Just a heads up for anyone using a VPN to bypass the geolock, you might end up banned so its probably not worth it.
It directly violates 18 of their terms of service and touches on a couple others too.
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I have no other choice tbh, Belgium represent lol
This is the case for a bunch of services including Netflix and other streaming sites that YouTubers tell you to use VPN for. So long as it’s not enforced which it usually isn’t it shouldn’t be an issue.
The worst case scenario is that you get banned and you have to start a new account on Oct 30th. But that’s no different from just waiting until the official release on Oct 30. If that’s the case then might as well risk it and start playing now, and in the more than likely chance you don’t get banned then you get an early start.
It is, but 99.9% they do not care
A lot of people will literally break their TOS to give them money so I doubt they will enforce it
I heard this guy fucks ducks.
Definitely is worth it. Definitely wont get banned. That is how vpn’s work. Stop fretting, is this your first rodeo? People use vpns to access games early all of the time or to buy in game currencies cheaper.
Please live a little.
Its a generic copy pasta tos.
The only time things like this are actively perused is when it eats into their revenue enough to warrant the time to chase it up.
This is the polar opposite of that.
Either way, zero bans will come from accessing early
I think Number 19 is worse, don’t you? The TOS is just lawyer-talk for “we can do whatever we want, and you can’t sue us because of that”.
Where would I even get it? Can’t find one single website that has the APK already.
if i make a nz account any way to link that pocket account back to my original on launch. like why is it a month away from global launch is wayyy to long imo from this fomo launch. if they came out and set they will reset peoples account and only pack u bought will stay i would just wait
where can i download the vpn?
People can simply buy another account to restart the game, it is too naive for the company to ban you because of using vpn. Once the trade is activated, you can have whatever card you want anyway.
i linked my nintendo account to it withotu really thinking, now im kinda scared that they will ban me
pretty sure that’s been in all ToS since pokemon go and i still haven’t been banned
Same! What vpn are you using?
I haven’t gotten into the game yet. I’m not sure what the best thing to do is. I got the apk and it should work with a vpn, but since there will be no release in our country I’m thinking it might be best to just make a NZ account, cause updating the apk might be annoying when the game is out
Enforcing that is losing money.
Sometimes they just have that to put themselves out of trouble.
Let’s give an example of Netflix, there are a lot of things that are not available in the US but are available in other countries because PEACOK, Paramount, etc are not available outside of the US(example) , if you are in the US, you already paid for Netflix, they got their cut, it changes nothing to them if you watch using a VPN.
BUt Netflix have a contract that states X can’t be shown in the US, and those terms basically free them in a potential Court case for example, because you are the one bypassing region restrictions and not Netflix breaking the contract with their content providers.
No you didnt. Their own twitter account laughed at people using vpns and welcomed them