Niantic is BANNING Trainers!

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[@mayankbhaskar8545]

Dude me exactly

[@NathansNostalgia]

Can’t wait to see everyone else there! It will be a blast! 😃

[@heatherverley2303]

Would have loved to join you there but it’s during school time so can’t 😢

[@AVSplays]

Giovanni took control of niantic and is just deleting people from existence who mess with him too much

[@Minecraftpro-v7g]

Fr

[@bobbyrdayton9866]

Finally a good comment..not some copy and paste lol

giovanni takeoverrrrr

[@DARKLIF12345X]

Niantic: we need to get people to play our game a lot *bans people for playing*

LMAOO

[@rr-sp5ii]

Only Singapore grandmas that open app for 15 minutes a day allowed

[@markhernandez2660]

😂

[@LiveLikeCris]

🙌🤣

lmaoo

[@EwanLedet]

Banning people for playing the game is incredible...

[@zidaneffixexe]

Which is funny because it takes so much playtime to get from level forty to forty one and higher...

[@OLC62]

Blame the spoofers

[@AdamGaron686]

Being limited to 10shadow gems is childish- and they want us to spend adult money

[@JonytobiUchiha]

Spoofers spend more money on the game than legit players and have kept this game alive... is the reality and anyone who says so is just lying to themselves ​@OLC62

[@Jenuelr]

They are using bots

[@danringdahl6369]

The weekly yap sessions are your best videos. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Your structured, polished, and concise videos are great too... but these raw, unfiltered, grammatically errored, squirrel/wasp distracted videos provide authenticity and show you truly love the game.

[@MarcHartway]

Couldn’t agree more

[@KRAKEN91O]

I love the ADD/ADHD fueled tangents ❤

[@eon1812]

Bro is should never be a train conductor, he is professional at derailing the conversation😂

LMAO

[@Voices_29]

I think it’s a breath of fresh air. I can relate to this 100%. I do the same thing and don’t mean too. Keep doing you Daxi.

[@RichardSmith-pb8qk]

It’s a yap session, not a lecture.

[@byusaranicole]

As someone who ALSO has ADHD, I really like a derailed train! Lol

[@Detective_Jones]

(Bro is should) isn't correct grammar

[@SkippysMisadventures]

Niantic: Banning people for not playing enough Also Niantic: banning people for playing

[@dj4celine]

Day 1 player here.. Got my account terminated for playing too much with Niantic thinking I was cheating😂 Appealed to them, they said they'll look into my account, said I was using modified rooted software, showed them proof that I was always using a phone that would literally void my warranty if I rooted it and i wouldn't bother rooting a phone just for a game and they rejected the appeal. All of it happened during this Rocket Event. I'm done with this game. Had tons of fun with my local community arranging meet ups for raids and CDay but I'm older now and married and don't have any more time to start from scratch again. Goodbye PoGo 🎉

[@rr-sp5ii]

Niantic mission statememt is "farm your location data at all cost". The remote raid nerf was to get people outside and walking so they can farm data. Niantic has said they want the be the google of farming location data. Basically have a monopoly.

[@LifesMike]

They could start by giving us more coins for scanning areas rather than only on gyms

[@poefrakker]

Dude, don't stop doing these vids! They're so much fun and I love hearing your random thoughts and when you get sidetracked. It's so good dude. Keep up the good work!

[@h0td0g79]

the best part about these yap sessions is when daxi's adhd kicks in, i love it so much and its so funny keep up the amazing work! love ur stuff man

adhd brain

[@Courraff]

Imagine this as the beginning of Niantic being replaced

damn thats a take

[@mmaqbool8]

Hello pokedaxi

[@MikeAshkewe]

I would 100% work with Nianatic for accessibility concerns. I’ve been playing PoGo in my wheelchair since 2017. I have been an accessibility consultant in my community for a few years. It takes a LONG time for any company, government, agency to listen to accessibility concerns. It would be a pretty cool thing to make PoGo a game for everyone for all ranges and abilities. Gaming has come such a long way in terms of accessibility but there is still quite a ways to go. We need strong advocates and voices who will add ideas, strategies to the game.

[@somekidnamedtapu]

How does this comment not have any likes?

[@MikeAshkewe]

@@somekidnamedtapu i have been told that because i’m in a chair that i should not be playing a game that requires me to “go” My chair gives me freedom

[@drewpmartin9918]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the random side convos and distractions. Thank you for the entertainment!

glad you enjoy drew!

[@Minecraftpro-v7g]

Pokedaxi: "Why not add a ban to the catch cap" Me: DONT GIVE THEM IDEAS

[@TheTerraherts]

lol

ooopss

[@GHOST22x02]

0:43 Oompa Loompa spotted. I’m gonna catch it! Where’s my pokeball?

LMAO I gotta run

[@paigeyy29]

John is entitled to his own opinion but I actually enjoy these videos more than your structured ones. They allow viewers to relate to you on a more personal level. You aren't trying to be anyone but yourself and I admire that. Coming from someone who also has ADHD, I have countlessly been made to feel like the way I am needs to be filtered or changed. It took too long to accept and love that part of me so keep doing you because I think you are fantastic.

[@jacksonbaldwin3463]

damn one of those comments went in!!! I think your distracted mind is very fun and enjoyable during these yap sessions. While there's always things going a little wrong with this game, its fun to have a online community that all enjoys the same thing, even if lots of people don't have those local groups. I luckily live in a college town so raids are decently consistent. A great Trainer Tips quote is that you won't catch everything in pokemon go, so try to enjoy the game more than the grind. Just going on walks/ runs and having an autocatcher going, completely ignoring pogo has been one of my favorite ways to play the game recently. Yap sesh done; love the videos

[@xIRuskyIx]

Cameraman is a beedrill revealed at 11 mins you're welcome lol

[@xHalcyonDays]

Dax! Yes keep being authenically you. Going by the comments majority of us love the rawness of this series :) I usually pop the yaps on while I'm getting some needed steps into my days. I'm often laughing along with your camera angles, fit checks and fun thoughts to ponder. I also wanted to brag and say I got a shundo beldum of my go++ with a pokeball. Imagine that aye? Love the series Dax, hoping I can try and make it to Japan with y'all

[@l..1434]

Also i pray for 6hr comdays. Ever since it got back to 3 hours i have problems with playing on a saturday. I have a football match most saturdays around 2 or 3 pm so it takes up the entire comday basically. Before i could play in the morning which was just nice from a casual pov. Just catch a few shinies maybe a good iv and just go on with the day. Hope they bring it backk👏

[@White-Wing]

37:00 I actually enjoy That, most of the time I just LISTEN to this videos, and when sometime random like that happens, it puts a smile on my face. 😊

[@goldspiral]

37:00 that essay is crazy. like bro is literally just chillin on a park bench and has to tank that. thanks for the pogo content!

appreciate ya!

[@katiefast5598]

These yap sessions are my favorite! I think your ADHD and personality make you such an interesting content creator as well as person. Keep doing you and working on yourself. Setting a great example for self care and authenticity

[@nicholasrokitka380]

Good response to the comments Daxi! No one has to watch these, I really appreciate the unedited nature of these chats. Keep yapping!

[@SeixenseRevoltada]

I loved your sharing about ADHD because I also got diagnosed recently, and I really relate to the random thoughts and circulating around during conversations! 🧠🥰

[@DeviousDrew100]

The issue is that they released shadow timburr, the new king of shadow fighting raid attackers, at the same time as all the other grunts and leaders have mid Pokémon. Everyone is just checking for fighting grunts and moving on.

[@jayysii]

Bro the side tracked and grammar and all the other stuff is What makes this authentic and real. I love it. It’s real daxi. Daxi, Don’t plan these videos. If people don’t like it then don’t watch the series. Simple.

[@seedspittinspacecowboy]

I agree with your comment about Niantic's approach on accessibility. This game is about going outside to a populated area and completing objectives that are not from the comfort of your home. If you're not in the healthy and able category or don't live an urban environment you're kinda out of luck. Your only options at that point are to find a solution that will allow you to go out, give up or pay up. That doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't contribute to developing your community as a Wayfarer and plan for the future. I've seen some trainers go out of their way and contribute hours if not days of their time submitting POI's that developed their rural community into a habitat of Pokestops and Gyms. Then if you really wanted to get the ball rolling, collaborate with your local organizations or government to fund art or add stuff that could meet Wayfarer criteria near the location you play. I've noticed a lot of submissions for Little Free Libraries all over the place, just don't shove it right in the front of your lawn.

[@pizzaiolokavesh1176]

I agree with your suggestions Daxi. We should never be getting banned for spinning stops and there happens to be a grunt on it. That’s ridiculous. Then how do we play this game? That definitely pushes people to stop playing this game

Thanks for watching!

[@jeffreybyrd2081]

The company should just say the limits in the game so people don't get into so much trouble

[@smudgey1572]

Use me as a we don’t agree with Mr John Smith button :) keep on doing your thing yappidaxi

[@nicklasdamsgaard4655]

0:42 You can actually buy "driving" glasses with similar color and effect, that somehow make your eyes more relax

[@byusaranicole]

A 160 limit makes sense for number of grunts BATTLED in an hour.... but encountered in any way? NO.

[@DaveAkaCeladris]

I've literally clicked on the same rocket stop 10+ times in a minute while trying to click on a Pokemon under it! That ban was crazy! I feel lucky to have seen Zoe's video before I went to play, and I'm glad you're still covering it!

[@somekidnamedtapu]

I think of these as the Dax-Autism-Relatability-Rambling-Hour

[@SaviJundGuy]

This will have been the second time in POGO History where spoofers actually affected legit players. First was the gym bots in the early days and then it was this. Other than that, spoofers don't hurt players at all. Them having hundreds of shundos doesn't affect your ability to play. And no spoofers don't care about GBL.

[@AdventGO]

we still got gym bots

[@jarodoakfield145]

Nope it doesn’t for your own play ( most of the times) but still , cheating is cheating and deserves a reaction. Even using maps is cheating imho. How you think these so called pro players have a ridiculous amount of shundos? . Ok some players can have many but it all depends on the % of catches. If someone flexes about it to me i just ask to see their amount of pokémon caught / hatched / raided and do the maths. The chance to catch a SHUNDO community day Pokemon is 1/43200 when weather boosted or 1/102400 when not weather boosted. In the wild it’s even much much more : 1 in over a million. For hatches it’s 1/216000. So if i c collections with 100 shundos they either have caught / hatched many millions of Pokémon or had extreme “luck” 😂

I think issue is spoofers can also indirectly effect other players by fostering a community of unfair play

[@hydrodynamic_spatula]

This 100%. They also ruin showcases for us rural players (which is supposed to be the one & only thing we have going for us)

[@Minecraftpro-v7g]

Me when I saw the title: Welp, it was a good run.

rip

[@elmcraft]

This is kind of unrelated but in Iceland the biome feature doesnt work and that makes it really hard to get a variety if pokemon and makes all kanto pokemon super rare. When I went to another country it was so much better so I hope they change it.

[@martinhigueras1732]

At this point Pokemon Go is 50% meh content and 50% drama for Niantic decisions

LMAO its like a reality tv show

[@Blaze-ut5vl]

Legit the motto is get out and go yet if you “go” too hard soft ban/ banned. Only game I have ever seen that punishes you for playing it.

ya that's true not many other games have limits

[@Saint4]

Kind of late on banning legit players for playing grinding team rocket grunt’s although I’m glad you’re covering it, I literally skipped the event and missed out because I didn’t want to risk a ban.

[@PokemonMasterGTB]

The math was 10 every minute for and hour and 20 every minute for 30 minutes

[@Faladyne]

Late, but! If you ever need for historical reasons, some 'testers' did what I couldn't, and the ban was in fact 160 per 24 hours, then dropped to ~60 when the Take-Over started, then hell got raised and Niantic silently unbanned a lot of players and raised the limit to around 900 in 24 hours, while simultaneously dropping the "Taps count" portion of it (as far as anyone has been able to prove yet). There's a second thread I made on Reddit when the event first went live, if you ever want to shove it in your 'for historical data purposes' cabinet 😂 Post-Take-Over, the limit was dropped to 600 in 24 hours, appears to be a rolling 24 hours (there's always that one "I did 900 before I got banned! It only took 30 hours!" person...). And still results in an account lock-out of 24~36 hours. Still, at the end of the day, it should be a limit, not a lock-out or a ban, full stop. (And if I hear one more argument over "It's a ban!" "No it's not!" I'll physically scream... semantics, fml)

[@dav1d1993]

The fact Niantic even tries to set limits in a game that is about exploring is absurd to begin with, when things like this happen it actually stops me from trusting Niantic and their games. Then again The Pokemon Company haven't been on the ball dealing with cheaters in the main games so I guess it is a case of the apple not falling far from the tree.

[@franciscolaurean8550]

They figured a way to catch cheaters but also caught people that grind a lot in the crossfire😭 Maybe try banning the people that sometimes join raids and gets walking star medal with 120-130km walked is more likely to be cheating

[@MS-yh5lf]

I think John should make his own youtube channel and plan as much as he wants. I wholeheartedly support the yapping sessions. You work a lot on the other videos to provide lots of information in the most precise and short way possible. So you can relax for these as much as you like. However, the mustache situation... Just kidding.

[@danieldan1228]

I think the biggest issue with this is they started doing this the same event they are actively promoting doing lots of rocket grunts, it’s like they don’t want us doing things the way THEY wanted

ya really odd time to start this

[@danieldan1228]

Like it’s one thing to roll it out without telling people and making it really low, it’s another to do it, make the limit really low, and do it during the point where the rockets have the most focus, like I get trying to combat cheaters, but you should at least not do things that will get actual legit players in trouble, or at least test to see if it’s reasonable for legit players to break that hard limit when they don’t know the limits a thing

[@bobbyrdayton9866]

Im sm$$ing some bud rn stoned n listening too yap is hilarious...love your structured vids there informative but yap session n being able too see people for who they are adds dimension too your channel

[@CobAnimates]

I haven’t been personally banned but one of my best online friends was banned for a month the month before New York go fest this year, and he had the ticket and already had booked flights and everything. He’s the most legit player I know and we came to the conclusion that when he’d open pogo after not fully closing it while riding his bike niantic would think that he’s teleporting

[@l..1434]

DAX what are your thoughts on some kind of 3 times strike system? My idea being with the pokemon, pokestop and grunts cap youd get a warning rather than a 7 day ban (if they where to do that for the pokemon caught or pokestops). This warning is like a clear message which says what you did. This will help when they make a cap to low as players arent instantly banner or anything making it less demotivating. While i think it also handles cheaters in some sense as they either continue to cheat and get banned or stop. I wonder what bigger grinders think about such a system as i wont ever hit a limit :)

[@BeautifulShaving]

Thank you for creating such wonderful & informative video content. Found out that one of my housemates watches your channel too 🙂

[@Meazzy2k]

the yapp sessions are the best, dax. you did the right thing, standing strong 💪 me as a creator myself can only imagine what it feels like to be daxi 😅 love

Thanks bro you stay strong as well - follow your values

[@Roneish1996]

Niantic being ableist isn’t surprising and people always use the excuse of claiming we want unreasonable adjustments when we just want things to be more accessible and things being more accessible is better for everyone. It’s this kind of ableist attitude towards disabled people keeping us from a better world for disabled people and everyone will eventually be disabled at some point, also not all disabilities are physical or visible. Also re: the rude comment calling you lazy and the adhd stuff, I recommend a book called ‘laziness does not exist’ by Dr Devon Price it’s a fantastic read. Also if you are considering if you have ADHD I will say it’s worth getting assessed on its own for helping understand yourself more and maybe getting medicated if that’s what you want to do. It’d hopefully help with issues with motivation and with burnout you’ve mentioned in other videos. Also just from my own experience with it I want3d to say that maybe you should try and do less and not have the goal of doing more or being more motivated as you’ve mentioned before. It’s something I am struggling with a lot and especially am struggling with mom now as my meds situation has been a real hassle to figure out and continues to be that way after thinking we’d finally gotten to the point where it wasn’t the case.

hmmmm try and do less - you see my brain is so hustle culture tamed that I might need look into that

[@calhimself6552]

I’ve never had such a weird situation of liking a game that abuses its community so much.

[@Teggy04]

Same ! Love the game HATE the creators

[@the3ddy0693]

There’s a couple of things to address here. Spoofers(some of them at least) have features that allow to “insta win” against grunts. So all they do is click on a grunt, hit battle and instantly skip the battle and win. I think that’s how they can do over 100 an hour. Secondly you can be a very busy person and still cheat because they have bots who perform actions like battling grunts or farming stardust while they essentially do whatever else they want.

[@gruszax7637]

Niantic: we want more money! add more paid tickets! increase items prices! niantic too: new avatar fail, bugged events and raids, now bans for playing :D

[@onbekendkanaaaaal]

"Nature... ah life... (soothing).... 10 seconds later "GET OFF ME BUG" lmao

[@barkumo]

I worked on and finished the level 45 requirement where you have to battle 50 leaders during this Team rocket event. I did so many fights I never want to see another grunt ever again. The idea that people were getting banned for playing normally is INSANE, there is no way you weren't (s-word)ing from home if you were hitting the cap. I 100% don't buy it.

[@AimeeGirl]

Like, if you abuse the auto catch and hit the catch cap, you may not be able to catch anymore for awhile, but you can still play the game and do other things, like open gifts, battle, hatch eggs, etc. At least they didn't give you a soft ban. Same with daily pvp battles. Why don't they just make your account not able to battle grunts, but able to do other stuff? Even if it was a mistake, you could easily miss an event, like the one going on now, if you got banned say yesterday. That's a total wasted weekend. you'd miss the classic CD too. Definitely needs to be fixed.

[@N1TEMARE28]

Poke Daxi: players are no longer getting banned (1:03) Everyone Else: Still Banned (end of video)

[@artin5300]

"They could have done something sussy" -PokeDaxi 2024 😂

[@5150Reaper]

Fleeceking is punching the air right now.

[@Eevy0423]

2:19 when he gets on topic

[@MSusername69]

29:48 There's a lot of stuff in the background we don't know. Limiting the remote raid pass could have made them a lot more money. By selling information about where people like to visit.

[@ugliimugg7899]

The Shades look sick bro.. ngl I need me some where they from they'll go with my Echo Croc's yo!!! 😮 they suit you well too

[@KayDacey]

If you clickon a pokestop and it has a grunt, but you don't battle the grunt It shouldn't count as doing it

[@charlescalvin3421]

You play the game, they put microtransations, you buy, they ban you, congractulations! You lost your money!

[@udajs]

600 per hour is 10 checks every minute. Sounds reasonable if you sometimes battle them too. Might be easy to get this number if you go with public transport (or horse) and you can click through a lot of stops during rocket event.

[@Roneish1996]

Yeah I was playing a bunch during this event trying to get field research tasks with mysterious components to get a bunch of rocket radars to save for whenever their parties are changed next and because I’ll stack the black rocket radars for a better shadow legendary, this meant I would constantly have to click in and out of the Pokéstops to spin ones with grunts that I am not interested in fighting, so I’d be worrying that I’d do that so often that I’d get banned. I didn’t even think about it until now that I could have even been banned and forced to missed out on the beldum community day and the timed research from twitch drops.

[@rajsiroya9272]

I just hate this game now, all my records have been destroyed. I will never play it again😢

[@NewMateo]

Remember when Niantic changed the raid pass rules and said "don't worry - their will be free ones in weekly rewards now!" Has anyone ever gotten one of these?

[@DtrJr]

loved watching this and the last as the first times ive checked out these kinds of videos. earlier on a walk i was thinking about how niantic could add more to the friend system as some have mentioned with things like making gifts easier to use but i had the idea of making it so you could tag and categorize groups of friends as well

[@baltor-]

Orange Glasses : Welcome to Mexico Brown Glasses : Welcome to India Pink Glasses : Welcome to Japan

[@Starboy_simp]

You beat me to it 🤣🤣🤣

[@silver360moon3]

Bro collecting all the glasses like they're the infinity stones

[@JackPlaysMinecraft575]

Ok im sick of Niantic being idiots Now they need to stop this Why the hell can't they Just have it so if someone's Location Imedietly Switches to like a Different country or something in like a second then you get banned cuz its Proof that they are cheating

[@notsochubbydevil]

I would buy a Poke Daxi bag in a HEARTBEAT

[@silver360moon3]

Having someone complaining about your videos not being watchable due to you being you is insane. If you don't like a creator's content, you do not have to watch them. Also, as someone with ADHD and unmedicated, I found moments in the video I could relate to. I'm unsure about others, but for me it makes you a more relatable person and shows more of you that doesn't get across in scripted videos. I don't just watch videos for information, I like seeing the creators behind them and seeing their personalities and quirks. Don't let people get you down and do not feel like you need to apologize for being yourself.

[@DINOS_AND_BOTS]

and now theres a thing where we have to collectively defeat 75 million grunts in a week

[@MsGundbear]

I will mark my March calendar to be in Tokyo and Nagano. Will send Japanese team to see if the top players can be there since haven't see you in the Go Fest with them. Hopefully by then all our accounts still alive.

[@Oogly]

Holy manspread Batman! Edit: John, my man, just skip the yap-sessions. It's actually super helpful and amazing for your (mental) health to carve out time for yourself to just drop all the filters/masks/rules and just "let it go", even for neuro typicals I dare say. So Dax uploads his and you dont like em, that's fine, but your assumption that he's deteriorating in some way is wrong. It's quite the opposite

[@rikavanderhofstad]

avatar update: there have been some minor tweeks. like skin tones have improved. we can have hips now, dont look good but it is there. but ye there is still a lot that has to be fixed in my opinion. like some clothing still looks bad etc.

[@whiterabbit6341]

Faces! I'm keeping that mask on until they fix faces. Probably forever as I can't stand looking at "myself". :(

[@WilliamMc8]

Also hot take you should get a guarnteed xl rare candy from route 7 day streak bonus and pokestop 7 day streaks

honeslty not even that hot

[@WilliamMc8]

Wdym?

[@Slinkeh1558]

Those glasses give a +2 buff to Mexico Filter

[@fishettibean]

Ban on (unique) interactions was the correct move, but niantic forgot the unique while coding it. If you can interact with more than 200 unique stops in an hour, then you must be zipping over the map too quickly.

[@addictedtoJB]

I stopped playing almost 2 years ago now. In my honest opinion, just let the cheaters cheat. What harm are they truly causing you? You, Niantic, cause more trouble than cheaters. That's just my opinion.

[@Muhammad.d24]

exactly

[@Fz_blur]

And something else is they have to think of the young players who can't drive or don't have any spawns, gyms, or pokestops near them because otherwise the game isn't fun you can't do anything if you are in the middle of nowhere, like they are basically just telling those people you have to cheat to get stuff but if you cheat well ban you it's not fair like I'm one of those players so I did what I had to do.

[@emanuelfer456]

in GBL and in gym battles. with fake gps and this cheat its easy to get hundos of every shadow and all rank1 for all leagues so they have advantage on the battles for having pokemon caught by cheating while most players rely on the time they have and luck from whatever they do. Gym battles because you keep getting ko from the gym you are locally and specially when you are alone

[@Fz_blur]

@@emanuelfer456 well then explain how I only have like 4 or 5 hundos and they ain't really good ones

[@nixequestrian3721]

About the accessibility thing especially with raiding in POGO- I decided to put a common gripe to the test & tried to play shadow Lugia on foot, which is supposedly how Niantic want people to be playing the game. Friggin oats it was rough! Over 5hours on foot got me a grand total of 3 Lugia raids & I had to walk over 15km to do them- I was the only nutjob on foot, everyone else was in their cars. I gave up at 4pm & drove the final 1 hour I played. I did 3 Lugia raids via car in less than 30mins (no more Lugia spawned in for the final 30mins, so I called it quits as it is winter here). The stats- 5+hours on foot = just 3 Lugia raids done vs 25mins in a car = 3 Lugia raids. I later asked in the city group how many Lugia people had been able to do from their cars during the timeframe I played & the number ranged from 15 to 27! So, it begs the question- Why the double standards with Niantic nerfing RRPs yet continuing to do shadow raids in the 'spread out randomly over the whole weekend' format, if the whole purpose is supposedly to try to 'encourage' people to get out/explore/exercise, interact with each other & play the game together/build in person communities, instead of playing alone from home? Why push a format that in reality can only be played effectively if people raid alone from their cars? How is that any different than remote raiding when the end result is essentially the same with lack of in-person interactions, exploring/exercise & community building etc.?

[@whiterabbit6341]

Lol, it's not about getting people out to explore, exercise, interact, or anything else of that nature. It's ALL about collecting (and selling) YOUR data . . . which they can't do with you raiding comfortably from home. :)

[@nixequestrian3721]

@@whiterabbit6341 Read between the lines of my comment 😉 Niantic won't change anything if comments aren't constructive about what needs to be fixed & why- they have been up front with that & as much I dislike their way of running the game, I can at least respect when communication is clear & concise on what they will acknowledge & what they won't.

[@Rappyfan]

I assume the ban is on clicking on them because a cheater would check the text to find the right one and only battle a certain type of grunt to chase a specific pokemon. I think the old limit would have been fine if its battles. 160 x 5 minutes (considering walking and fighting) is over 10 hours constant play. BUT tbh I don't think any normal (casual) player that did not intentionally tested it, was affected.

ya most likely that is what the BAN is from

[@terrilnu9756]

The real question on the ban is the "600" over the course of an hour, a day, or a week, or what. The only test was 600 over 30 minutes.

[@rtallu2]

I think “YAPPERS UNITE” with the super smash bros theme would be fire

might need an official intro song

[@rtallu2]

It’s time. Your clout lvl demands it.

[@Minotaursoldier]

Was finishing up playing around midnight rest and hit with the ban wave for going over 1k catches in a day using the quick catch method. Learned later ALOT of people were hit with this as well. Made appeals but only got the automated responses from Niantic. Thankfully got the ban lifted about 24 hours later.

[@xIRuskyIx]

Imagine niantic punishing it's top players..

[@VGDomination]

Lol glad to see you embracing the yapping

[@whiterabbit6341]

The question with Merch is why does everyone make their shirts black or super dark colors? It's hot, and boring. I'm so sick of people wearing black. I'd buy t-shirts supporting you . . . in colors, or even white. Gotta offer 100% (breathable) cotton! Now that's quality. :)

ya if I make merch ill make it multi coloreddd

[@liamking8983]

All of these reasons are why in the play store it's dropped from 4.1 stars to 3.6 stars. Making it niantics lowest rated game next to peridot. Ingress, pikmin bloom & monster hunter now are around 4.4 stars as of typing this

[@saucyluna5163]

I don't think it's actually meant to affect the gaming experience. Niantic wants to counteract unfair playing styles. There are players who create dozens of accounts to scan the environment and make it available as a map. A way to specifically search for Pokémon that interest you. These accounts also often scan Poké Stops to search for specific quests. I think that's why there are tap limits and it's enough just to talk to the grunt to ban scan accounts. In my opinion it's really stupid to ruin part of the experience for players who simply play a lot. Limitations are often tailored to casual players, which I find rather problematic. As a very diligent player you will be equated with scan accounts. But it is probably the only way for Niantic to take action against these maps... I think it's good that you bring up such topics. Best wishes and have a good day. 😊

[@Promarjk]

Personally, I don't mind the yap and it seems like you genuinely enjoy the format. If I didn't like it, I wouldn't watch. Most important thing is that you enjoy doing what you do. keep doing what ur doing daxi 👍

[@22177121]

My biggest issues are still the COVID changes reversion - which was probably the peak player count moment, second to '16 release ofc, for PoGo. It's quite hard for me to keep playing. Local raids in cities of millions with at most 200~ concurrent players. Remotes are very hard to get via normal gameplay even with the 7-day chance to get one. How am I gonna ever raid a local shadow? Very few cities have the player numbers of Singapore Tokyo etc.I can barely do 1 remote per week with what I am able to gather from Gyms and effectively drain my resources to buy anything else. Can't hook new players because the starting Pokémon and item space is absurdly low, and you essentially need to pay a full android game price to just start playing.

[@pbrouillette]

I got false banned and a strike on my account because I’m a pilot and flew to several different countries / cities over the span of 3 days for work and they said I was cheating 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@gustafsson97]

My wife got randomly perma ban at lvl 32 we were out playing normal the all of a sudden she got band an when we contained Niantic they only said she had broken the rules but nothing else we still don’t know the reason (this was before rocket take over)

ya you see this is what I mean sometimes this happens