{"id":535745,"date":"2026-03-07T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-players-banned-500-hours"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:43:26","slug":"some-of-the-most-dedicated-lost-ark-players-have-been-caught-in-ban-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/some-of-the-most-dedicated-lost-ark-players-have-been-caught-in-ban-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of the most dedicated Lost Ark players have been caught in ban waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/some-of-the-most-dedicated-lost-ark-players-have-been-caught-in-ban-waves.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Lost Ark<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-has-more-than-20-million-players-worldwide\">hugely popular free to play MMORPG<\/a> from Smilegate and Amazon Games Studios, is still trucking on following its hugely popular launch earlier this year. However, for those out there who have gone above and beyond to explore all the vistas and challenges the game has to offer, an <strong>unexpected suspension may be lurking around the corner<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n<p>This all comes from a popular post on the Lost Ark forums, where user Aionion created a thread after seeing multiple players claiming they had received unfair 3 day suspensions unfairly. According to their own claims, as well as the anecdotal information posted by those in the thread, these temporary bans seem to be impacting those who have invested hundreds of hours into Lost Ark.\n<\/p>\n<p>While the claims of banned players must always be taken with a grain of salt, the sheer number of players claiming the same sort of bans out of nowhere made relegating these complaints as nothing but post-ban salt a touch harder. Further down the thread, posts featuring screenshots ban appeals not going the player&rsquo;s way and stating bans are warranted make this whole situation that much more of a head scratcher.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-players-banned-500-hours\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-players-banned-500-hours\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost Ark, the hugely popular free to play MMORPG from Smilegate and Amazon Games Studios, is still trucking on following its hugely popular launch earlier this year. However, for those out there who have gone above and beyond to explore all the vistas and challenges the game has to offer, an unexpected suspension may be lurking around the corner. This all comes from a popular post on the Lost Ark forums, where user Aionion created a thread after seeing multiple players claiming they had received unfair 3 day suspensions unfairly. According to their own claims, as well as the anecdotal information posted by those in the thread, these temporary bans seem to be impacting those who have invested hundreds of hours into Lost Ark. While&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/some-of-the-most-dedicated-lost-ark-players-have-been-caught-in-ban-waves\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":535746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,3416,160,5610,135,59,4557],"class_list":["post-535745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-amazon-games","tag-free-to-play","tag-lost-ark","tag-mmo","tag-pc","tag-smilegate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some of the most dedicated Lost Ark players have been caught in ban waves | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lost Ark, the hugely popular 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