By Nick Pino
Niantic, the developer of Pokemon Go, has just announced that it will dish out rewards on Earth Day 2018 all in an effort to encourage its 20 million active users to get out and clean up their communities.
Attend a local event, and you could net yourself two or three times the amount of stardust for Earth, Water and Grass-type Pokemon.
To make this happen, Niantic has partnered up with Playmob and local NGOs all over the world to help mobilize local communities of Pokemon Go players.
In the US, that list of Earth Day events includes clean-up days in California, North Carolina and Hawaii, while players in the UK can head to Brighton to clean up the local beach shore. You can find a complete list of Earth Day events here.
The caliber of the rewards will be determined by the amount of trainers that attend the event – if 1,500 local players are at an event together, they’ll earn double Stardust drops, while if 3,000 players get together to pick up trash, triple Stardust drops will appear on the aforementioned Pokemon types.
Hopefully this doesn’t end in another lawsuit…
While it’d be easy to draw some parallels to Niantic’s …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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