Yeah, I told my friend at work about it, and he just shrugged and said he never used those sites anyway.

Only powerleveling cheaters care about this. I’ve seen just as many people walking around playing it today as on previous days. I think that looking at reddit and kotaku’s comment section will give you a misleading impression of just how many people are upset about this.

I cannot put into words how glad I am that they’re finally weeding out the cheaters. Take your refunds and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Yes. That’s why Silph Road is still up, whereas Pokevision is not. For example, I’ve told people, irl, that you can catch lots of Eevees around my work. That does not count as cheating. Using a google maps overlay that tells you exactly where all the Eevees are does count as cheating.

I’ve enjoyed the game quite a bit without the use of any third party cheating apps. If you need to cheat in order to enjoy a game (or even engage in legalistic mental gymnastics so that you can construe things as not being against the TOS per se), then you should probably stop playing said game.

No... in multiplayer games the TOS defines what is cheating and what isn’t. It’s not “subjective” in the sense that you arbitrarily get to determine what counts as cheating. In multiplayer games, violating the TOS for in-game benefit = cheating. Period.

Team Valor did that near me, but with mostly 2000+ CP pokemon, including a 2900+ Dragonite. They`ve had it for like a week already.

All these things will be buffed/nerfed/rebalanced a million times going forward. Specifically, I would be surprised if Electric types didn’t receive a buff soon. Jolteon is the weakest Eevolution and Zapdos is the weakest bird in CP, Electabuzzes are rare, and Thundershock is too weak. Combined with the overabundance…

Yeah, this is why I took Instinct. I just assumed that the teams would be tied to their legendary birds, and Zapdos is the best.

Seems to depend on how coordinated the members of other teams are in your area. Near my house, a bunch of Valor players teamed up to take over two nearby gyms and grind them up to lvl 10, and then stack them with high-CP pokemon. They’re both like Vaporeon-Vaporeon-Gyarados-Blastoise-Snorlax-Exeggutor-Dragonite now,…

Yeah, except they’ve had roughly 1 gazillion dollars worth of free advertising for the Pokemon brand. You think the Pokemon Go hysteria and corresponding media coverage won’t increase sales of Sun/Moon?

Yeah, this will never happen. The PC market is fragmented beyond the point of no return. Not only is the cat already out of the bag, it’s since found new owners and died of old age.

The TOS is pretty explicit that third party apps like this are a violation, so yes, it is in fact cheating.

This x1000000

Good riddance, maybe now we can even an even playing field. You whining cheaters are the worst.

“doesn’t have to have its programming warning for mature audiences”

That will come in handy when they inevitably nerf Vaporeon.

At work, I’ve caught at least 20 eevees, while around my home I’ve caught maybe 5, so there very much are areas of high concentration.

Yeah, I get a couple km every day just sitting at my desk on the ground floor, because the game thinks I’m constantly walking to the corner and back.. Also, it thinks I’m about 20-30 meters away from my actual location, which is useful, because this is where it thinks I am...

Hm... I’ve had a lot of success with riding the streetcars here in Toronto, which averages 14.8km/h. I’ve hatched multiple eggs this way. It’s actually very effective for powerleveling, because pokestops and gyms are lined up along the major streets that the streetcars run on.