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Amazon says it’s cracking down hard on Throne & Liberty bots
If you dip into any online discussion about Throne and Liberty, especially in regard to its population, it invariably shifts toward discussing the purported...
Elder Scrolls Online admits chat mod tools had ‘hiccups’ but denies it’s auto-banning RPers
Last week we reported on concerns raised by roleplayers about Elder Scrolls Online's use of "AI-powered proactive and reactive moderation methods" that were reportedly...
The Division 2 threatens to ban players over XP glitches that are causing server instability
Apparently, players have found a way to earn loads of XP in The Division 2, but doing so is causing the game's servers to...
Lost Ark says it’s reversed false bans even as players report Steam accounts still flagged
Last week, Amazon took one hell of a banhammer to Lost Ark, smashing so many bots that players noticed the drop in concurrency and...
Lapsed yet legitimate Lost Ark players were hit in the game’s latest ban wave
When Lost Ark decided to clean house and sweep away a huge number of bots from the game this past week, it might have...
Lost Ark deploys a giant bot banhammer with a huge impact on concurrency
If you noticed a rather dramatic dip in Lost Ark's active playerbase numbers this week and wondered what happened, first of all, nice catch....
Mortal Online 2 bans hundreds of accounts for an exploit that avoided full loot on death
You can possibly understand why players of Mortal Online 2 would be attracted to an exploit that allowed you to play the game and...
Final Fantasy XIV makes plan for opening home world transfers while banning RMT accounts
If you want to transfer your home world in Final Fantasy XIV right now... well, you can't. This is not for no reason, either....
300K players got hit by Lost Ark’s promised ‘massive’ ban wave
Players of Lost Ark can't say that they weren't warned: Last week, Amazon Games announced that a "massive" ban wave was coming, and sure...
New World bans over 500 players for duping and explains its luck system
New World is once more sweeping up the pieces of another broken update. Readers will recall that the game's Heart of Madness update introduced...
Bless Unleashed PC says it’s cracking down on cheaters and RMT
Bless Unleashed's PC updates just keep coming - both the content kind and the administrative kind.
First, Round8 has addressed the "large amount of reports...
An infamous WoW Classic griefer sees his 16 accounts all banned during a livestream
If you've got your finger on the pulse of the greater World of Warcraft: Classic community, you perhaps are familiar with the exploits of...
Final Fantasy XIV bans over 5,000 accounts for RMT activity
Trading real money for gil in Final Fantasy XIV is expressly forbidden. Players shouldn't do that if they want to keep their accounts. Apparently more...
Twitch lowers a (temporary?) banhammer on Donald Trump
Following the shameful events of this past week in Washington D.C. during which an outgoing U.S. president urged supporters to storm the Capitol, many...
Albion Online bans more than 600 accounts for buying currency
You are probably aware that buying Silver in Albion Online from a third-party site is not allowed, not least because there's a legitimate first-party option...
Fallout 76 roleplay group had its Facebook account terminated for being mistakenly flagged as a hate group
Politically, things in the US are... charged, to say the least, and the impact of misinformation efforts across social media platforms is more in...
MMO Business Roundup: FarmVille’s sunset, Netmarble’s acquisitions, Intrepid hiring, WoW esports, PUBG India
Welcome back to another roundup of gaming industry news relevant to MMOs and MMO adjacent-titles.
PUBG India: Earlier this month, we covered how PUBG Corp....
WoW Classic players squabble over the Ahn’Qiraj Scarab Lord title amidst griefing and bans
Some player-crafted drama in WoW Classic appears to be brewing as guilds seek to complete a certain portion of the Scarab Lord quest chain....
Pakistan becomes the latest country to crack down on PUBG for the children
PUBG's not having a good week: It's been banned in yet another country, this time Pakistan.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority announced the temporary measure following...
J. Allen Brack says Blizzard will combat racism through donations, bans, and education
Nobody's ever going to hold Blizzard up as a paragon of virtue, but President J. Allen Brack said that the studio is trying to...
