Op dit ogenblik spelen miljoenen mensen dus Pokémon Go op hun mobiel en lopen ze de hele stad door op zoek naar het volgende beestje. Maar, mensen die in buiten gebieden wonen hebben een probleem, want volgens dit artikel moeten sommige gamers om het Amerikaanse boerenland soms drie uur rijden voor ze een Pokémon tegen komen. Een stukje van al het geklaag kan je alvast hier onder lezen.

The same happened for Rayne DeVivo, who started playing the game with her two young sons in central Illinois. "We have one PokéStop (a water tower) within walking distance, the rest are 'in town' which is on the other side of the interstate, so we have to drive to those," she said. Play is difficult because there are no sidewalks in her area, and the game often prompts them to catch Pokémon on their neighbors' property.

"I am very used to apps that advertise they serve the whole US to have no use unless I am in Chicago, Indianapolis, or St. Louis (which are all 3 hours away by car)," says DeVivo, so she pleasantly surprised to find a PokéStop in walking distance, and some PokéStops and gyms a five minute drive into downtown. However, she can't always drive the half hour to nearby urban areas like Champaign Urbana, and realizes this will minimize her and her sons' gameplay. "It is disappointing to have to drive 5 minutes, hop out walk to the two or three things in that area, drive another 5 minutes, hop out," she says.

Elaine Young, a Digital and Social Media Marketing professor who works at Champlain College, can't play the game when she's at home in Brookfield, Vermont. Not that she expected to. "I don't even have cell signal at my home. I have satellite internet," she told the Daily Dot. "I figured I wouldn't be able to get that much, so I didn't even bother looking by my house." She was able to engage in the game after driving to Montpelier, but says "obviously I'm not going to play it as much because I don't have the same access as someone in a metropolitan area has."

This wouldn't be so bad if the language around the game weren't all about the ease of catching Pokémon in your own backyard. "With Pokémon Go, you'll discover Pokémon in a whole new world-your own!" the game boasts. The game encourages users to explore new places and travel, but also "explore cities and towns around where you live." And that's just not available to everyone.