Sep. 30th, 2016 10:22 am
This Week in Pokémon Go News
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pokestopHappy Friday, trainers!
It's been a slow week in PokeGo news but here are a couple items of note:
• PokeGo has launched in 5 new territories: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macau, Macedonia, and Serbia. Welcome!
• The Go Plus is back in stock. (US only) Get them while you still can! The resellers have been brutal.
• The Dutch government is taking Niantic to court because they feel that the game is endangering its protected beaches. (source) However, some digging into the situation has revealed some similarities to incidents here in the U.S. That is to say: the relevant authorities enjoyed the increased foot traffic brought on by the game (and the money those players happily pumped into the local restaurants & shops) but increased foot traffic means increased trash and the like. Suddenly, the game becomes an issue. We'll see what happens!
What's been going on in your neck of the woods?
It's been a slow week in PokeGo news but here are a couple items of note:
• PokeGo has launched in 5 new territories: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macau, Macedonia, and Serbia. Welcome!
• The Go Plus is back in stock. (US only) Get them while you still can! The resellers have been brutal.
• The Dutch government is taking Niantic to court because they feel that the game is endangering its protected beaches. (source) However, some digging into the situation has revealed some similarities to incidents here in the U.S. That is to say: the relevant authorities enjoyed the increased foot traffic brought on by the game (and the money those players happily pumped into the local restaurants & shops) but increased foot traffic means increased trash and the like. Suddenly, the game becomes an issue. We'll see what happens!
What's been going on in your neck of the woods?
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especially if it lands me a Pokestop in my front yard, I just don't want you to regret it later.LOL, precisely! The reality of more traffic is that it is more traffic. And while a few extra trash cans here and there might mean a slight increase in maintenance budget, I can't imagine that installing donation boxes in public parks and so forth would cost much of anything. And, from my experience, Millenials are very dedicated to giving back and supporting the community (when they can). Heck, signs asking folks to pick up after themselves and help keep the parks (etc) clean would probably go over incredibly well! How fun and cool would it be to organize a Pokemon GO themed park cleanup, with a pizza-or-whatever party after including nonstop lures?
There's so much potential here, and people are missing it due to frickin' whining over getting what they asked for.