Both national landmarks have released statements telling players to be please be respectful to the solemnity of the sites and avoid playing the game while visiting. “We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game”.
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Pokemon Go has completely taken over the mobile gaming space, but we’re quickly finding out that some places aren’t exactly appropriate locations to “catch them all”. The Washington Post reported that the museum contains three different “PokéStops” – real-life sites where players can redeem in-game items.
There is a snap surfacing online showing a player’s screen cap of “Pokemon Go” monster, named Coffing, which is resting in front of Holocaust Museum’s Helena Rubinstein Auditorium.
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.
It’s admirable that these locations have chosen to restrict admission to these brainwashed gamers and they made the right decision.
In the week since Pokémon Go was launched, visitors to monuments have been asked to stop playing the immersive game, particularly in the United States.
Short of enforcing a strict no phone policy when entering either landmark, there doesn’t appear to by any way to tell if someone is playing Pokemon Go without said player explicitly stating as such.
Pokemon Go has continued to break records and sweats across the USA as people try to catch ’em all.
Workers at Auschwitz and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum have seen a string of visitors using the Nintendo app on their phones.
The U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington DC is one of two somber sites designated as a “PokeStop”.
In one case, a player claimed to have found a Koffing at the Holocaust museum.
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According to the BBC, game developers Niantic Labs are yet to respond to their pleas of removing the locations from the game.
