Lost Ark has a botting problem. This won’t come as a shock to anyone who has booted up the game since its launch earlier this year, regardless of whether they’re a Mokoko Seed Hunter, a gold-broke Tier 3 gear honer, or your humble casual player levelling at their own pace and exploring the world of Arkesia in no rush at all.
Whether it’s inflated item prices on the auction house, illicit spam in area chats from Rethramis to Papunika, or bundles of Berserkers zooming through questing zones without even attempting to hide their sketchy practices, it’s the bots. Botting, if you’re unclear, refers to AI controlled characters or accounts, which can go out and complete a variety of tasks be it levelling up to max, farming resource nodes, selling goods on the in-game market, and so much more. Bots disrupt the economy, cheapen rewards that require a lot of farming to achieve, and overall bring a bad reputation to the games they afflict.
Botting and cheats are not a blight unique to Lost Ark; any popular multiplayer game with a decent community has a dark corner filled with exploit salesmen. Since Lost Ark is still pulling in over 400,000 concurrent players on Steam even today, the market remains ripe for those looking to make a buck off distributing this stuff. It is, in layman’s terms, very annoying.
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