A million bots banished on the servers of Lost Ark

Bots contribute significantly to deteriorate the economy and gaming experience of a MMORPG - a fortiori when it is distributed in Free-To-Play and that it meets some success with players. LOST ARK is far from escaping, players complain and Amazon Games is aware of the problem.

On the official forums, the Western operator of Lost Ark announces having designed tools and put in place methods to identify and delete the bots present at stake. According to the Amazon Games teams, the process should begin to bear fruit. : "More than one million accounts" identified as being associated with the use of bots have been definitively banned. Always according to the operator, "in a process of such magnitude", it is possible that legitimate players have been affected by the measure. The concerned are invited to contact the customer support, so that their case is studied.

Amazon Games specifies that this is just the beginning (a "first step"): the hunting of bots continues, like the fight against the cheating and the behaviors displaced at stake. The studio intends to continue to expand its tools, to improve the efficiency of the detection of bots and to proceed "to as many waves of banings as necessary". It is said.