Meanwhile, several Chinese e-commerce websites like Taobao (local equivalent of eBay) are selling user codes and passwords for the Australian Apple store, so Pokemon fans in China can install the game on their smartphones.
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A US Senator has written an official letter addressed to Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go game, to express concerns over the wildly popular game.
As of now, “Pokemon Go” is only officially allowed in three countries namely, New Zealand, Australia and the United States.
“When creating these games companies must consider the potential risks to young users and do everything they can to make sure their app doesn’t put them in danger”. With patch 1.0.1, Niantic has fixed the access scope of the game to limit its use of a gamer’s Google account details. Among the fixes are a change to the game repeatedly asking players to log in after being forcibly logged out.
The augmented reality smartphone game asks for full access for a user’s entire Google account – pictures, emails, browser history, location – everything. In response, the makers of Pokemon Go have said people should “play with friends when going to new or unfamiliar places” and “remember to be safe and alert at all times”.
So unless Nintendo introduces battles and trading, we believe that Pokemon Go will age very quickly.
“Pokemon Go” is a mobile gaming app where players can catch monsters and trained them to fight other monsters.
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To be sure, it is hard to estimate how much revenue games like Pokémon Go will add to Alphabet’s revenues – but the uncontrolled popularity of this game is likely to spur hoards of developers to build new AR games using those digital mapping services.
