Pokémon Go has deleted numerous gym and PokéStop locations added more than a week ago as a result of a “bug” – despite players having spent time and money on progress in the interim.
Dutifully, Pokémon Go players began interacting with these new locations, spending time and buying raid passes to play at gyms and boost progress their on each location’s achievement badge.
The new locations would now be deleted, Niantic said, which meant player progress would be frozen as a result.
(Pokémon Go has specific rules to limit the number of locations which filter through to it, to space out places on its map.)