With the effort to monetize this widely popular augmented reality game, a 26-year-old woman in the UK has quit her job as a teacher to become Britain’s first full-time Pokemon player.
Sophia Pedrazza is from High Barnet north London who use to earn up to 2,000 pounds a month by giving private lessons to kids in math, English and music. She now plans on making money out of this crazed phenomenon that seems to have been hitting even the most remote parts of the world.
’I downloaded it and immediately realized there is money to be made. If you can get to a decent level, you can sell it on to people on ebay. I heard accounts were being sold and I looked on eBay and some accounts at level 20 and above were going for a 1,000 pounds and level 15 bids were about 100-200 pounds. If you put the time in you can get to level 15 after a day or two,’ Pedrazza told 'The Sun'.
She said she will be purchasing multiple phones to boost her productivity and catch Pokemon on multiple accounts. ‘Some days I play it for 18 hours a day because you can play all the time even when you're out with your friends in bars and clubs. My mum thinks I'm mad but she's coming round to the idea. I'm going to do it for as long as it makes money,’ she said.
Some gamers have made over 7,000 pounds by selling their accounts online. One bidding war recently stopped at 7,300 pounds. ‘It's a big craze at the moment and there's money to be made but if it slows down I can always go back to teaching,’she added.
26-year-old Sophia is not the first to make, what may seem like a ‘baffling’ movie. Another resident of New Zealand, Tom Currie quit his job to become full-time player just days back.
