Blocking VPNs because you're incapable of detecting bots

[Referee]

Good one mate (It actually made me smile)

I relied on Exitlag to alleviate the horrendous routing / packet loss i have when playing Lost Ark.
Now i’m back to having random ping spikes and lags.

If things don’t improve soon, I’ll go spend my money elsewhere.

P.S : If AGS don’t realize that this ban is actually pointless (as far as botter are concerned), we can finally give it a rest and come to the following conclusions:

• They will kill this game in the west, like they did to all their previous released games.
• AGS decision makers are clowns (a lot of people suspected that, this will only confirm it)

[darthclide]

Lol… wow… so now they have a two-way tie for hypocrisy between Nvidia cloud gaming and New World. They are literally arbitrarily deciding when it is and isn’t against TOS. That makes anyone screaming “TOS” in these posts willfully ignorant or blind.

[ImagineSheep]

Against TOS as they have stated, enjoy the gulag, I heard the Riot MMO is coming in the next decade

[Dragboom]

And guess what? 1 day later there were 30 again. It did absolutely nothing

[Aliasgod]

ToS andys are fun to argue with though lol.

[yGKeKe0]

@Zureiya

This is ridiculous

These bots move in so obvious patterns that a university student could write a decent AI to detect all of those bots with high accuracy without many false positives at all.
you should have gathered so much training data from your reports already that this should be child’s play.

instead, you implement half measures like blocking VPNs that only impair legitimate users, that for example need to use VPNs to have a stable connection to your servers. There are so many legitimate use cases for VPNs that banning them is just completely unreasonable.

you can do better

I gaurantee you, a bot creator can update their pathing for spontanuity far easier and faster than an AI can be trained to detect it.

You’re also wrong about VPNs. VPNs severely cripple a companies ability to implement a proper ban system.

[Dragboom]

Except they clearly don’t. The botters solved this in all of a few hours and now it’s just hurting actual players.

[yGKeKe0]

@Corpsii

They better start wanting to merge West + East US servers.

This won’t happen. Amazon doesn’t own servers in the central US. The best they can do is merge West and East separately.

[Verhu]

Have you tried without VPN? It works for some.

[Polaroyce]

Lmao it’s not a bad decision, it’s in their Tos they are allowed to do whatever they deem necessary within that legal scope. I’m sorry your an entitled zoomer that has never been told no lmao

[aminnezhad.farbod]

there are other countries that arent listed on the website that have free access to the game and there are alot of people who use a vpn and alot of people are mad so i dont get why so many people repeat this. yes i can read thank you very much

[WarPath]

SMH… VPNs have been against the TOS long before the launch of Lost Ark.

[briathus]

@aminnezhad.farbod

countries that arent listed on the website that have free access to the game and there are alot of people who use a vpn

That’s what was enforced. Since these folks need a VPN to play somewhat, from now, they should be prepared to be banned. It’s against the ToS

[damiani]

I haven’t insulted anyone. You guys know it’s against their ToS to use VPNs. Don’t like it play another game. It’s okay to have a discussion but making the same post over and over crying isn’t gonna solve anything

[Svtue]

In my case, we have two full stacks of Russian speakers in our guild, but we all live in different countries, some in Russia, some in Europe, some even in the US, and we decided to just start playing from scratch together.
Here is our logic

[Zureiya]

thats why you constantly update the AI based on new training data gathered from verified reports. it will make it undesireable for bot creators to keep updating them and will significantly reduce bots.

VPN do not cripple a companies ability to implement a proper ban system as IP based bans are ineffective anyway.

[gejmer.rasta]

bro thank you so much, its works without vpn crazy

[ylarst]

They thought it would die down over the weekend. But after VPN bans more and more servers have queues now! Madge

[djsnluv]

Gold Sellers are also sending out Whispers in Game!

[WildTurkey]

Well put, I’m right there with you.