Lost Ark wiped out more than 1 million offending accounts

Smilegate RPG and Amazon Games banned over a million accounts Lost Ark “illegal” used to run bots. This wave of account scans took place on March 4 after the developer created the means to identify and remove bots from the game.
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The developers of Lost Ark said: “Maintaining a fair and enjoyable gameplay experience for players is a top priority for the development team. While we plan to make a big impact with this wave of account sweeps, we understand there’s more work to be done and want players to know that this is just the first step in an active and ongoing process. customary. Going forward, we will continue our work on detecting and removing fraud, fraud, and harmful behavior at scale from Lost Ark, including expanding anti-fraud tools, improving methods of receiving in the form of bots and deploying additional waves of regular account scans.”

However, the development team also warned that a small number of players could be misidentified as bots. “We have taken every possible step to prevent that from happening, but there is a possibility that some accounts may be misidentified as bots,” the developers stated.
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Smilegate RPG and Amazon Games acknowledge that bots have been an increasingly serious problem for MMORPGs since their launch last month. Chat channels are always full of spam messages selling gold, and recently many players have also reported encountering resource-gathering bots in various areas.​