Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

Tuco_sl said:

where'd you see this figure?

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fortune magazine article- they are quoting survey monkey?

Pokemon Go Could Soon Be More Popular Than Snapchat - Fortune

link they used:

Pokémon GO is now the biggest mobile game in U.S. history - SurveyMonkey Intelligence

BBC world service just teased their Pokemon Go story with already more users than Twitter.

Got soft banned for about 3 hours from the GPS spoofing. I guess going from Central Park to California in an hour wasn't realistic (got carried away in Central Park, but wanted to see if I could play with my wife tonight...didn't work).

Going to try Los Angeles. Madame Tussauds has 3 right next to each other that are all lured up, so maybe that'll be a good one tomorrow. And maybe I won't trip their detection with it being in the same state.

I feel like the trajectory of this is going to land it in fad territory. I'm sure it'll have a fan-base but holy shit this is like Beanie Baby levels of bullshit.

Did 2 10km eggs today, got a 96 eevee & a 171 jynx To say the least I was disappointed.

a_skeleton_02_sl said:

Pokemon go will have tournaments and events that also have mobile Pokemon Centers that will allow you to meet up with other Pokemon Go players and charge phones.

Also it will "reward" you for building a narrative of your own adventure using social media and the built in recording software of the device, Basically if you upload your battle with a rare pokemon at a location to Youtube/Facebook/Twitter you can get rewards.

Guess I have to make a separate Facebook for my Pokemon Go account.

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what?

I have never seen anything like this. Beanie Babies are a good comparison, but they were pre-social media, weren't they? Pokemon Go took over the world in like a week? Has it even been a week?

My entire workplace has changed because of this silly game.

Everything will be back to normal after the novelty wears off in a month or so and the remaining playerbase is reduced to the demographic that typically plays Pokemon games.

This thing has exploded. I can't remember anything going for 0 - 1,000,000 like this ever.

And I keep thinking of the South Park episode.

rinthe_sl said:

Ok, so I set up the pc emulator and gps spoofer like in that video and can now farm pokemons in central park while being at my pc on the other side of the world.

However, this isn't good enough. Because I still have to actually catch them. Anyone know of anywhere/way I can look at for getting a bot to catch them?

fwiw gpsies.com is good for automating a route. don't think I read about that here yet.

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If you're so keen on not playing the game, have you considered not actually playing the game?

Jx3_sl said:

Two police departments that showed up on my Facebook, kinda cool to see them having fun with it.

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Apparently some cops not so happy with it.

The 'Pokémon Go' craze is creating a headache for police

The only appeal to this game, for me, is the travel portion. This would be fundamentally awful sitting at my PC. I get that people cheat at games, yeah, but like, I don't see how this one is remotely enjoyable via spoof and emulator. Spinning discs and flipping balls is kinda lame.

If you're spoofing GPS, it's not about fun. It's about power. It's about knowing you have a enormous leg-up on a suddenly ravenous gaming population. You're one-upping the casual plebs who are suddenly fad obsessed. It's fucking sad.

Also, this game has taken over the world. It's far and away the biggest gaming phenomenon ever, in terms of raw rapid growth.

Neph_sl said:

Walking around the neighborhood bars last night and it seems like most people playing are what I'd qualify as the "hardcore" players (myself included). There were still a good number of people standing around catching stuff, but not nearly as many as were playing this past weekend. I joined a local Facebook group though and people are planning barcrawls and other Pokemon Go meetups for this weekend; the servers will likely be slammed again.

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I'm confused, is this surprising to you, that there'd be less people playing on a Wednesday night than a weekend?

As for the GPS spoofing, you're absolutely correct. It's not very exciting playing on a PC (although, it's still fun catching new ones). But as I stated a few times already, it's a lot better than just not playing at all because where you live is so devoid of Pok?stops that you can't actually play with a full time job (read: I can't sit in a park next to a stop for hours a day to stock up). The game is fun, but the fundamental design flaw is that it's dog shit for more rural areas. Maybe some rural areas are okay (maybe they had a large Ingress player base?), but lots aren't.