Now that the servers are (mostly) working, anyone playing?
Pokémon Go
Now that the servers are (mostly) working, anyone playing?
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
The kids will no doubt want to. Let me guess, though, they released a game for kids that requires a smartphone.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
With internet, GPS and orientation capabilities.
Everyone I've run into thats playing it is high school or older.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
http://www.australianetworknews.com/...-to-stay-away/
No interest personally but LOL.
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
I was particularly amused that one of the PokeStops for Kiwi players is a Hells Angels clubhouse.
One of my managers was busy stalking the store for them today.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
When does marketing become propaganda?
When does playing a game start out as fun, but puts you at risk, but you play anyway? If that's gambling then is Pokemon Go going to have the same gambling taxes?
It is like buying a Tesla with advanced cruise control, thinking this is an autonomous car that does not exist yet, and take a nap with the computer drives. You see videos of stupid people releasing the wheel. One of them sat on the rear seat and turned on the cruise control.
This is putting yourself at risk...
Freedom - When people learn to embrace criticism about politicians, since politicians are just employees like you and me.
What?
How is that gambling? Gambling is risking money for odds, with the possibility of winning money back depending upon the result of an event. How is Pokemon Go gambling?
Actually, gambling can mean taking any risk for fun, even when there's no money prize or jackpot at the end (see rollercoasters, bungee jumping, parachuting, etc.)What?
How is that gambling? Gambling is risking money for odds, with the possibility of winning money back depending upon the result of an event. How is Pokemon Go gambling?
Seems Pokemon Go has risks for users that walk into traffic and get hit by a car, or are lured into backyards and get shot as trespassers. Blaming the user for not reading the TOS doesn't mean much when it's kids playing the game, does it?
Yes Lolli, the game requires a smart phone. And from what I understand it also gives Google full access to email and internet accounts (for full GPS functionality). Adding the "lure" function supposedly makes the game more interactive, but also adds to the "risks". That's what makes it more like gambling, Rand.
No it cannot. You can try and use gambling as a metaphor for some aspect of those, but metaphorical use is not the meaning of a term.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
I'm just waiting for the first black kid to get killed by some nutjob for skulking around in the wrong place
The Ginger is still waiting for her activation mail, we're hoping to try it out tomorrow, otherwise we might try out geocaching for the first time
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Well, kids have been shot at:I'm just waiting for the first black kid to get killed by some nutjob for skulking around in the wrong place
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36818384
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
The three gyms in our local park have been constantly contested by all three teams. Aside from the periods of storms the last couple of days, we've had 50-150 players showing up in the evenings. It's been really cool since you normally only see about a dozen people unless it's our annual festival, the Christmas lights display, or a wedding/party taking place. And with 18 PokeStops also in the area, the amount of lures going off at once has helped a lot of people add to their collections along with making a bunch of new friends. I'm hoping for nicer weather tomorrow so I can catch up to some of my friends.
Backward mofos
Still being plagued by server issues but we've caught a few. Not too many people out but most of the people we passed on our way to town seemed to be playingat the moment not as engrossing as Ingress but that will quickly change, I expect, once we level up.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
So this launched a few days ago in the UK and as an odd consequence I have seen a boost in my sales as a result. My business is a Pokestop I think it is called and we have had lots of customers today and over the weekend stop in while on their phones. Apparently one customer was using "a lure" to bring Pokemon to us earlier today and so lots of other customers stopped and played on their phones in our garden.
Never played Pokemon. I think I need a crash course in how it works and then add this to my marketing plan perhaps ...
A lot of people are using it to draw customers
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
We worked out the math for the libraries and stops can get near total business hour lure coverage for under a $100 a month. Or you create a couple of accounts a day and use those lures you get from leveling up. We started dropping lures for events this past weekend and it drew people in, but people are also dropping lures on their own. Out of the 4 at our intersection we are the only one that has indoor AC
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I played the game's augmented reality predecessor, Ingress, for a good 3 years. They're using the same landmark database, so presumably there's a bunch of photos of churches etc that I took in the game.
Ingress was tremendous if time-consuming and costly fun, but it's clear Niantic couldn't organize a pissup in a brewery, and they have the whole techbro laissez-faire, hands off, crowd sourcing-solves-everything attitude that you see with companies like reddit or Valve. They got away with it for Ingress, more or less, because it was a much smaller audience with a much older demographic. Some how I don't think that shit's gonna fly with a playerbase 10 or 100 times bigger a significant fraction of whom are going to be children.
Last edited by Steely Glint; 07-18-2016 at 09:53 PM.
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
Well, this all came to pass much sooner than I thought. When the game blew up ingress players provided a steady stream of warning. People took the first update of "minor text fixes" as a joke and the ingress players sounded their warning again. Now Niantic has forced the shutdown of the more popular community created tracking sites and have turned the game from an AR version of Marco Polo to a bland version of hide and seek. All without a single word to the players. Now the Ingress players are all saying told you so.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 07-31-2016 at 05:55 PM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Yeah we played Ingress for a few months to take some of the sting off of having to live in the wilderness, it was fun but for several reasons not as appealing. Connectivity and stability issues much more severe with Pokémon Go atm, I have to restart the app like a million times and sometimes I won't have caught the little fuckers because something got borked
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
This is what happens when thousands of hermits simultaneously re-enter from their lairs.
Hope is the denial of reality
Should you max CP before evolving or not? Different games mechanics make one or the other the right decision.
Don't power up or evolve until you're sitting on 5 figures of stardust, several hundred candies, a few lucky eggs, and are about lvl 20.
There is no point to long term gym control. And gym battles can be won with pokemon much lower on the CP scale cause you can swipe to dodge a lot of attacks.
It is cheaper to power up before evolving, but your evolution might have crap attacks. Catch everything you can, transfer everything but the strongest 2 of each pokemon. Don't evolve unless that CP curve is 90% full or more, cause Murphy's Law states that as soon as you evolve you will find a base pokemon with a fuller CP curve.
When you are ready to evolve, activate a lucky egg and have at it.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
About 50 people sitting in one small part of Union Square (Manhattan) pokemoning at night (with half a dozen lures).
Hope is the denial of reality
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/re...-to-leave-park
Good old home town residentsThis is why you play at bars, you're good till at least 2am.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
The police forgot to add another tip: don't be outside at night while brown/black.http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/re...-to-leave-park
Good old home town residents
Hope is the denial of reality
Not sure why parks need closing times. Though if they're near residential buildings and causing a nuisance for neighbours I suppose that is fair enough. There's always one idiot that doesn't comply though.
45% war on homeless, 45% war on drugs, 10% property values
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This is where I usually go. Just down the street from my new place. All those street markings between stops are actually the lanes of a parking lot. Best as I can tell from the pokestop photos this used to be a community art location. Now its a bunch of new restaurants and bars.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
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