Since shortly after its western release in February of 2022, Korean MMO Lost Ark has had a problem with gold-farming bots. A month after release Amazon Games banned “over a million” accounts
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Since shortly after its western release in February of 2022, Korean MMO Lost Ark has had a problem with gold-farming bots. A month after release Amazon Games banned “over a million” accounts for using bots, and committed to regularly banning more. It also made changes to the in-game economy as part of its plan to deal with one of Lost Ark’s top issues.
Almost a year later, it’s still an issue. January’s ban wave was a significant one, with Amazon Games posting on the official forum (opens in new tab) that, “many players have noticed a drop off in the number of concurrent users displayed in Lost Ark’s Steam stats. This change is the direct result of a roll out of a significant number of bot account bans, which utilized new and highly-effective tactics to target and remove bots from the game.”
Those “new and highly-effective tactics” have apparently also caught up a large number of players who simply hadn’t logged in for a while, resulting in a game ban that appears on their Steam profile.
