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I think Pokemon Go has WENT, yesterday day there were 40 people in the local park at 7:30 am. Today 1 person.

That's some quality data collection. Thank you for your diligence and perseverance.

I have learned to trust my observations. If one day was raining and the next nice, I could understand, but there were both lovely days in the middle of the week.

Two days of observation with zero control does not seem sufficient to make a definitive statement on the product. I've been going on walks with my doggo every night this week; the amount of people I've seen playing pokemon has remained fairly constant during that time frame.

Don't mind me, just trusting my observations...

I think you need a job in the government. Then you can collect data for 10 years to decide the people are not really using dial up connection as much as they used to. If the number had gone from 40 to 20, that is within a understandable deviance. But when the number goes from 40 to 1, I think the bubble has popped. You may not agree, but I did not think that data collection was a requirement for posting here. Perhaps 40 years in the tech industry was enough for an educated opinion.

Well, a local business might have figured out its Pokemon Go strategy and lured those players from the park to their establishment.

I actually would hope that people don't always go to the same place regardless of advertising just so the activity is spread over different areas for varieties sake. Plus, having people keep going to the same space is going to annoy the neighbors.

I would imagine a large central park with many pokespots and multiple gyms would continue to stay busy for weeks at least.

And the developer should really have come up with a marketing strategy BEFORE releasing the game.

The article isn't about the developer's marketing strategy. The article is about other businesses coming up with a marketing strategy.

Nintendo did rather well releasing the game. Given the press, their marketing department is probably satisfied with their strategy and effort.

People have been digging through the game's data/files or whatever and have found strings referencing McDonalds. I think it's safe to say that they have planned promotions.

Maybe the Pokemon have relocated to another location.

Most likely the transition between catching pokemon to get to level 5 and then trying to figure out what to do now.

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