Lost Ark is still fighting bots and illegitimate accounts

gamesradar.com:

Smilegate is still battling bots in its newly launched MMO, Lost Ark, published by Amazon Games.

In a blog post shared yesterday, the development team provided an update on the game's plentiful bots, saying it was "working on internal methods and tools to make it much more difficult for bots to enter the game".

It follows an announcement last week that said Smilegate had "been hard at work on crafting effective tools and methods to identify and remove bots from the game" and banned over a million "bot" accounts from its servers on March 4.

"Last Friday we began rolling out bot bans, targeting over a million illegitimate accounts," the update said (thanks, NME). "We know this will not fix the situation by itself and there are still bots present in the game, so we want to provide reassurance that this was just one step in an ongoing battle.

"Following this initial massive ban wave, we are continuing to regularly roll out additional bans to clear out more bots from the game. Beyond that, we are also working on internal methods and tools to make it much more difficult for bots to enter the game, especially at the current rate they are being created. These updates will soon be on their way to the game.

"We've also heard player concerns about the effect these bots may have on the in-game economy when it comes to gold buying and selling, and we are closely monitoring this situation," the post explained. "We have changed the gold reward to silver for some Rapport and Guide Quest rewards in order to prevent the abuse of these systems by botters and gold farmers."

So what is Smilegate going to do about that in-game economy?

"Please also remember that participating in any real-money transactions (RMT) through third-party sellers is