Good meme use. You can always tell someone has the upper hand in a discussion when they start busting out the memes.

It was cheating because in multiplayer games the creators set out what constitutes cheating and what is allowed via the TOS and their statements. They made it abundantly clear that despite the 3-step glitch, using third-party services like Pokevision was cheating, Therefore, it’s cheating.

I mean... they openly said that the current game only has 10% of the planned features...

You need to do a Pokestop run. Go for a walk 0r jog on a major street that has lots of pokestops along it. I was out of balls, walked around the block a couple times and now I have 32 pokeballs, 4 great balls and 2 ultra balls.

Exactly. This is how the game was meant to be played... if not being literally pointed right to the location of each Pokemon ruins it for you, maybe you should try something else.

Oh the irony. The “people who are complaining they’ve been cheated” were actually cheating in-game, and now that their cheating has been blocked, they feel cheated out of the money they spent in furtherance of their cheating... can everyone follow that tortured logic?

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.

Maybe the idea is that rare pokemon are supposed to be, you know, rare? What’s the satisfaction of checking pokeradar, seeing where there’s a Dragonite, then going there and catching it? Like I legitimately don’t understand how this type of cheating was making the game more enjoyable for people. It would rob the game…

“We were cheating, and the creators were openly saying we were cheating, but now that they’ve stopped our cheating, the game is unplayable.”

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.