Lost Ark has had some issues with bots recently, where bots were making up a significant portion of the concurrent player base.
These bots created issues with queue times, driving up crystal prices, and invading runs for important game modes such as Chaos Dungeons, Abyssal Dungeons, and Cubes.
Players have been hoping for the developers to address these botting issues, and the developers have created a dev post about how they’re addressing the bot issues in the game.
This post made on the game’s official forums described how the Lost Ark team was dealing with bots in the game. The team permanently banned millions of accounts that participated in botting and gold selling, and level-gated area chat to keep bots from advertising gold-selling services.
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