Sarah Howard If you have somehow been spared from the harsh media-overlord that Pokémon Go is, Pokémon Go is widely popular location-based augmented reality game made by Niatonic for iOS and Android devices. Players use the GPS on their mobile device to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures called Pokémon. This is a virtual reality game but the actions this game are causing is very real. Pokémon go is causing gangs, car accidents, turf wars, murders, and even some conspiracies have aroused about the game.
The game allows people to experience the thrill of being able to be a Pokémon trainer. A lot of competitiveness has sprouted because everyone wants “To be the very best.” One of the best examples of this are the teams, Mystic, Valor, and Instinct, of which you can become a part of. Once you reach level five the game lets you choose between team Instinct, a team that is instinct driven, team Valor, team, that values strength over everything, and team Mystic, that values brains over bronze. Once you choose one of these teams you are not only fighting to become the best trainer but you are now doing it for the teams you choose and against the others, which blossoms the competitiveness. USA Today has been keeping up with the multiple crimes linked to the game, I have chosen the ones that jump out to me the most. In Missouri there was a string of armed robberies linked to four teens that used the lure feature of Pokémon Go to lure the unfortunate players. In Baltimore, a man was driving while playing and he crashed into a cop car. Outside San Diego, two men ignored warning signs, climbed the fence and fell from cliff. These two men were rescued by the local fire department with ropes and harnesses. A young male in Guatemala, Jerso Lopez de Leon, was shot and killed for breaking into a home to catch a Pokémon. The top 5 conspiracies of Pokémon Go were the most shocking to me. The first of the conspiracies was that the reality game is the big wireless carriers scheme to have customers pay more for data. Another one was that the game is to keep us distracted from the new so that we do not riot. And finally, the game is an agent of capitalism to get us into stores and buy stuff.
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