>>32841927To be fair, though, EVERYTHING will ALWAYS be easier for spoofers, no matter what it is. Unless they take out the game's core mechanic of being based on real-world location, cheating your location will always make every part of the game easier for you.
What Niantic needs to do isn't to make the game itself easier for everyone, but to combat cheating methods. And they have been doing that, even if it isn't to everyone's impossible expectation of "stop all spoofers somehow".
Battling spoofers and botters is probably going to be an eternal fight for Niantic, so the best they can do is slow them down or enact surprise countermeasures, which they have been doing. It might not seem like it's working because you'll still always see a spoofie or two trolling around the big city gyms, but all the "I updated my phone and now I can't spoof anymore???" posts surely speak for some percentage of spoofies that have been knocked down a peg.
