Check out my earlier post for the recording, and take a look at the screenshots here.
Scopely and Nintendo, your money is going straight into someone else’s pocket, and you’re doing nothing while real players get fxxked over.
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I wonder if a meta-defining exploit would be found in PokéGo, what would Scopley do about it
Unfortunately, PB is the only game where such an exploit exists… not only mushrooms and flowers too…
The game’s design REALLY didn’t survive the spoofer boom…
Really wondering what could be done about this
After looking into this further, I think there is something practical we as players can do.
Instead of only discussing whether Pipi Mushroom is using bots or how they obtain their data, we can ask Google to independently review whether this type of content is eligible for monetization through Google AdSense.
Pipi Mushroom appears to generate advertising revenue from a service built around a huge amount of detailed Pikmin Bloom data — precise locations, coordinates, mushroom types, status and remaining/expiration times — with information being updated on a very large scale.
The important question is not for us to decide whether this is illegal.
The question is:
Where does all of this data come from, and does the publisher have the necessary authorization or rights to commercially monetize it through Google advertising?
Google has an official AdSense policy-violation reporting process. We can submit what we have observed and ask Google’s policy team to investigate independently.
I have already submitted a report myself.
If other players share the same concerns, I encourage you to submit your own report as well. Please describe only what you have actually observed and avoid making claims that cannot be verified.
If multiple players independently report the same concern, it may help bring the issue to Google’s attention for a proper review.
Google AdSense:
Search for “Report an AdSense publisher policy violation” in the Google AdSense Help Center.
In the report, I think the key question is simple:
Is Google advertising being used to generate revenue from Pikmin Bloom game data that may have been obtained or reproduced without authorization?
We don’t need to determine the answer ourselves. We can provide the evidence and let Google investigate.
If you submit a report, screenshots showing the detailed game data together with the Google ads may also be useful.
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