
Photo: video screengrab

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Chen Sanyuan was apparently introduced to Pokemon Go by his grandson, and he fell in love with it. He always enjoyed riding his bike through Taipei, but Pokemon Go also allowed him to make new friends and stay in touch with them through the app. As time went by, he started dedicating more time and money to the game, and these days he hunts for the digital monsters 5 or 6 days a week and spends around 10,000 yuan ($1,500) a month, both on in-app purchases and on hunting equipment for his bicycle.
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ET Today recently reported that Chen recently upgraded his gear from 9 smartphones to 11, all running Pokemon GO accounts (minimum level 30). Why so many of them? Well, I’ve never played the game, so I have no idea what advantages they offer Chen, but he claims that the several accounts allow him to attack gyms without requiring support from his friends. He just uses his high-level accounts and gets the job done on the spot.
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Each of the phone the pokemon hunting grandma uses on his hunting trips is connected to a high-capacity power bank, all of which allow him to continue his daily adventured for up to 20 hours at a time.In an interview he gave Taiwanese gaming website EXP.GG, Chen Sanyuan said that he prefers spending real money in the Pokemon GO app – hundreds of dollars every month – to attacking other people’s gyms, because he feels that would make other players unhappy. So he prefers to do things peacefully, whenever possible. Chen plans to upgrade his arsenal to 15 smartphones soon to make his pokemon hunting even more efficient. It will require a sizable investment, but the 70-year-old claims that his hobby is definitely worth it.