still surprised that Nintendo hasn't closed the server yet and that there are active people playing it.
That's very nice! How many players there were usually online eg was the world actually full of players of everything felt empty?