Lost Ark has been around for almost three years now, and while their track record for exploits and glitches hasn’t been squeaky clean, there have been only a couple of instances where players have abused some of the unintended systems. Unfortunately, there is a major exploit that has been going around for the past two weeks that has largely gone unnoticed by the public, at least until this weekend.
While the exploit was apparently something some players found out about early on in the Ignite Server’s existence, it has mostly been kept under wraps until some content creators got ahold of this information and tested themselves. This put a huge spotlight on the issue that most players didn’t know about, but the few that did were benefiting off it immensely.
The Exploit
How Ignite Servers apparently works is that any character on the servers is considered to be under the umbrella of new, and thus will automatically get the same express pass-esque treatment upon loading in. Because of this, the servers are completely segmented from the rest of the world, having their own ecosystem that doesn’t allow the use of the marketboard or buying in-game currency with real money....