{"id":98486,"date":"2016-07-13T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98486"},"modified":"2016-07-13T13:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T11:21:23","slug":"this-ridiculous-pokemon-go-clone-is-chinas-most-popular-mobile-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/98486-this-ridiculous-pokemon-go-clone-is-chinas-most-popular-mobile-game","title":{"rendered":"This ridiculous Pokemon GO clone is China’s most popular mobile game"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Pokemon GO only officially being available\u00a0in Australia, New Zealand, and the US, many gamers around the world are itching to join the mobile gaming sensation.<\/p>\n

That might explain why the top free game in China on the Chinese iOS App Store\u00a0today is a\u00a0Pokemon GO clone titled\u00a0City Spirit GO.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The game appears to copy Pokemon GO directly (although it does feature unique monster designs) tasking you with travelling around your city, battling and capturing AR creatures.<\/p>\n

Despite being a clear copy, reviews seem to be quite positive, as the game offers more or less the same experience as Pokemon GO to Chinese gamers who want to get in on the fun.<\/p>\n

Currently the second most popular app in China is “Go Catch \u2018Em All”, with no prizes awarded for guessing what series that game is trying to emulate.<\/p>\n

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Is it okay to blatantly clone\u00a0a game if the original is inaccessible?\u00a0 Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Find out why this rip-off is better than the real thing for Chinese gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,2226,6],"tags":[31,1911,10244,101,20314,143,1787],"class_list":["post-98486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-china","tag-clone","tag-piracy","tag-pokemon-go","tag-release","tag-rip-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98492,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98486\/revisions\/98492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}