Lost Ark dev Smilegate is working on bringing back all those real accounts it accidentally banned

Lost Ark developer Smilegate precocious banned a question of bots to forestall cheating, but a fig of existent players person recovered they were banned too.

Bot bans evidently aren't uncommon successful immoderate online game, peculiarly MMOs which tin person immense playerbases. Smilegate precocious enactment a prohibition question into effect connected Steam, getting escaped of a ample fig of bots, but it besides seems existent players were caught up successful the crossfire.

The prohibition appears to person mostly affected players that haven't logged successful in a fig of months, oregon those that person a tiny playtime. While a prohibition mightiness not truly substance to the subordinate that isn't excessively invested successful the game, bans bash substance for your wide Steam account. Recent reviews connected the game's Steam page are mostly antagonistic astatine the clip of penning arsenic a effect of the caller ban.

Those that haven't played the crippled successful a portion mightiness not person noticed, but due to the fact that immoderate evidently did truthful for immoderate reason, a fig person discovered they've received a ban. This led to the moderators of the game's subreddit enactment retired a post acknowledging the ample fig of posts being made astir the issue.

Since the Reddit station was made yesterday, Smilegate has enactment retired a statement connected the game's forums, and is moving towards undoing them. "We person determined the mistake that triggered these mendacious bans, and are actively moving connected reversing them for each affected morganatic players careless of whether a enactment summons who has been filed," reads the post. Those that person been banned tin inactive taxable a prohibition entreaty summons to lawsuit enactment to effort and get escaped of the prohibition sooner.

In much affirmative quality for the game, a crossover with CD Projket's The Witcher is connected the way, acceptable to spell unrecorded connected January 18. There's a full quest to bash with the main antheral himself Geralt, and determination are a fig of Witcher-themed items and cosmetics to gain too, similar a wallpaper skin, limb skins, and afloat quality skins too.