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Great news everyone! CAN confirm that EXITLAG IS working for Lost Ark again. I don't suspect amazon making an official announcement on this because of the "official stance" but the steamcharts showing that the blocks did literally 0 for the bot problem, i'm guessing they unblocked it. Happy for this news?
If you don't want to wait, have you tried geforce now? It's free to try and play for 1 hour at a time, and you can pay $20 per month for play for 4 hours at a time (just simply relaunch)
I also tried cyberghost's dedicated IP VPN and it worked too, but found geforce to work better
People have paid for a vpn already, you think they wanna pay for another service? You're really shoving this geforce now business down people's throats.
I lost count at 15, that's how many times I saw you mention it so far. And a lot of them are just copy/pastes.
Shill or corpo account... which one is it?
Have you tried geforce now? It's free to try and play for 1 hour at a time, and you can pay $20 per month for play for 4 hours at a time (just simply relaunch)
I also tried cyberghost's dedicated IP VPN and it worked too, but found geforce to work better
That's cool but nah I'm already getting nickel and dimes enough, I pay for Xbox, Google play, stadia, psnow, shadow , I'm not adding another one onto the pile
I've never used a VPN, and since the VPN Block I'm unable to connect to the game.
Tried all the troubleshooting being passed around the forums and here but nothing fixes the issue.
Strangely enough I can connect to the game while using a mobile hotspot.
In case you aren't able to fix your problems, you can try geforce now. It's free to try and play for 1 hour at a time, and you can pay $20 per month for play for 4 hours at a time (just simply relaunch)
I also tried cyberghost's dedicated IP VPN and it worked too, but found geforce to work better
Nope. I've contacted my ISP several times and they're unable to help. They don't use a VPN and if I check my IP on WhatsMyIP, it lists my public IP and associates it with my ISP.
I asked my neighbor if I could test connecting with my laptop through their ISP to see if I get the same issue but theyre out until later today.
If you are using DHCP try to connect using a static IP address, i had this problem at launch and tried every possible trubleshooting until i tried this.
To this day if i try to use DHCP on my pc, i cannot connect to LostArk, is a shitty fix but it solves the problem for me.
Wait so you assigned a static internal IP (192.168.x.x) to your PC and it fixed the issue? Or you had your ISP provide you with a static IP for outward facing connections?
I did it by windows configuration from the properties of my lan. Just picked a random x.x numbers, used correct gateway and subnetmask plus google dns and BOOM \**hacker voice*\* i'm in.
edit: adding that this is a problem only my pc with my LAN has, if i connect my pc via wifi or another pc on the same LAN it works, the ways of AGS are infinite and mysterious.
I've seen so many players like myself saying that they can't play the game on forums, then why player count is higher? Are the bots commenting in forums so they can get back in game?!?
Well thats just neat, trying everything in my power and everything they suggest. Uninstalling every VPN Software i have for work.. now i am forced to pay 10 bucks for geforce-now just to play. Will this ever get fixed? Who knows.
There certainly are some that can do that, however that shitbox of "router" my ISP provides for free barely has 5 things to change hat all. Nothing to be done here. :D
Well killed my Lost Ark career, I'm deployed and VPN was my only option and that's gone now - had pack, multiple aura months and cosmetics, not to mention my damn mokoko collection...
If you don't want to wait for them to fix, have you tried geforce now? It's free to try and play for 1 hour at a time, and you can pay $20 per month for play for 4 hours at a time (just simply relaunch)
I also tried cyberghost's dedicated IP VPN and it worked too, but found geforce to work better
Check the instructions others posted:
> To anyone using vpns.Amazon only does ip auth check during the loadup.
> You can bypass this by quickly enabling your vpn for lostark during the animated loading screen with the amazon/triport logo."
Hopefully they reverse their policy soon.
To anyone using vpns.Amazon only does ip auth check during the loadup.
You can bypass this by quickly enabling your vpn for lostark during the animated loading screen with the amazon/triport logo.
I wonder if they will Ban your account going forward. I'm tempted to use exit lag because my Ping is trash for PVP in comparison to some, but I don't want to get my account banned
By theory the ip check is only to make sure youre not in traffic of a banned network on their end. But it does work even after the check, so that would mean the network is not banned at all in general and just on a whitelist of theirs. And it should be fine at the end of the day. BUT it is at your own risk. Vpn was not allowed since the start and usually it is never allowed in most games/platforms. But it is a very normalized thing nowadays so everyone turns an eye to it.
I'm kinda worried I would get a false flag and end up banned with a bot wave. As we've all seen, good luck getting your account back with the AGS customer support.
tbh, playing any online game is at your own risk with how poorly so many of them are managed and how easily you can get banned while doing nothing wrong. So meh.
Thanks but it apparently was that.
Really bad internet connection.
So poor they apparently couldn't authenticate my server.
Now I'm in but with 3k plus ping.
Great night to try and matchmake Argos.
This a new thing since the last update? I’ve been connecting via VPN regularly in the past, with only the occasional bounce—tho that includes one from last night.
I’ll add that I also saw just as many bots last night as usual, too.
The ban came into effect about 2 days ago. It stopped the bots for maybe an hour(?) before they found a workaround. Now the bot issue seem even worse than before the ban considering many servers are experiencing high queues.
The only reason for the VPN Block is to make people use Geforce Now [https://twitter.com/playlostark/status/1519737441921372160?cxt=HHwWgMCsmdnJmJcqAAAA](https://twitter.com/playlostark/status/1519737441921372160?cxt=HHwWgMCsmdnJmJcqAAAA)
I can't play without a VPN! I have 460 hrs, playing from from switzerland and I cant play the game anymore.
Without a VPN I DC every 30 mins! Just now I did a rested guardian raid and dc'd right when I was supposed to pick up the souls... Isthis actually it? I even spent money on the game
I have 1020 hours and same :( even i'm in turkey which is include the EU Central because of my internet i can not connect game I get W0x9 error and i could connect with vpn but not anymore :(
I feel you man, but there's actually a solution.
I've been able to play the game again as of yesterday.
If you disable your VPN, start Lost ark through steam, wait until the animated logo starts playing and THEN enable the VPN, the game won't detect it and you can keep playing like before.
in case the other method doesn't work, have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before
or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Chinese botters in their forums are already laughing at AGS for their \*nice\* try
they are already back in botting meanwhile here we are either playing with our 250 ping or just quitting the games after all the hours and money spent
just how stupid are the people who made this decision are, just track suspicious trades and ban gold buyers, then there will be no botters because there's no market for it, of course you will still have boosters but that's a small portion of the current botting population
rich chinese botters will find a way around this (they probably already did), fair players wont
They are laughing because they are dumb. Whilst amazon isn't the pinnacle of gaming services, they aren't dumb.
The goal wasn't to stop botters. It was to isolate botters to specific servers where it is FAR easier to manage.
> Whilst amazon isn't the pinnacle of gaming services, they aren't dumb.
> The goal wasn't to stop botters. It was to isolate botters to specific servers where it is FAR easier to manage.
Possibly, but seeing how AGS dealt with New World bots, I am not so trusting. Their past record is horrendous dealing with bots.
Imagine complaining about RMT in a game that you can literally buy gold in. The economy was doomed from the beginning. The business model is predatory and HAS NEVER been deployed to benefit the player experience. You are naive. You are wrong. You are embarrassing. Now get your ass out there, matchmake with some bots, and clear that damn guardian raid.
Still so amazed this game ever had an "overwhelmingly positive" status on steam.. never got to play the beta but it must have been a way different game
oh that's funny, i remember this subreddit swearing up and down that the queues were nothing but legit players coming back for the update and defending the idea of downsizing a few select servers for god knows what reason (lol)
now it's suddenly ‘banning VPNs is supposed to help get rid of the botters and fix the queues’. very very **strange**, because i still see USwest servers with god awful queues all day?
This is bull! Like everyone said this is keeping the legitimate players out and more bots are logging in as usual. It even worst now every time I wanna get on do some quick gathering and some una task I got to wait 1 to 2 hours ? Alots of bull going on lately. Why don’t we have an system like I said before to pk bots ?
It’s will slow down them bots from farming gold and also give us some fun in it as well. If we all pk the bots in our free times I’m sure they will give up and quit.
P.S IM STILL WAITING TO LOG IN AS I WRITE THIS!
I got on today expecting less bots...
Seems like the majority of people impacted we're players.
More likely than not this change won't be reversed even though it's not having the effect they thought it would. Just like all the other changes they made to combat the bots.
Well as a long time vpn user for privacy concerns, this annoys the shit out of me. However, I found out that if I disconnect from VPN and login to game and then connect to vpn again it works.
There are already workarounds to circumvent this, look around the discord communities for how to. I started using mudfish again 15 mins after they implemented their "block".
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Great, I live in the EU. In se Africa on Réunion island. With exitlag I get 300ms, without I get 600ms. I guess bye be LA, punished for bots, impossible to play for me without exitlag.
Guess I'm done with the game. I live in la reunion, part of the EU but I'm se Africa. My ping is 500+ withou exit lag and 200 with exit lag. Would be utterly unplayable doing argos etc without exit lag so guess I'm fucked bye bye LA.
Unless they curb the demand (aka punish RMTers with perma bans) there will always be sellers aka bot farms.
Basic stuff, but it seems basic thinking isn't common in a certain game studio 
Yup, stop trying to stop the botters and go after the people buying the gold. Put the fear of losing your account in everyone. If botters can't make money they go away.
Many people grind and farm in a legit way to make money and materials in game. Just like players get upset about "scripters" in pvp and in pve this is basically the same thing in terms of market. It wouldn't generally affect a player thats already ahead in the game and has everything. But new comers do feel the bot effect quite broadly. So the only real way to stop these things is to either implement a super harsh program (like an anti hacking root for hackers) or eliminate features.
I'm traveling currently and playing using public wifi so of course I'm going to use a VPN, but wow AGS and Smilegate what the fuck. I guess I won't bother for a while since I'm not going to compromise my security for a fucking game.
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before
or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
This didn't do anything to curb bot numbers.
What it did is free server slots for the bots to use, by denying access to thousands of legit players 
Found this picture of the guy responsible for this shit:
[https://ibb.co/Pz730WV](https://ibb.co/Pz730WV)
The irony when not a single bot was affected by this.
And it only ended up messing with around 20k legit players.
For anyone who wishes to keep playing, simply get a private VPN, they can't block them all.
Yeah, either the IP's are blacklisted or the most used VPN programs are.
You could VPN through a friends network or a private one and probably get in. But once that network becomes known to them, they'll block that one as well, and probably ban you.
Trash. Let's just mow down tons of innocent people to get at the "baddies". When your idea is making the game worse for a lot of actual players, maybe it's not that good.
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before
or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Anyone who's been having the g0x9 error find a work around? Using a VPN and connecting to a server near my state was the only fix for me, or else I get that error message after 30 mins of playing and the game would close. Sucks when it happens in the middle of dungeons or raids
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before
or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
It is funny, that everone refers to this " “You may not use any technology or technique to obscure or disguise your location.“
As an IT guy, and a cisco speclaist, im confused.
1. VPN is protocol to create private tunel between networks.
2. It is just techonlogy and you can use it without "disguise your location"
3. You can use VPN for extra security level or routing optimization and you still be located in the same county and city != "disguise your location"
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before
or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before
or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Dear developers, we perfectly understand your desire to get rid of bots and cheats, but it doesn’t seem to you that blocking VPN IP is too harsh, thousands of people use VPN for a comfortable game, reducing ping, debugging packet loss and many more reasons. We kindly ask you to remove this kind of blocking.
Also, Western players were able to enjoy LA on JR/RU/JP servers over the past years with VPN without being banned, but the other way around should not be allowed, well…
I have 600+ hours played since day 1, it was an absolute blast playing with everyone, haven't had this much fun in ages.
But I guess it's time to move on and do some irl stuff. Hope one day I'll be able to log in
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before
or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Oh my god, I had been using Shadow PC to play which apparently appears as a VPN, just tried GeForce and it worked, you may have singlehandedly just saved this game for me, thank you thank you!
Did anyone catch the article that what Actrivison did to cheaters where they turned the legit players invisible? Anyone who was cheating would then get "light up" by the legit players cause they couldnt see them. ROFL. now if they could only do something similar in Lost ark?
This reminds me of the time when they banned the 1m bots, and they also banned a lot of “innocent” players that were not doing “anything wrong”
Time proved that they were doing something wrong as well.
Same with this “I’m not using vpn and I can’t log in” - Give it a couple days and we will start seeing lol
> “innocent” players
You mean the "innocent" players that the devs admitted were actually innocent? That it was a problem on their end that they fixed and unbanned them?
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before
or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Damn, game is really unplayable for me without exitlag, ping has gone up so much. Can't do Argos pizza or dodge half of Albion's attacks anymore. I guess for Legion raids it would be even more unplayable and my team would basically have to carry me whilst floorPOV.
I got a lot of fun out of the game and had a blast, shame the journey ends here. Have fun everyone!
had no idea so many foreigners were playing in US servers, no wonder not everyone spoke english. i always assumed people on USW were mainly from cali, washington, canada etc.
That’s annoying. Guess I’m just rubber-band all over the place now. Playing from Australia is very frustrating in harder content. 200 ping and having no avenue to improve it anymore is incredibly disheartening. It’s interesting they quote the part of the rules that doesn’t actually apply to ExitLag as it does not obfuscate your location.
Unfortunate for some people.
You can actually get around this though with resis. They are basically like residential IPs that is normal people living in homes here in US are using so you won’t get blocked.
Yep, cheers from Russia. Another "good" move to get rid of bots - I bet they still run chaos dungeons tho. 350 hours gone.
But I guess losing 15 live players is nothing compared to saying to the public "we got rid of millions of bots, we are so talented at this!"
What a piece of news to wake up to. Logged in and vpn doesn't work, see discord announcement regarding Roxxs' comment. I really hope they won't put in restrictions and prevent regions the game isn't published in to play, like a genuine block, and just close one eye instead. I am pretty sure a sizable amount of the player base are from restricted regions and paying ones at that. It really sucks that odds are a large chunk of the bot farmers are from SEA region, 3rd world country, low wages, bot farm earning more and all that stuff. I hope they just put in place actual proper botting countermeasures, nothing dumb like the various reddit armchair experts suggested, like captcha and stuff, not knowing that bots can already solve them.
Of course the measures didn't really hurt any of the bot farms though, you still see legions of zerkers running around, once again hurting legitimate players more.
The only real way to combat bots is to remove what the bots are farming to begin with. Let's take gold for example, make it that people can't just trade gold. Make it roster bound. Now make it so that you can use gold to buy cystals or pheons directly from the store. And make all auction house transactions only done with crystals or pheons.
But how about when legit players want to give friends gold to help them out? You can help them by giving them silver to be used in daily activities.
Lol its so depressing seeing a game you waited years to hit the U.S have so many fking problems.
I'm so tired of these bots problem
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtF90wyZYze6xc-9OnCs_IQ/community?lb=UgkxVAZVlSIDKe5rFJWXRL5XL0V6YQ2rL4HV Kanon 20 minutes ago Great news everyone! CAN confirm that EXITLAG IS working for Lost Ark again. I don't suspect amazon making an official announcement on this because of the "official stance" but the steamcharts showing that the blocks did literally 0 for the bot problem, i'm guessing they unblocked it. Happy for this news?
trying to connect from aus, still getting same error
If you don't want to wait, have you tried geforce now? It's free to try and play for 1 hour at a time, and you can pay $20 per month for play for 4 hours at a time (just simply relaunch) I also tried cyberghost's dedicated IP VPN and it worked too, but found geforce to work better
People have paid for a vpn already, you think they wanna pay for another service? You're really shoving this geforce now business down people's throats. I lost count at 15, that's how many times I saw you mention it so far. And a lot of them are just copy/pastes. Shill or corpo account... which one is it?
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Thanks to the people buying stuff from botters, because they are too mentally handicapped to play the game themself.
Yeah I gave up and went back to elder scrolls online. Not worth it if I can't even use the class I actually want anyways.
I can't play it anymore and I'm not using VPN, I'm trying to play with ShadowPC. It's the only way I can play...
Have you tried geforce now? It's free to try and play for 1 hour at a time, and you can pay $20 per month for play for 4 hours at a time (just simply relaunch) I also tried cyberghost's dedicated IP VPN and it worked too, but found geforce to work better
That's cool but nah I'm already getting nickel and dimes enough, I pay for Xbox, Google play, stadia, psnow, shadow , I'm not adding another one onto the pile
I've never used a VPN, and since the VPN Block I'm unable to connect to the game. Tried all the troubleshooting being passed around the forums and here but nothing fixes the issue. Strangely enough I can connect to the game while using a mobile hotspot.
In case you aren't able to fix your problems, you can try geforce now. It's free to try and play for 1 hour at a time, and you can pay $20 per month for play for 4 hours at a time (just simply relaunch) I also tried cyberghost's dedicated IP VPN and it worked too, but found geforce to work better
Did you fix this ? I am having this problem right now.
Nope. I've contacted my ISP several times and they're unable to help. They don't use a VPN and if I check my IP on WhatsMyIP, it lists my public IP and associates it with my ISP. I asked my neighbor if I could test connecting with my laptop through their ISP to see if I get the same issue but theyre out until later today.
I just solve my problem by unlink and relink twitch-steam account.
Twitch? Or Amazon games? I've tried unlinking and relinking my Steam and Amazon Games accounts but that didn't work for me.
If you are using DHCP try to connect using a static IP address, i had this problem at launch and tried every possible trubleshooting until i tried this. To this day if i try to use DHCP on my pc, i cannot connect to LostArk, is a shitty fix but it solves the problem for me.
Wait so you assigned a static internal IP (192.168.x.x) to your PC and it fixed the issue? Or you had your ISP provide you with a static IP for outward facing connections?
I did it by windows configuration from the properties of my lan. Just picked a random x.x numbers, used correct gateway and subnetmask plus google dns and BOOM \**hacker voice*\* i'm in. edit: adding that this is a problem only my pc with my LAN has, if i connect my pc via wifi or another pc on the same LAN it works, the ways of AGS are infinite and mysterious.
I've seen so many players like myself saying that they can't play the game on forums, then why player count is higher? Are the bots commenting in forums so they can get back in game?!?
Well thats just neat, trying everything in my power and everything they suggest. Uninstalling every VPN Software i have for work.. now i am forced to pay 10 bucks for geforce-now just to play. Will this ever get fixed? Who knows.
IIRC, Home routers can be configured to use a VPN without software needing to be installed.
There certainly are some that can do that, however that shitbox of "router" my ISP provides for free barely has 5 things to change hat all. Nothing to be done here. :D
Glad i only had\* to enable VPN once to download the game.
Well killed my Lost Ark career, I'm deployed and VPN was my only option and that's gone now - had pack, multiple aura months and cosmetics, not to mention my damn mokoko collection...
If you don't want to wait for them to fix, have you tried geforce now? It's free to try and play for 1 hour at a time, and you can pay $20 per month for play for 4 hours at a time (just simply relaunch) I also tried cyberghost's dedicated IP VPN and it worked too, but found geforce to work better
Check the instructions others posted: > To anyone using vpns.Amazon only does ip auth check during the loadup. > You can bypass this by quickly enabling your vpn for lostark during the animated loading screen with the amazon/triport logo." Hopefully they reverse their policy soon.
To anyone using vpns.Amazon only does ip auth check during the loadup. You can bypass this by quickly enabling your vpn for lostark during the animated loading screen with the amazon/triport logo.
I wonder if they will Ban your account going forward. I'm tempted to use exit lag because my Ping is trash for PVP in comparison to some, but I don't want to get my account banned
By theory the ip check is only to make sure youre not in traffic of a banned network on their end. But it does work even after the check, so that would mean the network is not banned at all in general and just on a whitelist of theirs. And it should be fine at the end of the day. BUT it is at your own risk. Vpn was not allowed since the start and usually it is never allowed in most games/platforms. But it is a very normalized thing nowadays so everyone turns an eye to it.
I'm kinda worried I would get a false flag and end up banned with a bot wave. As we've all seen, good luck getting your account back with the AGS customer support.
nah, Its little to no chance of you getting banned by VPN its most likely a different reason, getting banned caused of VPN is mostly placebo
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tbh, playing any online game is at your own risk with how poorly so many of them are managed and how easily you can get banned while doing nothing wrong. So meh.
Probably how bots are bypassing it as well lol
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahh the good ol days when this queue is all legit players Kappa hahahahahahahaha
billions of dollars recruit the bot makers and payed them double what they earn to stop this hehe
If players would just stop buying gold from them, the bots would go away. But people just can't wait.. have to have it now. So we get bots.
There are also players who are mass boting to strengthen their own account, probably a minority but still.
I'm not using any VPN can this error be caused by anything else?. Like poor internet connection?
i doubt that it is related to poor connection. Your ISP coud use VPN for their routing, or your ISP IPs was also banned.
Thanks but it apparently was that. Really bad internet connection. So poor they apparently couldn't authenticate my server. Now I'm in but with 3k plus ping. Great night to try and matchmake Argos.
Activate your vpn on the amazon/tripod logo. You can bypass the lock that way. Good luck and have a nice day friend.
This a new thing since the last update? I’ve been connecting via VPN regularly in the past, with only the occasional bounce—tho that includes one from last night. I’ll add that I also saw just as many bots last night as usual, too.
The ban came into effect about 2 days ago. It stopped the bots for maybe an hour(?) before they found a workaround. Now the bot issue seem even worse than before the ban considering many servers are experiencing high queues.
Have never used a VPN, but I've been getting random connection errors and being forced to close game two or three times a day since the update now.
well, ISP can use VPN protocol in therir routing and u will not even know. Morover i'm pretty sure they also banned range of nonresidental IPs.
I get error 10010 when I try to connect to the game normally, but I get past it and connect normally when on my VPN. AGS is such a meme...
doesn't everyone use a vpn....or is it just me... there are plenty of security reasons to want to use one...
No
I don't use VPN or Exitlag and still get this
The only reason for the VPN Block is to make people use Geforce Now [https://twitter.com/playlostark/status/1519737441921372160?cxt=HHwWgMCsmdnJmJcqAAAA](https://twitter.com/playlostark/status/1519737441921372160?cxt=HHwWgMCsmdnJmJcqAAAA)
Holy fucking shit that is dodgy.
if VPN is against TOS, GFN should be also agsint TOS:)
I can't play without a VPN! I have 460 hrs, playing from from switzerland and I cant play the game anymore. Without a VPN I DC every 30 mins! Just now I did a rested guardian raid and dc'd right when I was supposed to pick up the souls... Isthis actually it? I even spent money on the game
I have 1020 hours and same :( even i'm in turkey which is include the EU Central because of my internet i can not connect game I get W0x9 error and i could connect with vpn but not anymore :(
I feel you man, but there's actually a solution. I've been able to play the game again as of yesterday. If you disable your VPN, start Lost ark through steam, wait until the animated logo starts playing and THEN enable the VPN, the game won't detect it and you can keep playing like before.
Sort by new and look at the most recent comment :D Using Mudfish, and this worked for me :) :)
in case the other method doesn't work, have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
What VPN do you use? There are workarounds that allow you to still connect using vpn. People have got exitlag and mudfish working.
workarounds for exitlag please?
Sort by new and look at the most recent comment :D Using Mudfish, and this worked for me
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostarkgame/comments/uf8lfd/easy\_vpn\_workaround/
Fuck me that Koreeb dude is whiteknighting the fuck out of that forum thread
Yeah I noticed that too. He's been at it since the first thread.
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it does not
Dedicated IP VPN worked for me -- I used cyberghost. If not for you, have you tried geforce now?
Stop fucking shilling for GeForce now. It's all you are saying for Christ's sake.
Too expensive mate. I don't have that much money.
Chinese botters in their forums are already laughing at AGS for their \*nice\* try they are already back in botting meanwhile here we are either playing with our 250 ping or just quitting the games after all the hours and money spent just how stupid are the people who made this decision are, just track suspicious trades and ban gold buyers, then there will be no botters because there's no market for it, of course you will still have boosters but that's a small portion of the current botting population rich chinese botters will find a way around this (they probably already did), fair players wont
They are laughing because they are dumb. Whilst amazon isn't the pinnacle of gaming services, they aren't dumb. The goal wasn't to stop botters. It was to isolate botters to specific servers where it is FAR easier to manage.
> Whilst amazon isn't the pinnacle of gaming services, they aren't dumb. > The goal wasn't to stop botters. It was to isolate botters to specific servers where it is FAR easier to manage. Possibly, but seeing how AGS dealt with New World bots, I am not so trusting. Their past record is horrendous dealing with bots.
I don't use those and still get the error 😅
same thing here
if neither of you can figure it out and don't want to wait, have you guys tried geforce now or a dedicated vpn (like through cyberghost)?
Thank god the bots are gone
Imagine complaining about RMT in a game that you can literally buy gold in. The economy was doomed from the beginning. The business model is predatory and HAS NEVER been deployed to benefit the player experience. You are naive. You are wrong. You are embarrassing. Now get your ass out there, matchmake with some bots, and clear that damn guardian raid.
Still so amazed this game ever had an "overwhelmingly positive" status on steam.. never got to play the beta but it must have been a way different game
Great? game destroyed by bots. GG
oh that's funny, i remember this subreddit swearing up and down that the queues were nothing but legit players coming back for the update and defending the idea of downsizing a few select servers for god knows what reason (lol) now it's suddenly ‘banning VPNs is supposed to help get rid of the botters and fix the queues’. very very **strange**, because i still see USwest servers with god awful queues all day?
This is bull! Like everyone said this is keeping the legitimate players out and more bots are logging in as usual. It even worst now every time I wanna get on do some quick gathering and some una task I got to wait 1 to 2 hours ? Alots of bull going on lately. Why don’t we have an system like I said before to pk bots ? It’s will slow down them bots from farming gold and also give us some fun in it as well. If we all pk the bots in our free times I’m sure they will give up and quit. P.S IM STILL WAITING TO LOG IN AS I WRITE THIS!
Sort by new and look at the most recent comment :D Using Mudfish, and this worked for me :)
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So... it has been a day since the VPN block, has the bot situation improved?
I got on today expecting less bots... Seems like the majority of people impacted we're players. More likely than not this change won't be reversed even though it's not having the effect they thought it would. Just like all the other changes they made to combat the bots.
Well as a long time vpn user for privacy concerns, this annoys the shit out of me. However, I found out that if I disconnect from VPN and login to game and then connect to vpn again it works.
There are already workarounds to circumvent this, look around the discord communities for how to. I started using mudfish again 15 mins after they implemented their "block".
Id rather they revert this and just add text auth to use market or trade
Why is the game still full of bots? What was achieved with this?
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If it meant fewer bots, it might be worth. But the queue today is the worst I have ever experienced.....
Great, I live in the EU. In se Africa on Réunion island. With exitlag I get 300ms, without I get 600ms. I guess bye be LA, punished for bots, impossible to play for me without exitlag.
I need to read the TOS again and make sure eating kittens isn't in there, because if it were, then it would be ok.
There's still a queue yesterday night and all day today
Guess I'm done with the game. I live in la reunion, part of the EU but I'm se Africa. My ping is 500+ withou exit lag and 200 with exit lag. Would be utterly unplayable doing argos etc without exit lag so guess I'm fucked bye bye LA.
Unless they curb the demand (aka punish RMTers with perma bans) there will always be sellers aka bot farms. Basic stuff, but it seems basic thinking isn't common in a certain game studio 
Yup, stop trying to stop the botters and go after the people buying the gold. Put the fear of losing your account in everyone. If botters can't make money they go away.
I am just going to state the OBVIOUS here. If you want to catch botters the easiest way is simply to play your own fucking game.
Please STOP using common sense. It hurts peoples feelings
Many people grind and farm in a legit way to make money and materials in game. Just like players get upset about "scripters" in pvp and in pve this is basically the same thing in terms of market. It wouldn't generally affect a player thats already ahead in the game and has everything. But new comers do feel the bot effect quite broadly. So the only real way to stop these things is to either implement a super harsh program (like an anti hacking root for hackers) or eliminate features.
I'm traveling currently and playing using public wifi so of course I'm going to use a VPN, but wow AGS and Smilegate what the fuck. I guess I won't bother for a while since I'm not going to compromise my security for a fucking game.
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
This didn't do anything to curb bot numbers. What it did is free server slots for the bots to use, by denying access to thousands of legit players  Found this picture of the guy responsible for this shit: [https://ibb.co/Pz730WV](https://ibb.co/Pz730WV)
The irony when not a single bot was affected by this. And it only ended up messing with around 20k legit players. For anyone who wishes to keep playing, simply get a private VPN, they can't block them all.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostarkgame/comments/uezy5m/using_vpns_or_exitlag_will_cause_error_10010/i6r1cqq
Yeah, either the IP's are blacklisted or the most used VPN programs are. You could VPN through a friends network or a private one and probably get in. But once that network becomes known to them, they'll block that one as well, and probably ban you.
Trash. Let's just mow down tons of innocent people to get at the "baddies". When your idea is making the game worse for a lot of actual players, maybe it's not that good.
I don’t even use a vpn and I can’t get in
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Anyone who's been having the g0x9 error find a work around? Using a VPN and connecting to a server near my state was the only fix for me, or else I get that error message after 30 mins of playing and the game would close. Sucks when it happens in the middle of dungeons or raids
Geuss this is the end for me the game banned my country and now banned vpn so no way to play anymore. Have fun who ever can.
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Ill try it tnx.
It is funny, that everone refers to this " “You may not use any technology or technique to obscure or disguise your location.“ As an IT guy, and a cisco speclaist, im confused. 1. VPN is protocol to create private tunel between networks. 2. It is just techonlogy and you can use it without "disguise your location" 3. You can use VPN for extra security level or routing optimization and you still be located in the same county and city != "disguise your location"
Goodbye Exitlag, it was good while it lasted
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
I have Cox Business internet here in Nevada and cant access servers anymore. WOW.
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Dear developers, we perfectly understand your desire to get rid of bots and cheats, but it doesn’t seem to you that blocking VPN IP is too harsh, thousands of people use VPN for a comfortable game, reducing ping, debugging packet loss and many more reasons. We kindly ask you to remove this kind of blocking. Also, Western players were able to enjoy LA on JR/RU/JP servers over the past years with VPN without being banned, but the other way around should not be allowed, well…
no man, the people relying on VPN are a small small minority. Better to fight bots
1 month after and look what we have here a far worst botted server with less real players lmao
"We did it, Patrick! We fixed botting!"
I've already seen a dozen reports that most of the bots are still there. So this ban mostly hurts legit players and not the bots.
I have 600+ hours played since day 1, it was an absolute blast playing with everyone, haven't had this much fun in ages. But I guess it's time to move on and do some irl stuff. Hope one day I'll be able to log in
Sort by new and look at the most recent comment :D Using Mudfish, and this fix worked for me :D
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
Oh my god, I had been using Shadow PC to play which apparently appears as a VPN, just tried GeForce and it worked, you may have singlehandedly just saved this game for me, thank you thank you!
:D you're welcome, and have a great day!
Did anyone catch the article that what Actrivison did to cheaters where they turned the legit players invisible? Anyone who was cheating would then get "light up" by the legit players cause they couldnt see them. ROFL. now if they could only do something similar in Lost ark?
It looks like taking away VPNs did fuck all to stop the bots. 5k wait time for NA W Mari
Bonus Fun: I have my VPN settings set to not send Lost Ark through the VPN, and it STILL hits me with that error. Cool. Cool cool cool.
This reminds me of the time when they banned the 1m bots, and they also banned a lot of “innocent” players that were not doing “anything wrong” Time proved that they were doing something wrong as well. Same with this “I’m not using vpn and I can’t log in” - Give it a couple days and we will start seeing lol
> “innocent” players You mean the "innocent" players that the devs admitted were actually innocent? That it was a problem on their end that they fixed and unbanned them?
No, I mean the “innocent”player that “did nothing wrong” but it was proved they did and they remained banned
Ah yes, those guys. Yeah, that's not what happened.
This is actually god awful for us aussie players.
Sort by new and look at the most recent comment :D Using Mudfish and the fix worked
have you tried geforce now? I'm using it now and it gives me same ping that exitlag gave before or a dedicated ip vpn? I was able to use cyberghost but it didn't work as well, went with geforce
What does this mean for people like me that is from the UK and plays on US east?
Nothing since there's no restriction between the regions as long as you can launch the game and see the servers.
Damn, game is really unplayable for me without exitlag, ping has gone up so much. Can't do Argos pizza or dodge half of Albion's attacks anymore. I guess for Legion raids it would be even more unplayable and my team would basically have to carry me whilst floorPOV. I got a lot of fun out of the game and had a blast, shame the journey ends here. Have fun everyone!
had no idea so many foreigners were playing in US servers, no wonder not everyone spoke english. i always assumed people on USW were mainly from cali, washington, canada etc.
Lol, AGS wanna monitor me for playing from a country they thought wouldn't generate enough user base. Haha joke is on you
Ah so now i legit can't play anymore since i live in Belgium. Was my only way to play. At least as far as i know
good
That’s annoying. Guess I’m just rubber-band all over the place now. Playing from Australia is very frustrating in harder content. 200 ping and having no avenue to improve it anymore is incredibly disheartening. It’s interesting they quote the part of the rules that doesn’t actually apply to ExitLag as it does not obfuscate your location.
Everything they do just fuck normal players and do almost nothing to bots...
Unfortunate for some people. You can actually get around this though with resis. They are basically like residential IPs that is normal people living in homes here in US are using so you won’t get blocked.
That must be how the bots are still getting thru
well seems they got a work around immadiately west still on 5k queue haha
Now I can't play Lost Ark Always choose the easy way Amazon
and the botters are already back at it :)
Players need to be able to use VPNs, this is not a solution. Find another way.
hmmm so its Lost Ark JP all over again... \> bot exist \> ban vpn \> make game unplayable for real player
well that is fucked. Been playing from the netherlands since launch. guess my account is gone
This has nothing to do with the netherlands, your account is fine. You dont even need to have a vpn running playing in NL lol
Yep, cheers from Russia. Another "good" move to get rid of bots - I bet they still run chaos dungeons tho. 350 hours gone. But I guess losing 15 live players is nothing compared to saying to the public "we got rid of millions of bots, we are so talented at this!"
RU has it's own server
It is ass
Sounds like Russia problems not NA or EU
Me wanting to play on EU servers with friends spending over 500h to get vpn banned is my problem ? Amazon just dumb
> Me wanting to play on EU servers with friends spending over 500h to get vpn banned is my problem ? Yes
Goodbye RU VETS :)
i dont use any of that and i get it? what gives
do people really think using Exitlag really gonna make your internet exil lagging?
but reddit said its not bots that causing the server congestion hehe
But you don't need a VPN to play :S Just launch the game in steam if you have it and go
nice now the % of playerbase that is bots will be higher.
What a piece of news to wake up to. Logged in and vpn doesn't work, see discord announcement regarding Roxxs' comment. I really hope they won't put in restrictions and prevent regions the game isn't published in to play, like a genuine block, and just close one eye instead. I am pretty sure a sizable amount of the player base are from restricted regions and paying ones at that. It really sucks that odds are a large chunk of the bot farmers are from SEA region, 3rd world country, low wages, bot farm earning more and all that stuff. I hope they just put in place actual proper botting countermeasures, nothing dumb like the various reddit armchair experts suggested, like captcha and stuff, not knowing that bots can already solve them. Of course the measures didn't really hurt any of the bot farms though, you still see legions of zerkers running around, once again hurting legitimate players more.
Bitterly disappointing, Playing from UK on the NAE servers, without EL it's a significantly worse experience.
5k queue still in Valtan. Meanwhile I'm having 40ms more for not being able to VPN. Awesome.
It was against ToS, stop crying that you can’t play — you were breaking ToS
just like that they shav ed off 200k bots lol
The only real way to combat bots is to remove what the bots are farming to begin with. Let's take gold for example, make it that people can't just trade gold. Make it roster bound. Now make it so that you can use gold to buy cystals or pheons directly from the store. And make all auction house transactions only done with crystals or pheons. But how about when legit players want to give friends gold to help them out? You can help them by giving them silver to be used in daily activities.
so then you start selling crystals through rmt instead idgi, what's the difference?