A friend of mine owns a tabletop gaming store and found out that they're a gym and they're already getting some extra traffic, though sometimes people just don't come in. Talked about the possibility of making gym badges for people who prove they beat it and offering discounts to people who help defend it.
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Pokemon GO may actually help small buisnesses
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Aztechnology
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How can they though? The concept is just the novelty of Pokemon without any of the depth (Combat/Story). As it stands now unless they create like a randomly generated story based mode, PVP centric events/tournaments etc. Then this will die like Miitomo. They'll have to add a lot of actual content.
It's set up by the Ingress developers, as it pulls from the map data Ingress had built up from roughly 3 years of use. These places are merely capitalising on the unexpected (and somewhat welcome) drive in popularity their being important Pokestops is bringing them.
While the developers will eventually take suggestions to add (or remove) Pokestops, they're not doing so at the moment.
not you, the poster reposting the homophobic garbage
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Ah, my fault. Yeah that's gross.
MisterHero
Super Member
does brock work there
I predict only the hardcore will be playing in a couple months but it's cool to see it blow up like this.
I'll fire it up once in the fall to see a psyduck on a pumpkin
DalikSkywing
Member
Can we not have homophobic garbage in this thread please
More like release PvP at certain areas lol.
Naughty_Doge
Member
I like this guy. He knows Team Mystic is the one true team in Pokemon Go.
My tablet works. But yea... me and you are too cool for phones!
NHarmonic.
Member
That logo with the articuno is amazing.
This game really seems like the 2nd coming, judging by recent events. Crazy stuff, can't really understand it yet.
This game really seems like the 2nd coming, judging by recent events. Crazy stuff, can't really understand it yet.
NecromorphTX
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Valve puts release date to Half Life 3.
alfredofroylan
Member
Ah
El Sabroso
Member
Let me see if I have everything so far this game helps find dead bodies, helps criminals rob people, and is a danger to black people, but at the same time causes world peace my making people friends with each other and helps the economy. The game has bipolar affects on the world.
The Comic/Board Game/Bar Gods & Monsters here in Orlando, FL is doing an event Wednesday with themed mix drinks and 20% off to the team who dominates the gym by the end of the evening. I haven't played it much yet but I might go since it's in walking distance. It's fun to see how popular this has become.
killer rin
Member
Still not out in Canada, seriously Nintendo get your act together... I want to play too
GeorgioCostanzaX
Gold Member
I just hope it lasts and Nintendo throws some resources into it. I think the game would be borderline perfect if you could do full on Pokemon battles by tapping on screen attack buttons to capture.
Along those lines:
Nah man, that screws over the absentee voters like myself. I want some of that sweet pie too you know.
Everyone in Canada is already playing it right now. I was out tonight in Toronto and easily 50% of the people outside were playing it
spatenfloot
Member
I'm pretty sure that's a health violation.
Along those lines:
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This needs to happen and make all polling places Pokestops and have lures on them.
Also shut down all other pokestops and make it so their radius forces you to be inside and voting.
Dammit I knew this was coming
OverdriveOtaku
Member
I'm gonna have a lot of "Pokemon GO in rural area" stories, my first short one will be here.
I've lived in my current area for about 6 and a half years, and 30 seconds from me is a McDonalds and gas station. Right behind that, is a strip mall area that has two open stores and the rest are just closed spaces, so 80% of the strip mall is vacant and abandoned. My area is considered "middle of nowhere" since there are no sidewalks around here, just semi-busy roads. Strip mall has a single sidewalk though.
This strip mall, however, has 1 gym and 3 PokeStops, and there isn't any other that's close to around this area (I estimate from the main road, closest single PokeStop is 3 miles away?), so people are, naturally, flocking to this place. I just got home about an hour ago, and while driving home, decided to drive by the strip mall, and despite half of the damn place not having working street lights, there was a small crowd of walkers and cars, just doing shit by the PokeStops.
I am curious if this will change the strip mall at all for the good, given that since I've lived here nothing has been done to it. There's a high school close by, so the gym seems to be hotly contested so far. Gonna try to take it over tomorrow.
I've lived in my current area for about 6 and a half years, and 30 seconds from me is a McDonalds and gas station. Right behind that, is a strip mall area that has two open stores and the rest are just closed spaces, so 80% of the strip mall is vacant and abandoned. My area is considered "middle of nowhere" since there are no sidewalks around here, just semi-busy roads. Strip mall has a single sidewalk though.
This strip mall, however, has 1 gym and 3 PokeStops, and there isn't any other that's close to around this area (I estimate from the main road, closest single PokeStop is 3 miles away?), so people are, naturally, flocking to this place. I just got home about an hour ago, and while driving home, decided to drive by the strip mall, and despite half of the damn place not having working street lights, there was a small crowd of walkers and cars, just doing shit by the PokeStops.
I am curious if this will change the strip mall at all for the good, given that since I've lived here nothing has been done to it. There's a high school close by, so the gym seems to be hotly contested so far. Gonna try to take it over tomorrow.
A Grizzly Bear
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Probably, but Nintendo would be stupid the chase it down. If the business provides incentive for people to stick around then they're more likely to spend more on lures/balls. The only losers in this scenario are the players buying $1 bud lights, second hand clothes and lures.
this is a weird situation where pretty much everyone benefits. though nintendo might still have to sue a bunch of places just to defend its copyrights... didn't they shut down some party that had pokemon on its poster or something a year or so back?
hell, maybe they'll start a licencing affiliation scheme like someone jokingly commented earlier in the thread
BabyFaceKillah
Member
Pokemon Go can get you robbed
Pokemon Go can get black men killed
Pokemon Go can help Small businesses
Pokemon Go can do everything.
Pokemon Go can get black men killed
Pokemon Go can help Small businesses
Pokemon Go can do everything.
clay_ghost
Member
It will never happen to ingress, this is the power of pokemon.
If Nintendo chases it down that would be horrible. The game has so successfully created a Pokemon world out of the real world by actually advertising themselves the way a Pokeshop/Center would in the game. It's fucking incredible, and to take that away would be so sad.
That said I could see them doing it maybe. I just hope that they had to expect this and it be a part of the plan.
That said I could see them doing it maybe. I just hope that they had to expect this and it be a part of the plan.
StarStabbedMoon
Member
The novelty that makes things like Ingress and Pokemon Go really unique, however, is that they're location-based. There's a bigger opportunity there to use that to market your place of business compared the average app, which businesses usually can't do much with. Of course, this is all dependent on whether your business is lucky enough to be a pokestop/gym/portal.
killertofu
Member
Ah
For some reason, I saw that brick and immediately thought of Gainesville
go gata
Flesh out battle system
Allow trainers to battle each other
Allow trainers to battle wild Pokemon.
Booom
My small business is a retro game shop and we're a Pokestop which is pretty sweet. However we had pretty terrible sales numbers this past weekend. TONS of people stopping by, but significantly lower sales than we were expecting. Hopefully lots of these people come back and buy some other games, right?
This isn't the game's final form, the developers have already confirmed regular updates and plans to broaden the concept. Considering it's been out less than a week, there's plenty to do. A casual social game like this has absolutely no need for a story mode. The game creates stories, that's one of the major reasons it's already so popular.
What city is that?
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