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Lost Ark cracks down on Ignite reward chest exploiters, launches Aegir raid
Lost Ark fans have been up in arms the past week over a nasty exploit with the brand-new Ignite reward chests - and now,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
74,000 WoW Classic accounts just got the banhammer for botting and other cheats
This'll shock you, but not everyone playing WoW Classic is doing it for the thrill of an arguably more hardcore experience: Some people are...
SMITE suspends 5,000 accounts due to racist chat
The chat box of an MMO was never meant to be a safe haven for racists, but with the protests across the US calling...
Kritika:REBOOT bans hundreds of illegal trading accounts and readies a new class
Kritika:REBOOT has been on the offensive with regards to taking down illegal trading accounts, which seems to be an ongoing fight if one looks...
Apex Legends developers ban 355K cheaters as dataminers find new weapons
Rising battle royale star Apex Legends just reduced its playerbase by 355,000 players. First, congratulations are in order for having enough players that banning 355,000 would...
PUBG has banned 13M cheaters since 2017, rolls out new anti-cheat systems
You know what I'm really, really tired of? Freakin' cheaters. They aren't just cheating at the game itself; they are robbing all of us...
CCP banned over 1800 EVE Online botters in January alone
If you've been paying any attention at all to EVE Online over the past few months, you know that the playerbase's anger over the...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops 2.3M concurrency, bans a fraction of that
Here's a fun game that we play around the Massively OP office: A troublemaker will come in and loudly proclaim, "You know what's a...
Club Penguin players make a game out of getting speed banned
If your MMO's overlords suddenly announced that they were going to shut down your game in a month's time, how would you spend those...
Path of Exile has plans for ‘years’ of expansions
A rather extensive (and we do mean extensive) Path of Exile developer Q&A revealed that the game and studio is growing nicely. "There are...
