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I saw lots of families, singles, pairs and groups yesterday playing Pokemon Go all over the city. Most of them seemed to have a lot of fun. To be honest, they s

I saw lots of families, singles, pairs and groups yesterday playing Pokemon Go all over the city. Most of them seemed to have a lot of fun. To be honest, they seem to know more details about and get to more places in the city than non-players. And no, they didn't appear like "zombies" not aware their surrounding. They talked to each other, coordinated their efforts and so on. Kids age 6 or 7 had fun as well as 60+ year old. Maybe you just have not much to talk about with your friend if he is more interested in playing Pokemon Go than a board game with you? Or you are so focussed on seeing Pokemon Go players wasting their time that it just appears to you that they are acting like zombies? Sure, there might be some players that are addicted, but I they are the majority of the Pokemon Go community.

elliottcarlson 8y ago
When Pokemon Go was first released, I was really interested in the reverse engineering efforts that were happening - and while I could capture most of the protocol from my house, I was out of range from a stop or a tower. With the help of two phones, a raspberry pi, and a battery pack I was able to make some walks over to the areas, and get additional captures of the protobuf data when interacting in those locations. The interesting part was more the amount of people that were out and about playing in those areas -- and as you said, they were all interacting and seemingly having a good time. I spoke to a few people (I generally don't venture out much in my own neighborhood), and got to know some of my neighbors in the area. It was pretty interesting to see the bond that playing the game was really producing.