Niantic rolls out Pokémon Go bans to players using XL Candy exploit

Niantic is cracking down on Pokémon Go players who have been using a crafty exploit to farm up to 120 XL Candy per hour in Routes for weeks. As of today, the company is banning those involved, with penalties ranging from 30 day suspensions to permanent ones.

The exploit required players to create a route and use two external applications (OP Auto Clicker and GPS Joystick) on a jailbroken device, along with a certain combination of settings, to trick their device’s GPS into skipping to the end of the route over and over again, exceeding the limit.

About Post Author