A lot of people are thinking that the hit Augmented Reality Game (ARG) "Pokemon GO" has started losing traction over the past few months. However, despite the decline in its popularity, it still proves to be one of the powerhouses in mobile games as it still rakes in $2 million a day.
According to iTechPost, the ARG has been made available to eleven more countries and regions in the world which includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Macedonia, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. These countries will now be able to join the fun and catch all Pokemon by exploring various areas in order to find these pocket monsters.
Surprisingly, though, "Pokemon GO" is yet to be released in countries like China and South Korea. The reason behind the lack of the game is simple: these countries have restricted the use of Google Maps, and as such the restrictions are causing a lot of problems on Niantic's end. After all, the company is still trying to get the game into these countries despite the limitations, since it has a potentially large fanbase for the game.
Meanwhile, the Parent Herald reports that despite the decline of players, with a study showing that the game peaked its reception during its first three weeks the app still has the potential to live up the hype. After all, the same study the article references said that the game is not even considered to be a fad in a sense that it is not a sudden mass appeal.
To this day, the app is still downloaded at an average of 700,000 times a day, and the popularity of the "Pokemon" games has already been going strong for about two decades.
In any case, despite the game's shortcomings, a lot of fans still consider "Pokemon GO" to be a much-better mobile app compared to other time-wasting games available in the market.
