Ok, but don’t complain about being in queues and saying the company at least did not tried something. 
i’s still complain about queues, and ask them to come up with solutions that arent annoyances. Doing something that is bad is not better than doing nothing.
And the key factor is captcha doesnt actually work.
The captcha has “parameters” that must be met first. It will not pop up everytime you shift zones.
Ontop of this. Once a captcha has been successfully completed, it will go on cool down and only pop up again later on.
ok sure man, whatever
What solution do you propose?
Manual or human intervention is not scalable. Hiring 200 people to ban bots is not financially viable and to counter 10,000 bots being made in mere minutes you need something aggressive, multi layered and automated.
Captcha is part of this layer. It won’t stop all bots, but anything running on consumer level hardware that cannot afford captcha proficient AI will cease.
If the bot is banned before it manages to sell gold, you’ll have paid for all the captchas that were solved until the ban. But as the other user said, it depends on the captcha as well, but I don’t think they’ll use one that is too simple, otherwise that’s no point on make this, it’d only ban the people that are not bot farms (since these should try to make ways to solve the captcha) xD
captcha is not as hard to solve as you think, most consumer level computers can handle it. And even when they can’t, nowadays with cloud services you can incorporate calls to remote servers to handle issues.
So basically whoever is selling/creating these bots people are using would have the app send info to a cloud service, which would do the heavy lifting.
you think people are homebrewing these bots?
I think the idea of an antibot measure that uses human learning to work isnt a horrible idea, but if you are going to put into a game, it needs to be more subtle and less intrusive. As some other people suggested, i would also tie a reward to it instead of just a penalty, and it would need to actually be entertaining. I realize thats unlikely since this is a localized game, and a localized issue, so i wouldnt expect them to do that.
that said, thats not the only solution to bots. Many other games do not have this level of bot issue. I dont know exactly how they achieve this, but it is clearly far from impossible.
NO, ive seen A BUNCH of legit players using bots in Punika farming adventure tome mats so NO this need to be 24/7 doesent matter the account.
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Unacceptable Even 1 time a day, bots solve those faster and Better (ask nvidia “latest and greatest” AI developers on captchas preventing bots from buying all the video cards) further more for accounts with Amazon prime, 2fa 8+ years on steam and with 50k+ royal cristals loaded.
imagine taking youur boat doing captcha enter island enter captcha leave the island for join boat captcha again enter to city for some honning captcha go to stronghold research captcha again.
Demn that look kinda boring no ?
I think only 3% or less of botters use such smart programs, mostly is macro or yhe most popular pixel bot xd They will never solve captcha. Those programs which van solve captcha for you are not free.
Disabling the system for those who bought Founder’s Pack? That’s actually a genious idea
the next move is renaming game from "lost ark " to “lost captcha”
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I mean, I didnt buy any founders pack but I got 50k royal cristals on my account so screw that
Its a macro and pixel bot killer. We dont know how this will be annoying we know nothing tbh and people complaning. Goshh kids.
The problem is that many “old accounts” use or used infinite Chaos Dungeons bot programs so no one should be exempt from CAPTCHAs.
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I’m assuming it will be very targeted at players switching zones very frequently, like running chaos over and over.
Will be interesting to see if the average player ever gets asked for it.
No, this is only for old accounts
“old account”? I started lost ark on day 1 and my steam account has Well over 10 years, but I dont give money to companies before I know if I like the game, I didnt VIOLATE ToS in other regions Lost Ark servers to play, I waited all this years to properly play the game and I dont accept that bullshit
They can send a captcha to their moms
Disappointed, I was expecting something more imaginative… like instead of Captcha do the Vykas typing mini-game instead and anyone who gets it right has their account deleted for being a bot. 