The people standing, sitting and lounging. His eyes are on the screens of their smartphones, slide the finger in a familiar gesture. Pokemo...
The people standing, sitting and lounging. His eyes are on the screens of their smartphones, slide the finger in a familiar gesture. Pokemon hunters came to play.
Parked smack in the middle of the pitch is the king of fighters - Brandon Tan He has created with its own table and chairs, benches energy and water ..
What he means it literally.
With four aircraft in flight at the same time his Pokemon Announces Service GO game for $ 18 (25 SGD) per hour.
It's just one of the ways that people have found creative ways to make money from a game that a phenomenon in the world has become at the beginning of this year since its introduction.
The full-time player
"I really did this to have a good time, because if I had to play a single account, I feel boring," Tan told a CNN beeps and chirps band four simultaneous games.
He apologized for not making eye contact; You need to keep your eyes on the screen, because it has a few clients to play on their own two accounts.
An avid player, the second hand 25 years to work in an insurance company, but left in 2015 when he discovered he could money do YouTube videos of themselves playing Clash of Clans make a another popular game smartphone.
Now he says he has not even had time to edit their videos - they have a common comment - because he is too busy to play Pokemon Go 18:00 to 06:00, seven days a week.
He was approached by a maximum of 26 customers, as it offers its services began Pokemon GO August play. He earned about $ 2,200 (3000 SGD) so far, but Tan said that the money was not his main motivation.
"I wanted to show people how to play. Not many people believe that the way I play," he said.
Because it would play Pokemon GO for free offers to an avalanche of requests, Tan decided to fix a price. "I have only two hands and could probably only play a maximum of five accounts, not 50!"
professional hunter
It is by far not the only Pro Pokemon GO.
39 Jeremy Chin is an officer of day and night unusually Pokemon collector.
proudly displays his collection CNN animation rare monsters caught radar maps third and Twitter accounts, the advice on where to spawn offer rare Pokemon.
The makers of Pokemon GO, Niantic Labs, closed third-party applications such as maps used Chin and said that these external parties to their impact on "ability to the game to provide new current and future players."
Not that he quenched.
"I've seen the wonders of Singapore, where I have not gone before," he said of his hunting experience. "I take it as a form of exercise. I lost 11 pounds (1.5 kg) since the beginning of this game."
He offers his service game to another, but said that it limited their experience in their own circle of friends and rarely responsible, prefer his friends to buy him drinks in return.
Another supplier, who wanted to be known only as a pirate PoGo to catch as the market for those who have the purchasing power, but the lack of time and collect rare Pokemon itself.
Pirate PoGo not play the game at all. He urges other - through private connections not disclose - to play the game before each for about $ 18 (25 SGD) Level 30 accounts for sale. He says he has already sold almost 300 accounts, Singapore and international actors.
Niantic fraudsters can beat?
"People have been injured, because it takes a bit of fun with the game. People try to cut to data from our system to take over," he said.
And in August, the developer said he was taken with the cheaters.
A quick search online, but the picture is Pokemon many vendors touting GO levels and rare Pokemon has.
It's against the rules, but pirate PoGo do not think that it can do a bit of Niantic developers.
It is said that the practice existed before Pokemon GO entered the scene.
"You will never be able to monitor sales - there is always a way around it."
