Amazon Recreation Studios has responded after a wave of Misplaced Ark gamers had been banned for not enjoying the sport in current months.
Over the weekend (January 15) mods on the official Misplaced Ark subreddit shared a publish that mentioned “We’re getting a ton of posts from those that haven’t performed the sport in a number of months, claiming that they’ve been notified that their accounts had been banned.”
Plenty of gamers then replied, saying they’d been impacted by the unfair bans whereas on Twitter, it was an identical story.
“So Amazon Video games, why does my spouse have a banned Misplaced Ark account and a VAC ban to affix it when the final time she even opened the sport was February 2022? Appears a bit out of order to tarnish somebody’s account for no cause out of the blue,” wrote one participant.
“Obtained banned from Misplaced Ark regardless of not enjoying for nearly a complete 12 months. And now I’ve a recreation ban on my steam account. That is completely unacceptable behaviour,” added one other.
Obtained Misplaced Ark on Steam like a 12 months in the past and performed 5 hours apparently, and have by no means opened it since. So like did yall ban me for not enjoying sufficient or what lmao🤔 pic.twitter.com/SMOroBjIhy
— ✨👩🏻⚕️ Furry DVM Ryx 🦌🐾 (@ryxaroni) January 14, 2023
Yesterday (January 15) the writer shared an update, acknowledging the problem and providing a repair.
“Greetings heroes of Arkesia. Following a current wave of bot bans, we noticed a rise in ban appeals from gamers who had been incorrectly impacted by these bans.”
“We decided the error that triggered these false bans, and have reversed [them] for all affected gamers no matter whether or not a help ticket has been filed. This implies any recreation bans or marks in your Steam account have been eliminated, or might be eliminated with out penalty shortly.”
Sure! I like Misplaced Ark, however this has had me apprehensive and I am unable to examine my account but bc I am away from my laptop. I additionally gotta inform my Discord members about this too however cannot simply but! 😭 Im nervous! I did play November/December however idk the ban lower off pic.twitter.com/kmZdtZxl3d
— ❄️PopCultureSIMS❄️ (@SpriteBubbleGum) January 15, 2023
Saying the bot ban earlier this month, Amazon wrote: “This week, many gamers have seen a drop off within the variety of concurrent customers displayed in Misplaced Ark’s Steam stats. This modification is the direct results of a roll out of a big variety of bot account bans, which utilised new and highly-effective techniques to focus on and take away bots from the sport.”
“Gamers ought to anticipate these bot bans to have a constructive affect on gameplay, together with improved Market and Public sale Home experiences, decreased lag in closely populated areas, and fewer bots current within the recreation,” it continued.
The studio went on to say that “within the coming months, we’ll proceed to deploy massive scale bot ban waves, implementing new strategies of figuring out and actioning in opposition to bots en masse.”
Final month it was confirmed that the Western model of Misplaced Ark’s Artist Class will look barely completely different to its Korean counterpart, as Amazon Recreation Studios is making some redesigns to make sure that the sport “feels approachable and consultant of our Western gamers.”
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