Spoofers, spoofers everywhere.

Spoofers are everywhere.

There is a level 38 guy, 74vwbusfamily, (Hideous name, I know.) with a 3000+ Dragonite/Snorlax/Tyranitar in over 30 gyms in my city. He openly brags about spoofing on the local Facebook page. Ive reported him several times to Niantic along with screenshots of him bragging about spoofing on Facebook. Nothing has happened. Its been two months and still he owns every gym in the city. And he is far from the only person who openly brags about spoofing on the local page, he is just the worst offender.

This game has gotten completely pointless. If you dont cheat you dont win, and I refuse to cheat, so I guess Ill never win.

I have been playing for the entirety of the game and have still not been able to hold a gym for one single day.

People also brag on the local Facebook page about spoofing their way to China and Australia to steal the regional Pokémon. Niantic has let this game become garbage by obsessing over whether Pokedex apps were using copyrighted images and busting tracker apps, while letting people spoof all over the world and doing nothing about it.

I will not be happy until the spoofing problem is solved and every spoofers account is reset. I would not be satisfied if they just got soft banned and were still able to use their spoofed Pokémon in gyms. Niantic needs to solve the spoofing problem while also resetting the accounts of anyone who was using spoofing apps. If they honestly cant tell who spoofed and who didnt, then just reset every single account. It sounds harsh, but it is the only fair and logical thing to do.

Until this game seems fair again, I will only sign on to get my daily stop and Pokémon, and immediately sign off, as I have been doing for the past month. Over time I may just delete the app altogether. I will not spend another penny until Im sure that Im not wasting my money while other people can just get ahead simply by cheating. And other honest players should do the same.

Niantic, you have to realize that by allowing spoofing, and not harshly punishing those who do it, you are killing the entire concept of augmented reality gaming before it even has a chance to exist.

Jaytastic Superstar about Pokémon GO, v1.29.1