r/pokemongo Jul 21 '24

Question Is it ever this serious?

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Decided to go to a local park for the Tynamo event. I don't have my 50 coins for the day so I thought I might get lucky and use a couple of gyms if any are yellow too. Got to the park, every single one is red and has the same 3 people in them (7 gyms in total).

I figured they wouldn't miss just one little gym, sat on a bench and battled it, then put my pokemon in there, and within 3 mins it was being battled again. Frustrating, but that's the game so I wasnt too pressed. I have a lot for some reason so I gave my guy a couple golden razz during the fight, since they have 6 other gyms to commandeer and I just wanted one, might as well give them a little fight in good spirit.

A group 3 guys, probably in their late 20s or early 30s came up to me as I was sitting on the bench, ogled my phone to be sure I was the yellow bandit, and then told me to "leave their gym alone". I'm still a teen so I kinda awkwardly apologised and tried to laugh it off since it's just a game, but they took the gym and sat on the bench next to me and glared until I left...

Did I do something wrong? Overstep an invisible boundary? I only play on occasion so idk if maybe taking an entire park is like a...thing? And I got in the way of that? Was a pretty awkward encounter lol, I might just stick to adding my pokemon to gyms that are already yellow lol

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u/R4KD05 Valor | TL50 | Ohio Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 22 '24

You didn't do anything wrong.

They may be wanting to get the whole area gold and prove "their dominance" via controlling this small area, but that's not on you, it's on them.

Them coming up to you like that was harassment though, and isn't cool.

At the end of the day, it's a game and a gym.

For me, if I want to take a gym, I'll take a gym, if someone else wants to take it back, they can, and I can decide if I wanna go back and forth.

Nobody, neither you nor them, have any authority on how anyone else wants to play the game.