Niantic - Lessons Learned / Ingress players?
I read many posts here bemoaning the fact that Niantic is doing nothing or too little to stop cheaters, and since the game has been out for so many months, they should be a lot farther along....
But ... haven't they had like 3 years dealing with these issues from the Ingress side? I get that they're a small company, and PoGo is (or was?) orders of magnitude more popular than Ingress. Seems to me if they haven't figured it out in 3 YEARS means unlikely to figure it out now. So buyer beware when trading comes through .....
Perhaps someone with Ingress experience could share it here?
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You got to remember niantic gives fuck all about players cheating as long as they make cash (like most companies). Thus it is more important to release new pokemons etc making People doing micro transactions etc.
I probably would do the same. I mean even a simple new turbocharged Porsche 911 is easily worth 10 forums of complain against your company.
We do understand they dont care but we dont think Its right.
Its a moral issue not a logic.
There were also spoofers in ingress, but not nearly as many as in pogo. They were easier to identify and they got banned in ingress.
Players were also different between pogo and ingress with way more collaboration. Ingress players embraced the challenge of reaching remote portals to build their fields. They planned holiday trips to play the game and achieve great goal for their faction.
It seems that pogo has attracted a lot of players that only know cheating and don't see the point of the game, which is getting their lazy bums out of the house
