Pokemon Go suffers inevitable drop in players as initial excitement dies down
Lack of updates, fatal accidents and the nature of fads has led to a drop in Pokemon Go players; if only its makers could tap a huge market hungry for the game - China. That is unlikely, though
Pokemon Go stories stopped being funny some time ago.
Perhaps it was the day in July when a man in the US state of Florida opened fire on two teenagers at 1.30am while they were sitting in a car playing the game. Neither was injured. Or maybe it was when two men fell off a cliff overlooking the Pacific near San Diego while chasing Pokemon monsters, suffering only moderate injuries despite falling more than 15 metres.
So perhaps it’s just as well, that, as Bloomberg reports, the game, which had the world in a frenzy, is now experiencing a decline.
“Data from Sensor Tower, SurveyMonkey, and Apptopia ... show that Pokemon Go’s daily active users, downloads, engagement, and time spent on the app per day are all well off their peaks and on a downward trend,” Bloomberg reported.