I don't care if they spoof and besides Niantic can't stop them. All I would say is if you spoof don't be an ass over Gyms. That player might really need it and you can go anywhere so let them have it.

I’ve been disabled for 3 years now and not left the house for just over 2 of those years. After the remote nerf, I started spoofing and it’s been brilliant. I know the risks, if I’m banned, I will start again. However. I stick to my local community area. Never spoof for regionals or events etc, I’m apart of groups and am welcomed, even receive messages asking if I’m around to help with raids. My life due to disability SUCKS. Pogo creates a great escape and passing of the time for me, if that upsets some suits at Niantic, I don’t care, live like me for 1 month and experience what I do and then they would make spoofing part of the game permanently.

Ill be honest, I dont blame them. Many of the newer spoofers are those who have basically been shut out by Niantic thanks to their insistence on "go out or dont play"

Who wants to get out when it's raining, snowing, when it's bitter cold, or blazing hot? Spoofing helps

The only negative outlook I have on spoofing is when they multiple accounts and take up the entire gym at my local park. Other than that, I think most of them affect the game in a positive way. Most of the elite raids I was the only person physically at the location, I wouldn't have been successful if not for the 5 to 6 spoofers.

Spoofing was inevitable as soon as they had region locked Pokemon. I can't afford to go overseas for the sake of a Pokemon. I have a second account that I spoof from, then trade to whoever wants the Pokemon. I've done it to help catch legendarys after the nerf too. I was quite happy spending a bit of money here and there for remote raids, but I'll just spoof a free daily instead now.

As long as you don't camp gyms I can't be mad at spoofers. I'm heavily considering starting given that Niantic endlessly punishes rural players.

If Niantic wants to force people to play a certain way while ignoring players who play within the rules, purely because it is more profitable for the company, then they deserve every cheater, spoofer, hacker, and data miner working against them as possible. Honestly the worst element of ftp or service based games is the idea that players never really own any part of it. Without people finding ways to break the system, it would definitely squeeze everyone for money and data even more.

I used to really dislike spoofers. But after the remote raid pass nerfs, sometimes playing with spoofers is the only way I'm going to be able to have enough trainers to defeat a raid boss. I *still* haven't been able to raid Shadow Articuno, for example. My experience has been, as I and MANY others predicted, that the rules followers were going to have a more difficult time getting the numbers to defeat raid bosses. Niantic setting Shadow raids to "in person only" was really a slap in the face after the nerf.

Im working 2 jobs, i don't have time to go to every raid in my local community, spoofing allows me to still help out and feel connected. Along with get resources to better help. I still go out and play on any important day where im not working

I'm not going to lie I'm strongly considering opening a new account to spoof because of the increase in price and the limit in remote raids I'm bored at work and can't kill my boredom because of the limit and increases

Shoutout to the spoofers that helped me in the shadow raids

It’s hard for some players to play only locally, not enough players or have time to go around locally. It also takes quite a bit of gas to go to each local raid where you can find people. Campfire was a nice addition but not enough

Yeah I started playing again by spoofing since niantic wanted to play unfair then so will I. They needed remote raids without even saying one thing about it until they got caught. Until niantic plays fair with the community I will continue pushing forward for spoofing in any way, shape, or form. If we as the community don’t take a stand then a change will never be made. Remember we make this game what it is not niantic. They have nothing without this community.

After the first couple years of the game, I stopped playing essentially as there was no way to tackle or participate in major aspects of the game with the limited amount of local players (like I might have been lucky to get enough people local at a 5star raid once a week); I honestly only came back when a friend introduced me to spoofing. With the introduction of remote raiding I 100% stopped spoofing and have not since. Proof enough that players are willing to pay (supporting the game) and play legit when a well balanced system is in place. What we have now is NOT balanced. I frankly found the best remote raid experience was still when we were getting our free pass once a week. I was never as engaged with other players as during that time… I coordinated to help my friends across the city while we participated in the raids local to ourselves. It was perfection. Currently super upset by the current state of the game and absolutely understand why people are moving back to or starting to spoof.

What if they created a “travel” pass where people can “fly” to other locations/countries a given number of times a year and be able to spend a couple hours in such locations? That be pretty cool I think. What do y’all think?

we didnt call them spoofers we called them "Sky Support"

I had a friend who was a spoofer, and when I asked him why he spoofed he said there was no incentive to play & being able to be a rebel was much more fun. 👍

Bro my pokemon from my gyms are getting knocked out seconds apparat. And it's super annoying going out again to reclaim the gyms, so I'd get my 50 coins a day, for them to be knocked out again as soon as I get home, and it's all by the same player, each time. How can I report them?

I babysit my 1-year-old nephew, and I’m disabled, so I can’t get out and do in-person raids.

Theuly should add a joystick that can go within like a block of your location. That would be a huge help for rural players

The worst part of the remote raid nerf was the price increase. At least for me it killed it, before I used to do up to 9 raids of the same boss because I didn't want to spend that much for a game. If they kept the raid limit with old price I believe that should help something at least. Imagine living on a small country that doesn't have that many players or a community at all. I have missed a lot of key raid bosses because of that. Spoofing would have given me access to other locations and player that are willing to help to defeat the boss even if it is because of grid.

I just learned about spoofing and i wish i had it years ago. it's been 3 years since ive played pokemon go because i live in a rural area. theres literally NOTHING around. the closet pokestop for me is about 2 miles away and theres not a gym in sight

Love your realistic and objective approach to pokemon go and niantic related matters.

Definitely been debating spoofing but im not internet savvy enough lmao

I’m area is rampant with spoofers. Or so it seems. Since every gym is alwayyyssss full. Like always and I get insta kicked anytime I take a gym myself. But the raids literally nobody does raids around here. I see the occasional one person from outta town come to their second house in our little town and do a raid but it’s always tier 1 or 3s. Never anybody to do the T5s or Mega’s. So my only conclusion is that there are so many spoofers in my town. Or they no insensitive to go out. Every community day I watch for anyone playing so I can ask to maybe befriend them. Since I only started playing towards the beginning of July 2022. I have seen 1 person In my town playing and it was a kid I knew from a long time ago. And he never wants to go raid plus he only just started playing so has no real grasp on the game. Ugh makes me so frustrated, just wish that if they are spoofers in my area that maybe some can just come help my raid at least….. like dang come on. Couldn’t do shadow mewtwo, same with shadow art..guess I’ll pack up and move to a big city right? That’s the solution or at least the only one I can think of. Since driving 1hr away but having an on the call job plus a family well that makes it a little hard to go an hr away without causing trouble in paradise…..

Yeah, I spoof on a separate device and account. Im not spending 2 bucks for each raid and not even guaranteed to catch the pokemon, thats stupid. Plus im not leaving ny house to do the 1 free raid a day and then still gotta pay for premium passes. Niantic are greedy af.

I was on the fence a year ago. I seen the hood and bad. But it was what it was. But now, as a rural player, I totally get it. I missed out on the shiny shadow mewtwo because there was only 3 of us on a buggy weekend of raids that were almost nowhere in my area

Not happy at all with spoofing on the rise... Niantic had the perfect solution, and they nerfed it.

I am indifferent on spoofing. Mainly becaue I cant stand PvP, and will only do it if required. I will delete any field research for it. If i have a paid quest i will do it only if i have to the level 43 quest where it was all pvp, i just did a friend battle to clear it all took forever! But, enough with that tangent. Spoofing will never go away. Even if you put strick log on requirements, it will never go away. The best bet, is do restrict raids in general, give a 5-10 limit to in person raids, and you will see it go away. But if thats the case no one will play in bigger cities. Best thing to stop Spoofing is to make a Raid check in system, and make an algorithm to monitor raid types, and where people are.

just spoof if you are from the rural area.

I am a spoofer, living in a town of 2,000 inhabitants and two gyms. How do you play a game if you don't even have anyone to help you with the gyms? Let's say that spoofing helps to some extent, as you can find Pokémon with perfect IVs and many shinies. However, these remain only for you since few people in your town play the game, and you end up with a private collection that only you look at. As for the gyms, I don't see where the problem lies with spoofers. Even if I put a Pokémon with 100% IVs or a Pokémon with 0% the next day (after 8 hours), their CP has dropped almost to zero, and with one or two battles, you can take over the gym without any effort. Let's talk about PvP. In the past, I played a lot of PvP with perfect IVs on any Pokémon, and let's say that it's still difficult to win, considering that spoofing only accounts for about 10%, 30% is internet connection, and 60% is the player's skill and strategy. It's pointless to have a Grass-type Pokémon against a Fire-type and expect to win without considering swap management. I also take into account the connection because a perfect Pokémon for the Great League (1/15/15) against a regular Pokémon (7/13/14) doesn't change much. I can confirm this because I've had battles with friends, and the one with the better connection would win, as the energy charge for the charged move changes by a few milliseconds. Of course, if you're a spoofer with an excellent connection, you have a higher chance of winning. I've lost many times against people with Pokémon with terrible IVs, but they were better than me at managing swaps and charged moves. To sum it up, in my opinion, spoofing only provides an advantage for a nice collection of rare Pokémon and for eggs (autowalk), but it has little impact on the overall game quality for others. Of course, in this discussion, I always exclude toxic players. I would avoid saying that spoofing ruins the gaming experience; on the contrary, it enhances it because you can have Pokémon that you can't afford, or you can find the Pokémon you like. And obviously, having the freedom to move around and go wherever you want, you're also willing to invest some money gladly. So, Niantic benefits from this. For example, imagine a community day 5,000 km away. I can easily buy the ticket and participate from home, enjoying myself just like people who have money to pay for an airplane ticket or who live there. In short, if I were Niantic, I wouldn't worry about spoofers because they can be a source of profit for them. Instead, I would focus on improving the gaming experience for everyone.

I dont know if i should start to do this, because I live in a very very rural area with no gyms and no raids

I’m shocked Niantic hasn’t made a premium subscription service where people can pay to spoof legally. It would help a lot of rural players out and put the money into Niantics pocket. I don’t have an issue with spoofers since they help with raiding as long as they don’t load gyms down. The truth of the matter is if Niantic gets rid of spoofers it is going to affect the money they take in. When they buckled down on ipogo and pgsharp and made bans not just in waves but permanent they lost a lot of players. Gyms with a ton of people raiding prior would be almost empty and I know they lost players because right after they cracked down on spoofing the box prices went up and they released rare 1 encounter per account costume pokemon that had the potential to be shiny. That led to people opening multiple accounts to try to get a shiny of rare costume pokemon and it made it appear that pokemon go was getting a ton of new players. Then once they nerfed remote raids to 5 a day they made more players angry and people started to look into spoofing again when they had not been. Idk, I still say if they get rid of spoofers completely it will kill Pokémon go.

i just came back to the game after 4-5 years and so much has changed! i only learned of what spoofing was in pogo recently but still have not really understand what it is, or how it's done nor do i want to know.

I was contemplating spoofing for a long time, and after the raid pass nerf, I finally decided to do it. I used to hate spoofers but… it really is fun to spoof. Being a rural player, spoofing is the only way I enjoy the game, and it allows me to do raids that I would never have been able to do or catch special pokemon that I would never have been able to find.

Thanks fkr covering this. I know in the past that the OG KZfaqrs used to talk about spoofing, but it got so old because Niantic would never deal with it effectively. I still see the same exact spoofer clan in my group after 6yrs and it's just insane.

At my city we have just one pokestop imagin how i we'll play the game with out spoofing

Good stuff as always Count J. The way I look at it is modding games has been around since the dawn of gaming and this is not any different. Niantic should just have approved ones like other companies that work with game modders do. That way they have some way of keep things in order.

spoofing has never been more popular than it is now and i can’t say i blame anyone who does by how niantic has ruined this game

its 114 degrees outside i dont wanna walk out there

I spoof and honestly I'm really enjoying playing the game in my own safe space and time

Niantic has a 3 flag system as of last summer 1. is a simple warning 2. 30 day ban 3. deletion of the Account if third party software is found - they must of found a way around the system be still spoofing

Tried spoofing and nothing was on the map.

Spoofing can be good, after all there's good spoofers, like the ones who help out with raids, but then there's the gym hoggers and ones (which have been very common in my area and are a big problem) who use spoofing as a way to harrass other players, I've literally had spoofers attack gyms where I left pokemon just to kick my pokemon out of the gym, they leave others' pokemon in there, but mine, in their stupid defective brains, are not allowed, there's literally spoofers who use gyms to bully other players, and trust me guys, this is not just to me, I've had other players in my area suffer from this, and I don't see it being documented, but from experience, it's a real issue. What Niantic needs to do, is make not just something that convinces people not to spoof but harsher punishment for something like gym hogging and other abusive behavior like what I already mentioned. Now I know some people are gonna reply to my comment be like "No idiot, Niantic ruined remote raiding for us, we will spoof as much as we want.", yeah you can spoof but that doesn't give you the right to be a bully to other players, especially to those who don't spoof, the world doesn't revolve around you or your wishes, bud.

How do i spoof now? Every method i find doesnt work

How do I spoof on iPhone because I live in a rural areas and the gyms here are not that good

I mean the low level Shadow Raids did not need to be in person, maybe the Legendary ones but no large group of people are going to turn up and do a one or three star raid, it's just so forced to 'Get out and Go' and lots of people have been affected by this so spoofing was inevitable!

I am guilty of spoofing. Why do I spoof? Many reasons. I don't have the luxury of being near any towns or cities. This entire area is a dead zone for cell phones. I literally can't play if I can't spoof, and it really sucks.

I live 10 miles from the nearest gym and 17 miles from the nearest cluster. I try using campfire and poke genie, even when I'm downtown but rarely get campfire response. Poke genie can help at times but popular raids in prime time I see over 500 raids ahead of mine making timing out a problem. I'm not a fan of cheating and wouldn't spoof but honestly, I'd welcome help by any means to get raids done and I jumped into a few raids that were clearly spoofed.

I don't mind spoofers, so if someone spoofs and wants to trade me a regional or 2 that I don't have lets do this. However, if you use just to dominate gyms that can be annoying for people that live there and want to play fair. Just don't be a jerk about gym control and otherwise have fun.

the fact that widespread spoofing still exists 7 years after the game was introduced is a testament to how inept the niantic technical team is

I watched a live on tiktok of someone spoofing during axew community day. They were getting excellent curveball throws no matter where they hit the Pokémon and it immediately excited the encounter when the ball hit without them doing the berry button hold trick. It also showed them shiny in the overworld.

I am in nyc and i can confirm that there is alot of people doing this for shadow raids they are always full no matter how much time is left even in places with nobody around

They screwed over a lot of rural players when they decided on no remote raids for shadows. Exactly what did they epect to happen.

I spoofed my way to level 36 so I can nominate Pokestops, I already have my 1st strike and I'm currently waiting for my 2nd. I've been playing legit for a month now and still no 2nd strike. I hope I got lucky so I can nominate other places here in our island.

Would any one know where to find a tutorial on how to spoof Just so I can stay far away from it

Appreciate your uploads !!

Haven't seen more spoofers but yes they shouldn't of nerfed remote raids. But now the game is nerfed they lost a lot of money. Even these in person raids some gotta travel as not everywhere has a community. I myself gotta travel 25 miles for in person raids

before rise of remote raid price, im not using any spoof app because i wanna play fair and safe. but few months after niantic increase remote raid price, it feels more hard to do legendary and mega raid, and no one do raid in my area. so i started to spoof for raid

Also another problem is the wayfarer program , people on there are refusing most new stuff so its almost impossible to grow your community , i grinded to lvl 37 so i could nominate stops and everything ive submitted has been rejected . this is pretty depressing sometimes it feels like community against community xD

We are not worried about “what is good for Pokémon go” we are worried about everyone always being able to play,it affects no one accept revenue maybe.

Huge congrats on 40K subs!!

It’s a bummer Niantic has fostered these actions. I see an uptick in gyms being taken over in my community which can be frustrating at times. In the end to each their own.

Dear Count Jinsula... I really appreciate the content you make and watch all of your videos without fail. But I gotta disagree on what you said regarding spoofers creating a "negative environment". Back when remote raiding wasn't even a thing, legit players in my community almost always relied upon spoofers to take down raids. They help legit players get their daily gym coins. They're always at our beck and call whenever we need them for urgent trades and stuff. There are problem makers who keep attacking our gyms once in a while. But overall in my experience spoofers have only helped to enhance the gameplay for everyone.

I love your pokemon go news man. Keep it up!

Not going to lie, as a father of 4 that works 60-65 hours a week, I've been leaning on remote raid passes to get most of my legendaries through the pandemic. Now that we have to pay so much to only raid 5 times a day, I've been seriously considering GPS spoofing to raid when I get home of the evenings. I'm not spending a cent on the game until I get the time to figure out how to spoof my GPS and get away with it.

Someone hit us up with a sneaky link on how to spoof

I have 11 accounts I spoof on lol. I lucky trade pokemon to myself so I don't have to spend money on passes since I get 11 free ones a day.

All I do is go for walks with my gf and try to catch all 151 of the original. When I only have the regionals left I will be spoofing for sure.

I’m not a spoofer but have really thought about it, I live in a super small town with 1 gym and hardly every any raids it’s extremely unplayable because of how few I can catch as well how often I can catch them

I only spoof to local raid with friends when I’m in another city.

I live in a rural county. There are only like, 2 pokestops in my entire town and zero gyms. The only other place I can regularly head to that has a gym is my university, bout an hour away. It took like 2 years to get to level 20. I would turn this away in a heartbeat if rural areas got more support. I get WHY there’s stigma against spoofing, especially with gym camping. And I usually don’t do it if there are an overwhelming number of Instinct gyms or if I’ve taken down any at my campus. But I’m not gonna lose sleep over it, and doing it is the some of the most entertainment I’ve gotten from the game.

Honest question. Does spoofing cause any actually problems with gameplay? Or is it just that everyone thinks you should have to walk around your city to catch the pokemon? I don't spot but I don't understand the problem

Ive been debating doing some spoofing during the week because i live 30-40 mins from any concentrated stops/gyms. I also travel on the weekends which has made the 5-star shadow raids super difficult. Niantic hates me 😢

Spoofers are the reason this game still exists. Them buying tons of raid passes carries the games revenue.

I dont play pogo now but the main reason I stopped playing is due to having no community where I live there was no one playing and had barely any gyms or stops

When pokemon started I had to buy pokeballs to be able to catch pokemon I requested for pokestops but never had any so started spoofing but I don't make it unpleasant in gym for other players I rather target gyms outside city where I see pokemon cp been drained automatically it will show cp in red

Played legit for 3 years until I had enough. Living in a 3rd world country with a tiny community I’d be lucky if I could do 2 raids a day. Paired with my account that has horrendous luck I decided to start spoofing. Now I can play the game the way that I want when I want and not have to rely on other people that may or may not join for raids. I know pogo is meant to be a social game to get out more but I’m not leaving the comfort of my house just to catch some random crap that isn’t even worth keeping and wasting gas money

Not a spoofer, but I am not surprised. I don’t know what Niantic was thinking when they nerfed the remote raids. I wonder if the topic of spoofers even came up at their meeting?

Anyone knows a legit spoof of gps or send me a link

Multi-accounting I think is as big or bigger of an issue. If you have two or three decently high-level accounts you can beat most things without help and I know a lot of people that do this. A lot of the ones that don't have 2 accounts are the people that have a spouse that also plays, so they have a pretty reliable 2nd person to help them.

I don't know anyone who plays, so I have no one to go out with. I relied on remote raiding (with The Trainer Club gang) to get any legendaries at all. Now that it's limited to 5 per day, I've kind of lost interest in raiding. Sometimes when I play in Philadelphia walking to the train on Wed. nights, I can catch a gym with some people in it, but for the most part it hasn't been that active there either.

I spoof but not because I want to but because there is nothing around me I live in a rural area in new York and unless I drive like 5 hours to the city everyday the game is basically unplayable I spoof but only in the near by city

they also went after the spoofers hard a couple years ago, surprised you forgot that lil tidbit :P

Spoofers can make something useful for this game... If Niantic notice that their location data are not right, maybe they will return cheap remote passes and unlock shadow raids :D

In my place no one play pokemon go so when it come to raiding no one raiding the pokemon that is the sad thing about rural player😢

I’m fine with people spoofing if they don’t take gyms. It’s so annoying when you see all the spoofers take your gyms you have to walk a lot for.

Of course they are back, and everyone knew this would happen. I am NOT a fan of spoofing, but understand some people having the need to do it. But with the muleheaded, to put it kindly, decision to nerf remote raids, the need is real.

So.. can anyone help me spoof on an ISO device?

I dont spoof, but it would be tempting as the Exclisve reginals are impossible to get unless niantic gives them to us in an event.. Not all of us can afford to travel the world just to play pokemon.

my only problem with spoofers is some has taken over my town and kicks me out of gyms within 5 minutes. so I never get coins they have been helpful with raids though.

It’s not “coming back”. It never went away, and it’s fun af.

Tbh i used to spoof bc i almost never met another pokemon go players in the raids or even in the pokestops lure fr so i never had the legendaries, shinies and shadows before i know how to spoof

Yeah bro even i want ro do because my near by gyms are full my Pokemon now i need to go even out of state

I'm not a spoofer, but I would love to try it. I don't think the changes they made were correct, and simply sitting and taking it as a good boy is not an option for me. I would find way to balance the damage they created on me. If others don't like spoofers, then probably go play offline game, when you go online, you must accept both sides of this technology. Question: What is the best spoofing app?

I’ve been spoofing on Pokémon go for years now and I do it bc I live in the middle of no where and really like playing the game. It sucks that they want to get rid of it

I'm not a spoofer but part of the problem is that theres not really good options in rural areas either to do raids or lack of resources. You need to be lv 37 to nominate a pokestop. While not a bad lv, if u live in a rual area, it could be a nightmare & you'll have to spend more resources just to get there. I was thinking maybe if the surrounding higher lv players (if they can) could visit the rural area in their counties to nominate pokestops there. That way areas like that would have a better chance & less spoofing would happen. I wouldn't be much, but its better than doing nothing. Who knows, maybe some of the players who use to play there might return due to better conditions.

The lack of pokestops in farmable clusters and the horrific garbage spawns is what drives people to spoof. I can't afford to leave the country to just play a mobile game.

I really wish I could play legit !! I come from a town that has very few wild spawns, no other trainers, minimal poko stops and gyms. There is a gym but being the only trainer I cant take down the raid successfully on my own. I basically just use it to get a little poko action