A moment of nostalgia before the weekend begins! With the Pokemon GO European Championship currently taking place in Frankfurt in a competitive studio climate, let’s step back a few years. Specifically, in the summer of 2016, when the Niantic mobile game was released in our country.
Combining geolocation and augmented reality, Pokémon GO, quickly hailed as the mobile game of the year, is becoming a real phenomenon, and anecdotes about brutal trainers are multiplying. Players all over the world are doing crazy things to get virtual pokemon in real life. A video shot in Stockholm was re-edited recently. Ჩ we can see Crowds of players are running like mad to catch Snorlax.
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The popularity of Pokémon GO has had negative consequences. While this meeting of trainers in Stockholm was relatively calm, this was not always the case, and in 2016-2017 many media around the world recorded a few “real” events due to crowd movements or fights. Combine trainers.
Recently, the Pokemon GO press has been hit by car accidents as an unknown trainer chases Pokemon while driving.
Generally speaking, this “angry” side of Pokémon GO hunting has largely died down. Due to IRL events, game titles are getting rarer, trainers join more rarely and often at publisher-controlled festivals.
Source : Millenium
