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Cheating in games has risen over the years with gamers finding new ways to obtain loot items and shortcuts for beating other players. Since 2010, Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/strong> developer Niantic has been observing the behavior of cheaters and developing a system to deal with them. It says it now has the capacity and technology it needs for ramping up enforcement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The initial action was a reaction to gamers\u2019 feedback<\/strong> stating they\u2019re fed up with cheaters. Niantic responded at the time that it would do what it could to put cheaters in their place. In the company\u2019s latest blog<\/a>, it seems it\u2019s now in a place where it can take action based on player behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new system focused on a broad overview over the past year to assess the player\u2019s behavior, especially where cheating was suspected. Thanks to this evaluation, Niantic is able to detect cheating<\/strong> within moments of the activity taking place. It says the detection will happen faster in time to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not surprised to see the sudden statement appear. We first reported that Call of Duty cheaters would see their weapons confiscated<\/a>. Not long thereafter, we noted that Bungie won a Destiny 2 lawsuit against a cheat distributor<\/a>. It looks like everyone is finally cracking down<\/strong> on this behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niantic isn\u2019t waiting to take action against cheaters<\/strong>. Any accounts it finds in violation of the Pok\u00e9mon Go rules are in danger of this new enforcement system with immediate effect. It will be interesting to see how this will apply to the new Pok\u00e9mon Go in-person raids the developer is implementing once again.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cheating in games has risen over the years with gamers finding new ways to obtain loot items and shortcuts for beating other players. Since 2010, Pok\u00e9mon Go developer Niantic has been observing the behavior of cheaters and developing a system to deal with them. It says it now has the capacity and technology it needs … Continue reading “Developer Niantic says it’s taking on cheaters in Pok\u00e9mon Go”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":195349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[2501,1617],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-195344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionpokemon-go","tag-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323624,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195344\/revisions\/323624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195344"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=195344"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=195344"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=195344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}