Be careful when accepting gold in Lost Ark – Even if you are innocent yourself, you can be banned

Be careful when accepting gold in Lost Ark - Even if you are innocent yourself, you can be banned

Anyone who accepts gold in Lost Ark can theoretically put their account at risk. This has now been confirmed by a community manager in the forum. Even if the gold comes from you. We at MeinMMO explain the situation.

What does Amazon say? In a forum post, a community manager from Amazon explains when exactly your account can be at risk when trading gold. Among other things, he goes into the fact that although it is permitted to use the auction house to send gold and items to other servers, it is not intended for this purpose.

These methods could then appear illegal and lead to sanctions that players may not expect. In addition, you then run the risk of illegal gold ending up on your account, which can get you into trouble.

On top of that, he describes that you have to be careful who you accept gold from. Because if you get gold from illegal sources yourself, it can quickly become dangerous for your account. Amazon wants to remove the so-called RMT gold from the game on a large scale.

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What gold is it about? First and foremost, the community manager means illegal gold that comes from RMT purchases. This means gold that was farmed by bots and then bought for real money, i.e. entered the game in a forbidden way (via playlostark.com).

The bot, the buyer and seller can be banned for this, but actually you too if you unknowingly accept the “black” gold. It should mainly be about larger sums and corresponding transactions should be monitored by Amazon.

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Which transactions are meant? The so-called bussing or boosting is explicitly mentioned. A high player sells his help in various raids or bosses. You can then lie back and relax while a pro takes care of the opponents for you. But only because I paid for it beforehand.

This is basically not forbidden in Lost Ark, but when boosting the difficult Legion Raids, enormous amounts of money often change hands. And if someone is sent and accepts 500,000 gold, they bear the risk themselves. So the developers in the forum.

This is what your Arcanist might look like if she had more gold:

Lost Ark: Arcanist in the trailer

Even your own gold can be dangerous to you

Beware of yourselves: But even if you cheat yourself gold, you still have a risk. What is meant is a possibility to transfer gold to other servers. Because while you can’t send gold by post across servers or use the account storage, you can put an item on the auction house for a lot of money and then buy it with your character from another server.

Then you have successfully sent money from one server to another, minus the taxes. What sounds like a makeshift solution at first glance is actually not welcomed. Amazon says: “If something seems illegal, just don’t do it and you’re safe”.

If you want to transfer gold across servers, you should use the feedback form. Eventually a feature will be submitted later. But this information does not satisfy you fans.

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Roxx added during the night: A few hours after the original post caused a lot of uproar in the community, Community Manager Roxx spoke up on the forums to defuse some of the statements. She writes: “Yes, bussing/boosting is still allowed, but just adjust who you take a lot of gold from. But you won’t get banned if you play the game the way it’s designed and don’t participate in RMT.”

Furthermore, she explains in another post that the severity of the penalties applied is based on the amount of illegal gold. Roxx also remains a little vague about the situation with the auction house. It just says, “As long as he’s only using the auction house the way it’s intended, you’re okay. If you use excessive sums that don’t make sense, you’re not ok.” (via playlostark.com).

Community is annoyed – “There is a difference between 1,500 and 500,000 gold”

How is the community reacting? They are bothered by the statements of the developers. While people agree that RMT gold and the users of these offers must be removed from the game, they also see major problems with the current regulation.

  • If you’re playing on two different servers with the same account and you’ve been transferring gold through the auction house since then, the gold hasn’t even changed hands. And it even cost taxes, so many players feel that such a practice should be allowed.
  • Others, on the other hand, see the community as responsible for the gold they send and, above all, accept. Evino writes on reddit on this: “There is a difference between boosting Argos for 1,500 gold and Helltan for 500,000 gold. At 1.5k I can assume it’s legitimate gold, at 500,000 it’s most likely RMT money and you know that. Even if you didn’t buy it yourself you’re supporting the bots with it.”
  • Other fans argue that the amount shouldn’t matter and people should be banned for 1,400 gold if it comes from an illegal source.
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What do you think? What do you think of Amazon’s rules? Should we crack down so harshly, or do you think the publisher is exaggerating? Write it to us in the comments here on MeinMMO.

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