There is no day and night time in Lost Ark , our “gamers” never take rest. Just a straight line.
Update 24/12: 348k “players”, but the worst is there are many posts on forum and still no response from “Disconect-zon”.
New story today. First time after last week patch, 300k current players and 4 Busy-status servers at 7:40 AM NA-East 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z. People really get up early for gaming, huh?
at this point only time you can partly trust player numbers are somewhat first day after reset of big content. If you checked other game which was region wide you can see online numbers are flickering like sin(x) (just not negative). Showing game peak hours and game lowest hours. In LA its almost always straight line which for me at least tells that bots are working really hard to feed these RMT’s with gold.
LA is like straight line. ALWAYS PEAK HOURS.
they still run the bots, but they really cant sell their gold
once they ban their old bots, getting trusted status on the new ones is almost impossible
just chinese try hards refuse to accept the fact that their livelyhood is gone
they farmed a shiton of gold by now and trying to get rid of it as fast as they can
thats why they started to spam emails, selling the gold is their priority now
also there are hand made gold RMTers, these are most demanded as they are the safest
Realistically there probably aren’t more than 30k humans playing Lost Ark on steam with the rest being bots. If they banned the bots, the “player” numbers would drop and make AGS look bad, so why would they ban bots? With the multitude of bots playing the game, they can sell the idea that their release of Lost Ark is a success to SG and media outlets.
Remember when SG was celebrating 800k concurrent users in the West? Until a bot ban wave dropped it to 200k? Welp, that’s embarrassing and probably why they’ll never mention the West again.
It’s embarrassing how the product is presented to new players (And to current players) where they only see bots. If I were the game developer I wouldn’t be happy with this.
This is totally the fault of AGS as control systems like EAC are their responsibility.
AGS proved incapable of handling problematic situations:
They failed to limit and eliminate bots (Even if they say they banwave, looking at the steamchart, there are still 300k permanent players)
But they promised, " new exiting marketing" to invite new players AFTER they will manage combat bots… and that will never happen.
It was mentioned like 6 months ago btw.
