Niantic Is Deleting Players' Pokémon Illegally Obtained In Pokémon GO

It's a better response than them banning me for making a map in the early days.

Some peoples are Obsessed Too Much with Pokemon.
They will do anything to proud themself even by illegal methods (Cheating, hacking, etc).
By doing so, it will ruin the meaning of Fun and Fair.

Good punish people for breaking the rules. Cheat all you want in single player games, that is on you. But rules are there to keep things fair in any game that has multi-player aspects.

And hey, Niantic, could you please nerf Chansey and Blissey? Because they are broken AF. When an 800CP Chansey takes longer to knock out than a 3200 CP Slaking, something ain't right.

@Heavyarms55
Sorry wasn’t listening. Say that again?

@Heavyarms55 I'm not sure which of your four posts to like

@Fandabidozi @Curlybobs Sorry the internet derped. It wasn't supposed to do that.

I like this plan. The cheaters can't use the illegal Pokemon, and they don't get the space in their box back.

I'd still prefer they just brick the cheater's phones, but this is a start.

@Heavyarms55 Ha ha, it's done it to me before too.

Looks like they're gearing up for the battle system to finally get in here.

Thank goodness. I've never played a game with this big of a cheating problem before.

@XCWarrior Bricking their phone is an absurd over-reaction and I am pretty sure illegal. The absolute most they can do is permanently ban the account, and for some cheaters such a ban might be justified. But bricking someone's 800 dollar iPhone or Galaxy over a mobile game is a crazy idea.

Cheaters, hate those.

Serves them right.

Hahahahaha

@Slim1999 I have also come to add a "hahahahaha"!

I don't play online with others much, so I don't really know about the whole cheating scene, but when I've seen YouTube videos of people playing CoD getting banned for cheating, I can't help but feel satisfied.

As Heavyarms55 said, if it's single-player, cheat all you want, as long as the cheat code is legitimate and official. But in multiplayer, if you cheat to give yourself an advantage over other players, that's just wrong.

It's almost as bad as pay-to-win models, such as loot crates (looking at you, Battlefront II) and other methods of giving players who can afford to pay the costs advantages over other players who can't afford to pay to advance quickly.

Now if only GameFreak will ban illegal Pokemon in the main line -

@Bass_X0

...maybe don't cheat? I know radical idea...

serves the cheating punks right!

@Slim1999 Yes...?

This is a glitch image. This player does not have over 10 buddy pokemon. Slashed pokemon have been around for a long time, This player does not have over 10 buddy pokemon (all shiny no less). This article is poor and this slashed pokemon have been around for months.

@Heavyarms55 If people aren't going to be punished for cheating, they are going to continue to cheat. There has to be some kind of punishment that might actually make them think twice about cheating.

@XCWarrior Of course they should be punished. Penalize the account. Even ban the account entirely. I'd say the potential of being permanently banned from playing the game is plenty of punishment. But bricking their phone is massive overkill. In the end it is just a game and a phone is a LOT more important. Moreover, even if it were legal - which I am pretty much 100% sure it is not - the fact that they could do that to your phone would likely severely hurt the company's potential profits. People would be too scared to risk downloading the game in the first place.

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