Niantic has exposed a group of cheaters in their game Ingress. Now trainers in Pokémon GO hope that action will be taken against cheaters there as well.
This was announced by Niantic: On Twitter, the Niantic Support account announced that they had succeeded in making a strike against cheaters in Ingress.
Several players who had cheated special items using bot accounts were punished there.
This gives hope: This news also caught the attention of Pokémon GO players. Could similar incidents with cheaters in Pokémon GO happen soon?
Cheaters in Pokémon GO – Could something happen soon?
This is the current status regarding cheaters: In Pokémon GO, cheating is almost hassle-free. Particularly, spoofing, i.e., manipulating GPS data, is hardly punished at all.
Many honest players are annoyed by cheating. They take gyms from home and often do not consider other players. Meanwhile, honest trainers have to run from gym to gym to be able to attack there.
This is how the Niantic tweet was received: The fewest reactions to the tweet came from Ingress players. Mainly the trainers of Pokémon GO reacted to it.
In response, it was often said: “Good step and next then the spoofers in Pokémon GO?”
The user “PokemonMasterWill” even expresses it a bit more drastically: “A ton of other mobile games ban third-party apps, but Niantic and Pokémon GO love their spoofers so much that they do nothing against them.”.
Could something happen now? With this tweet, Niantic definitely shows that they are indeed able to recognize whether an account uses bots or other third-party apps in connection with their game.
This confirmation has always been lacking. It now remains to be seen whether Niantic is also willing to take action against spoofers in Pokémon GO. The demands of the players seem to be significant.
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