Fun & Famous

5X WHY THE WHOLE POKÉMON GO HYPE IS QUITE CRAP

I wanted to shut myself off from it. I wouldn't participate. I wouldn't talk about it. I wouldn't have any opinion on it at all. Long story short: it didn't work. Let me start with the positive note. The only thing I do like about Pokémon GO? We are all expanding, kids are getting lazy while gaming, and the creators designed this game to get the youth (do you hear that, adult men? The youth) to play outside again, while they can still take their games with them.

Then there's the stupidity factor. ‘Pokémon GO is banned on the terrace’, ‘Pokémon GO is already ruining relationships’ and: ‘The Pokémon app is dangerous’. A small selection from the news reports of the past few days. The reality game where you see the Japanese creatures appear through your phone in the real world and can catch them (you even get a notification if one of the figures is in your vicinity) keeps the emotions stirred. And you can position your head in the ostrich position, but maybe you should find out what it all is and how it works. Well, sales assistant Annick and I had to figure out how to install the app on our iPhones for at least three quarters of an hour this morning. on your iPhone., then we ran around the office for another half hour throwing Pokeballs to catch the fake creatures, so I think I'm finally in a position to say that it's all really stupid. There.

”A small selection from the news reports of the past few days”

I'll tell you why:

1. The app is just ridiculously complicated to download. You have to create an Australian Apple ID. We just randomly filled in an Australian address we found via Google Maps (sorry to the people living on Lakey Street) and then faked a phone number (also sorry if that turns out to be your number). HOW DO YOU MEAN COMPLICATED. If it app is that trendy, then make sure it's available for download in a normal way in the Netherlands.

2. Once you're in the holy system, you can create a character that you can personalize. And there aren't even decent clothes to choose from. As a woman, you just have to wear a cap. Yeah, right.

3. When you hear that men are dissing their wife in labor at the hospital to run after Pikachu, you just know something is not right.

4. Come on, guys. This can't be my fault, right? Isn't it quite childish? Didn't we just close the Pokémon era together? Back in 2001 or something?

5. We are already continuously living in our virtual bubble and I don't think it will get much better if you start triggering people to run after a Bulbasaur or Charmander at Amsterdam Central. Even here in the office there were already kids making throwing motions this morning, almost hitting you in the face.