Pokemon Sleep Hits 10 Million Downloads Milestone and grants users a special gift

https://www.gamescensor.com/2023/08/pokemon-sleep-hits-10-million-downloads.html

Pokémon Sleep, has already surpassed 10 million downloads worldwide. This notable success indicates the app's widespread popularity among Pokémon fans

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Zozano@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Is Pokemon just going to act as a thinly veiled privacy invasion tool?

Pokemon Go encourages you to share your location at all times. Now they want to know when you're sleeping.

Next app: Pokemon Budget! Upload your invoices to track spending habits and catch rare Pokemon for saving money!

all-knight-party@kbin.cafe · 5 pts · 2y

I don't totally understand the reasoning behind Pokemon Sleep needing to be a thing, but Pokemon Go's entire core premise requires knowing your location in order for the gameplay to even work at all, so I could understand having an issue with wanting to share your location, but damn, that's pretty much the one case where that'd be understandable.

conciselyverbose@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Saving?

I think you mean spending on obscenely high margin stuff.

Zozano@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This weeks special! Catch a Mewtwo by purchasing any two tabacco products or a combined total of one litre of products containing high-fructose corn syrup!

conciselyverbose@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

Yeah. In retrospect, I think I was wrong. It would be "save $500 to unlock" on categories where the "50% off" version is still a 200% markup.

naqahdah@my.lserver.dev · 1 pts · 2y

Next app: Pokemon Budget! Upload your invoices to track spending habits and catch rare Pokemon for saving money!

... dammit, I'd use this.

tripplehelix@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

I uninstalled while reading the EULA, stating that all data is stored on their servers. This includes audio recordings. You aint getting my sleep talking advertisers!

daredevil@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y

Can't wait to see what other ways these companies gamify farming personal data.