Adventure begins: A player tries the Pokemon GO game app on his mobile phone. Pokémon Go uses augmented reality and Global Positioning System tracking, allowing users to find and catch Pokémon in the real world.
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A U.S. senator has asked the developers of the game to clarify its data privacy protection. We are working hard with our partners in Japan to enable the servers to keep up with demand once the game goes online there.
Pokemon GO has only been released in a few countries but it is confirmed that it will be releasing in Japan very shortly; they also have plans to release it in South Korea but there are a few problems such as Google maps being restricted due to North Korea’s security issues. The company said the numbers are likely to be similar with Pokemon GO.
USER PITAORENZHE, on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
Has your country gotten Pokemon Go yet? The game uses Google Maps for detecting locations. “Then, when war breaks out, Japan and the U.S. can easily target their guided missiles, and China will have been destroyed by the invasion of a Japanese-American game”, said another post circulated on Weibo. He responded to four questions about Pokémon Go and the advent of augmented reality reaching a mass, public audience.
Gan Tian, a 22-year-old student at Tsinghua University said: “I really looked forward to playing the Pokemon artificial reality game since they first announced it. I really liked Pokemon as a kid”.
The number of active players or where it ranks among the most popular apps in the United States aren’t even the most impressive parts of the report, though.
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Hanke said the company is considering introducing a sponsorship scheme similar to one it has with Ingress, which designates sponsors’ stores and vending machines as spots in the game. “Don’t play Pokemon GO” exhorted one user named Pitaorenzhe. He declined to comment further on a potential China rollout.
