Niantic, the studio behind developed mobile reality games like Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, and Ingress, according to a report that has punished more than 5 million cheats since the beginning of 2020, with more than 1 million players receiving a permanent ban across the three games.
“We are committed to ensuring fair play across our game care,” said Niantic blog post reading. “Every day, newer methods of cheating or spoofing are available on the internet, and we are always working to combat these scammers and focus on improving our detection. and implement us because they don’t have a place in our games. ”
Niantic also said that 90% of players who received a warning stopped cheating, a figure the company is “very confident” in trying to differentiate between steep disdain for its rules and “more willing” efforts to gain the upper hand over developers.
All that said, it should be noted that “deception” in Niantic calls usually comes down to spoofing space with third-party programs to deceive the game into believing that you walk around town and you don’t, you know, sit at your computer. This type of behavior rarely destroys the experience of other users, but it eats into the income of Niantic, the greatest sin under capitalism.
Pokémon Go done more than $ 4 billion for Niantic since its release in 2016. At least $ 1 billion of that came in 2020 alone.