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Lost Ark Updates on the Ongoing Battle Against Botting and Responds to Community Feedback and Sugges
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I’m sticking things out and taking it easy. I decided that staying at the top of the curve is too expensive.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
bots are still rampant and the economy is getting progressively worse just like before the last bot ban.
the korean servers solved this issue by manually banning bots while limiting new player access to servers temporarily, and repeating that process until server population is mostly human
These sorts of problems never seem to be sorted by anti-piracy software programs alone, you need to have people doing that checking and that costs money. They have the money so there is no excuse. The fact the same game can handle the bots in Korea but not here says a lot, this is down to AGS and whoever else is involved in the localised version.
There are AT LEAST 200k bots.
The bot problem can be solved in 1 day EASILY. Here let me do it for you:
Require 2factor mobile auth for logging in, have the mobile number require re-validation every 30 days so you can't use a disposable sim.
Instantly ban all accounts if more than 3 is logged in at the same time from the same ip.
Ip ban russia, china and korea. They all have their own version.
But it's far too late for this now...the only reasonable option is for Lost Ark to go the same was as Diablo 3 did, and fully disable all forms of trading.
Archeage EU - Nui
There should be standards of quality regarding not only a game product but also the quality of service that deals with cheats(bots, etc)
Until there wont be civil and penal laws that regulate the gaming environment, there will always be 99% investment in the product and 1% in the anti cheating solutions.
I would very much like to sue AGS for wasting my time reporting for over a month a botter, for witch they did absolutely nothing, thus impacting on the negative side my gaming experience.Also i would like to sue the owner of the bot.
Under what law???Cause there is none...yet.
Likely the reason there is less botting on Korean version is the requirements to use real Korean IDs, and their tie in to phone numbers and social media
"How do I play on KR servers? You need to get Korean Citizenship with Korean Social Security number and if you are male between 18-35 you serve in Korean Army for 18 months. After that you can register and create ID for KR Lost Ark and play legit."
"It's very very difficult as accounts are tied from a Korean phone #. Korean phone's are tied to socials so it's pretty difficult."
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
This is how the online curve looks for a healthy game. In this case CSGO:
https://imgur.com/a/WwZmOMM
As you can see, there is a clear day cycle pattern that repeats steadily each day.
Now, lets take a look at Lost Ark's curve:
https://imgur.com/a/yk7Bd7H
The only time we see any form of down-time, is during the 24h after an update. After that, it's basically a straight line. On Friday 13th, 9PM CEST, the amount of players were around 170-200k. At this moment of writing, it's 10AM CEST and the player count is close to 500k. 2-3AM CEST is where the amount of players is the lowest for a lot of games on Steam, but Lost Ark keeps steaming past those hours like nothing happened.
This is extremely bothersome and a huge neglect towards players that are not botting. I'm trying to ignore the fact, but if it keeps going, I don't know for how long it can be ignored.