Pokemon GO and fake GPS

Pokemon GO, according to the Wikipedia, is a free-to-play location-based augmented reality and alternate reality mobile game developed by Niantic and published by The Pokémon Company. It was released in July 2016 for iOS and Android devices. This game is taking over the world and its popularity is actually scary. Although Pokemon GO is new, people got in many troubles already because of it, being assaulted, stabbed, losing their jobs, getting ran over by cars, and so on. But it is to be expected considering that the game is meant to be played in the real world. And this brings me to the main topic of this post: Fake GPS.

Pokemon GO until now were released only in some parts of the globe. As you can see in this site https://www.ispokemongoavailableyet.com/

The fact that some has to wait while others are already capturing a bunch of powerful and cool pokemons seems unfair. Due to this fact, whoever wants to play the game in a country that doesn’t have it yet is using the APK site or just cheating using a fake GPS.

I live in Brazil, a large country that consume many products from Nitendo. We really enjoy playing games. The company on the other hand apparently ignoring this fact. People however is trying to comfort themselves into thinking that the Nitendo didn’t release the game here yet because they would need a really powerful serve to do so considering that the country would have a lot of players. This is a good excuse but I don’t buy it because the game was already released in the US.

Then it might sound like good idea, right? Faking your location and going to capture the pokemons in the central Park in a sunny day. NO. It is absolutely NOT a good idea.

First of all, it can overload the serve of other countries, once they are prepared to accommodate a maximum amount of people playing at the same time and this number is based on the population of that particularly country.  Second and most important: It goes against the WHOLE purpose of the game.

Capturing Pokemon in the real life world is the fun of everything. Yes, one may say that people look pretty dumb running away like animals with their cellphones in their hands just to catch pokemon, but come one! Running is good for healthy! Good to lose some weight and keep our heart beating!  

Also, people would probably keep using fake GPS even after the game reached their countries, just because it makes things easier if you live far away from a place where you can get itens or a certain type of Pokemon more easily.

For the time I’m writing this post, Pokemon was just released in Canada. Yeah. That’s really sad. They really hate Brazil. I’m going to say one last time though, lets not cheat. Please, people. While they are being unfair, let's be honest. I'm losing my hopes though. Maybe when the game comes to Brazil people won't even go outside to play anymore. Everybody would be with their fake GPS inside their homes because it is easier. 

Ban to all the cheaters! ~Ja ne.