To some extent, this story feels a little inevitable. The beauty of Pokemon Go (Free) is how it turns real-world landmarks and other locations into gameplay elements. Niantic’s other game, Ingress (Free) did the same thing, with largely the same points, but never even came close to hitting the same critical mass that Pokemon Go has seen. So, while it’s entirely likely that people were playing Ingress in inappropriate and disrespectful locations, it’s not like anyone was aware for Ingress, or even knew what they were doing beyond looking at their phone. However, when you’ve got millions and millions of people playing the game, hungry for collecting Pokemon and taking over gyms and said in-game hot spots are actually inside of the Holocaust Museum… Things get weird.
As reported by The Washington Post, the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC is home to not one, but three Pokestops. Add in an endless supply of tourists and school children visiting the museum on field trips, the insane popularity of Pokemon Go, and you’ve got a pretty crazy situation.
Again, per The Washington Post:
“Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism," Andrew Hollinger, the museum’s communications director, told The Post. “We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game."
The thing is, I’m sure the Holocaust Museum isn’t the only inappropriate place to play Pokemon Go that’s loaded with Pokestops and gyms, as this sort of thing is somewhat inevitable when you’re building a database of relevant landmarks which doesn’t appear to have been curated too well by actual humans. It should go without saying, but, while I totally understand the drive to catch ’em all, try to be respectful about when and where you play.
[via The Washington Post]
Update: Arlington National Cemetery has also asked visitors to not play:
We do not consider playing "Pokemon Go" to be appropriate decorum on the grounds of ANC. We ask all visitors to refrain from such activity.
— Arlington Cemetery (@ArlingtonNatl) July 12, 2016
How? The link take me to the japanese page
It seems to me that most people not playing the game right now would probably not read Japanese. I'm not sure why the North American registration button takes me to a Japanese only site. :-(
I suspect the new pre-registration sites are not quite active yet, hence the redirect to the Japanese site.
They were loading for me when I posted this. :-\
Edit: I still see both sites working fine? Maybe try this link for US- https://form3.square-enix.c...
Thanks for the link I'm all set!
In which case why advertise it in a blaze of trumpets on the Portal App? If they give us a link it should work.
This also happened with Brave Exvius, but it sorted itself out after about two weeks.
If you figure out why Squeenix does what it does, please let us know.
Any Link for the Europe one?
Try this? https://form3.square-enix.c...
the game was perfect if you were in horizontal screen, vertical screen those games are something horrible, also you can not play with a gamepad mfi comfortably.
Hm yeah preregister takes me to the Japanese sites. I'll probably try again in a week or so.
I clicked where it said North America and it took me straight to the site. All English and I'm registered. They will send a confirmation email once completed.
24051 pre-registered in one day...
Here we come Yunieee! :)
Can't Shaun make second preview "one year later" on Mobius.
Is it still popular in Japan? Paywalls? Grind hell? etc.
Hehehe, so Final Fantasy Mobius is finally soon to be released outside of Japan; that's great news! I've been playing the Japanese version since its release, and I will tell you personally that this is a pretty good game for an online-only FREEMIUM game. I'm not a big fan of these types of online-only games, but I can tell you that Final Fantasy Mobius certainly has good elements and is more balanced than your typical F2P game. It's also a very gorgeous game; I think SquareEnix is using their own engine for this game...Crystal Tools or Lumina or something.
will there be asia release?