Misplaced Ark is being evaluate bombed after issuing everlasting bans to inactive gamers, which leaves a mark on their Steam profiles.
In a transfer that has left numerous players confused and pissed off, Misplaced Ark has issued everlasting bans on inactive gamers, some with dozens of hours of playtime and others who’ve spent cash on the free-to-play sport. Consequently, Misplaced Ark has been experiencing a evaluate bomb on Steam as increasingly gamers are notified that they have been banned.
It is no secret that Misplaced Ark has a significant bot drawback, and the builders have been going to nice lengths to curtail the rising bot inhabitants with elevated safety and extra restrictions on new accounts. As a free-to-play sport, it is all too simple for scammers and farmers to get into the sport and disrupt the economic system and participant base with little threat on their very own half. In what seems to be a draconian measure to by some means shield the sport from dangerous actors, Misplaced Ark has gone even additional with this newest transfer.
1000’s of players launched Steam this weekend solely to be notified that they have been completely banned from Misplaced Ark, a sport they most likely have not performed in near a 12 months. This ban wave is concentrating on inactive gamers, however bewilderingly, it is utilizing Steam’s anti-cheat system to take action. This leaves a somewhat nasty mark on any Steam person’s profile indicating that they have been banned from 1 or extra video games and is meant for use to establish cheaters or unruly gamers. Misplaced Ark‘s record-setting launch final 12 months means that an enormous variety of in any other case harmless players are being marked as cheaters for briefly attempting out a much-hyped free-to-play sport.
It is tough to pinpoint the precise standards for the inactivity ban, as droves of Steam critiques reporting on the ban present a spread of histories. Some gamers which were banned have as much as 40 hours of playtime, however not for the reason that sport launched final February. Others, in the meantime, have lower than 10 hours of playtime however have been banned for not enjoying previously six months or so. Others report being banned regardless of paying cash for Misplaced Ark‘s Founder’s Pack which gave gamers just a few days of early entry to the sport.
It is a unusual transfer, contemplating most video games are attempting to win again their inactive gamers somewhat than completely ban them, and it might have accomplished irreparable harm to Misplaced Ark‘s popularity transferring ahead. Understandably, many players would favor to strive different free-to-play MMORPGs that will not mark them as cheaters later down the street.
Misplaced Ark is accessible on PC.
Supply: Steam