"Dear Niantic...."

#PokemonGO: This game could be so great, and it was to begin with. I was still enjoying it, despite it's problems when many had put the game down. It has just become a joke now. Yes it is a 'free' game but I WAS still spending money on it every payday. The game has two halves, collecting and battling, they go hand in hand. Everyone accepts the gym battle part was broken and we are waiting for a rework. It could still be fun though, but not any more. At least where I live all of the gyms are dominated by spoofers. Who sit there day after day collecting free coins with their spoof caught mon. I have been playing for nine months now and the spoof problem has now reached epic proportions. Genuine players don't stand a chance, everything about this game currently favours and rewards cheating. I don't even bother with gyms anymore and in fact I would be happier if they just removed them entirely until something better could be introduced because the imbalance just grows bigger and bigger everyday. At the very least remove the pokecoin reward. Why should we exchange cash for pokecoins when spoofers earn them daily for free? They have all the data, gym histories, pokemon caught locations. I know it's a very large set but they really need to bring in a system to datamine and detect and ban these people, I don't mean a soft ban either. Permanent or reset their XP level and confiscate the mon. As has mentioned before it is really boring to see level 10 gyms all stacked out with the same few pokemon. There are several 'types' of pokemon so why not limit each gym to only one per type?I am struggling to stay interested because all I do now is collect, I don't buy pokecoins, I don't use the shop. I never caught anything great with either lures or incense, and egg hatching.... I spend money on incubators to hatch what I can already catch?? Apart from the very rare 10km pleasant surprise. I will stick with the infinite incubator and just accept it's slower but at least I am not wasting my money. Even collecting is getting dull in the absence of an event and I feel the events are the only thing keeping it above water for many now. If there are a significant number of other players feeling like I do then this game is facing a major problem. I feel this is a legitimate gripe and it bothers me that I feel so bad about it that I have to come here and rant about it. Please make it great again and fix the issues, I can live with faulty UI, minor text errors and even gamecrash errors. The biggest problem for me is the spoofers, botters and how they are using gyms. It is no fun anymore.edit Just checked my google play receipts for my purchases from Niantic. Over £200 in 9 months. Pokecoin real world value increased December-January. I also walked a good Lapras over a 100km to get candy(real work by myself), then they nerfed it. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2nSmlkH