As many readers already know, Pokemon GO is a game that requires players to be on the move, searching for challenges and loot, with the main goal of the game having users catch as many Pokemon as possible and train them to become stronger.
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“Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism”, Holocaust Museum communications director Andrew Hollinger told The Washington Post .
The US Holocaust museum has asked gamers to stop playing the Pokémon Go game during their visit.
The new version of the game ups the ante by using your phone’s Global Positioning System and clock to detect where and when you are in the game, and make Pokemon appear around you – on your phone screen – so you can go and catch them.
The museum at Auschwitz is not the only memorial landmark to host a game Pokespot.
“We find this kind of activity inappropriate”.
More than 100,000 others including non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and anti-Nazi resistance fighters also died there, according to the museum.
The mobile game allows its users to capture pokemon in the real world with augmented reality, and some players are so intent on “catching them all” that they are hunting for pokemon on hallowed grounds like Arlington Cemetery, the 9/11 Memorial, and the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
Ingress ran into similar problems when it was released in 2015.
After players were seen battling for control of Auschwitz, Dachau and Sachsenhausen and were met with outrage, the company removed the former Nazi camps from game locations.
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As of Monday, the game had been downloaded 7.5 million times -more in a week than the popular dating app Tinder has in its four years of existence.
