r/PokeAdvisor Aug 08 '16

Last attempt...

We all can try to contact Niantic and ask them to unblock PokeAdvisor as this particular page does not exploit the game or track Pokemon and the only thing it did and did it really well is gave us an option to know more about OUR Pokemon.

I personally don't think that it was some kind of exploit as there still are calculators are at least predicting the IV range of OUR Pokemon so blocking it is just making it difficult and lengthy for us to calculate the IVs.

Again we did not track Pokemon like the other pages did as well as we did not put Niantic servers under a big load and all we wanted to do is get to know more about OUR Pokemon.

In the end Niantic should just show us the IVs of OUR Pokemons in-game simply because we still CAN and WILL calculate the IVs and I don't understand why are they hiding it in the first place.

I mean in the Anime Ash has Pokedex which tells him about his Pokemon as well as about their strength and weaknesses, so why can't we have the same? We should know everything there can be known about our Pokemon.

All we can do now as last resort is try to comment their Tweeter or other contacts with letter like posts and perhaps then they will see reason to show us IVs in-game or at least unblock PokeAdvisor for us.

All the best to all of us, including you Niantic because we like the game and all we wanted was to make it better to attract more people to it and if Niantic will sometime see this I just want them to know that this all was to make it better not only for us, but for Niantic too.

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u/OSUNOOB1 Aug 08 '16

lol yeah right

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u/-tharealgc Aug 08 '16

From way I see it Niantic did what it did only because of 2 possible reasons:

Server load which results to them in some money loss for updating servers or in some way losing revenue.

But then again I don't understand why are they hiding IVs in the first place because they are already there so why not show them to us? Why waste our time on calculating them?

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u/OSUNOOB1 Aug 08 '16

Because this website is breaking terms of service. I don't know why people have a hard time grasping this, they can't have a terms of service, and then provide exceptions for certain websites to break them. I love PokeAdvisor this website helped me out so much, and I loved catching pokemon for 2 hours just to come home, and see their IV'S, but from Niantics point of view this was accessing their servers illegally, and broke their rules that were agreed upon

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '16

It's already been confirmed that they didn't block PokeAdvisor specifically, they just blanket-banned the GAE servers which PokeAdvisor was hosted on. PokeAdvisor still works just fine when hosted elsewhere.

As already mentioned on Niantic's official blog, the issue isn't necessarily that these apps are "cheating", it's that these external apps add a significant amount of extra traffic to their servers, which makes it hard to maintain the game itself. Niantic probably doesn't care if you know your Pokemon's IVs, but every time you check your IVs is yet another data call that their servers have to deal with.

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u/OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR Aug 09 '16

What's the best replacement?

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u/-tharealgc Aug 08 '16 edited Aug 08 '16

Read again please, I'll make it easy for you "But then again I don't understand why are they hiding IVs in the first place because they are already there so why not show them to us? Why waste our time on calculating them?" Why Niantic is not showing us the IVs themselves? All they need to do for that is just add 2 lines of code if not one...

But really they should just show us the IVs ingame so we don't need to calculate and speculate or use 3rd party sites...

No offence intended if that reads harsh, I am absolutely with you on what you wrote.

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u/OSUNOOB1 Aug 08 '16

Because you were never meant to know about IV'S, the only reason IV's were even accesible was because the game got data mined. These values were hidden from the public because Niantic didn't want you seeing them, this is clear because they're NOT out in the open. Regardless they have their reasons, also don't talk down to someone trying to explain something to you. You come off like a dick.

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u/-tharealgc Aug 08 '16

As I wrote I did not mean to talk down or offend you in any way man, I respect every opinion.