Spoofers

Hi Pikmin people!

We are aware that there is a problem with spoofing (=faking your location so the game thinks you are somewhere you are not physically) at the moment. Sadly there is nothing we as modteam can do, we are not affiliated with Niantic in any way. We are just players of the game like you are. Spoofing is nothing new, it has been going on for as long as the game is around. Right now it's happening more and Niantic so far has not acted on it.

There have been some posts about this subject and the comment sections got quite out of hand. We sadly had to lock and/or remove them for breaking our rules and becoming unmanageable. Mostly rule 4 was broken and that's an important rule, that one has overlap with reddit's content policy. We do not allow people to hate or bully on others in any way and we do not allow people to call out other players by showing in game usernames. This all also goes if they did something wrong in game or elsewhere than this subreddit. There is absolutely no reason to bring external drama to this sub. We understand that spoofing is ruining the fun of the game and that's horrible, but the way the discussion was being held is not the way for this subreddit. We will not allow posts about spoofing for a while until things calm down to prevent this subreddit to turn into a toxic hate fest.

If you want to make sure Niantic is aware of this problem, you can contact them directly about this issue here: https://nianticlabs.com/contact If anyone knows of a better way to contact them, please comment that and we will update the post with contact information.

If you have questions or concerns about this post for the mod team, please ask them in this thread. Do know that this will not be the place to start up the whole discussion again and most definitely not for more bashing of cultures, countries and players. Keep it civil. If things get out of hand here, we will lock the thread and your account risks a ban if you break the rules.

We hope for your understanding.

Kind regards,

The Pikmin mod team.