You never know who you're going to be sitting next to on your next flight. In the case of Doctor PoGo - a high-level Pokémon GO player - it ended up being none other than Niantic CEO John Hanke.
As well as being a throughly nice bloke, Hanke was willing to share some information with Doctor PoGo about the future of the popular monster-catching smartphone game.
The most obvious thing to come is the introduction of Gen IV, which isn't a massive revelation given that we've had a steady stream of new monsters since launch. More interesting is that Hanke confirms that a 'Player versus Player' system is in the works - although he stopped short of giving any kind of deadline for when we can expect to see it in the game.
Hanke also said that "something" is being done to make maps more raid-friendly, although he didn't give any specific details. The game's level cap will be increased, too, and soon you'll be able to submit locations to be considered for PokéStops.
That's not all, though; Hanke also confirmed that Niantic is taking action against players who use spoofing techniques to fool the game about their location, and that bans will be handed out to players who do this.
He also said that Pokémon GO Fest 2.0 is indeed in development, which seems to back up the rumours that an event in taking place in Germany this year.
[source pokemongohub.net]
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I’m gonna be submitting a ton of pokestops 😊
@Fandabidozi
Definitely, there's a few places in my local park that could definitely be stops, yet the park is devoid of them!
This isn't news if you ask me... most of what was said was already a near certainty already... all we were really waiting for was a date, which he has still not given, so we haven't really learned anything new about them... and the rest sounds like more of the empty promises that Niantic keep making, and keep failing to deliver... so there's no real guarantee that they will actually come to the game.
I'll wait for an actual confirmation.
Took them long enough to even THINK about letting us submit new stops. Too bad I stopped caring for this game...
I hope that increase level cap is coming in the very distant future. It's one thing that it takes 2 million XP to go from level 1 to 30, but its madness that it takes 18 million more XP to go from level 30 to 40. Forever a 38.
Good on them for the fight against spoofing and/or being aware they're still around.
I'm not bored of the current system yet so I can wait for PvP.
There are less spoofers already, I'm glad that they are finally taking action.
PvP sounds great, would like to see some kind of trade system included but I wouldn't really be bothered if this didn't happen. The prospect of submitting Pokestops is a really good idea, especially when you rarely get time to visit a city center and live/work in a spot with very sparse pokestops.
"Hanke also confirmed that Niantic is taking action against players who use spoofing techniques to fool the game about their location, and that bans will be handed out to players who do this."
Good. Ban them. Ban them all. Or replace their top 30 pokemon with C10P Pidgeys.
So annoyed when I see gyms attacked and there is no one within range.
Trading is the most glaring absence in the game. It was part of the original concept trailer and is integral to the Pokemon experience, so where the heck is it?
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