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See all these people in the below photos? They're playing it. At night. In a public park. I walked through there at midnight on Saturday night and it was just a
by NamTaf 10y ago
See all these people in the below photos? They're playing it. At night. In a public park. I walked through there at midnight on Saturday night and it was just as busy. During the day it's even more so. Walking through just about any inner-suburban public park currently involves watching groups of 20somethings scurry around trying to locate pokemon.
It has been explosively successful in the traditionally non-gamer markets. News outlets are picking it up because it's so ubiquous.
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- brotchie 10y agoReally interested in the behavioural dynamics that caused this specific area to be the "go to" place in Brisbane for Pokemon. I get off at that Southbank CityCat stop on my daily commute and have seen this crowd grow almost exponentially. On the day of launch, there wasn't many people there. Second day I had a chat to about 15 people who were gathered (nobody knew each other and were there because of the 3x lured Pokestops in close proximity). Day four was then 100+ people. Now from afternoon onwards there's a persistent crowd. PokeGo has been the quickly-to-viral thing I've ever seen. Even on day two we could sit looking out the office window and every 5th person was playing.