Lost Ark Bans Over 1 Million Accounts
Since Lost Ark launched in North America last month, the game has been wildly popular. Unfortunately, Lost Ark's massive success and massive player count have led to more than a few cheaters and bots, but the team behind the game has started cleaning that up.
Lost Arkhas been around in certain parts of the world for several years and it seems likely that has allowed the people behind the game to know how to address certain issues when they pop up. Among those issues appears to be players who use bots in order to gain certain advantages over other users. Among other things, these bots can allow their users to rack up experience points and loot while they're away from their keyboard.
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On Friday, the Lost Ark team announced it had done a massive purge of bots, removing more than one million illegitimate accounts. Those accounts are going to be permanently banned with more coming in the next few weeks and months.
«Maintaining a fair and fun gameplay experience for our players is a top priority for the team,» The Lost Ark team wrote on its official website. At the same time, the team knows that it's likely that some of the illegitimate accounts might have slipped through the cracks. The team also admitted it was possible that in a sweep this large, it might have accidentally banned people who weren't actually using bots.
The representatives, likely not wanting any more bad backlash for Lost Ark, also laid out how anyone who had been caught up in the sweep who had not been using cheats or bots can appeal to the team in order to get their account reinstated. The company also made it clear that its people would be working to try and perfect the process of getting rid of
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