And then comes along DSG to shit all over it.
I swear, mate, sometimes it feels like you are bringing up all the negatives about something just
to instigate a debate. You may think you're playing the devil's advocate, but you really just come
off as bothersome most of the time.
The way it operates is highly energy inefficient. Constantly using the GPS, data connection and GPU graphics is about the maximum power state a phone can get into. The result is that phones quickly deplete their batteries, to the point that phone usability has become a concern.
You will be hearing me saying this a lot during my reply to your post: If it's a problem, then fucking don't play the game.
You can't blame a game for depleting the battery on your phone, ultimately it is the user who decides to run the game
until the phone is emptied for power. Don't blame a game for a human's stupidity.
Practically no social/safety studies were conducted for the game. Intrinsic mechanics are highly unsafe, not factoring in geographic, social or environmental hazzards. Privacy been violated due to various mechanics encouraging/forcing people onto private property. Sites with important social or historic meaning have been defamed/spoilt by due to no considerations being made. People have already been killed/hurt/assaulted as a result, something that really should not happen playing any game.
I thought someone would bring up this, the fact that the media has been very keen on telling the world that some people have died "because of the game",
and that some people have been robbed "because of the game". But it really isn't "because of the game", is it? It's because people are inconsiderate and
stupid and ignorant to their surroundings. This happened before the game came out and will continue to happen after people stop playing it, again: You can't
blame a game for people's stupidity. The game even has a warning every time you log into the game saying:
"Be alert at all times, be aware of your surroundings." - If this isn't enough to remind people that there is a world around them that isn't the game, then nothing
works.
Sites with important social or historic meaning have been defamed/spoilt by due to no considerations being made.
This is bollocks, poke-stops are deliberately placed at locations that has these values, and whether or not people decide to stop and read about them, which the game
actually offers some information on, is up to the people playing the game. I, for one, can say that I have learnt and discovered some few things about my local community
because of this. You are using the word "the game is encouraging" a lot, and in all the wrong places, if it encourages anything, in this particular scenario, it's actually
encouraging it's players to go out and explore locations of some fascination in their own local community.
Minors are encouraged to wander around without adult supervision to new places.
In no way at all are they "encouraged" to do so, just as much as they are not encouraged not to do so, the game in and of itself doesn't encourage anything
in this regard. It's not a game-developer's responsibility to take responsibility of how people play their game, it's the parent's responsibility to either not
let them do so or make sure they do so in groups or with older people. Same goes for people getting robbed because of the game: If you're afraid of getting
robbed, then don't go looking for Pokémon, or do so in larger groups. Just because you
happen to play a mobile game when something bad happens, doesn't mean you can blame your own irresponsibility and stupidity on the game.
There are so many more inaccurate and straight out unnecessary comments in your post I'd like to address, but there's too much that I won't bother.
And besides, we'd as well be ten minutes back in time for all the chance you'll change your mind.
