Niantic, the company behind the still-very popular ‘Pokemon Go’ game enacted new measures recently that will make it harder for players using cheater systems and a third party resources to find the hardest to catch-Pokemon characters out ‘in the wild’. Previously flagged accounts are now unable to see and catch the most desired Pokemon characters.

Now if you think the game that seemed to be in the news every single day at some point last year, is now dead, you are mistaken. ‘PkGo’ is still very popular with IGN reporting the game has 65 million active users in the month of April 2017, easily making it one of the top mobile games.

Here are some reasons so many did not feel the need to keep walking around their local Pokestops. Looper breaks down all the technical reasons why more than a few million people got off the game