[2022] Economy is broken and the solution was simple

Folks participating in RMT are absolutely banned. We don’t have a wall of shame or names because encouraging witch hunts or potential attacking of users, even if they’ve cheated, isn’t something we can get behind. But if folks don’t think bans are happening for RMT I’d definitely encourage them to think back on all of the threads that have spun up with people claiming they were banned without reason – without pointing anyone out directly, almost every single person calling false ban for RMT that had an investigation escalated was, in fact, proven to have RMTed and had been actioned against.

Most of these bans were several years long, so those folks aren’t back in the game

RMT gold is removed alongside bans; this does happen. Most people don’t get back into their accounts to see their removed gold, because they are banned.

We do not control the Lost Ark Reddit; the Lost Ark Reddit is run entirely by the community, and we do not have an active presence there. Reddit mods are not a part of Amazon Games, nor do we elect, monitor, or interact with them.

The number of false bans we’ve seen related to RMT has been extremely, extremely small. But of course false bans are always a possibility, no ban system in any game operates with a 100% perfect rate, which is why we (and most game companies) do our due diligence to investigate and have a ban appeals page open