Pokemon Craze

[Ron]

oops

[drd]

Many of the people I see in my local park clutching their phones in that tell-tale way are cloud-blowing vapers. Another common feature is their pale skin, indicating that they don't get out much.

[mojoman83]

Please don't lynch me. However, I do play Pokemon Go.

Now before you scream 'GROW UP!' at me, I DID originally only install the app for work related purposes.

I work in the hospitality industry, and funnily enough, Pokemon Go + Social Media = immediate way to potentially grow business.

I figured I'd use it for a couple of days, get bored of it and then stick to using it mostly just to do Facebook updates for work. Facebook being something else I don't use much personally, more for work purposes. Bearing in mind I used to play Pokemon when the first Game Boy version came out 17 years ago. The business I work at is a Pokestop so has attracted a number of extra guests over the last few months, especially when the sun decided to show itself. Some of our sister sites have had similar experiences to us in terms of increased footfall, while one in particular had their advertising photographed and subsequently posted to the Smooth Radio Facebook page, which has a reach of at least 100,000 people. That's a HUGE potential market to advertise to people, in anybodys terms.

However, I have kept going with it for a number of reasons. A number of my team members are playing the game, as are my colleagues, and even my managers who don't usually take interest in this sort of thing, are playing it. It's got people talking to each other, even if Pokemon is the subject starter, and some of the team will even go out after work to go Pokemon hunting around some of the more prevalent spots for rare Pokemon that are around Milton Keynes (and there are quite a few). It's turned into a bit of a competition/reminiscing to the days of Pokemon Blue and Red where people are comparing and trying to outdo each other (in friendly fashion, of course).

In short, it's good for business, it's good for team building, and like some others have posted already, it's actually getting people out and off their backsides.

I appreciate that some of you, or perhaps even a lot of you don't like this thing at all, but in modern times when technology seems to lead the way in a lot of the things we do and the behaviour of today's society, I feel that the positives of this thing far outweigh the negatives.

On that note, my little rant is at an end. Thank you

[Lee]

Must be a good way of clearing clandestine meeting places

The places couples head too in the late of night for a bit of back seat intimacy

Bung a few pokemon to be captured there and watch the results

I was looking for pokemon with the choir boys, honest guv, said the vicar
There was a pokemon in the public toilets, honest guv, as George Micheal would say

[Q]

I'd like to know who decides where Pokestops & Gyms are? and how they do it, one of my customers houses is a pokestop but the only way to get close enough is to drive into his car park, it's on a single carraigeway, 50mph limit with no pavements,so you cant stop outside.

[mojoman83]

Sept 11, 2016 12:15:25 GMT Q said:

I'd like to know who decides where Pokestops & Gyms are? and how they do it, one of my customers houses is a pokestop but the only way to get close enough is to drive into his car park, it's on a single carraigeway, 50mph limit with no pavements,so you cant stop outside.

Niantic, the creators of the game are responsible for deciding where the Pokestops and Gyms are. They haven't allowed any user requests for a place to be made a Pokestop or Gym for quite a while as the demand is ridiculously high.

You CAN however request one to be removed if it is in a dangerous place or creating a nuisance. Pokestops should only be in places that are known as businesses or places of interest. Shouldn't be peoples homes or private locations, so I'd advise your customer to contact Niantic. Submit a request via the link below.


support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=319928

[Q]

Sept 11, 2016 13:24:19 GMT mojoman83 said:

Sept 11, 2016 12:15:25 GMT Q said:

I'd like to know who decides where Pokestops & Gyms are? and how they do it, one of my customers houses is a pokestop but the only way to get close enough is to drive into his car park, it's on a single carraigeway, 50mph limit with no pavements,so you cant stop outside.

Niantic, the creators of the game are responsible for deciding where the Pokestops and Gyms are. They haven't allowed any user requests for a place to be made a Pokestop or Gym for quite a while as the demand is ridiculously high.

You CAN however request one to be removed if it is in a dangerous place or creating a nuisance. Pokestops should only be in places that are known as businesses or places of interest. Shouldn't be peoples homes or private locations, so I'd advise your customer to contact Niantic. Submit a request via the link below.


support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=319928

He lives in a converted Church so I guess that's why

[mojoman83]

Sept 11, 2016 15:53:58 GMT Q said:

Sept 11, 2016 13:24:19 GMT mojoman83 said:

Niantic, the creators of the game are responsible for deciding where the Pokestops and Gyms are. They haven't allowed any user requests for a place to be made a Pokestop or Gym for quite a while as the demand is ridiculously high.

You CAN however request one to be removed if it is in a dangerous place or creating a nuisance. Pokestops should only be in places that are known as businesses or places of interest. Shouldn't be peoples homes or private locations, so I'd advise your customer to contact Niantic. Submit a request via the link below.


support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=319928

He lives in a converted Church so I guess that's why

Perhaps, but I would class it as a private location now so they have good reason to have it removed as a Pokestop?

[Lee]

[mojoman83]

Sept 11, 2016 16:45:17 GMT Lee said:

[DaveJ]

There was some media coverage of the "unsuitability" of some of the "pokestops" here too. The local RSL (Returned Serviceman's League) were complaining about some public war memorials being targeted - and, in particular, the lack of respect shown by the players swarming around/over those locations.

The media report made the claim that representations from the RSL to remove those locations from the game had been ignored.