"[Complaint] "Unpopular" Opinion - My Letter to the spoofers (Warning: Long post, Probable Butthurt for spoofers)"

#PokemonGO: Dear Spoofers. This is to anyone who Spoofs in the Game pokemon Go. I know you wont read it all, but I truly hope you do, and if even one of you stops spoofing because of what Ive written, then I feel like Ive done my job.Ive seen it a few times now. Someone mentions they were "Forced" to start spoofing because of what Niantic is doing and people jump on the band wagon with "Yeah I had to do the same thing." or "Its not that bad really." Every time I reply to those guys telling them to pull their head out of their ass, it attracts downvotes. So I'm going to do this in one big shot, even though its not an "Unpopular" opinion, or at least it shouldn't be but clearly y'all need reminding. What the hell is wrong with you people?IT IS CHEATING. Plain and simple. Call a spade a spade. You arent forced to spoof. No one is sitting behind you with a gun to your head saying "if you dont play pokemon go and spoof, I'm going to shoot you and your family" and if they are, they are clearly more bored then anyone has ever been, and mentally deranged. In that case, I hope they get help and you/your family are okay. That said:IF you do not like the game as it is, DON'T PLAY IT. Quit. Uninstall the game and never worry about "Catching the same stuff over and over" or "Having to grind out levels" again. Go play Sun or Moon. Go Play Pokemon Red, Gold, Ruby, Diamond, Black, Black 2, Y or Omega Ruby or any other game in pokemons vast library.The most common arguments i see are: "Niantic is forcing me to spoof because of ________"No. They arent. No one is forcing you to do anything. you dont have to play if you dont enjoy the game. If you want more content, go play another game for 6 months and then come back for a pokemon stint. There will be new content. /2. "Everyone else already spoofs anyway, i dont want to fall behind."No we dont. there are plenty of people who still play legit. It may not be week one anymore but I still see people parked near our local hotspots from time to time running lures in their lunch breaks or battling gyms. We have to walk our ass around to hatch eggs. Why are you too good to do that like the rest of us? why do you care so much about a few assholes who cheat getting in front of you that instead of reporting them, you start spoofing too. Do you really want to be an asshole that badly? /3. "None of my friends play anymore so I just spoof now."Why is what you do dependent on what your friends do? Sure playing in a group is fun. I miss the early days of the game too. But I'm playing the game for what it is, and you dont need to cheat to do that. If you are trying to find a reason to spoof, You should probably quit you clearly arent interested enough to want to play. /4. "But players in Big cities get more then I do in my Rural town"Yeah. This one is a big problem the gap between rural players and Urban players is enormous. However, Spoofing to that big town? That just makes you a dick. Why should you, A rural player get Urban level spawns while the others in your town are stuck on Rural spawns WITHOUT you physically going to a big city for a visit? You are just making life miserable for your fellow small city players.If you drive to that city for a visit, You've earned the right to have those big city spawns. You've earned the right to get stuff that people who wont leave your town dont have. As long as you play legit when you get back, no one gives a shit. Hell we had a few guys doing twice weekly runs to the coast to get their Gyarados. They spent a few $100 on fuel and a few hours of their lives to do that. They earned it. The worst part about spoofers is they dont just spoof to get better spawns, They spoof for everything once they start. This means within days they are in every gym in town, collecting 100 coins daily, or spoofing to smaller towns so they can guarantee 10 coins per gym in real small towns because there is nothing that spawns in that town effective enough to kick them out for weeks at a time.Do you think we like seeing "Oh looks like Insert username here is spoofing around the gyms at the moment. I guess we will wait 30 min - 2 hours for them to log off before we go gym battling again." No, we dont. Its depressing to see people giving up on trying to take a gym because they are kicked out instantly by someone who isn't there, and then they stick pokemon in the gym that 90% of us in rural towns DON'T have optimal counters to. /5. "I couldn't get a Insert rare pokemon here so I just spoofed to get one. Its no big deal"Yeah. it is a big deal. Like the last point, You are doing so to give yourself an advantage over your team mates/foes A dragonite in my town is a surefire spot in any gym due to high CP. The only rivals we have that spawn here frequently is Rhydon (Rhyhorn) which has helped close that gap, but it still is a big problem. As I said above. Ive no issue if people put the time and the effort to go down to the big city and get some rare pokemon. That's fair enough. They are dedicated to being a pokemon trainer, or maybe they just had a short holiday in the big smoke. Whatever the case, They earned their right to those rare pokemon they caught while there.Sitting on your couch with a beer and spoofing to Central park in New York or San Fransisco Pier? that didn't take any effort. You arent getting off your ass because you are a lazy sod. Or maybe your "broke" and cant afford to drive to the nearest major city. Save up. Make a family/Solo holiday of it. Get a room, see the sights, maybe catch a live show or something. Make it worth while to go to the big smoke, and while you are there, Get some pokemon.Thats what I'm doing the instant my car is finally paid off. I'm starting saving towards a Sydney holiday and you can bet your ass I'm gonna have a hell of a time down there. Im gonna visit record stores that sell actual Vinyl, I'm gonna visit comic stores, and eat fancy big city food until I get food poisoning. Ill hopefully time it to catch some of Australia's Greatest hiphop acts on tour, or maybe a touring band in from over seas. Time will tell. But you can also bet your ass I'm gonna be catching a shitload of pokemon. Catch all the things. /6. "But i cant afford to fly to (Insert country Here) to get the regionals"Yeah. That does suck. I know exactly what that is like. This is why we are waiting for Trading. So I can trade some of my Kangaskhans for A Tauros, A Farfeched and a Mr Mime. Even so, its really not fair on everyone else who is in the EXACT same suit as you to spoof overseas just to be one step infront of them. Its a pretty douchey move in my opinion.When are people going to learn its "Pokemon GO" not "Pokemon Stay" Yeah, the game has issues. The Tracker is pretty much useless in some areas, The devs still dont communicate as much as they could and we really need another round of balancing for some pokemon Not to mention the endless sea of 5k eggs gets old for everyone, I GET THAT. Content wise: Its coming. Be patient. Don't over hype yourselves like its gonna be first week again. Its not going to be. If anything Gen 2 will see a bunch of people quit who dont know these new pokemon and dont care enough to learn them. Genwunners if you will.Understand that this game doesn't have NPCs. Every other person in a gym is a living person. MOST of us put in the hard yards grinding stardust and levels and candies to get our strong pokemon for gyms. Why are you too good for that? What makes you so much better then us that you feel you've earned the right to do fuck all and get a bigger rewards for it, just because you are willing to break the rules. If you are spoofing? Quit. Just stop playing. Clearly you arent enjoying the game and you are trying to find the enjoyment you had week one through the use of a 3rd party program/however the hell people spoof.As to Niantic doing Quality of Life Improvements over Gen2/legendaries/ect - The game is far from perfect. But its 1000% better then it was 5 months ago. Servers WORK when you want them too, you can log in at any time of day and not get "Our Servers are humbled Blah blah blah" Its coming. Be patient. We also do need these quality of life improvements. I like a good joke/meme at Niantics expense as much as the next guy ("r", "Minor text fixes") but this sub is constantly a cesspool of negativity about the game. Why dont you guys say something positive for a change? Why has it always gotta be negative waves man?To a lesser extent I count Scanners in this too. early on when there was no tracker but a broken 3 step tracker I used them myself. Since then I learnt my towns spawn points, and do the rounds during the 2 weeks of a new rotation and learn what is spawning where. Ive not looked at a scanner sight in months. While I wont be angry at you for using them as we sill lack a GOOD tracker, its encouraging bots/cheating and I dont agree with that so I wholeheartedly encourage anyone who uses them to give it up. I know most spoofers have stopped reading at this point and are probably working on some witty retort to reply to me as they downvote me into oblivion. I Know that because if they dont have the staying power to finally be a pokemon trainer in REAL LIFE after 20 years of waiting, then chances are they dont have the staying power to read this short letter which comes out at under 2000 words. I'm surprised they have enough staying power to get out of bed in the morning if they are just going to get back in it again tonight. So as a final Hurrah lets do the TL;DR: IF you are a Spoofer, You are a Cheater. Don't pretend you are doing it for anything other then your own personal gain. Team Rocket has more spine then you do. At least they admitted they were criminals, Hell they had the staying power to chase the same Pikachu for 20 years. You cant even catch the same pokemon for 6 months.Know i will call you out every time I see you, and you can downvote me all you like, but you are the one who has to live with the fact you are cheating at a game made for kids. Never yours .SSFPS. Please never pass down your cheating ways to your offspring, so dont reproduce.SSEDIT: its 5 am. i need to sleep. Ill reply to as many later today as i can. Good night. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2hPNdim