Out of 4,000 tweets amassed during the period for the study, the team discovered that 33 per cent of tweets indicated that a driver, passenger or pedestrian was distracted by Pokemon Go, suggesting there were 113,993 total incidences reported on Twitter in just 10 days. Pokemon GO players must exercise common sense precautions to avoid becoming an easy target for criminals, like not wandering out at night alone, especially in risky areas. Besides these, he also talked about the recently launched Buddy Pokemon feature that will allow users to designate a favourite Pokemon as their buddy and walk with them while playing the game.
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The long-awaited Pokemon GO Plus has finally been released. In comparison to August 2015, the amount of revenue received from Pokemon merchandise purchases escalated to well over 233% as of August 2016. It’ll be interesting to see if the game will still retain such a high amount of revenue gain in the months to follow.
However, a particular or a fixed date has not been revealed by Hanke yet regarding the release of Pokemon Go in India, Russia, China including other African and Asian countries.
Catching rare Pokemon can be very hard at low levels in the game so players should aim to level up as much as possible; higher trainer levels are more likely to find rare Pokemon so before even attempting any of these tips, it’s key to raise your trainer level. Now, another wearable comes in, and it may be less expensive and less complicated than the Apple Watch – the Pokemon Go Plus. Hanke said that there are more than 700 Pokemon in the Pokemon universe and his team has only launched the first generation of around 150 virtual monsters into the world.
One thing that Pokemon GO Plus really excels in is how it manages to keep the game running even when players’ smartphones are not being directly accessed.
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Listen to the podcast over at Recode for even more insider information about where the game came from and where it will go. Thus, players who are attempting to hatch eggs and who are grinding away for Pokemon sweets can easily just use the Pokemon GO device to maximize their progress.
