*STOLEN FLEECEKING ACCOUNT RECOVERED* Niantic reveals a new secret they can do in Pokemon GO

[@Cruz1214.]

IM willign to bet money that if this happens to normal people Niantic will just say sorry about your luck we cant recover your Pokémon

[@tsukuyomi1361]

This happened to me like almost exactly the same I contacted support and after showing all the proof it was my account and that the guy changed my account name they said they can’t and won’t do anything anymore since they changed the name ig which I don’t know why that matters after I had showed all the proof of ownership of the acc

[@EliJohnston-y5k]

Oh they definitely will although in the case of fleece he not only I’m sure spends a significant amount of money on the game but also I’m sure niantic looks at him as a promotional investment, since he has like actual world records and such and if they didn’t do anything they would lose out in that way but since his was restored it’s definitely special treatment so it’s kinda a damned if they do damned if they don’t

[@DK_25]

⁠@@tsukuyomi1361outta curiosity, do you have an idea on how it was stolen in hindsight? Was it through recovery email like fleece, just asking to I can’t avoid heartbreak

[@mrteyssere]

Happened to my son at school. He's 7 yrs. Another kid deleted his shundo Salamance, niantic confirmed it was deleted, but couldn't bring it back.

[@nekroticknight1802]

Yeah last year same happened to one of my friend who has been playing Pokémon go since it launched...niantic s*cks

[@franko6677]

I’m not unhappy he got his account/mons back, but I’m really annoyed by the preferential treatment. It seems they told him they don’t want him to say they restored all his mons because they are not willing to do it for everyone. I’m annoyed by the shady lack of transparency BS this company pulls all the time.

[@Quartzleo]

This is not the first they recovered anyones accounts.

[@PrinceSieburt]

Why play the game when you just complain about it??

[@lemonz1769]

The way of the world 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ReturnToNothingness32147]

As much as i agree with you, thats just the way it is specially when it comes to a pogo player as fleece. He big on youtube and have tons of followers and niantic doesn’t want to lose revenue.

[@2beers1paddle71]

I’ve been locked out of my original account for three years and because I can’t answer two of their very specific requests I cannot recover mine. 😂😂😂

[@johnmanpls5577]

my day one account was hacked, so support said they would just terminate it so no one could access it. they didnt even give me the option to change log in details or ask for it back

[@muhaiminibrahim35]

now you have a point to fight them

[@casizz5047]

Yes you should sent them a mail and try

[@Want300]

The only defense Niantic has is that it was their fault someone got Fleece's account. Their mistake that let it get stolen. Don't know the circumstances for you. But thats a huge bummer. How long did you have it when it happened?

[@ashbiggs2926]

Niantic shows no support for their customers and community it’s all about money hence why they shut the last game down that they brought out

[@jamesde4428]

Mine got hacked too, I've sent multiple emails they give me auto responses.

[@viniciusPatto]

Is cool that fleece got he's account back but remember that ANY other player including poke ak would NEVER get the same treatment

[@basillah7650]

They would ban poke ak if they found out real accounts because uses spoofers on youtube so for sure they would not.

[@SeahawksFan2017]

Awesome Fleece Has his account back, But Niantic made a massive mistake to let this happen

[@Cyko..]

@JustinMedina-ro8du I think so too. If they even DARE tell somebody they can't do anything then they better bring up the favoritism they showed FleeceKing and prove them wrong.

[@lewiscoles1023]

​@JustinMedina-ro8du either way it would cause an uproar. Its their job for a lot of the streamers out there. Imagine having to go from enjoying your job to working a 9-5 because some tool has deleted your account

[@Saccara]

@@lewiscoles1023that’s not really an argument 🤷🏻‍♂️ only cause they choose this game as content creator to make money, does not mean they should get favorable treatment. And if they ultimately would need to go back to a 9-5, so be it 🤷🏻‍♂️ don’t know why we should care…

[@lewiscoles1023]

@@Saccara would it mean they got a refund for thousands of dollars theyve paid them over the years? I think theyd prefer to give them shinys back

[@NiceOCGuy1981]

Because he brings them money. We don't.

[@tomhollywood1967]

You’re a real one for being the only KZbinr to cover this.

[@ericrypt]

FR

[@ws6transam513]

Niantic is absolutely useless. If they can’t help everyone who has had their account hacked after they have had to even try buying it from the hacker then they shouldn’t had helped fleeceking. Niantic was always quick to say oh it’s out of our hands but that was an obvious lie. So happy I don’t play this game anymore

[@joshmertaw6031]

I stopped 2 seasons ago and feel a lot less stress and anger in life

[@SemiOldAsian]

Favoritism at its worst.

[@Not_Silver420]

Bro has spent more than 10k om the game ofc he's gonna be their favorite 💀

[@SemiOldAsian]

@@Not_Silver420 I'd say even more than 100k tbh. I spent maybe $3k and not even lvl50 yet.

[@PoGoJoel]

I'm happy he got his account back, but OMG he got everything back. Amazing! Niantic always said they can't do that, but now we really know.

[@blastingoff]

That's not some secret. Any game can restore items. They just say they can't. The average support employee can't because they dont have access to the tools to do it, but it is possible in any game.

[@poke_ak]

Like I said in the video I clearly know it wasn't a secret. These are the titles I have to use to show the average person who does not know but I do appreciate your comment

[@blastingoff]

@@poke_akI must have missed it. I was referring to 9:22 rather than the title.

[@tavionmcneil64]

I feel like this was a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. I’ve only just started playing GO at the end of last year, so I don’t have a full grasp, but as an outsider looking in, I feel like if they hadn’t restored Fleece’s pokemon, they would have had a massive revolt on their hands. But by doing this, they opened themselves up to be pestered when something like this inevitably happens again

[@jhudson_tiedye]

People are saying its niantic that gave the password to master warlord who posed as fleece saying he forgot his password

[@seascapes152]

If this was a stunt by Niantic they shot them selves in their own foot. They prioritized one player out of millions who have also lost valuable Pokémon. I’m starting to see why I left this game 7 years ago, the very first year it came out. There’s no structure, absolute no backbone, when it comes to supporting players.

[@alejandrotuesta4466]

I think you’re taking it too far especially if you stopped the year it came out 💀 like why are you watching the video then

[@HollowParadigm]

​@@alejandrotuesta4466 na hes completely right, support absolutely fucking sucks, i have lost an accout and they ignored me for days just to give me and automated reply that was just bullshit!

[@Yellow-IV]

Priviledge, i bet if my account got hacked an ruined it wouldnt be recovered/restored

[@brandonwilliams5526]

Facts the favoritism Isn't right cause if it wasn't anybody other than Fleecking they would not recover anything at the end of the day the petty jealousy towards Fleecking is flat out stupid childish and immature and completely disgusting.

[@Want300]

If Zoe Is sponsored, they really need to tell her to read the blog before posting about new events. Last two times I watched her videos, she had no idea what the current bonuses actually were. Like she didn’t know Castform was shiny boosted for the Weather event. She thought it was perma boosted. That’s something I would expect a PG content creator like her to know.

[@PokeTaxi]

Niantic sponsors content creators for specific events/videos which might be a couple times a year (if that). Nearly all of the year, they may have particular sponsorships or none at all and their income is purely views / ad rev or live streams.

[@Want300]

@@PokeTaxi Makes sense, still. She should know the details of the event... creating this content is her self appointed job. Some of the stuff she hasn't known about the current event while filming just rubs me the wrong way. Not knowing a hundo value, no problem... not knowing a pokemon is boosted for the event seems like laziness.

[@kiracaos]

Very cool Niantic. Now, can you restore all my shadow legendary I transfered? I think it may have been a mistake now that I think about it.

[@xitrinean]

Ok im sorry but the reason he got his Pokémon recovered is because he’s FLEECEKING. He’s one of the most influential individuals to ever touch the game, and he’s one of the best players. Not to mention the other things this man has accomplished. So for all of yall saying he got special treatment, number one it wasn’t like he transferred them himself, those are is prized possessions. And number 2 the amount of time and money he’s spent in the game justifies his Pokémon getting returned to him.

[@babydollbecca]

🗣🗣📣TIME FOR CHANGE, NIANTIC

[@JerWHolley]

I just sent a support chat asking Niantic to please restore the Clone Pokemon I accidentally deleted that they told me before they couldn’t restore.

[@Kenschoo]

tell them they have done it to fleeceking

[@whaletastic9200]

thats on you lol niantic cant do anything about that

[@msandifort22]

thats your own mistake

[@jhudson_tiedye]

Yeah fleece didnt delete his own mons like an idiot

[@whaletastic9200]

@@jhudson_tiedye we all make mistakes

[@kumakumakumachoco]

This process is probably not as simple as people think. It's not that his pokemon were restored but that his entire account had to be restored from a backup from an earlier date. Access to backup data is likely restricted. The people answering support emails likely don't have access. It's probably true when they say they can't recover transferred pokemon, they aren't going to some recycle bin. They'd have to rollback the account. Doing this for everyone is not practical.

[@mattbriggs7677]

I feel like niantic had no choice in giving him his deleted mons back. If they did nothing, then everyone would have hated on them more. Hopefully, niantic beefs up their security.

[@jamespeden1089]

Niantics bad security was one of the reasons the account was stolen, so i do believe they really kinda had to restore it.

[@stephenmallon7194]

Show my level 50 account in which I've spent thousands of dollars got deleted last year. I don't know how. I don't know if somebody got into it. I don't know so they can restore that. That's kind of bull crap being that I'm a nobody in the community and they don't know who I am. They don't care to do it. That's bull crap. They told me that they can't restore any data. They told me once it's gone it's gone well. Clearly they f****** can

[@jhudson_tiedye]

Sorry you got ignored by this game, its truely terrible they havent bothered to recover peoples accounts prior to this and probably still wont. I ultimately quit about a month ago basically because niantic has ruined their own game

[@JakeZombieKiller1]

I have had several Pokemon get hacked from me one Pokemon that I am a little upset that I lost was my shiny Mew. It took me over a year to get the task done and I haven't said anything until now.

[@XxCL0UDxX1990Official]

Of course they will do this for someone like Fleece but we all know that going forward, Niantic will still continue to tell us every day Joe Schmos to go pound sand. Because as we know from the second “Hear us, Niantic!”campaign; they don’t give two 💩 what we have to say anymore and will happily ignore us!!

[@octvius9448]

I’m happy for Fleece. But I just know, somewhere out there, an average level 50 player has been in the same situation and not got their pokemon restored…

[@gavinrade8284]

I'm happy as hell they r actually showing a little compassion. I hope everyone gets this same treatment if it is clearly out of you control u should especially with the grind people put into these kind of games.

[@Axecon1]

I assume Pokemon Go has some sort of daily save state backup in Niantic's cloud servers, and they just reverted it for Fleece's account. They probably just pulled the data from the day prior to the hack to help restore the lost Pokemon. Regardless of how the situation happened, this is very good news, in theory a recovery like this could work for anyone.

[@charlesschwartz7284]

He's a puppet for them of course the issue would be fixed right away now one of us have a proboem with the game how long does it take them to fix your account or get there robots machines ?

[@bobbijodubelaar6151]

They need to do this for everyone and also they need to put out a statement to talk about how, moving forward they are going to prevent this from happening anyway. As far as I was aware it was nearly impossible for legit people getting their accounts back with proof let alone an imposter!

[@Want300]

A lot of comments about them not doing it for other players and special treatment... There is a key factor here: Supposedly, Niantic actually messed up and gave the person access to Fleece's account (which if true, Niantic would be able to verify they messed up). Therefore, they had to remedy the situation. If someone hacks your email or gets your stuff of an old device or however else they steal accounts theses days, It is different than Niantic themselves straight up dropping the ball by giving some random person your account. Do I like it? No. If it happened to me, I would be furious.

[@jordanw2009]

Funny your the only one I’ve seen that has talked on this

[@Cyko..]

Because other people don't care.

[@Keavers85]

I’m glad he got his account back. All that work to be taken away was just not right. Great video

[@mrteyssere]

Screw Niantic... My son got his shundo Salamance deleted (a kid from school deleted it). He's 7 years old. The response from niantic was "Yeah we see it's deleted. No we can't give it back".

[@amanballani8907]

Niantic didn't helped me when my old account get stolen i asked for help so many times 😢😢😢

[@silverblack123]

I thought the wildest outcome was them ‘recovering’ his maxed out mareep. Was the Pokemon recreated/cloned? Or was the Pokemon recovered from the recycle bin? Because I would love to go back into the recycle bin of my transferred mons

[@basillah7650]

Why do that easier to just recover from a older saved state

[@aarontrask7105]

Hey just so you know if you search his name in the KZbin search your video from yesterday was the number one

[@jonniefast]

I wouldn't get your hopes up folks I don't think most of the user base is as famous as him 😂

[@wolfy_conservative911]

No sympathy for fleeceking after finding out he's a cheater and mocks his followers. "I get paid to play pokemon go and talk" while we all work.. will always be a cheater

[@BIGgamez78]

How was he cheating? Was he spoofing locations or sharing his login info or multi-accounting?

[@Saccara]

@@rookierider2096he admitted cheating? What has he done? Does he chest regularly? If you know if, niantic also must know but still gives him favorable treatment 👎🏻

[@xangel724xplayz3]

I know for a fact that they (Niantic) won't give back transferred pokemon to the average player. Had this happened to a friend of mine a couple of years ago. Usually, the response from Niantic once a Pokémon is transferred it's gone for good, and if you want to evolve a eevee have as your buddy.

[@ieatsticcyrice2091]

I'm happy he got his account back.. awesome keep grinding bro that crazy that shouldn't happen to anyone that put much effort grinding & but that's cool glad to he back in action

[@VoidStaredBack]

keep it 100. you always have, and I hope you always will

[@jesselopez2772]

You are one of the only pokemon go creators, I watch that is actually talking about this no one else such a Mystic, 7 Brandon Tan have done a video on this I think they are scared to say anything so this does not happen to them!

[@phroskies]

I am glad he got his stuff back, it is bs that one can lose it so easily. Different question, if they can target their favorites, can they use the algorithm against their critics? 🤔 Also interesting that this happened as they are trying to get everyone to link up their accounts.

[@trainerskulb00d]

Hearing about what niantic did, for only one person and the aftermath reminds of The Hangover. Where Phil has to call the bride to be from the desert.... "we f**ked up".

[@Furrealmustachekitty]

Yeah good he got it back. I'm sure Fleeceking had to sign a NDA, which is why he can't go into "details". I'm sure they gave him a fat check to not discuss it in detail. Any other company that gets hacked and/or compromised with personal information has been sued. Big can of worms was opened.

[@janthomassrensen1065]

The one thing that really gets to me about Fleeceking is his claim to be the first player in the world to reach lvl 50. He got elevated from lvl 48 to 49 because of of a Niantic glitch that reset everyone on lvl 48, mostly players from the Apac region. There could have been other players who benefitted from the same glitch, but who don´t have a KZbin channel or a Twitch account. Nobody knows. Anyways, he definately wasn´t the first one in the world to complete all the tasks to reach Lvl 50 in a legit manor. I watched his Twitch stream when he made the claim, and haven´t watched any of hit streams either on Twitch or KZbin since.

[@JimDen-m8f]

reminds me of the hacking of Jessa Buu account and Niantic did nothing back in Nov. 8 of 2022, fleeceking does have some pull since he stream their game and help pomote it. plus everything is on servers and kept on hard drives of every account made, they give me the same crap we can't do anything or change anything of give you back stuff from the game. plus what the guy did is a felony and should be jailed for that, since people account have value and am sure his in the 40 to 50 k. plus hacking into a business. this is a form of entertainment for people and putting into something you enjoy is not wrong, since everyone has something, they enjoy and dump thousands into it.

[@marktrafford1572]

This video is exactly why I like AK. I’d like to have a beer or two with him.

[@davidhensey2000]

Hope they improve security, but it would be great if they added recently transferred or deleted box. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has accidentally transferred a good Pokémon before. My mistake was transferring a maxed out shadow Magnezone.

[@DiegoDays7]

I think your position in this matter is 100% right, good job PokeAK.

[@marv969273]

Nah i see ya point bro, shit happened so quickly for one of the biggest players but us regular players would have to just chalk the L. Shit is wack but i get it, he also one of they biggest marketing advantages so they gotta make him happy.

[@speedcreatureYT]

4:10 MasterWarlord is out of line, but he's right! He won't be the last to cross FleeceKing. That is assured. 😊

[@LaDyFaCe180]

I saw someone commented in a Facebook group, that their kid transferred a Pokémon previous to this incident, Niantic restored it.

[@jhudson_tiedye]

ive seen other comments like that one said their nephew got two shinies they transferred back. Probably has a lot to do with how much $ the account spends on items how likely they are to help

[@LaDyFaCe180]

@@jhudson_tiedye Possibly, only Niantic would know.

[@Jurtaani]

Fleece did not get his mons back, but he is just so darn good that he was able to somehow catch all the same shundos again in one day! 😂

[@udajs]

As most of the companies I'm quite sure that Niantic have backup of their database including every player. Question is how long do they store the data? Most likely 72 hours or up to 1 week by most. So I think what they did they just restored his account from backup 24 hours ago- maybe he lost some progress that he did on those 24 hours but it was a fair price to pay to get all those nice shinies back. Maybe they are even few of a kind in all PoGo universe.

[@FiresplitterSpeedrun]

Niantic revealing that they just give players the good old middle finger salute When they contact support. Not surprised.

[@ashbiggs2926]

It’s about time niantic supported their customers more then they normally do, actually look after their customer base which is in turn their community. On all levels they should be providing a customer care service for problems and issues that we all have faced throughout the years, good or bad that’s what it’s their for on an individual basis as most cases will generally be different. Just an idea but it is usually the case for big companies or at least should be especially when there’s a lot of money involved

[@PokeBoyGod18]

The real joke is that that guy wanted to do it for infamy and because he wanted to enrage the community even more by exposing Niantic's potential. Glad Fleece is sleeping peacefully

[@duck4389]

This was the plan all along. They were both in on the "hack"

[@HyperNova10066]

Yeah, Niantic kicked a friend off mine out of their account and wouldn’t let them back in. They tried contacting Niantic but they did nothing. So they completely lost their account.

[@travishomewood8657]

Definitely not a stunt. Niantic would never want to let the information out that they can restore stuff with this accuracy because they aren't going to do it for the average player. It just is what it is. If stuff gets transferred by accident or someone participates in those offers to get shinies and XP/Dust for so much money per hour or whatever, its probably a pain for Niantic to sort it and get the account back to the proper owner. Your account security is up to you. Play the game the way its meant to be played, be happy with the pokemon you wind up with, and enjoy your account for what your efforts and energy have brought you and you should hopefully have no issues.

[@williamjoback1436]

He has a big following in his region and losing him would hurt Pokemon Go.

[@observing8685]

Would love to know the juicy details of what happened 🧐 hopefully this precedent will make it fairer for everyone, although i I severely doubt it. Even when you mention the algorithm essentially it's exposing shady workings and asking for fairness ✌️

[@ashleygeorgebridle7260]

That comes down to Niantic lacking in intelligence. They should have known and seen what was going on

[@luedanger561]

Isn't he a sponsored player? Like Nick, Mystic, and Zoë Edit Forget it. You answered for me

[@Tsar_Alexander]

If they can recover transferred Pokémon, they can create Pokemon out of thin air (clone).

[@jaymarclucas3560]

So…what’s the final verdict? Will they offer the same scenario to everyone and anyone from this point on that may find themselves in fleeceking’s position with the same compensation of restoring everything that was “lost”. Sounds dicey.

[@Volkaroar]

So I think it would likely depend on the added severity and the unusual amount that is deleted. FleeceKing got his mons that were deleted back because the sheer amount that was deleted in that takeover session would probably greatly outweigh a situation where only one hundo/shundo/shiny is deleted. So if you wanted to recover mons that were deleted by this hack, better make sure it was a lot of them transferred at once.

[@simonlung1110]

Honestly if this happen to me I wish I could get it all back, I’m happy that fleece got them back.

[@Andyhandz]

Yes the guy hacked the account. Hacking is strangley less then what people that watch too much TV think it is. Maybe look into hacking vs cracking.

[@dreama85]

I wonder if they'd replace stardust if they chose to waste a whole heap of it. It's definitely who you know!!!

[@DarkOneCFH]

They told me that I was shut outta luck. Thanks Niantic

[@dhruvshukla280]

It's soo funny ..when other KZbinrs have earlier made such videos like Brandon tan exposing some players hacking into their ids and selling them but they could not get their I'd back with all mins..but this golden child got all his mons back.. really unfair of Pokemon go.. that they haven't taken such steps for other players....just first exception to the rule book added today for naintic team

[@eadgarc]

Niantic keeps snapshots of all accounts from time to time. They restored him a previous backup. He lost XP, mons stardust etc... he juat travel back in time actually lol

[@matthewharty6531]

The thing is most peoples accounts aren't on open view like fleeces account is, fleece can at least provide documented 'ownership' of the mons deleted, just anybody could say oh I had a hundo shiny level 50 this that or the other did they?

[@DerekSmith816]

Practically all the developers at Niantic are incompetent and neglectful. They rarely ever expand, grow, and improve this game in any meaningful way. Other than adding new Pokemon and adding team rocket, and GBL. Niantic is completely incompetent, and neglecting their responsibility regarding updating, maintaining, growing, improving, experimenting, improving the look and feel appeal, of this game (their own game). It's as if Niantic is collecting large drops of cash from us, and not spending it back into developing this game to improve it. They are cashing out and running, rarely taking accountability for doing their do-diligence in their own damn game. How do you think that lonesome Niantic developer feels knowing he fucked up. Niantic clearly runs a skeleton crew, probably 1 day week for 2 hours a day! They neglect this game

[@TheExauticTruth]

That being said hes not sponsored so he has no special connection to niantic. Im expecting you to bring to light the ACTUAL foolery going on here

[@slipsethanon9997]

Some of you in the comments sound surprising shot that Niantic would of course recover as quickly as possible their top player somebody that they clearly makes a lot of money through. I don't follow Pokemon go player and even I know that people accounts have been hacked for years and of course Niantic does not care unless you're someone that's higher up on a totem pole and a high value player it's just like in a movie industry. When a famous person has something happen to them the whole and a police do what they can to try to solve the case but when it's a regular civilian someone who's not famous they'll either just ignore the situation or take their sweet sweet time to help. Niantic is a business and all they care about is profits. So even though we play this game for hours days months and we invest our time into it just know that that doesn't matter to them it's all about how much money we invest into the company or if any of us make it to be a top tier Danielle sent us an invite.

[@lilyhearts777]

Sorry I forgot to mention. So to be clear again lol. If you spend enough money and make enough positive streams and KZbin videos, yes you are the golden child. Did they make him sign a NDA a Non Disclosure Agreement? Can not talk about that seems like insider/special treatment.

[@Cand581]

I’m glad things worked out for Fleece in the end but this whole incident has shown how poor of a company Niantic is and how double standards are a thing for them. The average user wouldn’t get a resolution as fast as Fleece would and most likely would be denied or have to go through hoops for a result. I’m hoping this incident will make them change how they handle security and recovery but I doubt it.

[@moryb.2501]

Nianitc is fully capable of helping out players in situstiond like this, buuuttt if you continue to kiss their a$$ long enough you'll have special "privileges" like FleeceKing was givin.

[@martinvargasortuno2096]

jump to 4:15, nothing important before

[@shawn_in_toronto]

Random people have been commenting that they've had Pokemon restored by Niantic before as well.

[@bankruptjojo5009]

I've never had any mons restored but they did restore a 1000+ stack of great balls for me.

[@defoee]

In 1 month, Niantic will drop the professor’s lab update, allowing players to travel to irl stops (like gyms) to consider picking up their discarded Pokemon for a 2nd chance 😂

[@ShineguardIke]

I would love that feature. Please pitch it to Niantic! lol

[@fred129]

Niantic sure would not do that for the rest of us.

[@TheVK23]

6:43, the fact thats more shinies than i own by 97 and thats just costume + not traded

[@lilyhearts777]

So for clarity sake then, when a no name random Pokémon Goer gets hacked, they will and can get their account back? If not that is a double standard and extremely unfair and biased towards their favorite whales, let us be honest.

[@whaletastic9200]

L for the "hacker"

[@Pixel-xm9jl]

1. Why Fleece King got his account back? Ans. He puts a lot of money in Niantic's ass and time and he's also a top dog from Aus. Niantic treats Fleece as their money maker. So in the end Niantic only needs money. They dont need f2p. 2. What people dont understand is that as long as their are ppl who can put tons of their time and money Niantic won't change. Ppl will just buy whatever their Tickets are and as long as their are pol who can give money on a daily or a hourly basis Niantic wont change for you unless you are a huge p2p.

[@gellyzer0949]

I’m not surprised he does spend hella money after all oh lol fleece was saying the same thing he’s said don’t make me Niantics punching bag

[@jeffsmith8842]

AK.....your not "silly".........i saw your beef with fleece and totally side with you and understood your point..........im just guessing but i would bet that fleece has broken TOS over a million times....... i also bet he knows someone at Niantic and the changed his rng rate so he could make content on their behalf and be niantics poster boy........😮

[@mikebishop8178]

I feel like because there's video proof of everything being deleted and the blatant stolen account and posts saying he didn't care if he got caught...that's the only reason he got his mons back

[@jasonlumberjack7583]

It's fleece, I would expect him to get his stuff back.

[@AdrianLin-g3w]

I asked them to delete my account but a day after I just regretted and I wrote a mail to express how much I regretted to do that and to see if they can let me have my account again. And they said no.

[@3enjamin]

Why did u go out of your way to even ask for that? There's a button ingame to do so, and isn't it just simpler to abandone the said acc and move on? To contact support for acc deletion is a super redundant move.

[@Ditronus.]

Niantic is a horrible company when it comes to transparency. Companies like Respawn with Apex, Blizzard with WoW (only in the last several years), or even Arrowhead with Helldivers 2, are constantly expressing their design decisions and interacting with the community, releasing patch notes, etc. Niantic drops crap without any detailed notes, acts like long-standing bugs dont exist (white screen raid glitch), and never explain themselves. But yea, would be nice if they opened up about their capability in helping average players.

[@nabeelalmulla8587]

Thanks Lord It's was really unfair what happened to him

[@zealdrive]

Social engineering might not be 'computer hacking' but it is type of hacking imo: social hacking. But I understand not wanting to glorify the behavior.

[@JoeBingus12345]

Watch Niantic compensate him with 1 mareep candy and 1000 stardust

[@phatman1843]

This was a stunt big time cause Niantic don’t work that fast to recover anything. It was definitely not real his account being taken at all

[@Fluttershiez]

The only problem with this is, as everyone says, is favoritism. Will we be hearing about your "average" player getting their hacked account back? Probably not.

[@shokasen8584]

Niantic shouldn’t have let his account get stolen in the first place

[@tristan-valiant-thor]

How many people get their accounts hacked and Pokemon deleted? Does this happen that often that they need to restore all of these people’s Pokemon?