That’s what happened to Cabal Online. They thought that reducing the rewards the player can get from completing the campaign would reduce the amount of bots, but it just got worse and it’s been like that for years.
I did report like 20-30 Today already, just keep reporting them if u come across them
I can assure you AGS is taking actions against those accounts
The entire continent of Luterra is filled to the brim with bots. Like I’m not exaggerating, I have been leveling an alt and am level 28 now and ALL I have seen so far are speedhacking and teleporting bots. EVERYWHERE.
There are little to no actual players. Ofcourse there are 15k queues, when most of the game is filled with bots that never log out…
Yeh Amazon and their lame excuses “they’re hard to spot, I’d take a lot of ppl to ban them manually”…yeah sorry no…I call giga BS on that.
Nb. 1: Any half decent programmer could whip you up a script that detects these mofos within seconds and a really good one could prolly make it self learning and thus further improve not only the detection rate but also the success rate. These bots are all 100% working the same way, moving the same way, using the same skills, same mounts, same pets, same everything. They’re speedhacking, wallhacking, glitching, teleporting hordes of multiboxed accounts running around the world instaspawnkilling entire contintents’ worth of mobs. They are so bleedingly obvious and simple that I literally do not believe it’s hard to program something to detect them.
Nb. 2: The argument that you’d need 900 ppl to do it manually is just bs. Server queues on EuC being what they are you could have one guy go from server to server and channel to channel, stand in a specific spot (because honestly the bots are BEYOND predictable) and gigainstaban hundreds of them within a couple minutes at most. Do this for an entire day and you’d already have thousands of banned bots. And guess what ? They’d have to requeue just like us real people. Maybe the queues would disappear because I believe at this point there are about as many bots as real players on these servers (go to a low lvl zone and try to find a real player, it’s legit hard to find one) so the botters would get back in immediately but hey - so would the real players.
But ofc all these solutions would cost money and manpower, two things that Amazon clearly doesn’t want to invest.
It kind of baffles me too that game developers keep claiming that it is hard to detect bots. A simple scoring system based on entropy of character name, age of the account, level of alts + mains, clustering of the collected sampled pathing information in game and calculation of deviation of pathing from clustered average, detection of effective move speed in the game as indicated by zone transitions, clustering of quest completion progress and order, etc. would probably detect these bots with 99.99% accuracy. It just isn’t hard to make something here, unless you have zero facilities for collection of in client or in server telemetry. Granted, those might not be there, but even just looking at the quest completion times and order, entropy of user names and other account characteristics would probably give you a very good idea which accounts are bots. It’s just so obvious. They aren’t even trying yet.
short and clear … amazon and anyone else wont do anything against that because easy anticheat is the worst thing u can choose to take care about your security…
look at other games that r using eac for example rust there r more cheaters than not cheating players… just a question of time till this game dies because of fixing queuos and bots just like new world…
10-30 seconds to find a bypass of eac on google
Every single mmo has bots, it’s not that simple.
Hopefully these bots make them money because none of it will be mine anymore. Shame.
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Different mmos have different ways of handling bots. All the way from nothing, to at least deterring a player from botting.
You know whats really funny… back in 2008 i was playing this old MMO called Lineage2 on a private server ran by some dude in some basement, the server had like 500 players and at one moment bots appeared, same as in Lost Ark moving around/farming at low lvl spots. You know what happened? it took him like 5 hours to come out with a Captcha system and the problem was solved. Truly amazing …
Ofc I dont expect Amazon to come out with anything like this cuz they are proffesionals and they dont have time for these little things, but still maybe they can make an effort, track down some 16year old kid that spends his time on PC and politely ask him to teach them how to do this.
I posted in Game Support, English Support, this same problem…
They gave me a reply which I felt was a little like a ‘script’ answer.
But they did say that…
“Yes, I can confirm, we are currently working on several tools to address this bot issue.”
So hopefully, sometime in the future we won’t have to put up with this problem…
I have reported 50-100 bots in the matter of 20 minutes.
Just sit at Border Watch in Rethramis, can literally watch hundreds of bots running around there.
They seem to run to the corner with the green fog, Then run off. Faster than mount, Most simply walk through walls or flat out disappear after a few seconds of running.
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i wouldve went to sleep at this point
This area… Could literally ban thousands if you were to even watch this area for a day. Not sure what they are exploiting here. But they legit run here, Run off, Come back… repeat
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I just stand by a main quest giver and wait to report, much faster and less stressful than trying to chasing them down 
Man I hope this is fixed soon. They’re everywhere.
Btw this is a big part of the queue issues because hundreds if not thousands of botters are online while real people wait to get into the game… this is just sad! 
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They can’t ban them manually… they need a tool that can report bots programmatically without making erorrs… honestly it’s something that takes time to do…
However the problem is getting bigger and bigger… the starting areas are literally filled with bots…
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When the damage is already done. Everything AGS does breaks. You bring your shitty devs from New World to Lost Ark and what happens? Founder’s pack duped, then the login reward granted on EU West were dupeable.
New World had so many exploits that it was a record. Just moving around your game window made your character invulnerable.
AGS has zero credibility. You already ruined this game beyond fixing. You messed up the economy (In New World you had to DISABLE YOUR TRADE FEATURES OVER AND OVER AGAIN cuz you messed up - and now you are the first the mess up Lost Ark). Crystals prices are increasing fast because of the bots and that’s on you. The server queues are longer because of the bots.
I spent hours in each continent recording, documenting the increasing bots every day now. Will make a video portraying the bot situation on Thirain. In one hour I noted 236 bots speedhacking, noclipping through objects. That’s one zone, 236 different names. A fair estimate would be there are thousands of bots on each server.
7 AM in the morning Thirain was already “busy”.
Every single day we get hundreds of new bots.
Mari’s shop will soon be unviable because of the bots driving the crystal prices up.
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It really does not matter if this gets fixed or not. The game and economy are ruined to a degree that is beyond fixing. 95 Crystals cost 500 gold now, ROFL.
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