Niantic detailed its strategies for combating dishonest players in Pokémon Go in a post on its blog. In the article, Niantic highlighted that they are getting better at recognizing cheaters and getting quicker at it as well. This has the additional beneficial effect of avoiding genuine participants from being erroneously penalized.
Niantic plans to implement its new anti-cheat strategies as a direct consequence of the improvements made to its existing systems. They are starting as soon as possible by penalizing gamers who have been proven to have cheated during recent in-game events.
This is only the first step in implementing our improved cheating behavior detection and enforcement systems. These improvements will be integrated into all Niantic games to detect and punish players on a consistent and ongoing basis, rather than in waves, as we have in the past.
Niantic’s goal is to implement its anti-cheating techniques in a way that is consistent rather than banning users in waves as they have done in the past. They plan to do this by incorporating these new features throughout all of their games. In the player rules provided by Niantic, cheating includes playing the game with several accounts, u utilizing various technologies or methods to misrepresent your location and shared accounts.
At the conclusion of their blog post, the game’s creators reminded players that they should only install the game’s official version, and that they do not provide support for jailbroken devices.
Recently, Pokémon Go had a community day, and Deino was selected to be the Pokémon of the Day. Nevertheless, players are only allowed four hours to perform the chores that have been assigned to them, which has resulted in recent revisions to community days being met with negative feedback.
It’s interesting to note that Niantic also included a function with the intention of getting users to play Pokémon Go in real life again. Even though the game has been updated with a number of remote features as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, Niantic encourages players to go back to communicating with one another in person. They have implemented a new feature that, in order to fulfill this goal, will prolong the duration of the Community Day event for players who raid at their respective local gyms.
Pokémon Go will go on with its regular schedule of new activities.
