This is a very interesting, and frustrating problem. It’s only going to get to worse as more games like this come to market.
Pokemon Go tests global property laws
This is a very interesting, and frustrating problem. It’s only going to get to worse as more games like this come to market.
1) Pokemon Go doesn’t. If anything, its users do.
2) “The global popularity of the game and other
video games that put digital “characters” into real places – from
private homes to shops, parks and even monuments and museums – has
fueled debate on land rights, the legal boundaries of private property,
and what constitutes trespass”
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Well, I don’t know about others, but Pokemon Go makes the Pokemon appear on your map … but if you can see it, you can tap it, with no need to move “into” a place.
And if you can’t see it, you have no idea where it is around you, really.
All this talk on the Internet of mythical kids saying “there’s a Pokemon in your yard, can I come in?!” makes no sense to anyone who’s actually played the game; if they can see it, they can already catch it – and if they can’t, they don’t know where it is.