People have been buying gear for many years from illegitimate sellers. Obviously there's a market for it and Niantic is trying to make money off it. If people don't want to hack for it then they can buy it. Farming isn't really necessary anymore. The game is changing and some people won't like it.
They have to identify the bot as a bot first, and a common tactic is for the accounts to go dormant after a period of time, leaving no activity to spot, thus making Niantic unable to decide it's a bot and delete the gear.
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People have been buying gear for many years from illegitimate sellers. Obviously there's a market for it and Niantic is trying to make money off it. If people don't want to hack for it then they can buy it. Farming isn't really necessary anymore. The game is changing and some people won't like it.
Is that really a thing buy from sellers since niantic can track every item id botted by those farmers ?
They have to identify the bot as a bot first, and a common tactic is for the accounts to go dormant after a period of time, leaving no activity to spot, thus making Niantic unable to decide it's a bot and delete the gear.