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Niantic finally addresses desperate Pokémon Go players
Pokémon Go developer Niantic has acknowledged that a recent wave of cheating punishments, including account strikes and outright bans, were doled out to players erroneously.
“We’re working on reverting strikes for some Trainers who incorrectly received punishments on their accounts,” the Niantic Support account wrote on Twitter this past Monday. “This will be done for Trainers automatically, whether or not they have contacted us. We apologize for the error.”
According to Eurogamer, these Pokémon Go strikes escalated through three stages, starting with a seven-day warning before moving to a 30-day account freeze and ultimately a permanent ban from the popular alternate reality mobile game. It seems that, somehow, the game’s automated anti-cheat system was tripped and “numerous” players were falsely swept up in the ensuing ban wave, a mistake that Niantic is now looking to reverse.
Over the last few weeks, unofficial Pokémon Go subreddit r/TheSilphRoad has been inundated with complaints from users affected by the glitch. Daniel “Spieletrend” Schilling, a popular YouTuber from Germany who has worked with Niantic at Pokémon Go events in the past, also caught a ban and remains banned as of earlier today. One Reddit thread posits that the punishments may have had something to do with what version of iOS players were using, but no further information has been provided by the developers.
Read the full article on Kotaku
