This Week In Pokemon: Niantic Bans Cheaters, Pledges To Keep Remote Raids, And More
As we continue to wait for more Pokemon Scarlet & Violet news, all the other areas of the franchise have been pretty busy to make up for it. We have some TCG news for fans of the table-top game, as well as a couple of Pokemon Go updates.
This week, we even covered a debate amongst fans on what Pokemon we could realistically keep as a pet. All of that features in this week’s Pokemon news round-up.
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Niantic has made a lot of unpopular moves in recent months, but thankfully, getting rid of remote waves shouldn’t be one of them. This comes directly from Pokemon Go Director, Michael Steranka, who revealed that Niantic won’t be scrapping the popular feature as part of the developer’s efforts to get players to return to real-world meet-ups. "We have no intention right now of removing remote raiding for the regular tiers of raiding - one, three and five-star raids," says Steranka. "But we haven't been shy about the fact we're looking at opportunities for players to get playing in person again." Basically, getting rid of them isn’t off the table, but it isn’t coming anytime soon.
Speaking of Niantic, one thing it will be doing is clamping down on cheaters. Coming courtesy of a blog post from the developer, the team set out that it has “invested in becoming better at observing cheating behaviours”. The post goes on, explaining that Niantic can, “more reliably pinpoint these activities with higher speed and accuracy, preventing legitimate players from being punished incorrectly.” This new system has already resulted in more bans being dished out, Niantic says. It also claims that we don’t see bans coming in waves, as we do with other live services. Rather, it
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