Niantic has finally announced that it has a new three-strike policy for their hit mobile title, Pokemon GO. The team is looking to crack down on those who are abusing the system which will come as welcome news to those who have been playing the game fair and square. Here’s their procedure.
Strike 1: Warning
Disciplinary actions:
If this strike is issued, you will see a warning message within the Pokémon GO app informing you that we have detected cheating on your account.
In addition to this warning, your gameplay experience may be degraded in the following ways for the duration of the warning:
- You may not be able to encounter rare Pokémon in the wild. These Pokémon may not appear on the map or on the Nearby Pokémon tracker.
- You may be excluded from receiving new EX Raid Passes.
Duration:
This strike will last for approximately 7 days. After this period, your gameplay experience will fully be restored.
Strike 2: Suspension
Disciplinary actions:
If your account is issued a second strike, you will temporarily lose access to your Pokémon GO account. When attempting to log into the game, you’ll be presented with a message stating that your account is suspended. You will not be able to bypass this message.
Duration:
This strike will last for approximately 30 days. After that period, your account access will be restored.
Strike 3: Termination
Disciplinary actions:
If you receive the first and second strikes and continue to cheat, your account will be permanently banned.
Duration:
Permanent
Appealing your punishment
If you believe your account has been terminated in error, you may appeal the termination. We will respond to your appeal after a complete investigation of your account. Please note that due to the high level of accuracy in our detection systems, very few terminations are ever overturned.
I hack everyday, taking all gym over. Already have 100k coins and nobody wants to fight my gyms anymore.
Rekt them all.
You realize you can’t get more than 50 coins a day, right? You literally can’t get to 100k coins through gyms alone. That would take 2,000 days, or almost 7 years.
Are you trolling or just stupid ?
50 coins x 20 gyms per day x 300 days ( one year +- ) = 300.000 coins
Omg, time to get back playing your Spyro games. kid
It doesn’t matter how many gyms you have per day, it’s capped at 50 coins no matter what
This guy is dumb af.
I’d believe it
Can’t you just delete it once you’re terminated and make another account and just hack THAT one?
Sure, but you will loose all Pokemon.
You can compare it like Fortnite, if you got banned you need a new account and loose all progress.
You ever played Fortnite ?
I mean hack it to get them all back. And don’t talk about that game around me.
people still care about this? that should be the headline.
Err, yes. Quite a lot of people, in fact more people now than when the game launched, they have only seen steady growth in users per month since
I always laugh when someone asks this obvious question. Yes people still care about this game. They are still making about 2 million a day from it so yeah, people be playing it.
“Appealing your punishment
If you believe your account has been terminated in error, you may appeal the termination. We will respond to your appeal after a complete investigation of your account. Please note that due to the high level of accuracy in our detection systems, very few terminations are ever overturned.”
If this system is overlooked by Nintendo guys & not Niantic guys, if you truly are innocent, get ready to still be fucked because my experience with Miiverse says this system will be a nightmare with Nintendo in charge.
Is it also a three-strike discipline policy for assaulting other players to prevent them from taking over your local Gyms?