However, that doesn't mean that people at Amazon Game Studios have been indifferent to this. According to previous reports from the publisher Lost Ark Gold, anti-cheat software updates have consistently cut down on the amount of bots that have been hacked in waves. But in the course of any cheater vs anti-cheat battle, the player population has always bounced back following these bans because players have worked out how to defeat the anti-cheat system and reinstalled any sketchy software they had on in their arsenal.
This ongoing botting issue has led to some people to speculate on the "real amount of people" of Lost Ark, and while it's obviously impossible to know exactly what number is accurate changes in the overall player count such as the removal of a readily exploitable gold farming technique reportedly took a massive 200.000 players off the top of the list in March. Sometimes, these incidents pop up as strong indicators of just how many bots were present behind the scenes. To be clear, we'll likely never be able to pinpoint an exact count, given that websites like Steamcharts and SteamDB although they're helpful, they're not official tracking websites , so they could be off by quite a bit.
Now, fast forward to the 16th of June, and it looks like bots as well as real money traders were hit hard. The day before it was announced on Twitter as well as an official post to the Lost Ark forums that a "massive" ban will be part of the planned update. They were not kidding! This otherwise regular patch seems to have had extra juice under the hood leading to a faster decline in the number of players on the days following the patch. The number of players concurrently reached 550.000 right after the patch, but began plummeting to around 200.000 in the week-end.
It resulted in two wildly different reactions from the two factions. On the popular cheating forums and botting hubs are threads with users performing pseudo damage checks are easy to Cheap Lost Ark Gold find and posters are able to report on the accounts that received bans, the duration of the bans, and which games or services may have put them on Amazon's radar.
