It's an interesting point though.
If they make local battling / trading mandatory (i.e. No online trading or battles), then people are going to be forced to meet up and play to level up. You're probably not going to get very far if you only catch and train on the Pidgey that shows up at your local park that you go to once a month.
Requiring travel and effort to not only catch Pokemon, but level them up could make this game really interesting. But at the same time, that could be a huge barrier to a lot of people.
Yea a bunch of kids aspies and adhd pedo SJWs are going to YOLO and seek out human contact in order to catch rare bird pokemon. Utopia.
I'd say these three posts summarize my feelings pretty well.There will be a day one Lucky Patch for it that lets you manipulate the GPS, calling it now.
For those that know more about this stuff, what could possibly be done to stop manipulation of GPS? It seems like any kind of real security check would be incredibly invasive to your phone and easily circumventable on any android-based phone. You'd really have to have a proprietary piece of hardware which would obliterate any chance of most using it.
I also don't know what their revenue stream is like for their other game, but I wonder if it'd be rich enough ($5 per ultra ball!) to have real checks and support staff to catch people cheating.