Drastic loss of players in Lost Ark: Earlier this week were on Steam more than 300,000 users traveling in the worlds of the MMORPG at the same time. But over the course of last Tuesday this number rushed into the abyss. The previous low point was reached at noon on January 11th, when just over 80,000 players left romped around on the servers. What happened? Have so many users really lost interest in Lost Ark in one fell swoop? No, it was for a completely different reason, namely a huge wave of spells.
Numerous accounts blocked
The publisher Amazon Games reported a short time later in the official forum to speak to explain the situation. Accordingly, the enormous loss of players is the direct consequence of a extensive ban wave. These were primarily intended ban as many bot accounts as possible. Apparently, this action was crowned with great success. In the meantime, the number of players has leveled off at just over 100,000.
“Many players noticed this week that the number of concurrent users in the Steam stats for Lost Ark (buy now €19.99 )went down. This change is a direct result of the suspension of a significant number of bot accounts, for which we have used new and extremely effective methods to identify and remove bots from the game.”
Lost Arks infested by bots?
More ban waves of this kind are to follow in the near future. However, the whole thing certainly has one slightly bland aftertaste. On the one hand, the commitment of the developers in the Fight against the bots praiseworthy, because they spoil the fun of the MMORPG for many real players. On the other hand, the enormous drop in the number of players relentlessly reveals how big the bot problem is in Lost Ark. About two-thirds of the previous accounts were related to it, so stuck only about a thirdl of active accounts are real players – if any.
In addition, it remains to be seen how sustainable the success of the most recent action will be. In the past few months, there have always been larger waves of bans put a stop to the bots. However, the effect was in most cases only very short terma little later numerous new bot accounts came into the world of Lost Ark.
Source: Steamdb.info, official forum
