This Week in Pokémon Go News

[inkstone]

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Anyway, here are some game-related highlights from the past week…

• Pokémon Go launched in Hong Kong! A big, warm welcome to the City of Life!

• Nintendo stock prices plummeted as investors belatedly realized the company doesn't actually make Pokémon Go. Awkward. (source)

• The Pokémon Go Plus accessory has been delayed until September. Were any of you planning on getting this? Not being a tech nerd myself, I'm curious! (source)

• In addition to revealing the Team Leaders, the SDCC PokeGo panel teased the future of the game. Forthcoming features include trading, PokeStop customizations, and potential healing centers. They're also planning to fix the three-step tracking bug (thank goodness!) and to address gym poaching. And given the fact that they unveiled Blanche, Candela & Spark, it sounds like we'll be interacting with our team leaders via the game at some point in the future as well. (source)

Any other PokeGo bits of news from your neck of the woods?

Comments

[yuuago]

I'm totally looking forward to the tracking bug getting fixed. It would be so helpful.

Also, healing centres would be so useful. ...Though with my luck, locally it'd probably be in a hard-to-access area, but. Still. xD It's a good idea. I'm always forgetting to actually use my revives/potions.

More team leader interaction sounds great to me, too, though I'm curious as to how/what form that might take.

Aaaand on a personal frivolous note, I finally have a Seel, and I'm very happy about it. <3

[inkstone]

It's terrible because I realized that some players have never known what the game was like when the tracker actually worked!

I've heard rumors that the PokeStops at hospitals will be converted to healing centers. Whether those rumors become reality is another thing entirely, of course.

As for leader interaction, I think we need some Ingress players to tell us. I heard there were missions or something in that game.

...I really need to go near water. I am lacking in water 'mon!

[yuuago]

Ahhh yeah, I wasn't able to play when it was still working. xD So I'm super eager for it to be fixed. Maybe I'll find some of those jigglypuffs that keep appearing... nearby SOMEWHERE, I don't know where.

I've heard rumors that the PokeStops at hospitals will be converted to healing centers. Whether those rumors become reality is another thing entirely, of course.


Hmmm, interesting. We'll have to see how that turns out. Could be true. Or... not. Like rumours tend to be. xD

From a story-logic point of view, it'd make sense to have those locations turned into health centres. But I think it's more likely that stops/gyms in rl-locations designated for emergency services would be moved/removed entirely.

[serpentine]

I know that there's already one hospital system in Pittsburgh that has asked for Pokemon stops and gyms at their hospitals to be removed from the game because they're worried about patient confidentiality and visitors in places they shouldn't be.