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Now you can be a Pokemon trainer in Malaysia, it's go time for Pokemon Go!
August 06, 2016
The wait is
over for Malaysian Pokemon fans!
It’s Go time for Pokemon fans in Malaysia as the biggest
mobile game in US history Pokemon Go, is now here. From Google Earth and now Pokemon Go, the app was understood to have been
released for both android and Apple users at 8am and social media saw screenshots
of Pokemon fans sharing their experiences, finally!
Besides
Malaysia, the other countries where you can now go catch em all are Brunei,
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan,
Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Micronesia Federations and Palau.
How to get Pikachu from the start?
Bulbasaur, Charmander or Squirtle - Pokemon Go lets you choose
one of these familiar faces as your starting Pokemon. But you can choose
Pikachu as your starter too.
- When the game kicks off and three normal starters appear on your map, you should walk away.
- When you've moved far away enough, the Pokemon will pop up again.
- Keep going - it might take a few tries - and Pikachu will appear!
Pokemon
Go could get expensive very quickly
One
way of preventing it is to delink your credit or debit card from your App Store
account and use pre-paid credit instead.
You can also do two things
to prevent their kids from racking up large bills on iOS:
- Never, ever give them your iTunes password
- Turn on restrictions that prevent in-app purchases. Navigate to Settings -> General -> Restrictions and turning restrictions on. Then scroll down to In-App Purchases and disallow those
- Or tap on Password Settings (which may not appear if you have Touch ID turned on) and force the device to prompt for your password with every purchase
- In Android, go to the Google Play store, and tap on Settings. Scroll to User Controls and tap on "Require authentication for purchases". You can change the settings here to require authentication for all purchases through Google Play.
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However, in
Malaysia, the game isn’t really for all. Yesterday, the Federal Territories
Mufti Datuk Dr Zulkifli Mohamad al-Bakri said Muslims are forbidden to engage
themselves in the virtual world of Pokemon characters and play the reality game
of Pokemon GO due to the principles of maslahah (public interest) and harmful
consequences.
He said the ruling was made at the Federal Territories
Islamic Legal Consultative Committee meeting on Aug 1. The game, he added promoted
a search for power and deities with certain powers which could lead to
gambling.
“After
studying the opinions of religious scholars and the fatwa (edict) issued,
we agreed that the edict has a basis and that Pokemon Go and all
the Pokemon characters should be avoided as it can bring harm. The game
promoted a search for power and deities with certain powers which could
lead to gambling. Based on previous cases, the game also allows foreign
surveillance, breach of private space, and could also lead to safety
issues, such as accidents and distractions,” he was quoted.
Meanwhile, in Singapore, a police advisory has been issued
I've stopped once it said I gotta get up and walk about though, work that needs me glued to the couch with the laptop on my lap. I guess this will be a good reason for some physical activity very soon. Remember to watch your kids parents and be safe all ye Pokemon trainers!
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| Caught my first Pokemon! |
Poke
Facts
- This year is Pokémon’s 20th anniversary
- The games Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green were launched in 1996
- Pokémon is a contraction of the term Pocket Monster
- It was created by Satoshi Tajiri and was based on his childhood interest in insect collecting
- There are a total of 722 Pokémons in the main series’ games. Only the 151 first generation Pokémon are available in Pokémon Go at the moment
- There are a total of six generations of Pokémon game franchise
- The seventh generation of games, titled Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, are set to be released in November
The game created global controversies with players looking
for Pokemon at national
cemetery and military base. A couple had also abandoned their
two-year-old son for the quest. The parents, 27-year-old Brent Daley and Brianne
Daley, 25, were later arrested on charges of child endangerment and child
neglect after the incident. In Japan, there have
been at least 36 accidents involving drivers and cyclists. There have also been reports of armed
robberies in areas with high concentrations of Pokemon Go players.
From Google Earth to Pokemon Go
- John Hanke, 49, chief executive of Niantic is the man behind Pokémon Go, jointly-developed with Nintendo
- Before the location-based pocket monsters phenomenon, he was responsible for Google Earth
- In 2005, Hanke oversaw the development and execution of Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Street View
- He had been with the search giant for more than a decade after the acquisition of his previous company, Keyhole — which specialised in geospatial data visualisation applications
- At Google, Hanke started Niantic Labs to explore the overlap between mobile apps and location-based entertainment
- In 2011, Niantic launched Ingress, a storydriven, augmented reality multiplayer game that required players to interact at physical locations around the world.
- The concept for Pokémon Go was truly sparked with the 2014 April Fool’s collaboration between Nintendo and Google — Pokémon Challenge.
- Google Maps users could find various Pokémon around the globe from the comfort of their homes
- The response was so great that soon after, Hanke struck a deal with Nintendo to take the concept to the next level.
- For this, Hanke’s motivation was for an app to get people out of their homes to interact more with others and do more exercise
- With 75 million downloads to date in 38 countries, it looks like a case of mission accomplished
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