Niantic has issued a rare update on its efforts to combat cheating in Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress.
Over a million player accounts were permanently banned from its games in 2020 alone, with more than five million players given some kind of punishment in total.
“More than 90 per cent of users who received their first warning, stopped cheating afterwards,” Niantic wrote in a blog post. “This is quite encouraging for us, as we continue to find the right balance between punishing casual cheaters versus the more egregious ones.
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“We don’t talk much about our anti-cheat efforts, partly because we don’t want to provide cheaters with information that can help them understand our detection mechanisms better. But, rest assured our reluctance to share is not due to a lack of effort or intent from our side.”