This isn't to say that the folks working at Amazon Game Studios have been not taking things seriously. Based on previous reports from the publisher Buy Lost Ark Gold, anti-cheat software updates have been continuously reducing the number of bots in waves. However, as is the nature of any cheater vs anti-cheat contest, the number of players has tended to rebound following these ban waves because players have discovered a way around the anti-cheat system and reinstalled any malware they have on their computer.

The constant botting issues has led to speculation on the "real amount of people" within Lost Ark, and while it's impossible to pinpoint precise numbers, shifts in overall player count such as the removal of an easily exploitable gold farming method seemingly took a massive 200,000 players off of the high-end in March. The occasional occurrences of these have come up as strong indicators about the quantity of bots were lurking behind the scenes. For the record, we'll likely never find any exact numbers, because websites like Steamcharts and SteamDB while useful aren't official tracking sites and therefore may be off just a bit.

It's now the 16th of June It appears that both botters and real money traders have been hit hard. One day prior it was announced on Twitter and an official message on the Lost Ark forums that a "massive" ban would be coming alongside the scheduled update. They were not kidding! The patch is believed to have been packing some extra power under the hood leading to a faster decrease in players in the days after the patch. The number of players concurrently initially topped 550,000, however, it started to fall to around 200,000 during the weekend.

This led to two completely different reactions from the two factions. On popular cheating forums and botting hubs are threads that have players performing fake damage checks can be found easily and posters are posting about which accounts received bans Lost ark gold buy, as well as the duration of these bans and which actions within the game may have resulted in them being identified by Amazon's radar.