14 DAY TRIAL // Mark Gore, a computer expert who moved to the city of South Ham from Liverpool, is the man behind a Pokemon GO bot that helps gamers play without having to go out of their houses and walk around for miles.
In an interview with local UK newspaper The Basingstoke Gazette, the developer said he created his bot after he discovered vulnerabilities in Niantic's Pokemon GO servers.
He used these flaws to create a website where users could play the game without leaving their house. His is just one of the many Pokemon cheating tools available today, mostly advertised via Reddit topics.
Niantic can't keep up with all the cheating tools
This is part of the huge wave of hacks and cheating tools that are plaguing the game. Niantic, the software company in charge of Pokemon GO for Nintendo, announced last weekend that it would start permanently banning Pokemon GO cheaters.
Gore has admitted that he's facing legal pressure to take down his website, but he has no such plans. Other projects, such as NecroBot or MyGoBot.org, had to shut down.
"If you look at the age bracket of people playing this game, it’s not all teenagers playing. There are a lot of people who work all day and don’t have the time to spend hours each day going out and catching Pokemon," Gore told the Gazette. "They can run it for two hours a day at home and still have the same levels and therefore can take over gyms and compete with others to make it more fun."
Gore's service receives 24,000 users on a regular basis
The 25-year-old developer said he received thousands of pounds in donations. He said that around 24,000 users access his website on a regular basis.
In recent weeks, Niantic has been cracking down on all the tools and services that allow people to play on non-supported devices and using automated tools. It's only a matter of time until Niantic identifies the exploit Gore's using to power his site.
Despite being out for under two months, the game is still very popular and racking up new users with every passing day.