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Niantic allow legitimate android root users to play PokemonGO!

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UNG Mystogan
9 years ago

I'm a rooted user wanting to play pokemon

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Ben M
9 years ago

Blocking all root users will never stop cheaters and encourage pirated versions of your great app to begin to circulate.

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Tom D
9 years ago Featured

I see players spoofing and botting everyday who are unrooted. Banning rooted players is not the solution to stop cheating. Please change how you are stopping botters and spoofers so I can play a game.

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Kevin Tea
9 years ago

Gente legitima usando PokemonGO legítimamente tiene que ser libre de usar la aplicación desde un terminal arraigado, sean coherentes!

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Logan
9 years ago

A game that uses this level of "security" is hardly worth the trouble. The nostalgia value I get from playing isn't worth having to jump through so many hoops to keep my rooted apps and Xposed customization (meaning statusbar colors and the like!). Please allow root again.

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Adrian Byrne
9 years ago

Legitimate rooted users are being punished with SafetyNet's implementation in Pokemon GO. Niantic, please reconsider using SafetyNet, and instead focus on the people botting and spoofing in some other way so that us legitimate rooted users may continue playing the game. - Sincerely; a rooted customer.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Do it now!

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Krzysztof
9 years ago

Pls unlock root phone to play POGo

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Luke Wu
9 years ago Featured

This punishes legit players with rooted phones while doing little to curb cheating, as the vast majority of cheaters do it on their PCs. Shameful, stupid, shortsighted actions like this make me lose confidence in a company and not invest actual money in a game.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Consider your apps uninstalled in my phone!!

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Asplund Joel
9 years ago

Please let me play with rooted phone!

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Jose Agustin Herrero
9 years ago

Treated as a cheater for being somewhat of a poweruser..

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Anonymous
9 years ago

It is cruel to block all root users as not all of us intend to cheat and never would.

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iwantz
9 years ago

Agreed

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Diego
9 years ago

I need xposed and root more than PoGo!

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Scott Weaver
9 years ago

Root users should not be blocked from playing pokemon. Cheaters should be blocked.

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Cassian Lodge
9 years ago

I don't root my phone but I know a lot of people who do and I know they're not cheating. It might be a good way to get rid of a lot of cheaters, but it's a *really* good way to screw over lots of well-meaning non-cheating players.

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Brian
9 years ago Featured

By the time this war runs its course, Android will surely be crippled, its user base divided, and its enthusiast development community gone up in smoke. No video game is worth the sort of backwards progress that a war like this promises to bring, and the only party which doesn't stand to suffer irreparable damage is also its primary motivation: Nintendo.

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Warren Harner
9 years ago

Allow safety net checks to log but do not stop login from going through. we "fixed the glitch"....

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Jeafke
9 years ago

If I buy a device it's mine and I'm the boss of it. If I want to be root and disable retarded stock provided software as superuser that's my right! I'm not playing this game anymore dirty power hungry company!