Amazon is looking for the best players in the top MMORPG on Steam – but everyone cheats

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In the currently largest MMORPG on Steam, Lost Ark, a race began on April 20th to see who would complete the new raid first. After just a few hours, 8 players in Europe were finished. But they were deprived of their victory. This happened to other winning teams. The problem is: Cheating, botting and real money trading are so common in Lost Ark that hardly anyone plays legally.

How did Lost Ark plan to find the best players?

  • To launch the new patch, Amazon is hosting a race in Europe, North and South America.
  • The race is called “Theamine The First” in Lost Ark. It started on April 20th.
  • The first ten 8-person teams to complete the raid on the hardest level will receive a spot on the leader boards and an in-game reward.

    • Lost Ark shows its newest boss darkly and impressively in the cinematic trailer

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    After an hour the raid is over – the mood is bad

    These were the winners: After just under an hour the best 8 players were decided; they had already completed Theamine. The players’ names were posted on reddit and the run was discussed.

    There was a great mood of misery. The players seemed certain: If the hardest raid in the MMORPG was completed after just an hour, something was wrong, they just weren’t sure what exactly the problem was. It said:

  • Those who spent the most money to complete the raid would definitely have won
  • Another said: There are probably 8 Koreans who already know the raid from their home country and are ruining the race in the West
  • A third grumbled: That’s nonsense anyway. Here people would become “pilots”, which is what they call it when they let others play on their account
  • A fourth believed: Tricks had certainly been used and the biggest cheaters had won
  • But an optimist said: Maybe this is also a trap, a honey pot, for cheaters.

    • So overall the mood was bad.

    Amazon disqualifies almost all winning teams

    This is what Amazon says: Amazon actually stepped in and sanctioned the 8 winners for violating the rules and deleted them from the leaderboards (via mop).

    It is said that some teams violated the rules and conditions and were banned.

    Amazon says: If the players had additional accounts, they could try out new groups.

    According to reports from players, at least one player from the first 5-6 winning teams was always banned and the rest were therefore disqualified.

    After 6 days, only 1 “legal” team will be declared the winner

    In any case, the names of the 8 original winners disappeared from the leaderboard and 8 other players appeared a day later.

    These seem to be the “real 8 best players” in Lost Ark. Because in the last 5 days no other team has managed to complete the raid.

    There are also doubts about the winners here on Reddit. Maybe, as they say on reddit, they just used bots or cheats that Amazon can’t detect.

    Cheating is too common in Lost Ark

    How is this discussed? Overall, the “First Race” was very negative. On reddit, a player says: 5-6 teams completed the raid, but there was at least one in each team who used bots or real money purchases.

    That’s just “embarrassing.”

    This is what lies behind it: Amazon has issued rules about what’s forbidden in racing, including “illegal programs, apps, real-money purchases and piloting, which is what it’s called when you let someone else play.”

    Apparently all of these things are so widespread among the top players of Lost Ark that in a race that bans and sanctions these things, hardly anyone takes part.

    Therefore, Lost Ark has disgraced itself in the eyes of players. By the way, this is not a Western issue; there were similar problems in South Korea when the raid started six months ago.

    Overall, Lost Ark is considered to be extremely infested with bots:

    Lost Ark loses 200,000 players on Steam in one day – shows how big the bot problem really is

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