Lost Ark bans millions of bots and shows which methods to use to solve the most annoying problem

Since the release, Lost Ark has had a big problem with bots. These literally flooded the servers and made life difficult for players. According to the developer, millions of bots have now been banned and a number of other measures are being taken.

What’s the problem with the bots?

• Bots have been flooding the launch area for months. They mainly farm and trade gold.
• Players have tried various tricks against bots over and over again, but the number is simply too large to change anything in such ways.
• As of early March, Lost Ark has already banned over 1 million accounts from bots.

Now there was a new update on the situation and the developers are presenting other means that one would like to use against the bot floods.

“Million” bots banned again, chat measures and changed quest rewards

What exactly has been done now? In a new blog entry, the Lost Ark makers have published the latest status. So you have blocked “several million” bots.

On top of that, there are some new measures that should also prevent bots from continuing to farm gold so easily:

• Section chat has been restricted to prevent brand new accounts from spamming gold sale ads.
• Actively updating the game’s auto chat moderation with lines and phrases that we know are commonly used by gold sellers.
• Changed quest and event reward structures to provide a stronger deterrent to using bots to farm gold.
• Easy Anti Cheat’s detection features have been updated and improved to better identify and deal with bots.
• Enabling a native detection system to quickly identify bad guys and take action against them.
• Improved in-game reporting tools so our players can report bots and our support staff can respond to reports faster.
• We’ve blocked IP addresses from regions where we don’t have publishing rights and that have shown large amounts of bot activity.
• Blocked VPNs to prevent malicious actors from bypassing IP blocks.

According to the developers, this is just part of the actions they want to take to win the “war on bots”.

There are other steps that have been taken, but will not be commented on to prevent bot creators from getting details on how to circumvent these measures.

We are working on new methods and detection measures, the work is far from over.

The developers also respond to feedback and questions from the community. Apparently there were questions about a captcha system or two-factor authentication.

As they say, “These tools would require significant platform and architecture changes to implement in Lost Ark.”

There would be differences between the regions where Lost Ark is running. The western version has different systems than the Korean one. However, these options are still being explored.

What do you think? Do the measures and the statement make you optimistic? Or are you skeptical whether the methods will have an effect?

By the way: The mastermind behind Lost Ark stops – apparently the stress was too much