LOST ARK accounts "Limited" to better combat bots

Since the launch of the western version of Lost Ark , the Amazon Games teams are strived to fight against the proliferation of bots - the Western operator recently announced to have banned nearly a million. A fight is nevertheless laborious as part of a free-to-play distributed game (barely banned, an account can be recreated in the stride) and to stem the phenomenon, Amazon Games will rely on the system "Limited accounts" of Steam. On Steam, the "unaudited" accounts (used by their owner for "malicious" purposes and who have never bought games on the platform) are broid and do not have access to some of the social features of the platform. Amazon Games adapts the same system.

With the deployment of today's update, players connecting to LOST ARK with unverified steam accounts will not have access to some of the MMORPG features: these accounts will have daily limits. 'Buy more stringent than those of trusted players and can not "initiate player-to-player exchanges (requests can always be received), send gifts into play, exchange royal crystals against gold or send From the mail at stake with attachments ". And Amazon Games intends to add other unrelated measures (to prevent them from being too quickly bypassed), designed in conjunction with the South Korean developer Smilegate . For players who would be wrongly identified as unverified accounts, a purchase of 5 € on Steam allows to remove the restrictions.

If these measures will probably not limit the vulnesis for creating bots on Lost Ark, they will at least have the merit of diminishing the deleterious consequences of their actions on the MMORPG economy. For the curious, the complete patch note of the weekly update of Lost Ark (thus detailing the modalities of this limitation of account, but also the patches, rebalances and additions of content) is available in French on the official website of the MMORPG.