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Pokemon GO may actually help small buisnesses
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That was exactly what I was thinking when I clicked on the thread.
My family owns a small but popular restaurant, however unfortunately it's not a pokestop or anything. It's out in the suburbs with the closest pokestop being a 40 minute walk away.
So I decided a few days back to send a facebook message to Niantic asking if they would be kind enough to add my family's restaurant given there's nothing else close to the area. It looks like with the massive popularity they'll probably get thousands of similar requests so I'm not holding my breath.
So I decided a few days back to send a facebook message to Niantic asking if they would be kind enough to add my family's restaurant given there's nothing else close to the area. It looks like with the massive popularity they'll probably get thousands of similar requests so I'm not holding my breath.
Have them purchase a lure so a bunch of Pokemon show up at the Restaurant
Doesn't a lure have to be attached to a Pokestop?
OverdriveOtaku
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Yeah, you can't just throw a lure anywhere, only incense works that way and that's only for the person who deploys it, not for everyone.
I'm not buying shit from Mystic trash. I hope Wal-Mart rolls up on your front door.
i decided to start my hunting at a downtown bar soley because it was a pokestop. sat down, popped a lure and then the bartender started talking to me about PokeGo and we are both on team Instinct. then two servers came up and were like ''who put down a lure?''. after mine expired they put one down. more people came. so i would definitely say its helping
Possumowner
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No wonder UK business is doing poorly,its not released over here yet
Funny. This is exactly what people said about Pokémon 20 years ago.
That's great and all but those are probably the same 20 people I see at Anime North every year.
I want casual non-gamers join which is a huge number of people that still don't have access to the game because they don't browse GAF and download an apk to play.
Jzero
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The only difference is that Miitomo is a boring piece of trash.
You mean when it will launch in Europe/Japan/Brazil/rest of the world?
That's when the game will die? okay :lol
And Miitomo stayed on my phone for 5 minutes, that was a pos
Can confirm. Downloaded it yesterday (I didnt even know about it) and deleted almost instantly.
Comparing Pokémon GO with Miitome should be considered a crime.
Sure, you're right — and wandering around in RL catching Pokemon is exciting, but I can't see people wanting to continuously do that when their commute or downtime could also be spent just relaxing and swiping their thumbs on the screen to play games.
I'll probably be the small percentage trying to get them all a year later.
It seems the ones being helped the most are the food bussiness
frankie_baby
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Might not be "released" but looks like at least half my facebook is playing it anyway
Pokemon in polling places on Election Day? Maybe people will find the Donald Trump Pokemon:Along those lines:
If you do, catch it and drop the ball in the ocean
Trickster
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I think the game looks pretty awful. But I can't deny that the effects of it seem to be largely positive(not counting the odd mugging apparently). It's incentivizing people to go outside and be more phyisically active than nornal, it can cause great social interactions, and apparently also help out local businesses.
Turns out that the plans to keep the economy stable after Brexit are to get the UK recognised as Indigo Plateau.
This is the one that leaves me curious, as in are there enough Pokemon for that to be the case?
That is, the games get by with a few hundred pokemon, but that's partially because the rate of capture is fairly low. Here, on the other hand, I get the impression the capture rate is reasonably high.
Then again, I'm very curious how they'll handle Mythicals and Legendaries.
review mentioned something like... Raid Events or something
Fox Mulder
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At this point, I wouldn't be shocked if they're getting interest from places like McDonalds or Target.
Posts like this show that some people have no clue about how mobile games work.
Miitomo had a very weak gameplay loop (if you could even call it that) and was a bad messaging App. Pokémon GO has several loops (competitive = gyms/cooperative = catch´em all), an energy meter that actually makes sense (no Pokéballs no play), a lot of ways to avoid payinng a single penny and yet it still achieving #1 Top Grossing and it's Pokémon. One of the most popular franhises in entertainment history.
I'd much rather see them going for smaller busnesses than huge chains
Wich problably won't be the case unfortunately
jim-jam bongs
Member
We were having work lunch in a pub today, manager saw someone catching a Pokemon and said "oh cool, I'll drop a lure. Have fun!" They probably got about 6 extra drinks out of the group, so yeah I can see it happening.
Fox Mulder
Member
That stops and gyms are smaller points of interest due to the user submitted data from Ingress. There's a nice charm to it that I think will be lost when/if they get around to updating it now.
kunonabi
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That's a good one although I wonder how people will get it.
Fuck me, is there any deal for Team Valor around NYC/Jersey City?
Past two days for me. Three motor vehicle reports involving playing Pokemon go. Two reports involving people walking around like baboons at 3-4 in the morning in parks getting mugged. Hope it's worth it.
Depends on who is in charge. Ninatic seemed vocal about wanting unique local small business as "hotspots" when parsing the Ingress entries.
there's pokestops near all the hip bars here (and a gym near one). you could hear people yelling at the gym bar about it from outside. and this is like, a grisly bikers bar for dudes in their 40s. the trendy hip bars have had the pokestops going off since release. the owners are blatantly doing it
everyday math
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God Dayumm
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But the sun causes cancer!
My sister's boyfriend works in a bike shop. I texted her today to tell her to download the game -- she said that her boyfriend already did and his bike store was a Pokestop. Apparently they've had lures/incense/whatever on it all day and they've been crazy busy because of it. So, add one more to the anecdotal evidence pile.
I found Squirtle!
hahahaha
I wonder if Nintendo will try to push connectivity between go and sun/moon, to ease their desired transition from mobile to their handhelds.
Might be too late to implement anything significant though
Tom Nook
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I found Squirtle!
Helping out the low budget amateur ones I see.
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