My kids went through the Pokemon phase in grade school – as a card game, anime or video game it’s harmless. As a live-action real-world obsession – well, I’m just glad they’re in college and not into this kind of madness anymore.
The original idea is that strange, magical creatures are everywhere, and studying them gives one professor some kind of credibility, while children can collect them and develop some kind of benefit from fighting them against others held by other children. The weirdest thing about it to me was the idea that 10-12 year old Japanese children (and some younger) are allowed to wander Japan without adult supervision for the most part, and somehow get food, shelter and clothing along the way.
Gator
July 11, 2016 2:51 pm
People I work with play this shit too. I’m apparently an asshole for making fun of them and telling them I can’t wait to hear on the hews that one of them was hit by a car trying to catch a pokemon. Im 31, pretty much all of them are within 5 years of my age, and are still doing shit like this. I didn’t even know pokemon was still a ‘thing’ these days.
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July 11, 2016 3:23 pm
How Pokémon Go makes money
By Trey Williams
Published: July 11, 2016 3:05 p.m. ET
Pokémon Go was the top grossing app in the U.S. in less than a day after its launch
Pokémon Go is the No. 1 mobile app in the U.S., and the craze is showing big potential for Nintendo to rake in the dough.
The app itself is free on Apple Inc.’s AAPL, +0.50% Google’s app stores, but as players progress in the game, in-app purchases should start to look more enticing.
“As users build their Pokémon inventory, spending money becomes needed to store, train, hatch and battle,” wrote Macquarie analyst David Gibson in a note to clients in Australia, where the app is ranked No. 2.
Enter PokéCoins, the in-game currency of Pokémon Go. Players need these coins to buy useful items, such as Poké Balls, which are needed to actually “catch” Pokémon, and for inventory upgrades. There are ways to earn coins within the flow of the game, but the quickest way is to shell out the cash. Users can pay anywhere from 99 cents for 100 PokéCoins to $99.99 for 14,500 coins.
The Pokémon Go app has been wildly popular in the less than one full week since its launch. People are spending more than 10 minutes a day longer on Pokémon Go than on WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat, according to website traffic statistic site Similar Web. And the app is approaching Twitter Inc. TWTR, -1.13% territory for number of daily active users.
It took less than a day from its launch for Pokémon Go to become the most downloaded and top grossing app in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, according to App Annie, which tracks market data for mobile apps.
It’s not clear just how much money is going to Nintendo Co. NTDOY, +34.39% 7974, +24.52% , which has struggled as mobile gaming has gained popularity. The fervor has helped its shares gain more the 52% since the mobile game launched. Pokémon Go is a joint project between The Pokémon Company, which is 32%-owned by Nintendo, and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.51% spinoff, Niantic Inc.
Worldwide revenue for in-app purchases is expected to hit $58.2 billion this year and rocket to $76.5 billion in 2017, according to data gathered by Statista.
“I can easily envision a run-rate of over $1 billion per year with less server issues, a worldwide presence and more social and PvP features,” said Fabien Pierre-Nicolas, vice president of marketing communications at App Annie, in a statement.
Pokémon Go, while dipping into users’ wallets, has also been sending people outside to explore the neighborhood, and in some cases even stumble upon interesting or historical real-world places.
“We like it, makes us want to explore our local world, exercise and learn new things about our neighborhood,” Macquarie’s Gibson wrote.
It has also taken users to stores and local businesses to catch Pokémon and interact with the game, leading some to consider the advertising potential. Businesses could pay Niantic and The Pokémon Company to categorize their location as a specific designation or even to house specific, or rare Pokémon.
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July 11, 2016 3:58 pm
Nintendo Soars As ‘Pokemon Go’ More Popular Than Porn
by Tyler Durden
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When your app is “more popular than porn” it is hard to argue with Nintendo’s stock prices surge following the unprecedented success of the launch of Pokemon Go – the augmented reality app taking the world by storm.
A quick search of Google trends shows, as ValueWalk.com notes, that the game has even beaten one of the most popular search terms and looks to be pulling ahead today, a feat which Brexit also recently pulled off, and supposedly does not happen often…
While we await out first fatality from the game’s zombification of its players, MacRumors reports a couple of incidents related to the game have already begun sprouting up over the past few days, bringing to light a few cautionary tales for everyone delving into the game.
Because it requires players to travel to real-world destinations in order to stock up on Poké Balls, eggs, and potions, and compete at gyms, some individuals have been capitalizing on the game’s mechanics to trap and rob its players. According to a Facebook post from the O’Fallon Police Department in Missouri, four people were arrested over the weekend after using a Lure Module at a PokéStop to draw in unsuspecting players and rob them at gunpoint.
Pokemon Go gameplay
“Many of you have asked how the app was used to rob victims, the way we believe it was used is you can add a beacon to a pokestop to lure more players,” the police department said in a statement on Facebook. “Apparently they were using the app to locate [people] standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in.”
The Lure Modules work as ways to bait more Pokémon into showing up to any PokéStop for 30 minutes, and enhances the Stop’s visibility to a glowing pink color when in use, so it’s easy for other players nearby to notice. Due to this, other cities across the United States have reported Pokémon Go-related thefts since the game launched last week, including a few in Philadelphia.
Other users playing the game have been lead to a few scary discoveries, including one woman who found a corpse while traveling to a PokéStop in Wyoming. Nineteen-year-old Shayla Wiggins jumped a fence to capture a nearby Pokémon, but instead discovered the dead body of a man who is believed to have drowned in the Big Wind River. According to the local police department, “There is no evidence at this time that would indicate foul play.”
Nintendo reminds users to be aware of their surroundings every time the app is opened, and a few states have issued specific warnings as well, but there have also been some driving-related incidents since the game launched. While Pokémon Go encourages players to strike off the beaten path to discover wild Pokémon nearby, most have discovered — especially in cities where walking is inhibited — that it’s easy to idle past nearby PokéStops and Gyms, already leading to more than a handful of Pokémon Go-influenced accidents.
kokoda
July 11, 2016 4:15 pm
If only I had an NSA Phone I could be joining the Zombie Maroons. Double Drat.
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July 11, 2016 4:16 pm
Yet even formulas for success can run askew:
Silly Digitality of Friviality + Three-Dimensional Retardity in Reality = Victimization and Criminality.
TV, computers, and mobile phones were created by the demon kings to allow you to get a taste of hell, without having to die first.
harry p
July 11, 2016 10:26 pm
“It’s something to do”
What in the fuck?!?!?! Something to do? how about read, learn a skill, write anything, build something, get a fucking job. These people arent motivated enough to get off their asses on their own? Wutdahfuq.
Kudos for nintendo to make piles of cash off these fat, lazy stupid retards.
There are so many interesting things to do to grow as a person that im getting frustrated that there isnt enough time in the day to get it in and ger it all done. And these people are tossing their time away as if they are muddling thru a prison sentence. They dont deserve the time theyve been afforded. This literally makes me despise my many of my fellow humans.
These people are worthless meatbags with pointless existences aimlessly wasting their time on this earth to try and not be bored. These are genuinely horrible people, i hope the Anonymous hacking group or someone else starts geocaching a ton of these stupid fucking pokemon right in the middle of major highways during rush hour. The gene pool needs a shocking dose of chlorine.
What in the fuck?!?!?! Something to do? how about read, learn a skill, write anything, build something, get a fucking job.
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Seriously?? You’re fucken nuts. GET WITH THE TIMES. Or, kill yourself. I’ll follow shortly.
Ms Freud’s son already has it … yeah, the stockbroker dickfuk …. he plays it on the train going to work. I hate this world. Where’s that cabin in the woods ……
Uncontemporary
July 12, 2016 1:53 pm
True story: Last night, my daughter was home with some friends. When I walked into the kitchen they were trying to explain the “Pokemon Go” concept to my wife. She didn’t get it, so I showed her the above Mark Dice video.
Later in the evening, while getting ready for bed, my wife and I both thought we saw a pokemon outside our window, but then we realized it was just a firefly.
Stucky
July 12, 2016 5:22 pm
Q: What is the object of Pokémon Go?
A: To collect as much personal data for Nintendo as possible
Q: Where can you play Pokémon Go?
A: In any society in which the problems of day-to-day survival have been adequately solved to allow the concept of unfocused activity, or “leisure,” to develop
Q: How do you catch a Pokémon?
A: Spend months building a personal connection before luring it away from its family
Q: How do you beat the game?
A: The game is won when you have completed all in-app purchases
Q: Should I worry about the amount of information that I will expose about myself by using the app?
A: It’s never stopped you before
Q: Is some part of this game’s popularity among adults deeply, indescribably sad?
A: Yes
My kids went through the Pokemon phase in grade school – as a card game, anime or video game it’s harmless. As a live-action real-world obsession – well, I’m just glad they’re in college and not into this kind of madness anymore.
The original idea is that strange, magical creatures are everywhere, and studying them gives one professor some kind of credibility, while children can collect them and develop some kind of benefit from fighting them against others held by other children. The weirdest thing about it to me was the idea that 10-12 year old Japanese children (and some younger) are allowed to wander Japan without adult supervision for the most part, and somehow get food, shelter and clothing along the way.
People I work with play this shit too. I’m apparently an asshole for making fun of them and telling them I can’t wait to hear on the hews that one of them was hit by a car trying to catch a pokemon. Im 31, pretty much all of them are within 5 years of my age, and are still doing shit like this. I didn’t even know pokemon was still a ‘thing’ these days.
How Pokémon Go makes money
By Trey Williams
Published: July 11, 2016 3:05 p.m. ET
Pokémon Go was the top grossing app in the U.S. in less than a day after its launch
Pokémon Go is the No. 1 mobile app in the U.S., and the craze is showing big potential for Nintendo to rake in the dough.
The app itself is free on Apple Inc.’s AAPL, +0.50% Google’s app stores, but as players progress in the game, in-app purchases should start to look more enticing.
“As users build their Pokémon inventory, spending money becomes needed to store, train, hatch and battle,” wrote Macquarie analyst David Gibson in a note to clients in Australia, where the app is ranked No. 2.
Enter PokéCoins, the in-game currency of Pokémon Go. Players need these coins to buy useful items, such as Poké Balls, which are needed to actually “catch” Pokémon, and for inventory upgrades. There are ways to earn coins within the flow of the game, but the quickest way is to shell out the cash. Users can pay anywhere from 99 cents for 100 PokéCoins to $99.99 for 14,500 coins.
The Pokémon Go app has been wildly popular in the less than one full week since its launch. People are spending more than 10 minutes a day longer on Pokémon Go than on WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat, according to website traffic statistic site Similar Web. And the app is approaching Twitter Inc. TWTR, -1.13% territory for number of daily active users.
It took less than a day from its launch for Pokémon Go to become the most downloaded and top grossing app in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, according to App Annie, which tracks market data for mobile apps.
It’s not clear just how much money is going to Nintendo Co. NTDOY, +34.39% 7974, +24.52% , which has struggled as mobile gaming has gained popularity. The fervor has helped its shares gain more the 52% since the mobile game launched. Pokémon Go is a joint project between The Pokémon Company, which is 32%-owned by Nintendo, and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.51% spinoff, Niantic Inc.
Worldwide revenue for in-app purchases is expected to hit $58.2 billion this year and rocket to $76.5 billion in 2017, according to data gathered by Statista.
“I can easily envision a run-rate of over $1 billion per year with less server issues, a worldwide presence and more social and PvP features,” said Fabien Pierre-Nicolas, vice president of marketing communications at App Annie, in a statement.
Pokémon Go, while dipping into users’ wallets, has also been sending people outside to explore the neighborhood, and in some cases even stumble upon interesting or historical real-world places.
“We like it, makes us want to explore our local world, exercise and learn new things about our neighborhood,” Macquarie’s Gibson wrote.
It has also taken users to stores and local businesses to catch Pokémon and interact with the game, leading some to consider the advertising potential. Businesses could pay Niantic and The Pokémon Company to categorize their location as a specific designation or even to house specific, or rare Pokémon.
Nintendo Soars As ‘Pokemon Go’ More Popular Than Porn
by Tyler Durden
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When your app is “more popular than porn” it is hard to argue with Nintendo’s stock prices surge following the unprecedented success of the launch of Pokemon Go – the augmented reality app taking the world by storm.
A quick search of Google trends shows, as ValueWalk.com notes, that the game has even beaten one of the most popular search terms and looks to be pulling ahead today, a feat which Brexit also recently pulled off, and supposedly does not happen often…
While we await out first fatality from the game’s zombification of its players, MacRumors reports a couple of incidents related to the game have already begun sprouting up over the past few days, bringing to light a few cautionary tales for everyone delving into the game.
Because it requires players to travel to real-world destinations in order to stock up on Poké Balls, eggs, and potions, and compete at gyms, some individuals have been capitalizing on the game’s mechanics to trap and rob its players. According to a Facebook post from the O’Fallon Police Department in Missouri, four people were arrested over the weekend after using a Lure Module at a PokéStop to draw in unsuspecting players and rob them at gunpoint.
Pokemon Go gameplay
“Many of you have asked how the app was used to rob victims, the way we believe it was used is you can add a beacon to a pokestop to lure more players,” the police department said in a statement on Facebook. “Apparently they were using the app to locate [people] standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in.”
The Lure Modules work as ways to bait more Pokémon into showing up to any PokéStop for 30 minutes, and enhances the Stop’s visibility to a glowing pink color when in use, so it’s easy for other players nearby to notice. Due to this, other cities across the United States have reported Pokémon Go-related thefts since the game launched last week, including a few in Philadelphia.
Other users playing the game have been lead to a few scary discoveries, including one woman who found a corpse while traveling to a PokéStop in Wyoming. Nineteen-year-old Shayla Wiggins jumped a fence to capture a nearby Pokémon, but instead discovered the dead body of a man who is believed to have drowned in the Big Wind River. According to the local police department, “There is no evidence at this time that would indicate foul play.”
Nintendo reminds users to be aware of their surroundings every time the app is opened, and a few states have issued specific warnings as well, but there have also been some driving-related incidents since the game launched. While Pokémon Go encourages players to strike off the beaten path to discover wild Pokémon nearby, most have discovered — especially in cities where walking is inhibited — that it’s easy to idle past nearby PokéStops and Gyms, already leading to more than a handful of Pokémon Go-influenced accidents.
If only I had an NSA Phone I could be joining the Zombie Maroons. Double Drat.
Yet even formulas for success can run askew:
Silly Digitality of Friviality + Three-Dimensional Retardity in Reality = Victimization and Criminality.
http://wqad.com/2016/07/10/robbery-suspects-used-pokemon-go-to-target-victims-near-st-louis-police-say/
TV, computers, and mobile phones were created by the demon kings to allow you to get a taste of hell, without having to die first.
“It’s something to do”
What in the fuck?!?!?! Something to do? how about read, learn a skill, write anything, build something, get a fucking job. These people arent motivated enough to get off their asses on their own? Wutdahfuq.
Kudos for nintendo to make piles of cash off these fat, lazy stupid retards.
There are so many interesting things to do to grow as a person that im getting frustrated that there isnt enough time in the day to get it in and ger it all done. And these people are tossing their time away as if they are muddling thru a prison sentence. They dont deserve the time theyve been afforded. This literally makes me despise my many of my fellow humans.
These people are worthless meatbags with pointless existences aimlessly wasting their time on this earth to try and not be bored. These are genuinely horrible people, i hope the Anonymous hacking group or someone else starts geocaching a ton of these stupid fucking pokemon right in the middle of major highways during rush hour. The gene pool needs a shocking dose of chlorine.
What in the fuck?!?!?! Something to do? how about read, learn a skill, write anything, build something, get a fucking job.
==========================
Seriously?? You’re fucken nuts. GET WITH THE TIMES. Or, kill yourself. I’ll follow shortly.
Ms Freud’s son already has it … yeah, the stockbroker dickfuk …. he plays it on the train going to work. I hate this world. Where’s that cabin in the woods ……
True story: Last night, my daughter was home with some friends. When I walked into the kitchen they were trying to explain the “Pokemon Go” concept to my wife. She didn’t get it, so I showed her the above Mark Dice video.
Later in the evening, while getting ready for bed, my wife and I both thought we saw a pokemon outside our window, but then we realized it was just a firefly.
Q: What is the object of Pokémon Go?
A: To collect as much personal data for Nintendo as possible
Q: Where can you play Pokémon Go?
A: In any society in which the problems of day-to-day survival have been adequately solved to allow the concept of unfocused activity, or “leisure,” to develop
Q: How do you catch a Pokémon?
A: Spend months building a personal connection before luring it away from its family
Q: How do you beat the game?
A: The game is won when you have completed all in-app purchases
Q: Should I worry about the amount of information that I will expose about myself by using the app?
A: It’s never stopped you before
Q: Is some part of this game’s popularity among adults deeply, indescribably sad?
A: Yes