The Reason Why Spoofing Is A Problem In Pokémon Go

Gym Strategy
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This discussion leaves to nothing… I’m now everyday in the Gyms, and I’m still waiting the moment when this BAD spoofers will interfere in my game… Have they influence over my outcome? No Can they stop my playing? No
And when I explain that one of the examples (PvP) not evades the spoofers, this doesn’t matter…
Well, I will take the way of @JoshHack and leave this post. Maybe others will understand you better.

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Maybe in your area they don’t influence your game but in many others it is a fact that spoofers are a huge issue to players who actually go out and play.

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Spoofers are no longer an issue thanks to the gym rework

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Changing a game because of spoofers instead of just banning them… Right.
Obviously you want whats best for legit players, but youre way of getting there is wrong.

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Because you cant detect all the spoofers lol, its simple

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Well, the ones you cant detect arent that much of a problem right? The ones bothering you will be the ones who are active with gyms. Thats quite easy to see. With raiders even more cause you can just ask if all nicknames are actually present.

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But Niantic cant detect them

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Hmm yeah maybe. I would love it if they would just take a close look at accounts that get reported 100ths of times. Then its a bit of a community effort.

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You don’t need to be reported. If Niantic feel like you’re doing something very wrong like Spoofing 10 Times a day, Botting, etc then they’ll ban you straight out of the blue with no notice. For your average Spoofer who hangs at one city all the time and isn’t really a threat it’s not a major problem for Niantic.

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There are too many accounts for them to check
Ive started a test account to see how much can you do before you get banned, and I have already been softbanned a couple of times, visited tons of coutries (often even in the same day), aquired many 100IV Pokemon, maybe even got reported once, and all that the account ever got was that warning back in… November?
If they would actually check on accounts, this account would be banned a looooong time ago

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I’d rather them banned but it’s not happening quick enough. In fact it’s not happening at all.

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That is so sad to hear.

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Nope. They sure can’t. Sad.

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You could get 1 coin per pokestop

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Would make people not buy coins at all, and also give spoofers a huge advantage

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Hopefully the game will improve for all even this guy.

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Please keep reporting him. Never quit.

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Hopefully the game will improve for all

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Niantic won’t ban players that have spent thousands of dollars. It’d be a horrible business idea to ban the people that spend that kind of money. That’s why the top spoofers don’t ever get banned, just the weekend spoofers that don’t spend much on the game get banned. It makes it look like they’re actually doing something to prevent spoofing, while still keeping the big money flowing in. Spend enough, you can cheat however you like.

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