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'Pokemon Go' news and updates: 'Gym-jacking' is game's new trend

People play "Pokemon GO" on the Pokequan GoBoat Adventure Cruise in the Occoquan River in the small town of Occoquan, Virginia. | Reuters/Sait Serkan Gurbuz

"Pokemon Go" players have found a new enemy within their community and they are people who have been accused of "gym-jacking."

According to iTechPost, The community is reportedly complaining about players who use multiple accounts in their device in order to take over gyms. Though Niantic is known to be against players having multiple accounts, people within the community are still blaming them for not doing anything to get rid of these "gym-jackers." Some are even saying that these gym-jackers are abusing the gym system of the game.

The gamers are not even looking to Niantic to fix the problem anymore, thinking that any intervention from the studio may just make things worse. The recent controversy is said to be because of "gym stagnation" in which players have found it to be too difficult maintain control over a gym.

So far, there has been a steady rise of Level 10 gyms and the majority of them are from Team Mystic — all guarded by Dragonites with very high CP.

As if gym-jacking wasn't enough, Niantic is also under fire for not making a reliable tracker for the game. Though the in-game tracker points out the location of other Pokemon within the area, it doesn't point out all of them, and players have to move in order to see the Pokemon that don't appear on the tracker.

A lot of players have even resorted to using third-party app trackers because the version that Niantic has come up with isn't so reliable.

Niantic has been releasing a lot of updates for the game, but so far, the gaming community has not been impressed.

Will Niantic be able to fix all of these existing problems or will "Pokemon Go" fizzle out by 2017? Only time will tell.