This is a rage post against Niantic...
I know that probably not the best place to show it but when I have seen this I had to share with you...Let me put into context here, this is an Spanish Youtuber that one of his subscribers sent his/her account with ALL the 26 forms of unown, I don't blame the YouTuber at all, he just wanted to show how all the forms look into the game and provide content for his viewers, but when I saw the account I started feeling this burn inside me...
How in the world is this player still not banned? How can it be posible? I know that there are milions of hack accounts, but seeing it like this, so close, made me realize how bad is hacking/cheating into this game, seriously Niantic? Someone made the calculations (I think on reddit) and with the current spawn rate of unown it would take an insane amount of years to get that gold badge, you have a player that has them all and he is still able to play? This must be a bad joke...Instead of pursuing this guys you keep posting stupid tweets about the milions of eggs hatched by bots/cheaters during the easter event, hilarious.
Sorry for the rage anyway, just had to say that, the video is right here so you can check it, go to minute 3:45, after showing them all he checks all the locations to state that his/her subscriber has cheated of course, travelling all over the world in a week or so. It is insane to see the locations and the day that all those mon were caught...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_a64_EHeUU
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I see more ghosts then real players, it's to the point that the only way to get a stable gym is to find the rea were your teams spoofers are active try to get a spot and hope you don't get shaved.
I tried holding a few of my local gyms but have given up I have better things to do with my time and suspect that it is a prelude to my attitude to the rest of the game.
Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Im joined a local feed for hunting rares and theres a spoofer chat room that I scroll thru and the methodologies that spoofers and botters use now is insane. Besides getting you even more angry I dont want to provide knowledge to these types on this site so I wont go into detail. Theres another game being played within the game and legit players are ridiculously at a disadvantage basically spoofers and botters have no restrictions in time or space that legit players are completely limited by. I know for a fact that most spoofers and botters never spend a dime and if they do its on the black market not in the poke shop. Why buy incubators when you can spoof to 100% level 30 larvitars daily. Why buy lucky eggs when stacked level 30 accounts cost 99 cents. The thing that bothers me the most is that these players think they are superior players in skill and ability when they are actually being looked down on by legit players. At least before it was me against one spoofer but now its gangs of spoofers fighting gangs of other spoofers. No area near me is exempt from this.