The anti bot sytems have not worked at all

[Keldorei]

And only screwed over the players.

so how about you ban permanently and shame publicly those who RMT and on top of that set em on negative pheons and gold

heck even ban across all AGS games and machine ban cause these people will do it again.

and maybe then we can have a KR client experience and not this frankenstein of a client that give us only long waits on patches

[PowPowtia]

Name and shame is unnecessary.

Especially since there will continue to be legitimate false positives.

But I’m all for banning and giving a number every so often.

[ShounenJump]

I don’t understand why they don’t just ban the bots.

[PowPowtia]

They do. Eventually.

But they allow infinite new accounts without any verification.

[ShounenJump]

Just ban them don’t know how these accounts are getting to 1475. Just keep banning them before they get to that point.

[CantConnect]

@ShounenJump

Just keep banning them before they get to that point.

You mean… Do work? Oof. Unrealistic expectations spotted.

[Bubbly]

They say they can’t disclose what they’re doing to stop them, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping the bots one bit.

@PowPowtia

I’m all for banning and giving a number every so often.

^ Agreed. ^
They used to do something like it.

Regarding Bots in Lost Ark

Heroes of Arkesia! We know that bots have been causing frustration within the community, and we share in that frustration. Over the past few months we’ve made a number of changes to Lost Ark in order to combat bots. We know that there’s still work to do, and we want to share some detail on how we’re approaching this ongoing issue so we can give Lost Ark players a better experience. Since Lost Ark launched, we’ve been fighting a war against the bots infiltrating Arkesia. Addressing bots can be …

Incoming Bot Ban Wave

Heroes of Arkesia, As we continue our battle against bots in Lost Ark, we want to let players know that will be rolling out a wider, massive wave of fresh bot bans over the course of the next week. While we are always banning bots from the game, with this large-scale ban wave you should expect to see more significant fluctuations in the number of concurrent users playing Lost Ark, and queues should decrease over time. If you somehow get caught up in this large-scale ban wave, know that our sup…

But we haven’t had one of these posts in awhile.

[ShounenJump]

its takes time to get to 1475 i don’t think its unrealistic expectation before they get even past 1415

[kadeboriquiej]

It’s so relaxing to see you struggle and I was like you before but now I’m going to the Asian server.I hope your enjoy being with the bots.And more censorship with Western features ahhh

[ThatGirlShayLynn]

@Keldorei

And only screwed over the players.

so how about you ban permanently and shame publicly those who RMT and on top of that set em on negative pheons and gold

heck even ban across all AGS games and machine ban cause these people will do it again.

and maybe then we can have a KR client experience and not this frankenstein of a client that give us only long waits on patches

ummm of course it HAS worked…just look at the struggling players now xD
working as intended…really

@ShounenJump

I don’t understand why they don’t just ban the bots.

why would they ban THEIR program?? don’t you know bots are from AGS themselves…lets be real here - all part of the master plan.

[Keldorei]

i mean you have a point maybe someone from AGS is leaking api changes. and that explains why the bots adapt so fast to the changes.

[PowPowtia]

99% of this game is stored locally by (not well planned) design.

Even without a leak they can see the API themselves on patch day. That’s why it takes 2-3 days to get fully back up.

[FFreedom]

what system are you talking about ?

[MarkSunIRL]

Ban waves should definitely be more frequent. But agree, so far every measure they’ve done just fucks the player more.

I support their vision in dealing with fraud though, since from a business perspective it is pretty rough to deal with chargebacks. But inadvertently, with a 3-day holding period it pretty much ensures that RMT will always be a method in demand.

[CantConnect]

While I’m not speculating that AGS is using the bots themselves to bolster players numbers for a greater appearance to use for acquiring new contracts as that’s illegal, I’m definitely questioning why they’ve slowed down significantly on ridding the game of bots. They used to do almost monthly ban waves, now the bots have been active consistently for months with nothing but player restrictions added that don’t affect their numbers at all. It’s very unnerving. I hope we see a bot ban wave soon, for the health of the game.

[Flexisie]

What’s your suggestion on how to do it? You can’t just keep saying “Ban them” and think that’s helpful.

[ShounenJump]

Literally ban them. Search for ASDFKJSDKfljkds and their chat log says hh

[WonderingSoul]

ah bots are still in EU/NA hmmm

[kosajk83]

@Keldorei

heck even ban across all AGS games and machine ban cause these people will do it again.

@PowPowtia

But I’m all for banning and giving a number every so often.

some things need to be fast and fierce
if they allowed RMT going for months without punishment doing aggresive actions now would cut rather big part of playerbase, that prolly also are actually paying part of playerbase

it would be deserved? for sure
would it kill the game? highly probably

[Life_Synthesizer]

This botting is gonna be a game of cat and mouse until AGS get their shit together with doing proper account verifications and stopping them before they get out of starter zone.

RMT will always find ways to simply abuse and bypass detection from speed hacking to clipping out of zones. They will find ways to avoid hitting detections or account flagging so they will go through lengths to set up and optimize routes to speedrun until they hit a threshold that this brand new account is profitable.

AGS just slap these accounts on the wrist with a temporary few day ban then they go back to auto-activities.