Today for the second part of Eevee CD I was hanging around in the shade grinding Eevees with my friend and some people we met when an older woman, say about 50, came to chat us up.
We've seen her before, she and her husband sell pins and provide free snacks and waters for everyone they can the past few CD I've gone to this park.
Anyway, she was curious how many shinies we'd gotten so far. After we shared our counts she sighed a bit, "I still haven't found ONE!"
We encouraged her to keep at it, because there was still 2 and a half hours left. She cheered right back up, then went about asking others around us.
A few minutes later we start taking down a Makuhita raid for XP and from beside us we hear, "OH! OHHH I DID IT! I FOUND ONE! MY FIRST SHINY EEVEE! MY FIRST SHINY EVER!!!"
We cheered, she did an excited little dance while exclaiming, "oh I have to go show my husband I'm gonna keep it on the screen! My FIRST SHINY!"
She then booked it to her husband in high heels, practically bouncing with joy.
Honestly, I've seen older people playing before and it ALWAYS gets me but that was the cutest thing ever. Adults didn't give half a rats ass about Pokemon when I was little, now? They're freaking lvl 40 helping their grandsons catch Lugia, or playing with a phone and a tablet to find a good shiny legendary for their kid, or being like this lady just super excited to finally get a shiny.
Say what you will about the garbage mechanics and the fact that it's a RNG but the impact it's had is incredible.
I never thought it would appeal to so many and especially not the people who once would call it "Poke-ee-MANS" or straight up ignore me as a kid. It makes the game that much more enjoyable seeing them learn and play and interact with everyone else.
Submitted August 13, 2018 at 08:11AM by callm3luna https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/96vxco/seeing_older_people_playing_pokemon_go_makes_me/?utm_source=ifttt
0 comments:
Post a Comment