The True Impact of Bots & RMT in Lost Ark

Bots, RMT'ers & P2P RMT in Lost Ark • Bots, RMT'ers & P2P RM...
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[@chriso6042]

All my gold goes to honing, elixers, transcendence.. so inflating mat costs doesn't really effect me. Smg picked how much it costs.

[@LostArkFan]

This video somewhat falls on deaf ears. Peoples problem is currently that they don't have any gold, not that inflation is out of control. The game has way too many fixed cost gold sinks that Korea had 6 months+ to generate into the economy. Inflated gold costs at this point would be useful to your average player, who would be able to sell their tradeable mats for extra cash, which they could then sink into the fixed cost systems that this game is currently filled with.
The real problem with bots is starting to show, however, which is the increased server loads which makes for a worse experience overall.

[@highelojungler]

the only way to beat bot gold inflation is to buy RMT gold which is cheap. Terrible management of the game

[@martinramirez4433]

as someone who RMT and have multiple accounts with lv 10 gems i agree to it

[@AdvancedResearchImaging]

Agreed. RMT'd since release as well as all the members in my static. None of have ever been caught yet. And even if caught now, it's just a slap on the wrist from what we've seen. Well worth it to RMT.
We're not running optimal gold 6 character roster. Most are only interested in playing one character, a couple have a two character roster at most. None of us are interested with grouping with those outside of us. If we're missing buddies that day, we'll just reschedule. We just do the current raid once a week and call it a week with maybe dailies here and there. It's the better option for us compared to running the same dungeon x 6 each and on every single raid that earns gold and do dailies lol that's insane. Been Thaemine Hard ready for a long time now. Gonna jump into Hard soon cuz that stupid race made the block too hot lol. Behemoth will be fun to get all the buds together.

[@MrMsedek]

You are wrong AGS CAN change the ratio convertion from royals to gold, that value is fixed

[@omg1876]

As a person who sells all tradeables and only hones on bounded, the inflation came as a positive because im getting more gold to use towards alt's elixirs and transcendance. I havent touched honing since a month before thaemine but im making a pretty penny from dailies due to the recent inflation. Not sure if i should hoard and sell during echidna launch week and on but we'll see.

[@petrp4427]

This true and he didn't mention it. On the other hand in this scenario your life energy is less of value since oreha prices are down. If there are no bots, your life energy would have 2-3 or maybe 4 times the value (in gold)

[@omg1876]

@@petrp4427 this works out great for me. I'd much rather have life energy low and honing materials high vs honing low and life energy high. I would rather run my chaos dungeons than fish and do mini game 😂 i do dailies unrested and i find a good amount of honing chest fate embers across all alts and that helps out SO much. I always have enough honing materials but not enough prime orehas when honing. Holy cow. The time before ivory tower when fish was almost 400g NAWEST was insaneeeee. Thank goodness i didnt hone during then 😂

[@thomasblake8504]

All this is very interesting, there is only one problem.
The prices of pretty much everything have crashed down on EUC.
Why ? Because there massively more offer (mostly because of bots) than demand so people do what they usually do and
massively undercut each other in the vain hope of selling quickly before someone else undercut them.
Leapstones are 1/3 or their price 3 months ago, fish 1/4, oreha 1/2 and the list go on.
This game is fill with bots on one side and AGS/SGS requiring more and more swipe to progress.
On top of that, the even shop is getting worse and worse. This time we don't have honing book or a legendary select pack.
This is getting ridiculous, they don't care at all and start caring less and less.

[@ryanc9876]

"This doesn't affect me, therefor it's not a problem." -- commenters.

[@shockZ146]

Very good insight. This window should be a little easier to read. I did not put much effort into understanding this at first but it makes a lot of sense.

[@redominusred7058]

Currency exchange shouldnt exist. Horrible system. Just give me a set amount for 20 dollars and call it a day.

[@tsyukigami]

If you're not a veteran player, the game is impossible without RMT. No new(er) player can afford even a blue quality bare minimum 5x3+1. The necklace alone is 250k+.

[@nedimgirgec7150]

thanks mate but now the game is done already so sad ags could have a employe like you to make game better

[@ranbu6590]

You are missing one key aspect that nobody is mentioning in any video. Bots are not generating a lot of gold. (as some other comment pointed out) Not nearly enough to support RMT demand at least. The real problem that messes up the casual playerbase is that the materials generated by bots (mostly fish/fusions, gems and a small portion of shards) get bought by those casuals and the bots then redistribute that gold to the RMTers. Add onto that people like me who are flipping those mats for profit on the auction house, but also further deleting gold from the economy through listing fee. (2x 5% listing fee on a single item because it was listed and sold twice) It gets even worse with gems but i'll let you figure that one out yourself. Also botters have become smarter and are now bulk listing life skill materials to control the price instead of mass listing everything at once.
tldr the problem is redistribution of gold from casual to RMT through botted mats being traded on the auction house aka the botters are devaluing the gold that has been farmed through honest gaming activity by players.

[@makriate]

Did ags increase the royal cryatal costs or am i trippin?

[@Tokiomy]

I have no problem whit gold,I make close to 100k per week playing less than 10h/week and I am more than happy whit it.

[@petetam7394]

well the true impact is Lost Ark Steam revenue now has instances that even less than Stardew Valley .This game is a joke at this point , after the maintenance there are 32k concurent players with bots still running around, which means the actually players are around 20k with they added 50k bots last month. 😂

[@Psyzenn]

I would have said to let trade at lvl 60 so there won't be that much bots. Sure they can have account lvl 60 but if they get banned they will have to grind for lvl 60 which they are not going to do that at all since they are here for quick cash. You can even add like 100 roster as well. Any player who wants to play the game gonna reach it eventually and I don't think that is that hard. You already make players miserable with your anti-botting options so instead of it add something that sucks but it is necessary.
I am saying this due to incoming free 5x3 and lvl 7 gems for t3 which makes market basically pointless for a long time and by the time you reach like akkan , they gonna meet lvl 60 + 100 roster easily. All the learning parties, dailies, etc.

[@achimouwu1503]

i said it before they alr gave up with bots. If you want to know how many bots compare to real player, go to Nia village. Most of real ppl stay in Voldis now and we get like 10 channels there, Nia village is land of bots with like 20 channels